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The Planet Closest to the Sun Has Ice That Never Melts!

Name: The Planet Closest to the Sun Has Ice That Never Melts!
Uploaded: 2026-06-17
Duration: 1 min 9 s
Channel: Rick Wood
Description: This companion follows The Planet Closest to the Sun Has Ice That Never Melts! and opens the science behind Mercury. It connects the video’s central reversal to the observations and missions that make the claim testable.

The planet nearest the Sun can preserve ice, shrink as it cools, and make the Sun reverse direction in its sky.

1:09Published June 17, 2026Hosted by Rick Wood

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What you’ll discover

Why permanently shadowed craters can hold water ice
How cooling produced Mercury’s global scarps
How its 3:2 spin-orbit resonance reshapes a solar day

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