Interesting note he said temperature of thermometer was like as they had never experienced Venus is incredibly hot and gaseous it reflects light more than most planets
So for thousands of years, plotting longitude was impossible, which led sailors to go off course a lot and caused a bunch of shipwrecks. Figuring out latitude is easy, but not longitude. The only way they could figure out longitude was to plot the position of of one of the interior planets as they went across the sun, like the video shows. So they needed to plot either Venus or Mercury, but mercury was harder to see back then. Here is the fucking crazy part that this video kinda touches on. The data they got from that was still used by NASA to plot the courses of the Voyager probes and other spacecraft.
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Interesting note he said temperature of thermometer was like as they had never experienced Venus is incredibly hot and gaseous it reflects light more than most planets
Is this part of a larger documentary and if so could someone please provide the title?
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I still do not understand the purpose of this mission and why Captain Cook was commissioned. This video is very instructive.
So for thousands of years, plotting longitude was impossible, which led sailors to go off course a lot and caused a bunch of shipwrecks. Figuring out latitude is easy, but not longitude. The only way they could figure out longitude was to plot the position of of one of the interior planets as they went across the sun, like the video shows. So they needed to plot either Venus or Mercury, but mercury was harder to see back then.
Here is the fucking crazy part that this video kinda touches on. The data they got from that was still used by NASA to plot the courses of the Voyager probes and other spacecraft.
Cook then went onwards to find the Terra Australis Incognita