Mercury (Rocket Science Show)

Toons.TV description
Fun and informative facts about Mercury.

YouTube description
Discover interesting facts about our solar system with NASA scientists and Angry Birds! Starring in the first Rocket Science Show episode: Mercury!

Plot
The video starts with the camera zooming in on Mercury. According to Jim Green, it is the closet planet from the sun so it is very hard to see from Earth. Mercury is actually not the hottest planet in the solar system. It has almost no atmosphere as Jim stated. During a Mercurian day, the heat is so scorching hot and can only be cooled off by the super freezing cold at night as the planet turns. The pig on Mercury demonstrates the planet's temperature variations with the scorching heat and the freezing cold. The polar caps are the only regions that never get the heat from the sun. Mercury has wrinkles which means that the planet is shrinking and the wrinkles can be about 275 cm long. Jim Green states, a day on Mercury takes 59 Earth days (which is 1416 hours). In one Mercurian year, it takes 88 days to complete its rotation.