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Where To Stream The Sky at Night Season 2018 Episode 10

First Rock from the Sun

Documentary series. Mercury, unique amongst the planets, is shrinking. And that's only the beginning of how strange the solar system's smallest planet is. In October 2018 a new mission to Mercury was launched - BepiColombo. It's a spacecraft consisting of two separate orbiters. Together, these hope to achieve the most complete exploration of Mercury to date. Since its launch, the spacecraft has been hurtling through space towards the inner solar system on an arduous seven-year journey that...