What Mercury's Unusual Orbit Reveals About the Sun | NASA Goddard

What Mercury's Unusual Orbit Reveals About the Sun | NASA Goddard

As the closest planet to the Sun—and with the most oblong orbit in the solar system—Mercury orbits through a region where the Sun’s influence is changing dramatically. 

Two NASA researchers looked to Mercury to study how the Sun's influence on planets changes throughout space. Here's what they learned.

Full paper: go.nasa.gov/3NfK0Xt

Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)

Miles Hatfield (Telophase): Producer

Anna Blaustein (NASA Interns): Producer

Norberto Romanelli (NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/University of Maryland, College Park): Scientist

Gina DiBraccio (NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center): Scientist

Music credits: “Swirling Blizzard” by Laurent Dury [SACEM]; “Sparkle Shimmer” by William Henries [PRS] and Michael Holborn [PRS] from Universal Production Music

Duration: 3 minutes, 13 seconds

Release Date: March 24, 2022

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