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3 of the Strangest Mountains in the Solar System
Our planet shares a lot with other rocky planets in our solar system, but astronomers have found a few mountains out there that are nothing like ours.
Crash Course
Mercury
Mercury is the closest planet to the sun. It has no atmosphere and is, as such, covered in craters. It's also incredibly hot but, surprisingly, has water ice hiding beneath its surface.
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Project Mercury: The First Americans in Space
Project Mercury taught NASA a lot about getting people off the surface of Earth and into orbit, and paved the way for all of their future space missions.
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News Bummers Poison Fog Sad Sperm & SAM
Hank loves science because it helps us appreciate the world more, but not everything that science does makes him happy - reports of poison fog on the West coast of the United States; dramatic decreases in sperm counts; and a lack of...
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Why Does It Take So Long to Get to Mercury?
On a cosmic scale, Mercury isn’t very far away, but it's incredibly hard to get there. Getting into orbit around it takes years of flybys in the solar system, but we're going to do it again!
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A Violent Origin Story for Tiny Space Diamonds | SciShow News
Scientists may have discovered some clues to two vastly different anomalies. Microscopic diamonds inside of meteors, and why ancient black holes are so massive.
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Tour the Solar System with SciShow Space
Did you know SciShow has a whole channel dedicated solely to space? Well, we hope you packed warm, cause we’re taking you on a tour through the solar system with these SciShow Space episodes!
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SciShow Quiz Show: Hank vs. Stefan
Associate Producer Stefan Chin faces off against his boss, Hank Green. Will Stefan manage to keep his job? What does a dinosaur sound like? And where is that space whale?
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4 Awesome NASA Inventions You Use Every Day
SciShow Space shares four wonderful things that you probably use every day, all made possible by NASA technology.
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How to Avoid Corpse-Flavored Water
As organisms decompose their chemical and bacterial components can leach into the surrounding ground and water. The bodies buried in cemeteries are no exception.
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Hitting the Sun is HARD
This video is about the orbital mechanics of why it's so hard to crash into the sun - the energy it takes to get there is astoundingly high, compared with leaving the solar system.
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Einstein's Biggest Blunder, Explained
This video is about how Albert Einstein made a mistake when applying the Field Equations of General Relativity to cosmology (in particular, to a static, constant density universe), and solved the problem by introducing the cosmological...
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New Elements and Exploding Whales
Hank introduces you to the latest element to be created -- and explains why we make them in the first place -- plus the science of exploding whales. It's a thing, people.
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What's It Like On Mercury?
SciShow Space takes you on a tour of Mercury, the sun's closest friend, where a year is just a day and half long, and the surface holds many surprises -- like ice!
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Jae Rhim Lee: My mushroom burial suit
Here's a powerful provocation from artist Jae Rhim Lee. Can we commit our bodies to a cleaner, greener Earth, even after death? Naturally -- using a special burial suit seeded with pollution-gobbling mushrooms. Yes, this just might be...
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Mercury Is So Hot, It’s Making Ice
Scientists first saw patches of ice on Mercury 20 years ago, and that discovery raised a lot of questions: How could ice survive on one of the solar system’s hottest planets, and how did it get there in the first place?
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Meet the Mad Haterpillar with Henry Reich from Minute Physics
Meet the Mad Haterpillar with Henry Reich from Minute Physics
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Transit of Venus 2012: A Viewer's Guide
Hank briefs us on the upcoming planetary transit of Venus, which will be observable June 5th and 6th of 2012.
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The United Nations' First Space Mission
With a recent announcement from the UN Office for Outer Space Affairs, the doors to space research have been opened for many new countries.
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Why Scientists Keep Trying to Break This 18th Century Law
It’s usually not a great idea to break laws, but breaking the laws of science is an exception! In fact, it’s often how we make progress.
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The Lost Cargo Ship, and Pluto Has Ice Caps!
SciShow Space News explains how we lost track of a resupply mission, explores Pluto’s newfound ice caps, and helps you find Mercury.
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Our First-Ever Missions to Mars, and What We Learned From Them
A lot of our knowledge of the inner solar system was gained fairly recently, and the Mariner program led the way!
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Why the Oceans Are Getting Darker
You’d never tell just by staring out from a sandy beach, but the coasts are gradually getting darker, and the effects of this darkening are only beginning to be understood.
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25 Years of Hubble, and MESSENGER's Grand Finale
SciShow Space News explains two of the Hubble Space Telescope's most important discoveries, and why the MESSENGER probe is about to crash into Mercury.