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What Mercury's Unusual Orbit Reveals About the Sun

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As the closest planet to the Sun -- and with the most oblong orbit in the solar system -- Mercury orbits through a region where the Sun’s influence is changing dramatically.

Two NASA researchers looked to Mercury to study how the Sun's influence on planets changes throughout space. Here's what they learned.

Full paper: go.nasa.gov/3NfK0Xt

Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

Miles Hatfield (Telophase): Producer
Anna Blaustein (NASA Interns): Producer
Norberto Romanelli (NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/University of Maryland, College Park): Scientist
Gina DiBraccio (NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center): Scientist

Music credits: “Swirling Blizzard” by Laurent Dury [SACEM]; “Sparkle Shimmer” by William Henries [PRS] and Michael Holborn [PRS] from Universal Production Music

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