Updates From Saturn's Moon Titan, Will We Find Life Here Instead?
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Anton, thank you for educating us. I'm a special needs school teacher and I share your videos with my students on a regular basis. We love your channel and we're all so grateful for what you do.
I want so much to be here and functional when that mission comes to fruition, no matter how much the rest of my life tells me I don't have anything positive to look forward to - this is why you're such a joy for me to watch, Anton. You give me things to hope for, to look forward to, to be excited about, and I need that so much more than words can say. ❤️❤️
That's why we have to live 13 years more to learn what is there on Titan. Hopefully we shall be granted a good health to understand the results.
❤
Happy for you that you now have goals!
That is why I decided to get born in 1969, when the moon was visited for the first time.
Sounds like someone needs some mushrooms...
Things can only get better from here if you're in a hole right now
The Huygens probe has already found an interesting anomaly on Titan. As it was descending through the atmosphere it detected a depletion of hydrogen and acetylene as it neared the surface. The opposite would have been expected and so his is consistent with "something" consuming acetylene on the surface, producing methane. The reaction would be explosive at normal temperature but, at the cryogenic temperatures on Titan, it is a potential energy source for an hypothetical alternative life form.
I'll post the link to the NASA article below, if YT lets me do it.
YT now censors links to NASA.........WTF ?
Search for "What is Consuming Hydrogen and Acetylene on Titan? "
That’s actually super interesting! Thank you for that information! I’ll look more into it.
What's the chemical equation of that reaction?
@@speedwagon1824 i don't know what im more excited for the mars sample return or dragonfly
We forget what an astonishing achievement Huygens was, being so short lived by design.
Would have been even better if all that lost data was retrieved.
At 3:50 on the left side of the Titan image (about 9 'o clock low) there looks to be a perfect rectangular image. Is this some kind of image recreation artefacting?
@@scroopynooperz9051 Titan was mapped by narrow strips of radar during close fly-bys by Huygens. There is no full image of Titan's surface, it's all a big patchwork of different radar scans focusing on very small regions.
I honestly would prefer 10 smaller descent probes near the lakes than one expensive drone.
@@-Keen- Ah, thanks for the clarification. Interesting times.
Just imagine birds-eye pictures of methane lakes next to a frozen desert. This is the space project I am most excited for!
Defo, mate. This will be unreal ✌
this mission wont be anywhere near the lakes
@@skurinski I don't think the location has been announced yet, but I am pretty sure it will land within flying distance of a lake.
The lakes looks like blueish purple they dont look like see through lile water
Thank you for the update. This truly does seem like possibly the most important mission we have ever attempted
Ganymede is next to a giant monster that affects Ganymede on all fronts terribly. The radiation alone just from Jupiter will kill you soon. Plus it has a very thin atmosphere which provides no protection from the suns radiation or Jupiter’s. Titan can be hospitable on many fronts Ganymede just can’t provide. But we have more luck living on Mars first before any moon bases.
@Andrew Cannon salt water? so what temperatures are on ganymed?! 😂
@@hardywoodaway9912 Isn't it the gravitational forces of Jupiter that causes the geysers?
Anton, Thank you for the great content!
One remark: you say that the amount of thr Sun light at Titan noon is about 1% om the amount of the Sun light at Earth noon, and therefore it is dark at Titan noon as at a darkest Earth night. Assuming that 1% is correct, the last conclusion is wrong, since the ratio of the amount of light at noon and at night is several order higher than 100:1, so it should be easy to read small letters at Titan noon.
A lot of work on preparing this one again. Thanks Anton! It's really refreshing for me to revisit all this. I've always found Titan fascinating, and I followed the Huygens descent and visit every hour back then, like many of us, dreamign that we'd really discover a new form of life there. This satellite has so much in common with our planet (e.g. liquid cycles) and yet so many differences (chemistry, rotation), and it's so secret with its thick atmosphere that you feel like it's inviting you to discover it a little bit more each time, one tiny chunk at a time. It doesn't look hostile as Venus, even though it probably is, at least by being this far. I had some tears when Cassini plunged into Saturn, thinking that we'd terminated the most beautiful mission of the solar system ever. I'm impatient to see a new mission there.
This is the mission I am the most curious about. I see this place as potentially the most earth like place in the solar system other than earth itself, yet it's also the most alien at the same time.
The mosaic you attribute to radar at approx 4 min in is actually a visual image from specific spectra (I cannot remember the filter). Certain light gets through the haze. The radar maps are VERY detailed but do not cover as much of the globe. Being in strips as they passed close by the moon each flyby.
My bets are on Europa and Titan! Some underwater (or undermethane?) vents on both moons could be the perfect candidates for the homes of the first alien microbes we meet:)
This is exciting.....such an exotic place. This is so badass, Anton! I can’t wait. The repeated Mars missions have taught them so much. We weren’t quite ready in 2005.
Thanks Anton for your everyday explanation of things without you I would not understand.
He makes mistakes in every video I watch. And those are just the mistakes I recognize. I'm done with this channel.
@@georgspengler3573 Care to elaborate?
@@nowalls8713 He has to make a video every day, so of course he can't research them thoroughly. He simply does not have the time, I get that.
In this video he claims noon on Titan is "darker than the darkest night on Earth". In reality light intensity on Titan is just like a very cloudy afternoon on Earth. That may not sound important to you but no real expert in planetary science would make such an obvious mistake. In fact, if he had only thought 2 seconds about his claim he should have noticed that it can't be right.
And when he makes such a gaffe I get upset and say things like "I'm done with this channel", but I do not mean it.
@@georgspengler3573 You know, I was perplexed about this statement too, considering (if I’m not wrong) the sun from Titan should be m= -21,78; so it should be ~4500 times brighter than the moon from earth. Not exactly “darker than the darkest night”, as you said. But anyway, I like this channel. The guy made 2000+ videos and he’s trying to do his best, I like his enthusiasm. “Errare humanum est”.
@Black Lesbian Poet why are you gae?
Hope you have a good one! Thanks for always making interesting content!
That Dragonfly thingy is SO COOL!!! Brilliant idea.
I can't wait to see what they discover on Titan! I think it'll be the most fascinating mission imagined so far. Even if we don't find life.
Love the videos, you are a great educator. Also, the fundraiser is awesome, from the heart and your own grief. Wish you and your fam the best!
What an extraordinary mission. Looking forward to this one. And I like that there's going to be an actualy "Firefly" going on an interplanetary journey. I was waiting to hear if some part of the mission was going to be named "Serenity".
I watch so many of your videos Anton... and I love them. It's awesome and wholesome and you mean a lot to me. So thank you for all of your kindness and efforts.
He makes a lot of mistakes though.
Fascinating. Great video Anton!!
I've read scifi describing moons, and noting the horizon "drops off" much faster than on Earth.
Yes! It does!
It's hard to compare with this footage since it is a fish eye lens, but yes it does.
There is life on Titan..it's name is Sam Worthington
How long will the radioisotope thermoelectric generator power the helicopter?
The plan is 10 years. But voyagers have been going for 45 now. In theory as long blades still work it should be ok to keep flying. After two decades it'll still be producing at least 83 percent of power
wings out
Prognostication: This will be the first serious mission to have it's fate ultimately determined by hackers. Hackers recently briefly gained control of a Very Distant machine but didn't input any commands.
One of my professors from last year is designing the rotor blades for dragonfly which I thought was pretty neat
Great video and amazing landing shots of Titan! I did notice however that on the Wikipedia Selk Crater page, the info section placed Titan under the category of being a planet.
This channel is in my top 5 science related RUclips content providers I watch. So detailed, very informative and unbiased.
I find Titan utterly fascinating! I even wrote a fan fiction for "Stargate SG-1" where they go to Titan, lol! After the Huygens probe, and all. I can't wait to learn more!
Where can i find it?
You know the one thing i disliked about stargate was that all the planets looked so earth like and the aliens where just humans with a strange culture most of the time.
I would like to read what you've written.
Merry x-mas BTW, or otherwise if but just simply so.
If we find it so close it should mean that life is almost everywhere in some shape or form
It sure is..
Not necessarily, it could just as well mean that our solar system in its entirety had some extremely rare event occur at some point that seeded the foundations for life to more places than Earth. Unless it’s an entirely different form of life from our own whether that be non-organic or without nitrogenous bases at its core we can’t assume that life can exist anywhere.
People tend to let their biases cloud their judgment when it comes to things like these.
I am of the frim belief that it likely is either way no matter what we find.
The only true question that lingers is "How much of it is there?", and "What forms can it take?".
Questions that definitely can at the very least be partially answered by such a mission.
Except in a human uterus.
@@babyjiren9676 that’s a good point, perhaps I should have said it becomes more likely. I am still of the belief that one would be naive to think that we are the only life in the universe
Exciting indeed,thanks you😊
Thanks Anton, for actually making videos of the newest science news. Most of the other channels are click bait. Your channel has been my go to for what is happening.
I had the biggest smile after hearing that this mission has the objetive of finding life as the primary objective!! Can't wait for the mission to arrive in the future!! ^^
You reached 1 Million subscribers, congratulations Anton, well deserved !
umm, ive NEVER seen those videos before, i know i havent searched for it, but i live in a pretty infomative country, that is really into space, and ive never seen or heard about this landing xD
Thank Anton yet again for inlighting me, i really love space and everything about it.
I got my wonderful person t-shirt today 🥳
what an amazing mission. Really hope ths happens in my lifetime . thank you Anton for sharing all these details with us . Fantastic channel you have.Just bought the JWST tee shirt from your store. thank you.
Not wishing my life away but can't wait for this one, cheers Anton. TFS, GB :)
Heeeeyyyy It’s me, one of the most Earth-like objects in our Solar System.
And thank you for educating us, and *you* are the wonderful person.
Wonderful as always anton. Thank you. ☺️
Thanks for breaking this all down, Anton! Always grateful for you and your work, brother!!!
awesome update brother very informative
1% of sunlight is still millions of times brighter than our moon, and more like early dusk, so there would still be plenty of light to be able to see during the day.
Great content and channel, and my sincere condolences about your son.
Titan Dragonfly landing 2034 added to my calendar!
Thanks for the videos about our solar system, I really enjoy them
I really hope that we find it in some unorthodox location such as in the atmosphere of Venus, the gas giants, or in a sub-surface ocean of Pluto. I really think it's a matter of having immature technology that's stopping us from finding life but when we do find life I hope that it rocks the scientific community like being push off a subway platform in front of incoming train. These scientist only have one life span and because of that they need to be bold for society to move forward.
Absolutely mind blowing
- 300, methane rain, hydrocarbon lakes, What are housing prices like ?
I just wish these missions would be sooner and faster. Like a kid, I want the answers now!
Thanks for the great video Anton
Good stuff nearest to earth so far just extra chilly and no oxygen that’s it always something new cheers anton
Though the possibility of life forming on titan based on our current theory seems valid, the fact it is so cold might make sustaining any kind of metabolism very difficult.
I am really waiting to see what the future probe of Europa tell us about the chemistry of the ocean there and if it is just a bunch of brine.
Finding life there would be the greatest discovery ever!
Not only of the last few hundred years.
I love titan since the first time I heard of it. I can't wait to hear about the weather on titan 💪
Your videos are the Best! Thx again. ✌🌍
Anton. Thanks to you I am now looking forward to 2034 and the possibility of finding life on Titan. If we do or NASA do, then we are in a new ball park with a new set of rules. Your videos just keep getting better and better. Thank you again.
Sand on Earth is mineral; tiny fragments, mostly of quartz, sometimes feldspars, amphiboles, iron oxides, carbonates, even gypsum. Each of these have their own densities, generally greater than one would expect of frozen hydrocarbons, hardness, and degrees of angularity. Sands transported short distances are often poorly sorted, that is, mixes of different minerals and particle sizes. Sands transported long distances are generally more sorted and more rounded. Hydrocarbon sands on Titan, I would expect, would either be round, if they were frozen from liquid droplets, like rain, or angular crystals, if they were frozen from vapor. Also, if the grains condensed as crystals out of the atmosphere, vapor might continue to gather on them once they were fallen on the ground and stationary, and cement them together into sandstone, or just something like granite.. It'll be really interesting to see what these sands are actually like.
Another fantastic video. I learn so much.
Woah! 1mil + subs? Congrats man. Been here since 100k subs, but haven't watched a vid for some time
Well-presented. Thanks. I, as a scientist am so excited about this mission.
TY Anton for this Titan-ic vid!
If we don't find life, we need to do our best to put life there. While someday human life may not be able to traverse the universe, we must ensure life itself goes on.
💯 % agreed! Your ambition will be vindicated within your lifetime, and for many thousands and beyond thereafter, a practical inevitability.
Putin's assassination aside however pending if and as necessary/essential/critical/potentially avoidable inversely, recursively-respectively. Stand to power, BE IT.
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This is exciting to think about... but the 2034 date of encounter may too late for me... being in my 70s. I just can't get as excited as I was for the Galileo or Cassini missions. I'll have to be satisfied with what goes on with Mars for the next decade or so.
Maybe not too late for you. I'm 72 and I have every hope of seeing it. My mom died a few years ago at 94 and my dad, though an invalid now, is still with us at 98.
God bless you sir. May you live long and see this through!
2034 seems like a long way off with the possibility of nuclear war in the news.☹️
@@gwiyomikim5988 When I was 8, next year seemed like eternity. At 72, 12 years seems not so far away.
At least you saw the moon landings it will probably be delayed until the 2040s or 50s.
My deepest and sincerest condolences, sir Anton.
How marvelous that we can do this and actually see objects.
We can hope. I thought of Titan as being the most likely place for life outside of the earth since all the initial reports I heard about the composition of the atmosphere in the last 1970s. Most exciting is the possibility that it is life not like our life. Ironically, life on Mars might not prove anything as life would most likely have come from the earth, not independently evolved.
Minus 180 degrees Celsius on the surface of Titan. Personally l doubt we'll find much, although l hope I'm wrong.
Enceladus exists
@@Thurisaz. yes but it was an enigma in the 70s and 80 all the way to the Cassini mission. One notable thing it was used for in a book I read in the 1970s, the novel version of 2001: a Space Odyssey, was a location for the monolith in the book was on the moon Enceladus. In the book, there was a single black dot among all the white and that was the second monolith. When the voyager probe found a black dot in the midst of all the white (no monolith of course) Carl Sagan sent a picture of the moon to Author C Clark saying 'thinking of you'.
@@SofaKingShit I have liquid water inside and a vast hydrological cycle we do not understand. In fact, no one understands any possible life but life on earth. We look even if it is one in a million or 1 in a billion. still, I share your skepticism as well.
@@marknovak6498 interesting story! Thanks for sharing.
How about attaching a retractable umbrella!
been looking forward to the dragonfly for a long time
Titan is a super exciting prospect due to the fact that's it's one of only a few worlds in our solar system where something more then just microbial life may be there, and it's close enough to where we can get there without having to wait for decades.
I mean even if it was only very simple microbial life, it would still be the discovery of the century.
Take this with a grain of salt, but I read that Titan will have similar temperatures as Earth right now for a couple million years when the sun turns into a red giant. Not long enough for complex Earth-like life to form but still interesting.
The official tune of the mission should be "Helikopter" by Fazlija.
In early for once yay, great vid Anton very informative as usual, believe it opens up all sorts of new questions and may even answer many too. Best wishes to one and all 😀
I love Owl-liens!!! 🥳
I find it difficult to believe that life could exist at such cold temperatures
Life has been found in all kinds of thought to be impossible environments on earth, such as ridiculously hot or cold and pressure. So so far we just don't know.
@@rustybolts8953 But it isn't the same as here. Life on earth evolved from a single location that was optimal, and evolved and adapted to external harsh environments. In titan there aren't any optimal conditions and the entire planet is harsh. So the chance of life occuring is much lower. If Earth was a freezing hellscape like Titan, I doubt life would have occured.
Huygens showed that it's not that dark in daytime on Titan. I can't wait to see those images. I hope they provide a microscope on this thing. That could be the most useful instrument of all for finding life on Titan. 12 years! This is just one more reason not to get nuked between now and then.
I hope they have a display model of that helicopter it looks really fascinating.
Donated again!! Bless you Anton for helping the misfortunate children from Ukraine I hope this fundraiser makes it to a $1,000,000!!🙏🙏🙏💖💖💖
We love you Anton!
The landing gear should be able to heat up, in case of freezing to the ground.
Hopefully my health stays up now I've been fixed im 42 so 54 that's comfortable enough to look forward to the landing . This is my fave topic along side Mars anton ty again bud much love to the family x
With most planets, you can tell at what layer or level life is possible/habital. In low gravity & gasly atmosphere, means deep submerge regions. Faster & thicker atmosphere means between the air belts & calm surface. But *geomagnetic & grav level* wagers artificial habitat.
Titan aliens: "WHO KEEPS THROWING TRASH AT US >:O "
There was talk about a submersible to explore the lakes along with the Helicopter. Both together gotta come up with something!
Make it a "Flying Sub", like on '60s "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea"!
We are going to another world where we have to prepare for RAIN. This is so cool. I love Titan, it's the most fascinating place in the solar system!
As cold as it is there it’s hard to imagine any life there but any space exploration is exciting for me.
It seems plans for Titan are well along. I hope we find life, but if we don't we are still working with such a small sample size of extraterrestial objects as to make conjecture and predictions meaningless.
Thanks for a good overview of the project, Anton.
With small surface and very few energy, it would be incredible to find life… but worth the try of course!!
Personally I'm still more hyped for an Europa/Enceladus submarine (in terms of chances of discovering alien life)
But Titan copter is a very close second :D
love this guy
The fact the earth maintains the triple point of water -- highly unstable -- implies something, life, maintains that triple point. Titan maintains the triple point for methane; equally unstable, equally in need of a maintenance force. Life seems to be the simplest explanation.
Einstein said:"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough". You Anton understand it all....et al...so well and explain it so simply to rookies like me! I am so grateful you are there to make the pieces fit. Thank you.
Exactly why Einstein couldn't accept quantum mechanics. "If you think you understand quantum mechanics, you don't understand quantum mechanics."- Feynman
@@filonin2 quantum mechanics: if you CAN explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough
lol
It would be interesting if a set of condition resistant weather stations could be developed in advance and landed in different locations around the region where the Dragonfly would be deployed to help predict conditions and allow the helicopter/drone to get into a protective state or better location should there be precipitation. Maybe a small shelter could be installed in advance as a base station to which the Dragonfly could return to if conditions warranted.
So it's earthlike, up until the composition of the atmosphere and liquids.. so fascinating. I wonder if any methanotrophs developed there..
As long as we get to see the hydrocarbon lakes :) I really hope they fly near one so we can see liquid in action on another planet up close :)
They should add something like heat trace onto the rotors and parts of the outside of the probe to melt any ice buildup. it doesnt have to be big because of the low melting point.
Of course I would be cheering as enthusiastically as anyone else if life were to be found on Titan. Personally, I think it is very unlikely. It's a huge gamble without knowing something as basic as weather conditions (rain is mentioned as a particular danger). If it's just about the challenge of putting a probe down and having it fly around doing science that's already huge.
Mornin Andy. I mentioned earlier that bacteria have been found living in Antarctica at over 100° below zero, so you never know. De-icing equipment could keep the bird flying, but some kind of deployable shield might be handy as well. It's going to need a suite of weather instruments and forecasts from the orbiter that puts it down. If those are indeed wind blown dunes, as they appear to be, then that presents another potential problem; high wind speeds. Strong winds and gusts could carry potentially damaging debris or suddenly destabilize the aircraft in flight, and it could even be toppled over when on the ground. It's going to need a damned intelligent AI that can make rapid assessments on the fly (pun intended 🙂) in order to be able to respond properly to what may be a very dynamic, dangerous, and constantly changing environment. There will definitely have to be some highly specialized design elements incorporated into the vehicle. It's easier to explore the vacuum of space; no bad weather to contend with. But still, I'm all for it. Damn the torpedoes!
Cool. Thanks for sharing.
There was talk of an aquatic type submarine to roam around under the surfaces of those lakes. Would be a tidy idea if the helicopter could fly over and drop some form of submarine explorer so they get data from both land and lakes... 🤔😏👍 😎🇬🇧
This has to be one of my favorite space clips huygens 2.0!!
yet another great blog Anton,congrats on raising over $211,000
you should fee;l very proud of all you have done so far this year..epic page,bro.
If we happen to find life on Titan, we can basically throw overboard all the "habitable zone" stuff for exoplanets. There'd be life swarming the galaxies far and wide.
If we find life there, I reckon it would be the greatest discovery ever? (Like literally so.) And it also means we can relax a bit about the future of Earth, since it would confirm that life is possibly quite common in the Universe, so we would cease to be the guardians of all the life there ever has been (as far as we know for sure, I mean). If we become an extinction event, there will be more life all over, so we could just assume it's the way things go. (That might be taking relaxing about this a bit too far, though.)
Considering life on other planets, i recently saw someone say "on a grand scale, the Tree is one of the rarest resources in the universe" and im stunned by how ive never thought of it like that before
imagine someday having a webcam on Titan?!
My heart is in my throat; so exciting!