Today we take a trip inward, to explore Sun-Scorched Mercury.
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 and show that Mercury may be one of the most promising places for humanity to make new homes on.

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Outward Bound: Colonizing Pluto
Episode 189 Season 5 E23

Written by:
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Jerry Guern
Mark Warburton

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Matthew Acker

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Koalips, "Kvazar"
 Aerium, "Fifth Star of Aldebaran"
Kai Engel, "Endless Story about Sun and Moon"
Denny Schneidemesser, "Across the Universe" 
 Lombus, "Cosmic Soup"

When we look up to the starry sky on a clear night, we get a distant glimpse of seemingly totally alien worlds. 
The view to the stars helps us in turn to get an approximate feeling for the relationship of us and our earths 
to the great whole. The sheer gigantic universe fascinates us not least because of its countless secrets,
 which have posed ever new puzzles to international scientists for many centuries. All the more important
 are therefore the groundbreaking new discoveries that are regularly made in the field of astronomical 
 research. Today: The first real images from mercury surface!

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MESSENGER False Color Mercury Globe Spin

Published on Jun 11, 2013
All of Mercury Image Credit: NASA/JHU Applied Physics Lab/Carnegie Inst. Washington For the first time,

 the entire surface of planet Mercury has been mapped. Detailed observations of the innermost planet's surprising

 crust have been ongoing since the robotic MESSENGER spacecraft first passed Mercury in 2008 and began orbiting in 2011.

 Previously, much of the Mercury's surface was unknown as it is too far for Earth-bound telescopes to see clearly,...

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Data from NASA�s MESSENGER mission have been used to create this animation of the first global digital elevation model (DEM) of Mercury,

revealing in stunning detail the topography across the entire innermost planet and paving the way for scientists to fully characterize its 

geologic history. Mercury�s surface is colored according to the topography of the surface, with regions with higher elevations colored brown, 

yellow, and red, and regions with lower elevations shown in blue and purple.

 The MESSENGER spacecraft was launched on Aug. 3, 2004, and began orbiting Mercury on March 17, 2011.

 It spent four years capturing images and information about the planet closest to the sun in unprecedented detail.

Credits: NASA/U.S. Geological Survey/Arizona State University/Carnegie Institution of Washington/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

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In this week's questions show, I jump into the controversy between Blue Origin and SpaceX,
 explain why bigger telescopes are better, and talk about how Mercury 
 has eternally shadowed craters and could serve as a place for a base.

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