How Ripples on Titan's Lakes Shocked NASA Scientists
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- Опубликовано: 28 май 2024
- Saturn's moon, Titan, is the only other body in the solar system that can support liquid on its surface. But not liquid water, liquid methane. What did NASA's Cassini discover about the methane lakes of Saturn's moon, Titan? brilliant.org/astrum/
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When swimming in the lakes of titan.... you will need to hold your breath under water and above the water
As one does
You wouldn't need to worry about that. You'd probably freeze to death way before that could become an issue
remember a towel too, long journey back if you forget
@@alexanderhirst1171 a question, is sunburn or tan an issue there? I hate tan
@@itszortrax probably not.
The atmosphere is denser than on earth and it's much further away from the sun.
Both lower the intensity of the sunlight, making tan pretty much impossible. And I also don't think there are any other light sources around, which could cause that
Let's be real, Titan is the best name for ANYTHING in the solar system.
Lmao, not at all, titan is such an overused name, and it’s too simple of a name for anything in space
Phobos and Deimos are good names, as it’s the name of 2 of the moons on mars I believe
Did you forget Uranus? Always good for a chuckle.
Titan gel
Neptune....(Drops mic)
"Lakes of Titan" sounds like a New Age prog metal band!
@Northern Brother: I'd give a listen to a band with that name!
I found a song with that name by Pale Summit on RUclips Music.
Bruh thats such a badass name
It's at least the name of their second album 😏
Definitely an Ambient Progressive Trance track,
That we managed to land a probe on Titan still amazes me, what an amazing achievement!
we crashed it... but okay, we reached it nevertheless. most amazing was soviet landing on venus and sending photos before probe being crushed by pressure
@@charlieharper2529 It did land, with a parachute.
@@filegrabber1 i tought it burned in the atmosphere
@@charlieharper2529 Cassini burned up in Saturn's atmosphere, but the Huygens probe landed on Titan.
Yes, but how many meals did just this mission cost people from whom taxes are extorted?
Back when I was a kid and really intrigued by anything that has anything to do with space (especially our solar system), there was no such amazing content easily available to watch and listen either to learn something new or purely for entertainment. I'm so grateful for creators like Astrum that provide us with so much interesting content and will support them any way I can whenever I can.
I used to sit in the library for hours pouring over books about space (both local and what might lay beyond). I miss the quiet sounds of shuffling paper and the smell of the books. The internet is amazing and the amount of knowledge at hand is astounding but it will never replace those quiet afternoons spent sitting in a corner reading the books that sparked my imagination.
@@TooLameToDie there is something to the illustrations in those books. From the simple line drawings and the black and white photos of more technical books to the brightly colored pages of the more commercial pieces . The rounded, bubble like designs with the spinning artificial gravity, the Saturn series rockets and the use of simple 2d diagrams that would demonstrate entry, exit and intercept equations.
Even being a kid in the 80’s and 90’s, with the more realistic science books that switched to showing more colored pictures of space and less illustrations, when I think of being a kid enjoying space, I go back to those older versions.
And now I’m thinking of old Issac Asimov collection covers.
Kids today are going to grow up with such great content from channels like this
Me either Im grateful there is now
It was so much more amazing before physics and economics took all the fun out of space exploration.
It’s crazy how i binge watch/listen to these videos ALL day and i would barely show up to these classes half the time in high school. RUclips is really connecting us to the best educators in the world. Giving us access to these lectures at no cost-while paying the creators!-is one of the greatest achievements in human history.
The labelling of images is why i love this channel.
Yes fr
Indeed, most certain
How Carl Sagan would have loved your channel if he was still alive today, Alex. I'm sure of it. Keep up the brilliant work.
Its a shame that Dr. Sagan has been popularly replaced by a pretentious twat like Neil Degrass Tyson. They are not even comparable. Dr. Sagan taught. Tyson preaches.
@@garcemac agreed
10 20 19 Hey@@alejandramori679, Agree. He's a bit full of himself. Be well. v
@@garcemac grow up. human beings are flawed-you are, so am I and so was Carl. NDT too.
NDT was a personal protegé of Carl's. He has done a lot to advance the field and scientific interest in general, just like Carl.
Beyond that, you don't have to agree with or like everything the man says. i definitely don't.
still, his contributions and achievements stand. unlike yours, almost certainly.
see.... not encouraging to the soul or spirit of Alex, but let's boost your ego and compare you to another great mind in this field of study. You folks definitely flock together don't ya? So is any of that stuff spewing out of the iceland volcano useable for fuel? SInce that's the goal right? Let's go to titan now and harvest materials for more rockets, more engines, more POWER.
Titan made its own nitrogen bombs.... could you imagine seeing those explode throwing pieces of Titan miles in the sky!!? What a crazy universe we live in!!! I'm so excited for what else we discover on Titan and beyond!!!!!
Me, too, except... how many meals did just this one mission cost people?
@@KutWrite who cares, finding out about space is more important for humanity than feeding people who are too lazy to feed themselves
@@abyss1997: Don't you eat, too?
Do you enjoy someone being able to steal money from you for projects or, yes, to feed "lazy people?"
My point is the extortion, not where the money goes after it's taken from you.
@@KutWrite so just because theres people starving on earth we cant explore space? because if thats what your saying then you're stupid
@@KutWrite NASA took $5 from me at gunpoint 😔 we live in a society
I just love this narrators’ delivery; he always sounds like he can barely contain his love of astronomy!
Thats Alex he does love what he does
I think it is time to rename "fossil" fuels. Why would they be called fossil fuels in a place that has never had life to create fossils? Would hydrocarbon fuels be more appropriate?
(Edit) I posted this before I read the other comments.
John D. Rockefeller's people came up with the name to make petroleum seem scarce and thus, more expensive than its supply warranted.
It is not any more fossilized than, say, Oxygen.
titan might have life but the fossil fuels he's talking about are different so i agree with you
I concur. That has always bothered me. What a misnomer.
Also how can it be a "fuel" when there's no oxygen to burn it?
@@LuisAldamiz Which brings me neatly to my question. Would it be possible to ignite Titan?
The fact that there are liquid lakes of methane on Titan and they filmed the sun glinting of of one is amazing.
Titan is the first place in the solar system I'd want to visit. Beyond fascinating how it's similar to earth but with completely different chemistry
I think the photo of the crescent of sunlight with the reflection off the lake may be one of the most beautiful photos ever
Beautiful what computers can do huh? I see it all the time in video games graphics 🤭
@@violetflame6596 shut up
@@legitimate_opposition2002 No thanks. I'll speak when I so choose to. Thanks for playing
@@violetflame6596 ratio
@@legitimate_opposition2002 he spoke legitimate facts, sit down child.
IMO Cassini is one of the most successful and productive planetary missions ever. I was sad when its final dive had to happen, after following it for so many years and marvelling at the beautiful images it sent back to us.
I thought that the heat generated by Saturn made the area where Titan resides a kind of artificial Goldilocks zone
just a hive god, nothing out of the ordinary
Yeah that’s nothing too serious we can find 6 people to go kill it
@@notinuseanymore3130 Just need two shotguns and an Anarchy, that’ll do the job…
@@countduukoo2512 not after they nerf Anarchy :3
No need to attack them now guys, the darkness has them now
Here's to the Dragon Fly mission!
sulijoo I genuinely can’t wait! I followed Cassini-Huygens from launch in 1997 when I was nine.
Me!!!
Unfortunately the mission will not be able to visit the lakes - at least in the main duration of the mission.
The lakes are way up in the north a hurdle that makes communicating with earth impossible without an orbiter which the mission lacks.
@@spacetoon6ok there's not even a small pond like structure near the landing site
@@spacetoon6ok Here's hopping for ESA's follow up on hiughens
I think Titan needs some good 'ole American freedom.
US-Spaceforce starts regime change invasion on Titan in order to overthrow the current dictatorship (and to privatise the fossile fuel reserve)
The USA will liberate Titan.
(Liberate Titan of it's natural resources)
😂
YESSS PLZZZ 😫
Robo Bush
2069
"Mission accomplished after 12 years of fighting and over 2 billion spent, with only 2 casualties to our troops, the rock regime on Titan has finally surrendered as the wind moved their leader MethaneSample38 over the treaty paper, the populace on Titan can now be in confidence of a future safe for geological activity"
*cheering*
Some people seem to be having trouble with the phrase 'fossil fuels'. The chemistry of Titan, largely methane based, are not fossilised life, but neither are fossil fuels on Earth, generally. Coal is fossilised plant matter, but oil is not actually a fossil substance. In most cases the term 'fossil fuel' simply means that it is already existing, having been created by processes taking millions of years.
That is a controversial supposition.
Thats not really true though....
It is true that 99.999% of oil is NOT consisting of "dead dinosaur meat".
But most of the oil IS in fact ancient, billion year accumulation deposits of mainly sea bacteria and algae, that have been drifting to the seabed upon death, then graduall over hundreds of millions to billions of years, have been compressed and decomposed into what we call oil. The reason for this is that you need an absolute "FUCKTON" (technical term) of biomass to compress into enough oil to be noticeable. Even all the dinosaurs / fossils that have existed wont make up even a percent of enough biomass to account for just the crude oil on earth. But the bacteria since 2 billion years back, does.
So you're right in some ways, but completely wrong saying its not life, at least on earth.
So wether or not the organic compounds on Titan is due to ancient / current life, who knows.
I'm still confused. I thought fossil fuel exclusively referred to biomass that had been compressed over very long periods. Fossil fuel comes from formerly living things. This is the definition everywhere I can find. What definition of fossil fuel would Alex be using which would include the non-biological hydrocarbons on Titan?
@@Baleur Yes, you're correct - in an effort to explain the difference of why Titan's methane is not likely to be a sign of any kind of life I oversimplified too much. Cyanobacteria from around 2.7 billion years ago are the most likely candidate for the existence of crude oil, but not Titan's methane.
@@LeoStaley Right. But there is an alternative theory that much of the oil and gas is abiotic, that is not produced by living things, but from some geologic process that is not clear. Its a bit of a fringe theory though.
I thought Cassini's mission ended in 2017? I love all the data we've learned from all the satellite and probe missions! Just amazing!
Fossil Fuels over 300x than on Earth: *Knock, knock, it's the United States*
Us are like: "well, we saw Hercules and those god damn Titans act clearly as terrorists, we'll invade it!"
That’s funny until you realize it never had a thing to do with oil
The United States is now the largest producer of petroleum on Earth now lol
I completely love the Cassini mission, definitely my favorite of all!
for some reason, the way it ended makes me sad, i would have much prefered if they made some attempt to land the satilite on a moon, and reclaim it in 300 years with space colonists.
Thank you, Astrum! Titan is such an enigma! I remember reading about it from the 1980's from Voyager! Imagine being on Titan . . . The dim and dense clouds-the hydrocarbon fog settling over the hydrocarbon lakes-walking on eroded water-ice and grains as hard as rock-huge, hydrocarbon raindrops, falling like snow. I want to wrap up warm, and have an oxygen supply, so I can get on a custom-made boat and sail across the hydrocarbon seas and down streams and rivers with low gravity and a dense atmosphere, allowing me to glide at times when I go too fast over any waves . . . What a world Titan would be! ❄🚤🌙
I love this comment, I envision being on Titan like this often! It drives me crazy much attention Mars gets when Titan is objectively the most interesting place in the Solar System.
I love these videos! Thank you so much for offering them!
Cool, I'm in. Let me grab my diving gear and I'm ready to go
Imagine breathing in that fresh Methane air... lol
@@DeepsongProductions @-350 degrees F.
@@htos1av
It would be a very quick death...lol
@@DeepsongProductions that's one deadly fart.
@@atealab6152
Lol
Imagine if we could actually go to these places? I’d love to go to space and see the different galaxies, planets etc. I love the universe 💚
Fossil fuels? Apparently this planet needs American freedom, peace and liberty.
‘MURICA 🇺🇸
Apparently everywhere does, why else do the people of other countries cry out to obtain American freedom and receive aid lol
@@celphalonred1999 oh, a lot of them don’t ask - we just give it anyways
2 seconds into the astrum video and i am already smiling
the music the content its great
I would love to walk on Titan, so fascinating!
Bring a thick coat, it's damn cold out there. Rocks are made of water even!
Love your Channel,Thank you Astrum!!! Brilliant! Cheers!🪐🌌🌕🌔🌞🌠💖
Totally awesome vid covering so much. Thank you Alex
He sounds so happy while reading this
love this channel, love the polish on every video
Your channel is hands down my favorite I watch it every day, please do a video on Ganymede!!!
You have such a unique and soothing voice. I love it!
Love your channel Alex. Your videos give really good insight for arm chair astronomers like me.... I always look forward to your content... Cheers mate...
Its a happy day when a new Astrum video drops.
I don't know what you do for a living, whether you are a scientist by trade or are 'just' a hard core amateur enthusiast but your videos should be a mandatory part of the national science curriculum of any country. I always liked science in school and was ok in it but most my teachers were dicks basically. At 48 I have watched all your videos and have learned more interesting things from you than from just about any other video series.
If you are not a teacher PLEASE become one! Your uncanny ability to make professional videos which grab the attention of the viewer leaving them wanting more is an increasingly rare skill which is in depressingly short supply in the educational system.
Keep it up and all the best to you!
Thanks for posting. Liked and shared. Was already subscribed.
Keep'em coming. This is so amazing.
10 20 19 Hey@@sockington1, I suggest being kind. Alex is able to make his videos with sponorships. Be well. v
Awsome video man,,, I love learning new things that intrigue my mind
Fascinating! And beautifully presented.
Graditude tremendous I feel. So privileged and. Honered to have. Access too these. Photos. Thanks. Again. And. Again. Bless you all. That made. This. For me and. Others.
I was looking foward to watching your amazing, educational video man . I LOVE YOU and good job..😘😘
I just want to comment on how beautiful that thumbnail alone is...
Thanks for the interesting documentary of Titan's lake. Also thanks for following up with Cassini.
Great video thanks! Love your channel.
Make a video about 20 new Moons of Saturn
Short: You are an Astro Hero! So informative
I am awed by what we see in ur documentaries of Cassini and new horizon..legends like Copernicus,Galileo ,Clyde Tombaugh would have their eyes swell up seeing these images
I wish people talk about titan alot more
Cassini - never forget
Salute for Cassini.
You sound like you have a lot of fun when you do these. It's contagious.
Love ur channel!!
*ASTRUM* - One of the *best RUclips channels* of astronomical information & wonder ... ✨🏆✨👍🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
3:43- "...puts the potential amount of fossil fuels on Titan..." at 0, as these are hydrocarbons from non-living sources.
The name is misleading, and was thought up by John D Rockefeller in an attempt to make them seem scarce.
The thirty meter telescope in Hawaii is at risk along with the other observatories on Maunakea. This would be a good time to speak up for astronomy. Protestors have based their protest on false information and they have illegally blocked the road for over 3 months.
Well. They better start doing something then. Also its illegal to block the traffickway so technically if you ran over the protesters, yes you would get in trouble but they couldnt sue because they were illegally in the street when they shouldnt have been. Also who cares? If that location isnt providing 100% accurate information maybe it should be closed? I dont know any of that situation.
moviemaker2011z because of the situation dlnr has set up a roadblock above their roadblock. They claim the telescope will be nuclear powered and destroyed their water source and pollution their “sacred” mountain. Obviously that’s not true. They also claim it will get in the way of practicing our culture but it won’t... it’s 6 acres or 0.001 of the mountain. These people claim to speak for all Hawaiians and it’s not how all locals and native Hawaiians feel. They also claim it’s a illegal build because Hawaii they think Hawaii it not a real state. Astronomy puts over 160 million dollars a year into our states economy and gives high skill jobs. Tmt also plans to pay a million dollars a year in rent that goes to mountain conservation and office of Hawaiian Affairs, also put millions a year into our local school system. The protesters end goal is to have all observatories removed from the mountain by 2033 and that would cripple the astronomy world in the northern hemisphere, and really hurt my home and the next generation.
@@kakela2883 well, not wanting to be political so please dont take this the wrong way, but in todays time people are protesting everything because they know they can get away with any illegal crimes during these protests. If what youre saying is true then they clearly have no reason to protest this site. But people are also protesting the Keystone pipeline that will connect Canada and the U.S where we get millions of gallons of oil for free from Canada. It makes no sense because this oil gain could drop the price of gas by over 30% but because a certain individual wants it now its apparently bad despite the good it would do. I dont see a problem with building giant telescopes honestly with the amount of amazing discoveries in recent years so it makes no sense as to why they would protest it. Maybe they think their logic is valid but that still doesnt condon their illegal actions such as blocking the road. The police should have forced them off the area by now.
Awesome contents as usual. Keep it up
Fascinating thankyou.
so stoned... watching... i love this. you don't have to be to watch to it... but it feels amazing. smart is the new hot.
And "straight" is the new cool. Put your bong to one side and get high on learning.
Let's hope there's no oxygen in the atmosphere.
Imagine someone lighting a cigarette....
Lovely thank you for sharing. love this stuff
Great video, thx
10 20 19 Hey to the Astrum Team & Alex, Thanks for the terrific post! Also, hope that little angel entrusted to your care is happy & well? Be well. v
Cassini: These lakes appear to be made out of lake
That's where your kind are hiding all of my missing socks, aren't you? Or, is that where you hid all the gold you had the cloud people steal from Ft. Knox in the 1960's! Just like a globalist cryptid to hide a mountain of gold under a lake of farts... *WE ARE ON TO YOU!*
Cassini was my favorite mission of all time! I ❤️ Cassini-Huygens
Brilliant work
Thanks for another exciting episode of "I never knew I want to know about.." like
“Fossil Fuels”
America: OOOO MINE!
You make an interesting point. No fossilized life on Titan, yet... a "fossil" gas?
More evidence Rockefeller was playing us when he came up with that phrase.
Titan- has gas lakes
America- That moon needs some freedom 🇺🇸
@@colebertram8482: Haha!
Imagine the pipeline!
Fossil Fuels
Russia: Plant an agent in white house, to secure Petroleum contracts...
@@KutWrite fossil fuels isnt made from fossils, but from decomposed organic matter such as bacteria and algae. At least on earth.
Fascinating video!
Wonderful work :)
Can’t wait to see a 10k picture from the surface
Sounds like Titan needs some freedom.... 🦅
Any modern probes being launched as of today? Great video 👍
no wonder this has 722k subscribers..this is really good... subscribed
Alex what do we got to do for a heart? I give you one 🤗❤
You made my day!! Thank you so much tbh I find your videos very educational, intriguing and interesting!!!
Reading this made me smile and feel good😃👍
Reading this made me ultra cringe
If there's liquid methane cycles, does that mean a life form that uses methane as sustenance could in theory stay alive on Titan?
Yes, if it is not too cold.
There is even some evidence that there may be life in Titan's atmosphere, but far from conclusive.
@@davidwuhrer6704 i mean wasnt there also 'evidence' of there being life in, what was it, jupiter's atmosphere?
@@observingeye9579 There was evidence of potential biomarkers in the clouds of Venus, but they weren't confirmed by a second look. The same molecules are also found in Jupiter's atmophere, but they can form spontaneously there.
I'm not even into astrology but this is the type of stuff that makes me wonder how beautiful our universe is
best channel for this kind of info
Love your channel, thanks.
glad the lander didn't cause a spark. : )
Absolutely love your videos. They're informative to space nerds like myself yet still accessible to my kids. I have to say as well your voice and phrasing reminds me of Brian Cox. You wouldn't happen to be one in the same would you?
Sadly not :) would love to meet him one day though!
Great vídeo !! 👍👍
Excellent video again!! Seriously thinking of becoming a Patreon supporter. Have to sit down and think long and hard about which channel I want to donate funds to.
Wow already 300k!! I subscribed while you in 5000k..
10 20 19 Hey just Q, It's great isn't it? I wonder why he doesn't have 10 million. Be well. v
Who wants to go fishing?
...on Titan?
Me.
Me.
Alien fish
Fish for what tho
@@dezzeditzz8966 for eating of course Kappa
Casini was literally one of the greatest mission !
It appears Titan is a fascinating world . I'm looking forward to the probe going there and just a little smaller than a mini . What's so great about the probe is it's ability to land and then lift off before landing again . This could produce some amazing visuals to see .
Why is earths core iron? Isn't the pressure their the greatest . Plz do a video on the composition of earths interior
Iron is the the heaviest stuff in the earth. The heaviest stuff sinks to the bottom inside all planets
humans: *these are the small one metre waves lmao*
small 2 cm *Titan-ian:* *"yeah that one took my grandpa away"*
On Titan, everything is so light and the atmosphere is so thick, flatulence or just flapping your arms are modes of transportation.
Awesome great videos. 😎
If it were possible to stand beside these lakes, especially when it's raining, just imagine what a vista it would be. So alien, so unlike anything we've ever experienced, so awe-inspiring.
I *love* to do these thought experiments, sometimes we lose sight of the fact that these are real places. Just imagine the beauty & horror in the universe 🌌
@@ironsnowflake1076 Yes, real places that we'll never get to see, or touch, in person, and that's sad. Well, at least not our generation, anyway. Still, allowing one's imagination to run wild is no bad thing, and I suppose that's the point I was trying to make. Of course, the "horror" that you refer to may, in fact, be "beautiful" in itself. I guess that's because, as always, it depends on who, or what, is doing the observing, and besides, beauty truly does reside in the eye of the beholder. 😉
@@Turrican60 yes, I couldn't agree more. I feel very strongly (would bet my life) that there are other planets out there, brimming with life...I imagine the alien landscapes/seascapes, what life & death battles must be raging, what might it sound or smell like, the sunrises & sunsets (multiple suns?) the moons that glow in many skies (unrecognizable star patterns) stranger than we can imagine. The Earth is amazing, dinosaurs to jellyfish, who'd think our little world could be so diverse., then to think of the universe, incredibly old & enormous...boggles the mind :)
Breaks my heart that we can't see it.
Maybe, somewhere out there, other intelligent beings are just as curious.
@@ironsnowflake1076 So much to see, so much to be astonished by, yet all any of us have is a relatively few short years to live. Even then, I have to feel envious of our descendants as what will be common knowledge to them is far beyond our grasp. Still, I guess it's our misfortune to be born at the 'wrong' time, I suppose, though I'm not entirely convinced there's ever a 'right' time, lol. Apologies for a very late reply. 😉
Learning to be an astro-physicist? No thanks. I'd rather watch these videos!
Great video.
Excellent!
So Titan has way more fossil fuels than Earth... But no fossils?
Fossil fuel doesn't come from just fossils
Two years since Cassini's end of mission not three. September 15, 2017. Otherwise great video.
Smh my head it was 3 not 2 you past person
Fascinating.
Awesome!