Author : Rumana Reza
Scientists are still having their fascination towards the Mars. They have been kept dreaming on their alien friends!Not bad!Keep dreaming!
But my dear alien lovers,why don't you keep your eyeball onto the Mercury?In fact, Mercury should get prior than Mars!
Why?Let it be clear!
The planet is named after the Roman god Mercury, the messenger to the gods.
In Science:
As like as Mars,Mercury is also a member of the rocky planets.It is the innermost planet of the solar system .
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Image courtesy of NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington |
Mercury's surface is heavily cratered as like as Earth's Moon.It's the only rocky planet that has a global magnetic field like Earth.Its orbit is the least perfectly circular of the eight planets and its orbital eccentricity is the largest.Though Mercury has the smallest axial tilt,the seasons on the planet's surface are caused by the orbital eccentricity.Its surface encounters the steepest temperature inclination of the considerable number of planets, extending from an exceptionally frosty 100 K during the evening to an extremely hot 700 K amid the day. This planet is so near the Sun, however the ice is in for all time shadowed cavities that don't get any daylight. Organics, a building hinder forever, are additionally found on the planet's surface.Scientists have already assumed much of Mercury's interior contains iron. MESSENGER sees the surface iron bound up in oxides with titanium. There's additionally a lot of sulfur at first glance, something that researchers are as yet attempting to comprehend since no other planet in the Solar System has it in such high focuses.
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Super Tailed Mercury :
Mercury has a shining mythical serpent tail of sodium molecules that is more than seven circumstances longer than at any other time suspected, researchers report. New estimations of Mercury's yellow-orange tail, which streams in the sun based wind like the long tail of a kite, put it at more than 100 circumstances the sweep of the planet itself. The impartial sodium particles that make up the 2.5 million kilometer-long streamer are thought to be launched the surface by the sun and small-scale meteor impacts. |
| Mercury's tail of sodium gas, seen here in the centre of the image, is 2.5 million kilometres long. The insert shows where on the planet the tail gases come from (Source: Center for Space Physics, Boston University) |
Dark Craters of Mercury :
Researchers concentrate the collect of photographs from the MESSENGER shuttle's Jan. fourteenth flyby of Mercury have found a few cavities with abnormal dim radiances and one hole with a breathtakingly sparkling base.
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"The coronas are truly extraordinary," says MESSENGER science colleague Clark Chapman of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado. The two pits at the base of the edge are situated in Mercury's goliath Caloris Basin, a thousand mile wide wretchedness shaped billions of years prior when Mercury slammed into a comet or space rock. For scale, the bigger of the two is around 40 miles wide. Both pits have dull edges or "radiances" and the one on the left is somewhat loaded with an obscure glossy material.
Mercury- the Symbol of the Theory of Relativity:
Mercury's whimsical circle in respect to alternate planets, and its nearby separation to the Sun, helped researchers affirm Einstein's general hypothesis of relativity. Basically, the hypothesis manages how the light of a star changes when another planet or star circles close-by. As indicated by Encyclopedia Britannica, researchers affirmed the hypothesis to some extent by reflecting radar motions off of Mercury. The hypothesis says that the way of the signs will change marginally if the Sun was there, contrasted with on the off-chance that it was most certainly not. The way coördinated what general relativity anticipated.
Recent Updates on Mercury:
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The yellow color shows the standing bow shock in front of Mercury. The signature of material flowing in a vastly different direction than the solar wind -- an HFA – can be seen in red at the lower left. Credit: NASA/Duberstein
"The solar wind of particles streaming off the sun helps drive flows and swirls in space as complicated as any terrestrial weather pattern. Scientists have now spotted at planet Mercury, for the first time, a classic space weather event called a hot flow anomaly, or HFA, which has previously been spotted at Earth, Venus, Saturn and Mars."
(Source:https://phys.org/news/2014-06-nasa-messenger-giant-space-weather.html)
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| Credit:NASA/JPL/Caltech |
"New simulations show that Mercury and other unusually metal-rich objects in the solar system may be relics left behind by hit-and-run collisions in the early solar system. The origin of planet Mercury has been a difficult question in planetary science because its composition is very different from that of the other terrestrial planets and the moon."
(Source:https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/07/140708153904.htm)
"A baffling new mystery has turned up on Mercury — a pattern of giant cliffs and ridges on the planet's surface that defies any explanation that scientists have currently been able to offer...Images that MESSENGER collected during its more than four years in orbit revealed a vast array of large fault scarps, or cliffs, on Mercury. These scarps resemble giant stair steps in the landscape — the largest are more than 600 miles (1,000 kilometers) long and more than 1.8 miles (3 km) high....
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| Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington/Smithsonian Institution |
(Source:http://www.livescience.com/51170-mercury-mystery-huge-cliff-patterns.html)
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| Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/Carnegie Institution of Washington/USGS/Arizona State University |
(Source:http://www.livescience.com/51170-mercury-mystery-huge-cliff-patterns.html)
According to Myths :
We got Mercury passed by different names in the myths of antiquated human advancements. Mercury essentially play a noteworthy God they every one of them - same soul - diverse personalities. It was known as the God of Knowledge,Commerce,the Moon, Measurement, Wisdom, the Alphabet, Records, Thought, Intelligence, Meditation, the Mind, Logic, Reason, Reading, Hieroglyphics, Magic, Secrets, Scribes, and Writing.
Egyptian Myth:
In Egypt, Mercury was the god Thoth or . Thoth played numerous imperative and conspicuous parts in Egyptian mythology, for example, keeping up the universe, and being one of the two gods (the other being Ma'at) who remained on either side of Ra's pontoon. In the later history of old Egypt, Thoth turned out to be vigorously connected with the intervention of virtuous question, expressions of the human experience of enchantment, the arrangement of composing, the advancement of science, and the judgment of the dead.
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Thoth Made Calculations Concerning the Heavens, the Stars and the Earth', the 'Reckoner of Times and of Seasons', the person who Measured out the Heavens and Planned the Earth. He was 'He who Balances', the 'Divine force of the Equilibrium' and 'Ace of the Balance'. 'The Lord of the Divine Body', 'Copyist of the Company of the Gods', the 'Voice of Ra', the 'Creator of Every Work on Every Branch of Knowledge, Both Human and Divine', he who saw all that is covered up under the wonderful vault.The Egyptians credited him as the author of all works of science,religion,philosophy and magic.
Persian Myth:
Ancient alien scholars trust Zarathustra was the child of an outsider god named who passed by the name Ahura Mazda in this situation. Researchers trust Zoroaster was a cleric and a prophet. Connected to the Magi, he was viewed as a conjurer. His otherworldly impacts have constantly influenced human thought and thinking; his aim, to show people their association with one wellspring of light and awareness.
Photo:An early 19th-century perception of Zoroaster derived from the portrait of a figure that appears in a 4th-century sculpture at Taq-e Bostan in south-western Photo is extracted from "Persia by a Persian: being personal experiences, manners, customs, habits, religious and social life in Persia". Author: Isaac Adams. Published by: E. Stock, 1906. - NY Public Library Iran.
Some researchers believe that Zarathustra or Zoroaster is another name of Hermes or Mercury.
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| Mercury in Roman myth (photo:courtesy) |
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| Hermes and infant Heracles, Athenian black-figure neck amphora C6th B.C., Staatliche Antikensammlungen |
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Ancient Pieces Related to Mercury :
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| A silver denarius showing a caduceus and bust of the Roman god Mercury wearing a winged Photo Source:Encyclopedia Britannica |
The Sumerians named the Sun, the Moon and the unmistakable planets - including Mercury - after their most prominent seven divine beings. Interpretations from surviving cuneiform tablets uncover that Mercury was assigned by many names, including that deciphered by archeologists as MulUDU.IDIM.GU.UD. Mercury was regularly connected with Nabu, or Ninurta, the lord of water and composing. Afterward, in Akkadian, it got to be distinctly known as Shikhtu, signifying "nervous".
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| A bit of this tablet records the area and time of appearance of changed stars and planets. Dated the 148th year of the Seleucid Era (164 AD), on the 26th of the month Nisannu (April/May), it expresses that Mercury showed up in the west in the group of stars of the Bull, and furthermore gives a definite forecasts of when and where the planet Mercury would be in the sky in connection to settled heavenly bodies. Photo:Courtesy |
The Sumerian human progress was prevailing by the Babylonians, a culture that acquired written work, stargazing, and arithmetic from the Sumerians. Early Babylonian stargazers (2000 – 1000 B.C.) may have recorded their perceptions of the sky: Although no records from that period have survived, tablets from the seventh century B.C. allude to perceptions of Venus apparently made much before, amid the rule of King Ammisaduqa (1702 – 1682 B.C.). We likewise realize that from 800 B.C. ahead the Babylonians listed stars, kept records of records of sun oriented obscurations and the time interims between new moons, and could foresee some galactic marvels.
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| Mercury in Babylonian Astrology Photo:Courtesy |
The Babylonians named Mercury after their heavenly nature Nebo or Nabu, - the record guardian, lord of composing, and envoy to the divine beings.
Nabu (Syriac: ܢܒܘ) is the patron god of scribes, wisdom and literature, being worshipped by the Assyrian and Babylonian people. He was identified as the son of the great god Marduk by the Babylonians and as the son of Ashur by the Assyrians.[1]
As Mount Sinai in Egypt is named for the Babylonian moon god Sin, Mount Nebo, in present-day Jordan, is named after the Babylonian divine force of the planet Mercury.
In Astrology and Astronomy:
Cosmology was frequently interlaced with religious practice, and the planets, Moon and Sun related to a pantheon of divine beings. Long back space experts were as often as possible clerics and crystal gazers too, looking to relate human occasions to heavenly movements. In some early societies the movements of cosmic items were deliberately recorded, so that by building precise date-books, human prospects may be anticipated. Mercury is the most hard to see of all the earthbound planets, since it never is a long way from the Sun. However we know from their records that numerous antiquated societies kept watch on Mercury, taking note of its quick development in the sky and frequently connecting with it a delegate god, or a lord of astuteness and learning.
In Babylonian space science Mercury was related with both genders as a result of its appearance as both a night and a morning star.
Later Babylonian human advancements (600 B.C. – 200AD) were yet more progressed in science and space science. Their inventory of the stars shapes the premise of our zodiac. They additionally mentioned their observations of the developments of the five obvious planets, including Mercury.
Mayan space experts were principally inspired by the "Zenial Passages" – times when the Sun traversed certain Mayan scopes. Mayan space science is thought to have created in the period from 1500 BC to 800 BC. A lot of what we are aware of it is found in composing known as the Dresden Codex, a band of paper 3.5 meters since a long time ago masterminded in 39 sheets. This contains data with respect to the date-book framework, galactic information and sky mechanics, and additionally tables of different numbers thought to have been utilized as a part of the counts of planetary developments.
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The Mayas were additionally profoundly intrigued by the planet Venus, trusting it to be as vital as the Sun. Be that as it may, the Mayas diagrammed the movement of the planet Mercury too; records of their point by point perceptions are found in the Dresden Codex. These incorporate the presence of Mercury as a morning star in 733 B.C. what's more, as a night star in 727. The Mayans likewise computed that Mercury would rise and set in a similar place in the sky at regular intervals.
Early Greek human progress, from 1400 to 200 BC, made numerous commitments to space science. Not at all like other early space experts who were crystal gazers too, Greek cosmologists were frequently considered logicians and mathematicians, as we probably aware from the works of those, for example, Plato and Eudoxus.
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| Mercury as Greek god 'Hermes' Image:Courtesy |
Around 450 B.C. the Greeks began concentrate the movements of the planets and utilizing geometry to quantify the extent of the Earth, Sun and Moon. Mercury was known by two distinct names, related with its night and morning appearances. These were Apollo (lord of truth, expressions of the human experience, bows and arrows, maladies, and divination) and Hermes (lord of composing and delivery person to alternate divine beings). Plato and Eudoxus detailed that the synodic and sidereal times of Mercury were 110 days and 1 year individually. Later Greek space experts made point by point star outlines and decided planetary movements, frequently expanding on prior work. In 200 AD the Greek cosmologist Ptolemy finished his Almagest, a far reaching content of scientific space science. Converted into Latin around 1400 AD, Ptolemy's work was considered by Europeans to be the expert on galactic comprehension until the mid 1600's. Ptolemy's model of the nearby planetary group was geocentric, or Earth-focused. The Sun and planets were thought to go around the Earth from east to west, with the planets proceeding onward more muddled cyclic ways about their normal positions.
To the northern people groups, Mercury was named Odin, the preeminent god. Frequently alluded to as the lord of shrewdness, enchantment, and war, and the designer of runes, his name signifies "enlivened one". Odin was revered all through northern Europe (counting Britain), wherever the Vikings and other Nordic people groups settled. Odin was otherwise called Woden, and it is from this frame the English word for Wednesday is inferred.
As did other antiquated developments, the Hindus interwove stargazing and crystal gazing. They trusted that the area of the planets in the sky at the season of birth decided a man's future. The Hindus called the planets all in all "navagrahs" and references to them can be found on sanctuary markings. As in other early societies, the planets were given the names of divinities; Mercury was called Budha.
In Alchemy :
The component 'Mercury' was named after the Roman god Mercury, known for speed and portability. It is related with the planet Mercury.The astrological symbol for the planet is also one of the alchemical symbols for the metal.
The Hindu word for speculative chemistry is Rasavatam which means '"The way of Mercury".
Chemists frequently considered Mercury the First Matter from which all metals were framed. Distinctive metals could be created by differing the quality and amount of sulfur contained inside the mercury. A capacity to change mercury into any metal came about because of the basically fluctuating nature of all metals. The purest of these was gold. Mercury was required for the transmutation of base (or sullied) metals into gold.
Hg is the front line substance picture for mercury. It begins from hydrargyrum, a Latinized kind of the Greek word "hydrargyros", which is a compound word implying "water" and "silver" - since it is liquid, like water, however then has a glossy metallic sheen.
To Be Continued....
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Sources:
https://www.wikipedia.org/
https://www.britannica.com/
https://phys.org/
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