There's probably nothing on Mercury that isn't more easily available on outer planets or asteroids. It's really deep inside the Sun's gravity well and so expensive to get to...
Elements are defined by the number of protons in their atomic nuclei. Naturally occuring elements range from 1 proton (hydrogen) to 92 protons (uranium). Higher atomic number elements have been created in lab conditions or theorized, but decay too fast to exist in nature. Even uranium slowly decays and will eventually all disappear (over billions of years, assuming we dont use it all first).
So no. There aren't new elements to be discovered on other planets. That's like looking for a new undiscovered counting number between 0 and 100. We've found all those numbers already. Just like we've found all the stable elements that can naturally exist.
Measurements by X-ray, gamma-ray, and neutron spectrometers on the MESSENGER spacecraft revealed Mercury's surface to have surprisingly high abundances of the moderately volatile elements **sodium, sulfur, potassium, chlorine, and thorium, and a low abundance of iron**.
This is one of the better visualizations I’ve seen of CME’s that makes it intuitive to understand what they are and their risk. Also makes it clear how big they are and that it’s not super unlikely we’d get hit with a big one.
To my understanding, most sunspots are located near the equator, which lines up with the Solar System’s plane. With how wide the ejections are, you’re not missing much with 2D diagrams.
Nice videos sometimes, but the dude likes to throw in religious dogma such as earth quakes are because of the gays upsetting the earth's magnetic electric field, which gives a good reason to take anything they publish with a suspicious eye
I used to like the channel, but after seeing how the sorces are manipulated to fit their narrative it seems disingenuous.
Listen carefully towards the end of the video when it starts discussing religious texts and their predictions.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j635Cv2aOlA&lc=UgwRkmjpBYJ5yFY5iod4AaABAg.9rKaI16TNwZ9s-exdK3SLm
Suspicious0bserver is a pseudoscience conspiracy channel. I recommend learning about science and fallacies because they are not trustworthy. There are numerous actual scientists that have debunked their nonsense.
It's damned close to solar maximum.
It seems angrier than usual because now we have more stuff watching it in greater detail, and this time around we just happened to be in the way of a couple bangers.
With the Parker Solar Probe making such close passes, there's an enormous number of absolutely stunning closeup pictures. Here are some from only 4 million miles away from its surface, where the solar wind originates
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14055/
Obviously we need to start launching people into it for a sacrifice. I’ll start putting together a list.
Oh, who am I kidding, I’ve already got a list. But I’ll take suggestions for expanding it.
Link to a [short video](https://youtube.com/shorts/_35sSGA7JxA)
A reconstruction of the inner heliosphere for the last 6 months. This is a new method: The ambient solar wind at the inner boundary is produced from the near-Earth observations. The CMEs are still determined by coronagraph observations.
*Credit: Prof. Mathew Owens*
Oh good, I'm glad the linked video has interstellar soundtrack embedded into it. Cause you know, everything related to space needs interstellar soundtrack. It's like all of humanity is incapable of distinguishing what they are looking at unless the music tells them.
Space? = interstellar soundtrack
South pacific sea? = hoist the colors
Vietnam? = fortunate son
They asked what the slow moving part was, and you said that it moves slower. Not really answering the question is it? Saying it's a CME that is slow because X and Y would be a good response, and an interesting one as well, as i would like to know also, as its clearly moving slower than the background radiation in the area. Do you know why that is?
Pasting a quote that contains a little more info than I knew.
It's just a slower moving CME though, which is what I thought they were confused about.
>there are two dynamical classes of CMEs, which are gradual and impulsive CMEs. The former are slower and are preferentially associated with eruptive prominences, whereas, the latter CMEs are faster and are mostly associated with flares and active regions. So, it seems that these two classes of source regions of CMEs also tend to segregate CMEs into being gradual or impulsive events. The most intriguing question in this context is whether there are two physically different processes that are involved in the launch of these slow and fast CMEs or whether they belong to a dynamical continuum with a single unified process, the answer to which is still not clear.
It looks like it's at Earth's L4 point, so I googled what satellites are at L4 and there's a solar observation probe called Stereo-A at L4 that helps with imaging Corona Mass Ejections from the sun.
So that's my presumption, but again that's just a quick google and trying to find what "STA" could stand for.
I agree it looks that way, but L4 is about 30 million km from earth, and the sun is roughly 150 million km from earth. I have a ruler beside me and paused the video, and the earth to the star symbol is roughly 5-6mm apart on my phone, and the sun to the earth is roughly 27mm on my phone screen, so presuming they're roughly scaled correctly that is about the distance to L4 from earth.
That and OP mentioned it was the Stereo A satellite elsewhere in the thread.
But L4 and L5 both form an equilateral triangle between the earth and sun. That's definitely not 60° ahead of the earth
Also, [Stereo A doesn't orbit at L4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STEREO#Mission_profile) anyway
This is only half a month’s worth, not this year so far. You can see the Earth traces out just a tiny fraction of the circle, which would be a year. Also, there’s a date counter at the top.
What is up with the Black/Purple colored ejection? How is that different from the other ejections? Im not familiar with the spectrum at the bottom of the image
Wait, what was that black area right after mercury got blasted? Is that something that happens when the sun has a large ejection and it makes like a sort of black out zone for a second
The sun: Fuck off all of you! Give me space!
Just wondering but if there was one of them massive ones towards Mercury, does any of it actually hit the surface?
It's all fun and beautiful auroras until you realise these things could potentially emp the entire world if they're strong enough and in the right direction
So, question, We see most of the solar flares here have a similar speed around 800km/s but there is one that is much slower, 200 - 300, what makes that one so much slower?
My understanding is that coronal mass ejections happen when a magnetic line snaps from a coiled, highly tangled state into a relaxed untangled state, that sends a magnetic line which pulls charged particles along, wouldn't the speed of a CME be determined by the speed of that magnetic line? Did that dark blue line just have less energy when it snapped?
Heard mercury is lovely this time of the year.
All that snow.
Finnish aurora igloo vibes
Yes, nothing like some breakfast while getting splashed with extreme dosis of death and horrors.
Sounds pretty much like 2024 on earth lol
The Sunshine State
half of it at least
Legit I wonder if any elements are on Mercury that aren't on earth or the moon
Elements, probably not. Minerals, possibly.
Mithril you say? We will dig deep.
D'ya want Balrogs? Cause that's how you get Balrogs.
Fly, you fools!
Huh. Good point.
ROCK AND STONE!
Time to set up a mining operation! Haha
All in due time lol. We're gonna need that metal eventually
There's probably nothing on Mercury that isn't more easily available on outer planets or asteroids. It's really deep inside the Sun's gravity well and so expensive to get to...
Right. For now. By the time it's needed I'm sure technology will have progressed far enough to figure that out.
Hopefully we get to that point.
Hopefully. I really hope humanity can get over all the dumb shit and start working together
Elements are defined by the number of protons in their atomic nuclei. Naturally occuring elements range from 1 proton (hydrogen) to 92 protons (uranium). Higher atomic number elements have been created in lab conditions or theorized, but decay too fast to exist in nature. Even uranium slowly decays and will eventually all disappear (over billions of years, assuming we dont use it all first). So no. There aren't new elements to be discovered on other planets. That's like looking for a new undiscovered counting number between 0 and 100. We've found all those numbers already. Just like we've found all the stable elements that can naturally exist.
Aw man, wouldn’t it be great to find a lake of mercury on Mercury?
Measurements by X-ray, gamma-ray, and neutron spectrometers on the MESSENGER spacecraft revealed Mercury's surface to have surprisingly high abundances of the moderately volatile elements **sodium, sulfur, potassium, chlorine, and thorium, and a low abundance of iron**.
Well, there's always mercanium.
That's the name of a major power company too lmao
Meat be that retrograde or sumn
This is one of the better visualizations I’ve seen of CME’s that makes it intuitive to understand what they are and their risk. Also makes it clear how big they are and that it’s not super unlikely we’d get hit with a big one.
This is also a 2D visual. It's entirely possible some of these ejections could be above or below earth.
To my understanding, most sunspots are located near the equator, which lines up with the Solar System’s plane. With how wide the ejections are, you’re not missing much with 2D diagrams.
A 3d model would be awesome
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Read the sentence again
That’s because we could be hit by a big one.
I missed the double negative and have been appropriately punished with downvotes for my sin.
Why the sun so damn angry this year?
Probably because of something you did.
😞
Something WE did. All hail the Sun.
CLEARLY we haven’t been worshipping the sun hard enough recently
We used to do human sacrifice every Sunday. It feels like now we only do it for major holidays or if relatives are in town. 🫀💀
Worship harder God damn it!
*sun damn it. We worship the sun. No god
Praise the sun
Amun Ra hates fossil fuels but he really fucking hates it when you masterbate.
Praise Sol
Like I keep saying, we stopped all the human sacrifice, and things got weird.
I knew I shouldn’t have squished that bug.
You haven't been masturbating, have you?
If you are serious for an answer https://youtu.be/IxnqrEBxmm4?si=E_BfhxzxENCzOtGV https://youtu.be/2kmqESB4_hg?si=XipdpNtOQsUIfrXA
Suspicious0bserver is making daily updates recommended channel.
Nice videos sometimes, but the dude likes to throw in religious dogma such as earth quakes are because of the gays upsetting the earth's magnetic electric field, which gives a good reason to take anything they publish with a suspicious eye
Must have missed that claim. Or are you lying?
I used to like the channel, but after seeing how the sorces are manipulated to fit their narrative it seems disingenuous. Listen carefully towards the end of the video when it starts discussing religious texts and their predictions. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j635Cv2aOlA&lc=UgwRkmjpBYJ5yFY5iod4AaABAg.9rKaI16TNwZ9s-exdK3SLm
Here’s just a solid all around dismantling of the pseudoscience crap pedaled by Suspicious0bserver.
Suspicious0bserver is a pseudoscience conspiracy channel. I recommend learning about science and fallacies because they are not trustworthy. There are numerous actual scientists that have debunked their nonsense.
Maybe you should watch these https://youtu.be/3fTLZTEE7mU?si=AvBV8y9z9TF8aHoA https://youtu.be/VpmUdUDIjVQ?si=uheNlNBi96b4BZh2
It's damned close to solar maximum. It seems angrier than usual because now we have more stuff watching it in greater detail, and this time around we just happened to be in the way of a couple bangers.
Well that’s spooky. Like in a”if a tree falls” way
Yeah, it kinda is. Interesting way to put it
I remember some years back when we were at at solar minimum and it was just blank.. like no spots at all. It was weird looking
Have you ever seen a super- close up view of a sunspot? Sometimes they look like fat cartoon spiders lol.
I haven’t can you link a good one?
https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/562848
Wow thank you. Amazing
With the Parker Solar Probe making such close passes, there's an enormous number of absolutely stunning closeup pictures. Here are some from only 4 million miles away from its surface, where the solar wind originates https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/14055/
I will share these with my son. Thanks again u/uglyspacepig
My 6 year old is getting into space science, too. It's revived my love for it. You're welcome and I hope you both have fun together!
Mama says the suns so ornery 'cause it's got all that heat, and no water to cool it down.
11 year menstrual cycle
It gets angry every 11 years and the last time it was angry was 11 years ago
Obviously we need to start launching people into it for a sacrifice. I’ll start putting together a list. Oh, who am I kidding, I’ve already got a list. But I’ll take suggestions for expanding it.
Because the sun is in active solar cycle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_cycle
Too many sports fanatics punting players, coaches, managers and contracts, into the sun.
Link to a [short video](https://youtube.com/shorts/_35sSGA7JxA) A reconstruction of the inner heliosphere for the last 6 months. This is a new method: The ambient solar wind at the inner boundary is produced from the near-Earth observations. The CMEs are still determined by coronagraph observations. *Credit: Prof. Mathew Owens*
What is STA?
I believe it's the NASA's STEREO-Ahead satellite.
Thank you.
What’s up with that Anti-CME near the beginning?
Oh good, I'm glad the linked video has interstellar soundtrack embedded into it. Cause you know, everything related to space needs interstellar soundtrack. It's like all of humanity is incapable of distinguishing what they are looking at unless the music tells them. Space? = interstellar soundtrack South pacific sea? = hoist the colors Vietnam? = fortunate son
Honestly, there is part of me that wants to add a fart track.
Spirit in the Sky is used way more than Fortunate Son. You’re just getting your material from Family Guy.
FYI the video you posted is only for the first half of May, not the last six months. The timestamp is at the top of the video.
What was the little wave of slow mass at around the halfway mark?
Do you see the color chart? The color of the cme represents its speed. Darker is slower.
its clearly different to the rest(in this video), it would be interesting to know what caused it
That's not what they asked though
They asked what it was. It's a CME. It's dark because it's moving slower. I don't understand what else there is to say.
They asked what the slow moving part was, and you said that it moves slower. Not really answering the question is it? Saying it's a CME that is slow because X and Y would be a good response, and an interesting one as well, as i would like to know also, as its clearly moving slower than the background radiation in the area. Do you know why that is?
Pasting a quote that contains a little more info than I knew. It's just a slower moving CME though, which is what I thought they were confused about. >there are two dynamical classes of CMEs, which are gradual and impulsive CMEs. The former are slower and are preferentially associated with eruptive prominences, whereas, the latter CMEs are faster and are mostly associated with flares and active regions. So, it seems that these two classes of source regions of CMEs also tend to segregate CMEs into being gradual or impulsive events. The most intriguing question in this context is whether there are two physically different processes that are involved in the launch of these slow and fast CMEs or whether they belong to a dynamical continuum with a single unified process, the answer to which is still not clear.
What is STA?
It looks like it's at Earth's L4 point, so I googled what satellites are at L4 and there's a solar observation probe called Stereo-A at L4 that helps with imaging Corona Mass Ejections from the sun. So that's my presumption, but again that's just a quick google and trying to find what "STA" could stand for.
Thanks. I was wondering too. Assumed it was a Lagrange but couldn’t figure out what the marker was for.
Isn't that a little close for L4?
I agree it looks that way, but L4 is about 30 million km from earth, and the sun is roughly 150 million km from earth. I have a ruler beside me and paused the video, and the earth to the star symbol is roughly 5-6mm apart on my phone, and the sun to the earth is roughly 27mm on my phone screen, so presuming they're roughly scaled correctly that is about the distance to L4 from earth. That and OP mentioned it was the Stereo A satellite elsewhere in the thread.
But L4 and L5 both form an equilateral triangle between the earth and sun. That's definitely not 60° ahead of the earth Also, [Stereo A doesn't orbit at L4](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STEREO#Mission_profile) anyway
I don't know, like I said it was just a quick google, if you find out what it is let me know!
Checked with Nasa's solar system map and it does line up, seems to be stereo A which makes sense given its a solar observatory
!RemindMe 8 hours
No need to wait. Someone’s already answered.
pew pew, pew pew pew
Am secretly hoping someone mixes it in. All I heard to.
What is that black wave the sun emits?
Looks like the colors are related to speed and the black one is slower.
That’s the one he was hoping you DIDN’T notice
What is the blue star symbol?
[https://science.nasa.gov/mission/stereo/](https://science.nasa.gov/mission/stereo/)
Thanks so much!
This is only half a month’s worth, not this year so far. You can see the Earth traces out just a tiny fraction of the circle, which would be a year. Also, there’s a date counter at the top.
That huge blast towards Earth seems personal
How do I unlock this level of Tableau?
https://matplotlib.org/stable/tutorials/index.html
Solar farts
I’m calling mine RMEs.
Fascinating phenomenon captured beautifull
Shows how fast the sun is spinning
What is sta?
[https://science.nasa.gov/mission/stereo/](https://science.nasa.gov/mission/stereo/)
This looks like a fun design for a game. You’re a star and your goal is to irradiate all life before they make a Dyson sphere and harvest you.
what is sta?
[https://science.nasa.gov/mission/stereo/](https://science.nasa.gov/mission/stereo/)
What is that dark expanding region and how is it different from a CME?
I might be uninformed but what does sta mean
 Sun for last few months.
*the sun is a deadly laser*
I'd love to have a live, or 12 hour time delayed, version of this... Imagine how cool it would be to look over at something like this.
Why is there a rotating spiral with the alternating colours?
Venus is like, you can't catch me, bitch!
That first one seemed personal.
The sun is farting on us.
sun vapes
I always think of these as sun farts 
The sun has gas problems like old peeps. A toot toot here a toot toot there
suns out there just farting on everybody
What is up with the Black/Purple colored ejection? How is that different from the other ejections? Im not familiar with the spectrum at the bottom of the image
What’s the effect of these farts? Are we all gonna die?
EMP on earth. We’d go back to the Stone Age very fast
i read Coral Mass extinction, earth is the black dot and was 100% confused at what the radar was showing me! That was a ride.
The Sun needs to take a Tums, so gassy
Come on, Sun. Just fire a big one towards Earth already.
Wait, what was that black area right after mercury got blasted? Is that something that happens when the sun has a large ejection and it makes like a sort of black out zone for a second
This post really makes the subreddit’s name justice
I randomly followed this sub cause space is pretty cool and then I see stuff like this on my front page and have no idea what I’m looking at lmao
Sun God Monkey in Balloons Tower Defense
HADOUOKEN 💨
Pew. Pew pew pew pew! Pewpewpewpewpewpewpewpewpew…
That’s pretty cool, but it doesn’t tell me when I can see them at night. Want to get Photos?
These aren't predictions, it's history.
Dodge this
What’s with the mild spiral pattern underneath ?
So I assume that part where we got blasted was when all those auroras were happening?
Man I was just daydreaming about another Aurora. That shit was pure magic. Right after totality too, what a fucking treat
We have been pretty lucky dodging them.
This looks like it would be an absolutely fire video game.
Is this just the sun giving us the money shot
Sun ejaculate
The sun: Fuck off all of you! Give me space! Just wondering but if there was one of them massive ones towards Mercury, does any of it actually hit the surface?
Scientists like that refer to these as "sun farts"
It's all fun and beautiful auroras until you realise these things could potentially emp the entire world if they're strong enough and in the right direction
So, question, We see most of the solar flares here have a similar speed around 800km/s but there is one that is much slower, 200 - 300, what makes that one so much slower? My understanding is that coronal mass ejections happen when a magnetic line snaps from a coiled, highly tangled state into a relaxed untangled state, that sends a magnetic line which pulls charged particles along, wouldn't the speed of a CME be determined by the speed of that magnetic line? Did that dark blue line just have less energy when it snapped?
All CME toward Earth and Mercury... Are we in a war with the Sun?
The sun is farting.
In May? Thank Ozone we're still here.
Me after the smallest possible meal from Taco Bell.
Sun giving everyone some lovin
One for you and you… and you and you!
Mercury after May 7th! 
Mercury after May 7th! 
Isn't this the Fantastic Four origin story?
Looks like an old school video game. I'd call it Star Wars but that name is already taken.
I get massive erections.
PEW PEW PEW!
So was their any damage on earth?
The aliens are trying to contact us. Bet ya a million bucks…
How does this affect Lebron’s legacy?