1:10 To be more precise, the low gravity means that the rate the atmospheric pressure/density falls with height is much slower, so the atmosphere extends much further out than on Earth. Another way to think about it is that a much larger atmosphere (per square meter anyway) weighs less thanks to the lower gravity, so it can be a similar pressure to Earth while being more extensive.
Why would a nuke increase it's temp? I mean it has a really thick atmosphere so any heat energy you dump into it should get distributed through convection but even the whole world stockpile isn't enough to heat the planet significantly. Although the whole planet is covered in flammable gasses so...
"Flashback" (the sort of sequel to Another World) was a video-game mostly set on Titan. It did look a bit different (a giant jungle of mangroves and baobabs....)
The reason the methane on Titan is not getting destroyed is because saturns magnetosphere protects Titan from solar radiation, and since Titan is a lot further from the sun, there is already less solar radiation
This was re-uploaded because I think something got messed up in the upload yesterday, and they made it private as they fixed it for re-upload. I left my subscriptions open and clicked on this and it said the video was private, so that's my guess.
is it possible that titan has a denser core, or the gasses on titan are heavier. thus allowing more gas to cling to its surface? intresting idea even if it's impossible
The ad at the start of the video was by Prager U where some old guy claimed that the ten commandments ended slavery and are the basis of western civilisation.
Seems like the conclusion for most moons with any kind of ice on them is that they have some kind of liquid ocean underneath. Too a layman, this seems a bit suspect, considering the big deal made out of Europa's under-crust ocean.
it's like with every moon in the solar system, "because this moon is tidally locked, it's insides move creating friction which might mean there's a liquid ocean"
+The Puncakian when a moon is spinning and orbiting a planet, the planet warms up the moon. but when the planet turns rotational energy into thermal energy, it loses rotational speed. so a tidally locked planet has already fulfilled it's heating potential and cannot be heated further by tides. that is why most moons don't get tidal heating, because thay are tidally locked already, such as our moon. titan and europa are unique because they are *NOT* tidally locked to their parent bodies.
Maybe a comet or some other fast moving body skimmed through Saturn long ago fast enough that it pulled a lot of gas out with it before settling in an orbit around Saturn, and then smaller particles and rocky bodies were pulled in around it, eventually coalescing into the moon we know as Titan, with all that gas trapped inside.
3:24 is that graphic right? because it seems the ocean is the blue layer, which is beneath a thin white layer which could be the ice layer you were talking about. The center looks like a rocky core rather than an ocean. I'm pretty sure that's how I've seen it before.
It was slightly confusing the atmosphere part of explanation because you were talking about how big and thick and dense it is, even though earth's gravity is greater, so its atmosphere should be denser. But we can see through the earth's atmosphere. The difference then must be the composition. So I feel that's when you should have mentioned the methane...
I followed the landing of the Huygens probe live on the internet back in the day, up to the first picture. Hope the next one I follow live is a human Mars landing.
What I'm confused about is whether the Titan in Avengers Infinity War is the Titan from Sol system. The Guardian's ship should be able to do in system travel with little effort if it regularly travels between systems. So how come their fuel didn't get them to Earth? Is the MCU Titan in a different system? These are the answers I need.
Pedro Villarreal you might think its wrong but by the sounds of it, he's excluding the Exosphere which every barren body including the moon has. i think he means primary atmosphere up to the Thermosphere (i think).
Just a thought, what would happen if you tried to light a match on titan? Would the entire atmosphere go up in flames, or is there not enough oxygen to support cumbustion?
So it's a re-upload, but .. Did any one mention that methane is a by product of biological compounds breaking down by bacteria? When you spectral graph (a way of reading the exact wave lengths of light) the light that passes through an atmosphere you can pick out methane as one of them, which means there is biological life there. Therefore, the real question is "who farted" This applies to any planet which passes between us and another sun no matter how far away. The means if it's carbon based life form, we can see which planets actually have life at many light years away. As for intelligent life, we still are looking for that here on Earth.
I wonder what if would feel like to swim in a methane lake. Is it even possible? Will you sink? Considering your body to be unharmed by the harsh enviroment ofcourse.
Reid is definitely my favourite SciShow host. He always just seems so excited to tell everyone stuff about space. It's awesome :')
Chris Cartwright agree 😊
So true. He looks very happy and ive never watched videos by thia channel before
It worked...my time machine worked!
+Steven Wills hahahhaha
+Steven Wills I am a steg-O.-saurus
+Steven Wills You have the same name as my calculus lecturer. I almost believed it.
+Steven Wills HA!!
+dean kearney really wow.
I hate speculation, just get there and do some research NASA. Titan is too fascinating to leave out, I hope in my life time we send a rover there!
I share your sentiment! It's the most interesting place in the solar system.
If ur age is 40 and under I'm sure you will be around or if not at least for mars
Give them some actual money to work with first, none of the tech they'd need to get there is anywhere close to cheap.
The Dragonfly mission is launching in 2035
This was an awesome episode. I love these dives into the different bodies in our solar system and what they are like. Keep up the great work guys
Titan is in the title of lots and lots of different movies.
"Someplace a little more friendly" -179 degrees, no oxygen
Low standards never disappoint
Take a Trip to Titan! Again!
+DivinityOfBLaze ya lets get this attack on titan going
the coolest scishow presenter
you know ive been watching you guys forever... i think its time i make a commitment
sci show will you take my subscription
1:10 To be more precise, the low gravity means that the rate the atmospheric pressure/density falls with height is much slower, so the atmosphere extends much further out than on Earth. Another way to think about it is that a much larger atmosphere (per square meter anyway) weighs less thanks to the lower gravity, so it can be a similar pressure to Earth while being more extensive.
So glad I discovered this channel !!
Send that bacteria that made oxygen to titan.
so it can freeze to death?
Maybe we have to warm the moon.
Nuke the polar with thermonuclear bomb. That oughta do it.
@Lucas Silva yea just take off your suit youll get used to the cold and unbreatheable atmosphere
It would die
Why would a nuke increase it's temp? I mean it has a really thick atmosphere so any heat energy you dump into it should get distributed through convection but even the whole world stockpile isn't enough to heat the planet significantly. Although the whole planet is covered in flammable gasses so...
"Flashback" (the sort of sequel to Another World) was a video-game mostly set on Titan. It did look a bit different (a giant jungle of mangroves and baobabs....)
LOVE ur channel! Thanks!
I love this channel.
Thanos is from Titan
NO HES NOT
Zeus The Cade NO IT ISN’T YOU WEEB
It's up again! (and not private!)
Life could be closer than we thing! #LifeonTitan
I want to imagine that there is a giant robot in the Center of Titan, controlling all of the odd functions
Deja vu, or just a lot of drugs?
drugs
It was uploaded before
Ciroluiro no shit sherlock
+christopher alistar then you should have replied that it was uploaded before you ass
No need to swear
The reason the methane on Titan is not getting destroyed is because saturns magnetosphere protects Titan from solar radiation, and since Titan is a lot further from the sun, there is already less solar radiation
If reincarnation is a thing..i wanna be reborn when we colonize the solar system
Me too
Or hope a method to immortality is found soon
Recommended this in 2020, makes sense
This was re-uploaded because I think something got messed up in the upload yesterday, and they made it private as they fixed it for re-upload. I left my subscriptions open and clicked on this and it said the video was private, so that's my guess.
+LazerLord10 Not enough random hand movements
In college I wrote my planetary astrophysics paper on Titan. It's quite an interesting world and the landscape is very interesting!
Very cool!
We should have a Titan rover
is it possible that titan has a denser core, or the gasses on titan are heavier. thus allowing more gas to cling to its surface?
intresting idea even if it's impossible
very earthlike for our solar system
How is this a re-upload? I've never seen this video and I've watched every video for at least a year
Awesome video! please keep them coming, maybe you guys could do one about the Insight Rover launch coming up
Re-Upload?
The ad at the start of the video was by Prager U where some old guy claimed that the ten commandments ended slavery and are the basis of western civilisation.
Very grateful I didn't get that ad, although I could have used a good laugh.
Titan is my favorite celestial body other than Earth and the Sun (because life). You can double jump an fly using a pair of homemade wings!
Seems like the conclusion for most moons with any kind of ice on them is that they have some kind of liquid ocean underneath. Too a layman, this seems a bit suspect, considering the big deal made out of Europa's under-crust ocean.
How to terraform Titan: first use a giant magnifying glass to warm up titans surface, then launch a bunch of cyanobacteria onto titans surface.
it's like with every moon in the solar system, "because this moon is tidally locked, it's insides move creating friction which might mean there's a liquid ocean"
+The Puncakian
when a moon is spinning and orbiting a planet, the planet warms up the moon. but when the planet turns rotational energy into thermal energy, it loses rotational speed. so a tidally locked planet has already fulfilled it's heating potential and cannot be heated further by tides. that is why most moons don't get tidal heating, because thay are tidally locked already, such as our moon. titan and europa are unique because they are *NOT* tidally locked to their parent bodies.
Nuclearsheep 53 In the video, I thought they said they were tidally locked. But in think what I meant to say was that they were tidally heated.
+The Puncakian
i understand. your grammar is a little hard to understand though.
Our moon is tidally locked. Going to book a scuba diving trip there soon.
The Puncakian ...And?
Maybe a comet or some other fast moving body skimmed through Saturn long ago fast enough that it pulled a lot of gas out with it before settling in an orbit around Saturn, and then smaller particles and rocky bodies were pulled in around it, eventually coalescing into the moon we know as Titan, with all that gas trapped inside.
Isn't the Hyugens lander not transmitting anymore for years?
is it possible to freeze a fart? i want to throw a frozen fart brick at someone.
ayy lmao idk
What if you lit a match on Titan?
+AgentWashingtub
Not much would happen. Without copious amounts of oxygen, nothing is going to burn.
+cOmAtOrAn How boring, right?
Stefan Massyn
Human skin is not flammable on normal instances.
You can't. There isn't enough oxygen for you to actually create flames. It would just spark and nothing else happens.
No oxygen so no boom
I clicked this episode and was about to shout HANK! When this guy came around...
Yeah, the more moons allegedly have underground oceans, the less I'm buying the theory.
Well, earth does have underground reservoirs as well
3:24 is that graphic right? because it seems the ocean is the blue layer, which is beneath a thin white layer which could be the ice layer you were talking about. The center looks like a rocky core rather than an ocean. I'm pretty sure that's how I've seen it before.
Yeah, does look rather odd :/
The image is false color most likley.
I can't shake the notion that I've seen this.
that video was release yesterdy no ?
*WHY* the pointer of ' _Ocean under Titan's surface_ ' is point towards the core?
Tried to watch this when I was sober, now that it is public I am too drunk to understand it. better luck tomorrow I guess
A space body's temperature is not always determined by the distance from the sun. more so by its atmosphere
Question . would water ice float on a methain lake ?
Maybe....
2:40 "LIFEEEEE"
@SciShow Space How are you defining the end of the atmosphere?
Let's play a drinking game! Every time he says Methane, take a shot. Every time he says Titan, take 3 shots!
When I hear about Titan, all I think about is Gattaca.
Why did you re-upload?
This guy just sold me on going to Titan!
It was slightly confusing the atmosphere part of explanation because you were talking about how big and thick and dense it is, even though earth's gravity is greater, so its atmosphere should be denser. But we can see through the earth's atmosphere. The difference then must be the composition. So I feel that's when you should have mentioned the methane...
welp... Titan is just a baby gaseous planet, a baby Saturn ! there, mystery lifted
I followed the landing of the Huygens probe live on the internet back in the day, up to the first picture. Hope the next one I follow live is a human Mars landing.
I was watching this video yesterday when it went private.
thought i already saw this, is this the will of the steins gate?
To Ganymede and Titan, yes sir I've been around!
Have you made or can you make more videos about enceladus and europa. I think they are the most earthlike objects in the solar system
Pretty flammabe moon that
I think it's just alien snoop dogg blazin it down there :P
I really want to send a probe there and take billions of photos and measurements. It sounds like a fascinating place.
What I'm confused about is whether the Titan in Avengers Infinity War is the Titan from Sol system.
The Guardian's ship should be able to do in system travel with little effort if it regularly travels between systems. So how come their fuel didn't get them to Earth? Is the MCU Titan in a different system? These are the answers I need.
I have to brag on my great uncle who helped design Voyager I's radar
Send tardigrades up there since they can live anywhere lol.
This sounds like the Unggoy home world of Balaho.
Titan is so damn cool.
Take a shot every time he says "methane"
So if one were to light a match in Titan's atmosphere, would the moon set ablaze? probably need oxygen thought right?
What if you light a lighter on titan
(Somehow without oxygen) would titan explode?
What does sunlight break down methane into?
"480km earth atmosphere" [citation needed]
Pedro Villarreal you might think its wrong but by the sounds of it, he's excluding the Exosphere which every barren body including the moon has. i think he means primary atmosphere up to the Thermosphere (i think).
Pretty sure I'm in the twilight zone. I think I watched this yesterday.
Humans could THEORETICALLY fly on Titan.. Just need an oxygen supply attached to wingsuits
Maybe titan is a planet that used to orbit the sun but got pulled by saturn's gravity.
Just a thought, what would happen if you tried to light a match on titan? Would the entire atmosphere go up in flames, or is there not enough oxygen to support cumbustion?
+D Wells not enough oxygen
There's no oxygen so nothing would happen
how thick is Titan's atmosphere compared to Earth's, Mars' and Venus'?
Meanwhile in 2016..voyager 1 is slowly drifting into unknown and forgotten by some...
sooooo. are you saying that there is a possibility that there is life (even in bacteria form) on titan?
So it's a re-upload, but ..
Did any one mention that methane is a by product of biological compounds breaking down by bacteria? When you spectral graph (a way of reading the exact wave lengths of light) the light that passes through an atmosphere you can pick out methane as one of them, which means there is biological life there. Therefore, the real question is "who farted"
This applies to any planet which passes between us and another sun no matter how far away. The means if it's carbon based life form, we can see which planets actually have life at many light years away. As for intelligent life, we still are looking for that here on Earth.
why was this video removed yesterday? did you guys accidently release the video?
What did I tell you?!?! 88 miles per hour!!!
It'll be cool when future Martians colonize Titan so they too can colonize a new world like their ancestors from the 21st century colonized Mars.
Aslo titans such an awesome name to give to a moon
What's a day on Titan
I think it's 15.9 earth days (or one orbital period) as Titan is tidally locked with Saturn.
Thanks
What about Titans magnetosphere? Wouldn't that be why the suns rays aren't desroying the methane?
Titan isn't weird!
Maybe we can find info about titan in the basement
I wonder what if would feel like to swim in a methane lake. Is it even possible? Will you sink? Considering your body to be unharmed by the harsh enviroment ofcourse.
I wonder how big the flame would be if you lit a match on titan having a methane atmosphere and all.
+Maco Season There's no oxygen on Titan, so the methane wouldn't burn. :(
Is there no other planet/moon in our solar system that has oxygen?
Then what about gas giants? There mostly made out of there own atmosphere which counts as there size but why not Titan?
Does'nt Ganymede has a small oxygen atmosphere
I bet some tall alien will go wtf when they see the huygens probe.
yay space
NEVER flip a match on Titan!
+Valken Actually, you're fine to do so, because there's no oxygen to react with the methane.