Just imagine if Titan in fact does become a second earth, and for some kind of intelligent life form, what a beautiful night sky it would have, with Saturn right there, by it's great rings. If the Moon was enough for centuries of stories and religions about the moon and the sun, what would make off that giant unique thing in the night sky.
Oh but that's where you're wrong. There's a lot of talk about Titan. There will be another mission to Saturn specifically to study Titan. 2024 is the tentative launch.
Abhishek rampalli i know we might’ve discovered life on Venus, but I still would’ve said Venus would be the closest habitable planet to us. Supposedly it used to have a lot of water and possibly life because of all the water. Also mars has water too but idk if it had life
Military Industrial complex. Yes we spend money on war, but in the end, the true victors of war are those who make money off of it. Which is apparently...A LOT
We don't spend trillions on warfare. That being said, if we don't, then the balance of power will collapse; so that's kinda more important than going to space lol
Indeed, I was about to say something along those lines as well. It seems now that this vid has been laying on the shelf for quite a while or at least the narrative has. 'Jet' still mentioned as a possible next mission and no word about Dragonfly, the recently selected new NASA mission to Titan.
Thata if it gets funding Its still only in the planning phase Though i think ESA is developing a titan "lander", that will try and float in the methane lakes Its suposed to be based on the same base design as hyougens
Fun fact, most Greek art depicted the Titans as being of equivalent size to the Olympians. The only reason they were thought of as giants was because of the translation of their name, something to the effect of "far-reaching ones".
I absolutely love your videos. I’ve watched almost all of them multiple times at this point and I take away something new or leave with different ideas about the universes content every time. Please keep doing what you’re doing. More people need to see this stuff that haven’t yet. Aspiring astronauts, rocket engineers, etc. the world needs more motivation for space exploration.
Sure would appreciate measurements in both standards for those who haven't adopted them yet. Diameter 5,149 km = 3,199 mi. Atmosphere >600 km = 373 mi. Temperature -179 C = -290 F. Really enjoy SEA and it's content. Very interesting, professional & superbly presented material.
You don’t really need to know Fahrenheit measurements. You should follow Kelvin/Celsius as there’s no conversion necessary and its what all physicists use. And to be fair in measurements so large you only really need a rough estimate so just x1.6
Dumb question: If titan has a solid core, how does it still have an atmosphere? Wouldn't that mean there is no magnetic field protecting the atmosphere from solar winds and all that?
Titan gets protected from solar wind by Saturn’s magnetic field, as it orbits within the vicinity of that so doesn’t need its own field to deflect rays
ps W. Reid Thompson did a PhD thesis with Sagan in which he predicted "free surface liquid" and rain on Titan, based on his models of Titans atmosphere. The rain and surface liquid being mostly nitrogen, methane, and ethane, with many other minor chemical components. Unfortunately, Reid died way too young, but I believe he would have truly enjoyed this video.
Titan's atmosphere would quickly boil off, its ice would soon melt and then boil off in turn. Our region of the solar system is too close to the sun for any object to maintain any bodies of ice or water unless protected by magnetic field and atmosphere. Also we would have weaker tides, as despite its larger size, Titan has a weaker gravity than our own moon.
@@joeallen9104 that's not how it works, Titan has almost twice the mass of the moon the tides will actually be stronger, the aceleration at the surface of titan doesn't matter at all
Just got this randomly recommended, watched it, 2/10 Informative but no mention about Sloane, Savathun, also needs an update as currently a fleet of Pyramid ships are approaching Titan
Kouwanseiki I hear the micro-colonies on Europa and Phobos are going to shit, and not only that but it seems like Deimos may collide with Mars in the next century. What now?
-Keith- _EA1381_ you haven’t seen those weird pyramid ships appearing on our neighboring planets?? I thought Zavala would have done a better job of getting dimwit Titans such as yourself, up to speed by now
11:45 reminded me of the scene in "2010: A Space Odyssey" when the black monolith (I think) states, "of all these worlds leave Europa alone." That's not verbatim, but close. Too bad we aren't advanced enough to be able to go to Titan & look around like we can with the Sahara or Antarctica! Damn.
WF B3 “All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landing there. Use them together. Use them in peace.”
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Great video! Only one thing, AFAIK, near the end of the life of our Sun, not only its size will be bigger, but the luminosity too. So it's not just because the more close surface of the Sun will cause more heat for Titan, but (and maybe more importantly) its increased "output power" as well. Sadly not for a very long time (well, "long" for human scales, that's true ... but not so long for life to evolve maybe ...), as you stated too ... Certainly I can be wrong here, just this is how I know, as a "hobby fan" of science, nothing more :) And btw, sorry for my lame English.
I've heard of the Kraken Mare incident and how the Collapse showed the gravitational anomalies that the Pyramids are capable of on Titan by bending the moon and creating a "god wave" in its ocean.
There's a proposed mission to Titan involving an aerial drone that may get underway in the 2030s and send back high res video of the planet's surface. I hope it happens, I'd love to see it.
If Titan was 'defrosted' then its atmosphere would be quickly stripped away. The only reason that Titan is able to hold onto its atmosphere despite its weak gravity (1.352 m/s2, compared to our moon's gravity: 1.62 m/s2) is its extreme distance from the sun. As a result the atmospheric molecules have less energy and therefore move slowly enough for Titan's meagre gravity to hold onto them. Heating up Titan would excite those molecules, meaning they would move faster and as such Titan would no longer be able to retain its iconic atmosphere, and bringing an end to it's 'favourable' conditions.
I have watched all your videos twice and am on my third run now 😂 great footage, knowledge and objective narrative- always pick up new info which i missed. I also get excited like your massive fanbase when there is a new upload! Many Thanks indeed! Surely you are an astro physicist working for the UK version of NASA whateever that's called lol if you don't you certainly seem like you deserve to. Thanks again for divulging the secrets of space.
Moons are all well and great. In fact I feel like the best day/night view of a planet would be in the orbit of a gas giant. Imagine such a beautiful monument taking up the vast majority of the sky, always there, like its watching over the planet. But I can't wait until we can pacify the upper atmospheres of gas giants and build Cloud Cities in them. Imagine all of the space for living there is on Jupiter, or Saturn. Imagine not needing countless life-sustaining planets to sustain us, when we can just live in the clouds.
Dude, we actually don't require a planet at all. That's just planetary bias. Orbital structures can serve all our needs without touching down anywhere. Just saying.
Wow! Imagine that....... if the sun dying could actually create life on a moon 😳 this is so cool! Makes you wonder how many forms of life have existed under such conditions for very short periods of time. Kind of sad really
At 2:30 of the video you say that Titan appears bigger than Ganymede due to its atmosphere. If that's the case then Jupiter is not 87,000 miles in diameter but instead it's just about 10,000 to 20,000 miles. This is because its solid core is about 10,000 to 20,000 miles in diameter. That means its atmosphere is about 33,000 to 43,000 miles above the surface. But we don't take into account Jupiters atmosphere. Nor do we take into account the atmosphere of Saturn, Neptune and Uranus. Based on this train of thought none of these gas giants are the size that we all know them to be. But if we still say, that Jupiter is 87,000 miles in diameter including its atmosphere then we must also conclude that the atmosphere is every bit Titan as the rocky surface is of Titan. So from that I must believe that Titan is bigger in diameter than Ganymede. Perhaps Titans rocky surface isn't as big in diameter as Ganymede but its atmosphere does count as part of Titan which makes Titan bigger in Diameter than Ganymede. So with that in mind. The Earth is said to be 7,926 miles in diameter. The clouds can reach the upper atmosphere of Earth at 11 miles. So does this mean that the Earth is 7,948 miles in diameter instead of 7,926 as previously thought?
What people fail to realize is Saturn's immense magnetic field and radiation. I don't believe any kind of life could one day ever be on the surface during the red giant stage of the sun. This also is the case for Jupiter and it's moons. For life to evolve on Earth took a incredible and rare chance for all the variables to perfectly align. We may not be the only life out there but I bet it's very rare.
My friends who says we have to wait 1 million years for Titan to become habitable. If we don't go extinct then we will make space ships capable of reaching it. If said ships can get there then you better believe That we're gonna find a way to make it habitable if it already has the possibility to be habitable.
Not a mirror silly, we need a huge magnifying glass between the sun and titan, that should do the trick. A, we get to always have a close up view of titan and B, it will heat up titan just like we all used to heat up paper as kids lol
You forget something! Do to the titan bigger then our moon but gravity of titan is weaker then our moon that makes titan gravity is about 1/7 gravity of earth
4:13 - I don't know if the orbital period of a moon is referred to as a "year", but regardless of what it may officially be called, I think the best informal name is "month" instead of "year". Our benchmark for such things is _our_ Moon, and our Moon's orbital period was our original definition of a month. Even now that we use a solar calendar instead of a lunar calendar, the reason our solar calendar is divided into 12 months is because that's the nearest-whole-number of lunar orbital periods in a solar year.
(8:53-9:00) Titan "has all the ingredients to be a thriving, habitable world; it just LITERALLY needs defrosting, SO TO SPEAK" (emphasis mine). The narrator suggests that the word "Defrosting," in the above sentence, is both literal AND figurative?? How is that possible?
@Vladimir Had there been some sort of foil to explain the blunder prior to making the blunder, then I would agree with you because it wouldn't be a blunder. As it stands, however, it is a blunder and not a small one either.
Introduce a controlled greenhouse effect into Titan. Redirecting an asteroid with greenhouse gases to land on the planet would cause the atmosphere to unclog, allow more sunlight which hopefully will warm the planet so photosynthesis can be achieved. Introduce a magnetic field then you can keep the greenhouse gases trapped in the atmosphere.
The problem with talking about the tolerance and habitation of life, is we have a sample size of just one. Tell a scientist you know all about something due to testing a sample of one and they'll laugh. We just have no idea what life that evolved outside earth might look like. Imagine a sentient, living being, looking at the Pacific ocean facing side of Earth from Titans perspective. "If this molten world could just be cooled down, to the point its thin methane layer could turn liquid, maybe it could support life like ours. At the moment, ice is liquid on vast tracks of its surface, just imagine if our mountains were melted down into a giant lake! In fact, Earth gets so hot that the ice turns to vapour, and rains down in molten drops from vast storm clouds! Surely, nothing could ever live in a lake of molten ice and such hellish conditions"
