The Sky at Night
Season 60 Episode 4 - Mercury: The Problem Child of the Solar System
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Documentary, News
May 9 2016 sees one of the astronomical highlights of the year - a transit of Mercury across the sun, the best opportunity to observe this phenomenon until 2049. To mark the event, the Sky at Night attempts to explain the many mysteries of Mercury - a planet so bizarre that it is sometimes described as the 'problem child' of the solar system. Surface temperatures exceed 450 degrees but it also has patches of ice, its day is twice as long as its year, and it is a planet that appears to be shrinking.
Episodes in Season 60
1
Planet 9 From Outer Space
2
Five Greatest Images of the Solar System
3
Stephen Hawking on Black Holes
4
Mercury: The Problem Child of the Solar System
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5
Secrets of the Whirlpool Galaxy
6
Juno: Mission to Jupiter
7
Interstellar: The Journey to Proxima Centauri
8
Goodbye Rosetta: A Sky At Night Special
9
Life on Mars
10
