The Bizarre Characteristics of Triton | Our Solar System's Moons

[@arbodox]

_Triton and the next biggest moon of Neptune, Prometheus_ Shouldn't it be Proteus instead of Prometheus at 2:38? Anyways, excellent video!

[@astrumspace]

Oh goodness me 😂 good spot, I suck. Yes, Proteus, not to be confused with Saturn's moon Prometheus. Thanks for pointing it out

[@losttribe3001]

Astrum I once tanked a small business financially because of an accounting mistake and people lost their jobs (including mine)...you’re doing just fine if your mistake is mispronouncing moon names! Cheers!

[@garrygraves3848]

Live and learn ! ☺

[@Bamboo4U2]

@@astrumspace Also (don't know if anyone else has pointed this out), but orbital eccentricity has nothing to do with whether or not a moon is classified as regular (or irregular). As I understand it, the three criteria which must all be met is 1) spherical in appearance or even an oblate spheroid (like Earth), 2) It must orbit its host planet in prograde direction and 3) the orbital inclination should be either equal to the equator of the host planet or slightly above it (the exact number of degrees I am uncertain).

[@bradspitt7461]

could help myself... I loved the Pluto on Pluto you are suck a dog...thank words u state it's a theory tho. makes u legit in 0 ways.

[@than217]

When I was growing up in the late 80s and early 90s I took for granted all the pictures we have of the planets and moons in our solar system. Looking back to realize I'm one of the first generations of humans on planet Earth to EVER see the solar system we live in with such clarity is astonishing. We're so fortunate to live in an era of spacecrafts able to be fired out of the solar system.

[@Starfloofle]

It's way too easy to take all the things we have now for granted, our modern space knowledge especially. It seems kind of trivial compared to our ongoing issues at home but conceptually it's much the same as when mankind explored our own world, only this time, even those of us who aren't directly involved can still witness it. Much like sea travel used to take months, our space travel takes years right now, and yet still we make progress anyway. I think that's something to be at least a bit proud of. Maybe within our lifespans we'll even be gathering more than just information out there.

[@alphagt62]

I’m old enough to remember when all there was but ground telescopes to take hazy images. It was in the mid 70’s, that some college student solved the 3 body problem, and scientists realized they could sling shot a probe around Jupiter to reach enough speed to see the outer planets up close. A once in a lifetime chance was had in the late 70’s, a planetary alignment, when all the planets were lined up on one side of the sun, and the probe could pass by each one, getting the most bang for buck. The images in this video are the result of one of those missions. I recall when it happened, and all of the theories of what these bodies looked like were all proven wrong, each and every time. Now with Hubble, and so many other space telescopes, and even more fantastic ground based telescopes with new methods of clearing up the images, computers, and now so many individual missions to these places, it’s easy to take for granted all we know about our solar system. But back in the mid 70’s, we were literally in the dark ages of space exploration. It was a great time to be alive. And we are only just beginning, now would be a good time to study astrophysics, more jobs in the field than ever. And so much more to learn, and do, in space.

[@teddybouka]

I remember when the first pictures of Saturn were released in National Geographic. Stole that issue from my school library.

[@bigsmall246]

well human knowledge in general only increases. people in the future will know much more than we ever will.

[@zippymax1]

Interestingly, though people have only had access to pictures of Triton for the last thirty years, that represents about 10% of all people who ever lived. About 110 billion people have lived on earth throughout all history--perhaps 11 billion of them during the last 30 years (assuming about half of earth was born and/or died during that time).

[@nibbachibba2014]

as someone from triton this is accurate

[@mylesbishop1240]

As someone who still resides in Triton it’s close enough

[@numberjackfiutro7412]

Greetings tritonian! Welcome to Earth!

[@brianarbenz7206]

Myles: Please invite us to your next underground swim party. I'll bet those are fun!

[@saturnv691]

Hows the food on triton

[@ronniessebaggala362]

Tritonians go home!😤

[@nicholashylton6857]

I remember watching NASA release the images during Voyager 2's Neptune flyby. *_It was SO awesome!_* The Voyager Team was TOTALLY dumbfounded by those weird linear black marks all pointing in the same general direction. Black smears that had white 'somethings' at the base of every black streak. After much image processing, they realized what they were seeing were *active* cryo-volcanoes. They even managed to catch a few of them in the act! And since the marks were roughly going in the same direction it meant Triton had a thin atmosphere. A body so far away from the Sun that all common gases (methane, ammonia, nitrogen, oxygen, et cetera) should be frozen out on the surface, had winds!

[@twelved4983]

Nicholas Hylton so that’s the sound I was hearing from Triton? It definitely sounded like very strong wind, but I wasn’t quite sure.

[@AssistantCoreAQI]

@@twelved4983 It Also Sounds Like Chimerical Orange Stellar Shades, Which Is Definitely Just A Coincidence.. No Triton Disarchival Events Have Happened.

[@Infamous41]

Fr?

[@trulyinfamous]

I think an awesome way to use imax or other ultra high resolution theaters would be space shows with super high resolution images of places in the solar system. I would love to see Jupiter's moons on the big screen.

[@jessehammond9710]

I live in North Alabama and for decades kids here have looked forward to going to Space Camp at the NASA campus in Huntsville, AL. It is a week long summer camp fully immersive in study of space and space exploration with tons of hands on experiences with astronaut tech. I went in the early 90s and it was AMAZING. One of my favorite experiences was in one of the first custom theaters built specifically for what was brand new IMAX technology at the time and, yes, two of the films that they screened for us were dealing with space travel and exploration. It was an amazing experience then so I can only imagine what it would be like now with all of the advancements to the technology.

[@geefreck]

THIS

[@howdyouknowmyheadphonesdied]

@@jessehammond9710 Went there in August for a robotics trip. Its worth it!

[@jeffbenton6183]

We have something like that here in San Diego, CA - it's called the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center

[@DeuceGenius]

that would be incredible

[@chinmay6249]

Your videos always educational and soo calming. They're more soothing than a soft bed. Keep'em up.

[@om3g4z3r0]

Except when your mind dwelve into the horrors that possibly await you there, from horrendous radiation death to heat death or space aids, we look at the planets with the same eye rookies looked at ww1 before joining.

[@FaxanaduJohn]

Dude has an unusual English accent- very calming and relaxing!

[@maxlenoine3062]

🏗🥉🏈🥇🏅🎖

[@maxlenoine3062]

🤗🏛🚯🚭🚺🏗

[@FaxanaduJohn]

Max Lenoine I am so confused!

[@TheShollen]

When I was young being just introduced to concept of space, I thought our solar system is not so fascinating than those galaxies (early hubble images). But now thanks to you Alex I'm realizing our solar system is great. And we still don't need to go outside our solar system, we have so much to discover, understand here. Your videos should be included in Academics for young space enthusiasts. (and also for their teachers) Thank you Alex 😊😀🙂

[@cherolyntaylor277]

Hubble telescope: no........... i dont think i am

[@fanamatakecick97]

I have been more interested in the solar system than stars for practically my entire life. If there was a demand, I’d honestly study and go into planetology

[@1shagg420]

This is so amazing. I wish space travel would allow us to explore in person to at least all of our solar system. It's so depressing knowing the limitations of our space travel.

[@numberjackfiutro7412]

Well, you might be able to go to another planet or moon one day.

[@randybaumery5090]

I just revel in the images that our probes have sent back.

[@avedic]

ikr? It's something I'll never get to experience.....but I've always thought it would be absolutely fascinating to stand on one of Neptune's outermost moons, and just....look around. It would be so bizarre to stand on the surface of such a relatively tiny celestial body, SO far out from it's parent planet, knowing mere gravity is what's keeping you from drifting away forever. The view would be incredible....for one thing, stars would be hyper visible. But also...what would the surface of the moon and its horizon line look like? I'm not sure how small it would have to be for you to notice the curvature simply from standing on the surface..? And obviously, with it's gravity being so ridiculously low, you might want to strap in lol. Or....you could jump. Just imagine standing on the surface of Neptune's outermost teeny tiny irregular shaped moon, jumping straight up....reaching a height of, idk....a mile??....and then slowely falling back down to the surface. Just imagine the sense of vertigo and scale of it all.... These are the sort of things I think about before falling asleep..... :)

[@JimMcnugget]

Even when you're just talking, you sound like you're smiling. Thank you for these videos they're so relaxing and positive :)

[@KarbineKyle]

Another _really_ well made, quality video, Astrum! Triton is very similar to Pluto! I've always liked the "solid greenhouse effect theory!" I knew this information about Triton already, since it's my favorite moon in the Solar System! Comparative planetology is cool! Also, since Triton has a retrograde orbit, it's losing momentum, and it will one day, unfortunately, pass below Neptune's Roche limit, and be torn apart, and probably form a huge ring system. Thank you so much, Astrum!

[@astrumspace]

Thankfully we are still a few billion years away from that, so hopefully we can enjoy Triton a while longer :)

[@KarbineKyle]

Yeah! Hopefully, humans will at least have sent a mission or two, but I want to live to see it! I'm pretty sure it's about 3.6 billion years from now. I'd _love_ to see a mission that will go in orbit, but it would require RTGs and a lot of propellant, so it would be a massive spacecraft, much like Cassini, requiring a huge rocket at launch too. I'd love to see the surface! Nitrogen geysers erupting over 8 km (5 mi.) high, frozen lakes, strange scarps and fossae. And much of what we didn't see back in August of 1989! What a world!

[@akmed5020]

The editing , the narration and music really transported me to Triton. Thank you for another wonderful video Alex.

[@thelightwecarry]

Nice

[@YeenMage]

We need to send a probe to Neptune and Triton before we die, especially that it takes years to go there. Neptune is too dynamic, Triton is too fascinating, plus the fact that ice giants are the most common planets in the universe, for them to be ignored. T.T

[@pilotamurorei]

NASA is currently working on a plan to go to either Uranus or Neptune as the best time to visit them is in like 10 years or something (they can use jupiter as a slingshot to cut years off the time). Every president since Reagan has slashed NASA funding (something i despise about EVERY president since). If Trump would just cut enough military spending to do BOTH probes (uranus AND neptune), think how much we could learn about the solar system? I mean i'd be happy going to either one, but I wish we could send 2 probes, one to each, so that we can learn about both.

[@TheBeardedFrogSage]

The only problem I have is when people say something is the most common in the universe. We barely know anything beyond our sector, let alone our quadrant, to say nothing of how things are in the rest of the galaxy. Our knowledge of the universe is not even surface scratched. We don't really even know how our planet works or how to appropriately categorize planets if the Pluto incident is any indication. We're incredibly hamfisted with our science. At one point it was said hydrogen is the most abundant element in the galaxy. Now it's carbon. Carbon is allegedly the most evil thing on the planet and we need global oversight to avoid climate change, something else that's poorly researched but some people are absolutely convinced mankind is causing it. We need to stop saying things with certainty until we explore more.

[@cosmophysicist2305]

Yup

[@jjhonecker7644]

Agreed@@@

[@brendanpospischil3871]

@@TheBeardedFrogSage Why would Carbon be the most abundant element? We have good observations of Hydrogen, and since all elements started out as Hydrogen, Carbon would have to form from that Hydrogen. Especially something as complex as Carbon, rather than say Helium or Lithium.

[@SpecialEDy]

"Back in 1989" (*thinks, "oh, so not long ago"*) "30 years ago" (*thinks, " oh that is a long time ago"*) *Remembers that I was born in 1989, "ooof"*

[@nikoteiteuscher6823]

1989 was the german reunification

[@sisophon1982]

@@nikoteiteuscher6823 no that was 1990, 1989 is the fall of Berlin Wall

[@Hobbes4ever]

30 years is only a long time to puny humans.

[@spamcan9208]

I feel your pain. I was born in the 80's too and I feel old af now.

[@Netukom]

@Alec Buts The word oof existed before roblox

[@paulgibbon5991]

One thing I find fascinating is that there's so much talk of the "Habitable Zone" when it comes to exoplanets, but even in our own solar system, three of the most likely cadidates for life beyond Earth are well outside of it.

[@larajamila005]

All because of our very own ocean's deep dwellers XD

[@mihaimoldo]

Well the Habitable Zone is the most expected area to find liquid water thus potential for life thus the easiest to look out for.

[@floo1465]

@@mihaimoldoon the surface, at least. liquid water in general is way more common outside of the habitable zone

[@blackflag-bountyboys]

People are just fans of Goldie-locks

[@cswanson4476]

Are there any “Absolutely Uninhabitable Zones”? Maybe a zone within Mercury’s orbit where the Sun is just too much? Or out into the Oort Cloud where the energy flux from the Sun is just too low to sustain the most minimal of metabolisms?

[@RaymarFootball]

Finally you’re doing one on my favorite moon 💯

[@PTNLemay]

It's definitely an underappreciated little pseudo-planet. I new it was the biggest in the Neptune neighborhood, but I never knew there was so much to it.

[@pantherplatform]

👎

[@rick4electric]

Triton is definitely cool!

[@JaleelBeig]

Mine too

[@sertank735]

I want to take the Europa, Titan, Triton, Pluto solar system tour.

[@nevar108]

I love the efforts we are expending on the search for exo planets, but it amazes how little effort comparatively we spend in exploring our solar systems exospheres. Fantastic video! I love the work you do for us!

[@XertzTheMe]

There is my dose of astronomy for this hour

[@TheDeadMeme27]

u second lol

[@anthonyc4138]

@AnneFrank it's not idiot

[@ACoroa]

Thanks for creating a video about my favorite moon. And you compared it to Pluto! Awesome video, man!

[@Zackfish12345]

The Bob Ross of astronomy! Your videos are so interesting and calming. Perfect for watching while I fall asleep. Thanks Alex!

[@numberjackfiutro7412]

Agreed

[@dr3754]

the nigel ross

[@ChrisDIYerOklahoma]

Your videos blow me away...so educational with a calming narration + cosmic music. Keep up the GREAT work!

[@jord_2wYT]

This channel deserves so many more subs, the content is absolutely awesome. No over hyped commentary, great music, great visuals and tonnes of facts 😊

[@Andy-dz7us]

our solar system is endlessly fascinating and Astrum makes it easy for dummies like me to comprehend.

[@life_archive7840]

That's a very quotable statement. Thanks, Andy.

[@Gnurklesquimp]

I really like this format where you go over a single object or body in a reasonable amount of time

[@wattisphysik]

I love these videos so much! they are so relaxing and informative and just so well made. That whole channel is amazing and on a much higher level than regular youtube videos, i just love it!!! Please never stop making these

[@PiggoNZ]

Easily my favorite yt channel right now. There's also a calmness in these videos that makes them perfect to fall to sleep to. Thank you! 🙏

[@alexxxxxxxx]

Thank you Alex. I've been looking forward to a new longer form video from you

[@rayvanwayenburg998]

Thank you for the new video. Good to have you back.

[@rtvanharen]

Triton likely lost its twin when it got captured by Neptune, but that twin might still be in the solar system somewhere. I wonder if anyone has looked for it, it would likely have a very similar chemical composition to Triton and a weird orbit.

[@AstronAndry]

Just 'throwing' some ideas out here, but I think that perhaps it could have been captured by another planet and be a smol moon there, maybe something like Oberon?

[@ldubt4494]

​@@AstronAndryOberon is a regular moon that formed with Uranus, as it orbits normally like uranus other regular moons along its equator. Triton is the only big captured moon. Tritons former twin is either currently a dwarf planet in the kuiper belt or maybe even got ejected from the solar system completely, thus becoming a rogue dwarf planet. Maybe another star has already captured it.

[@SoundsphereRo]

your voice, the music, the editing, the story, the info! 5***** Thank You!

[@Pacca64]

Still blows my mind that a plutoid can have an atmosphere capable of supporting weather and CLOUDS!

[@numberjackfiutro7412]

It's possible!

[@jesusramirezromo2037]

Not really weather or clouds Its a small haze, more similar to a comet's taill

[@Vivian2290]

They should send a probe to Eris!

[@siamhossain1479]

As a fellow enthusiast watching your videos is soo awesome thank you

[@buryitdeep]

How fantastic is this? Learning about and seeing other planetary landscapes. Other worlds just being there for millions of years untouched. In the future this will only get more impressive as we learn and see in greater clarity.

[@Triliton]

This is by far the best video about Triton! Well done!

[@morganvitale]

Triton is amazing and this video is excellent. Well done mate!

[@Jimmyinvictus]

Alex, it always makes me cheer inside when a new Astrum video comes out; even better that it's concerning Triton! (Huge fan of the Neptune system and outer solar system)

[@ndrsg3013]

Me: " What am I watching, I should be studying. " Life: "Yes."

[@Sedulous32072]

You're doing both :)

[@CountScarlioni]

Lovely video as always. I was gearing up to post "Yes! My favourite moon!" then realised that loads of other people in the comments have said the same. That I didn't expect! I always thought Triton overlooked and doomed to be understudied. Us Triton fans should come out of the closet and unite! Er... not sure what for... but it's nice to acknowledge we exist! The images of Triton from Voyager 2 came back to Earth when I was about 10, and I think the excitement of seeing the images of these worlds for the first time really imprinted this curious moon on me for life. I think the weird nature of Triton is part of the appeal. One of those few Moons that is active and dynamic. But unlike Titan which is in danger of feeling somewhat homely to explorers, Triton will always seem strange and alien. I'm surprised you didn't leave off with the ultimate tragedy of Triton - that it's in a decaying orbit and one day, a few billion years from now doomed to spiral in and smash into Neptune. It'll probably be the most cataclysmic event to ever happen that far out from the sun. It may even form a ring system around Neptune that would put Saturn's to shame. It's just sad that although it is clearly a superb candidate for study by lander/rover, the crazy distance means it is always going to be at the back of the queue and very likely nobody alive today will live long enough to see such a mission. I do wonder if one day many centuries from now if Triton will become the furthest permanently manned outpost of Humanity?

[@rad1223]

Really loved your comment 👍

[@YounRangr]

The music you use is beautiful and goes so well with the narative.

[@NandiCollector]

AWWWWW!!! My Favorite Moon (of my favorite planet) in the entire Solar System!!! :D Many thanks for this video

[@KarlBunker]

Neptune is lots of people's favorite planet. Uranus never gets any love.

[@NandiCollector]

@@KarlBunker LOL! Uranus moons are my second favs, especially Titania. :D

[@Ultravore]

@@KarlBunker that's not true. Uranus has always been my favorite 🥰

[@69Solo]

#metoo

[@ethanhorn5476]

@@KarlBunker it's been my favorite planet my whole life. People give Saturn and jupiter so much love it personally uranus is my favorite because 1. It spins on its side. 2. The sun shines on it's poles unlike any other planet. 3. It has rings like Saturn but much more thin. 4. It can reach colder tempatures. 5. It rains diamonds on uranus. 6. It has moons with snow and ice.

[@Neearle]

Thanks!

[@astrumspace]

Thank you!

[@bluefirex24]

I can only imagine visiting Triton,and standing on the surface of the moon then seeing the beautiful blue gas giants in the sky. So beautiful

[@mags247]

Don't forget to get your coat sweetie

[@Blue-r4b]

Yes big Blue Neptune hanging up in the background would be pretty scenic.

[@cherolyntaylor277]

And then you start getting colder colder and colder and get blasted with Neptunes radiation and you get deathly cold and then get cancer and genetic damage from the radiation radiation

[@crispinjulius5032]

@@cherolyntaylor277 You must be fun at parties.

[@buckroger6456]

A truly fantastic video. You always bring in so much info that most people probably never knew about. I really like that you label the picture you end up using.

[@adamjacobson1993]

I'm sure glad I found your channel. Your videos are great!

[@Astronomater]

You are very quickly becoming my favorite astro channel on youtube. Love your content!

[@whiplash0740]

Your voice is so good to hear and I love the background music.. so relaxing to watch..👍👍

[@LeoStaley]

I'm still eagerly awaiting more in this series. If you just stick to the gravitationally rounded moons, we've still got 3 more Jovan moons, 5 more for Saturn, 5 for Uranus, and I think you'd probably want to do one video for Mars' 2 moons. You make amazing content, and I love watching these with both my elderly uncle and my 10 year old niece.

[@brianarbenz7206]

Thank you for a thorough and smartly done look at Triton, a place I knew nothing about. Astrum is clearly a great source. I'm in!

[@JamesJackson-jv4pf]

Well done-- I'm really enjoying your videos!

[@DJBeatzMelb]

EPIC VIDEO! I didn't know anything about Triton until this video. Keep them coming mate, instant subscribe to you channel.

[@rollinwithunclepete824]

Enjoyed it as always, Alex!

[@aaronak2005]

Wow, I learned a ton. Astrum never fails to keep me entertained and informed :-)

[@윤성민-q6s]

Thanks for a great video as always! I'm just grateful such video is free to watch

[@nozlaf6]

Love this series! Please do Enceladus next :)

[@iapetus6110]

or europa or idk

[@DwayneETowns]

Astrum,... your documentaries are awesome!! Your narration is so perfectly done with the visuals.

[@KarbineKyle]

My *favorite* moon! It's such a bizarre world! I recognized it immediately in the picture you posted! The one of the "Cantaloupe Terrain"! Thank you, Astrum!

[@akwilk80]

Triton sucks! Everyone knows Io is the best moon in the solar system. Joking. All moons are cool....except for phobos. That moon can go to hell after what it did.

[@Blue-r4b]

@Oberon 😂😂😂

[@Blue-r4b]

Imagine how the other side of Triton look. Voyager only scan 40 percent of Triton's surface. I want to know what's on the back side.

[@Blue-r4b]

@@akwilk80 All moons are unique even the Asteroid captured moons Phobos and Deimos.

[@Blue-r4b]

@Oberon If I were to tour the Uranus System my first stop would be one of it's Moons Miranda and then Titania. Why do you like Oberon?

[@treefarm3288]

Terrific video. You scraped so much information from Voyager's brief flyby of Neptune. I was so excited when both spacecraft passed Jupiter, but by Neptune's flyby I wasn't paying attention. Thanks!

[@kostasbousbouras2654]

Incredible video, so many details, thanks a lot!

[@istvansipos9940]

random person, if you work on a warp drive and wanna watch this video to relax a bit, don't! Get back to your work now! we need that engine yesterday

[@bens.5127]

Well, okay! I just wanted a break. Only two more diatridyte quadrals and we will be ready to go! 😁

[@batfink274]

As a stoned person i heavily endorse this comment.

[@jeffbenton6183]

I know it's a joke, but just to be that guy, people are more productive when they take breaks. Getting something done ASAP is a mean between extremes of spending too little on it *and* too much.

[@NxDoyle]

Very happy to have stumbled upon this channel. Brilliant, thank you.

[@dankishrogue5711]

Well done, I love how you show us the values of these moons by comparing it to Earth, it is much easier that way. If you say it has 300 negative temperature and also say Earth's maximum recorded negative temperature is 100 negative Celsius that would make it so much better to understand. You can even tell us which animals can survive the Antarctic or a temperature of -100 Celsius just for some contrast. Keep it up!!!

[@DrJones20]

You forgot to add that the distance between Neptune and Triton is gradually shrinking. Eventually Triton will crash into Neptune

[@pilotamurorei]

the opposite of the earth and its moon, which are growing further apart.

[@deussivenatura5805]

Like what's happening in Mars

[@suthinscientist9801]

It probably won't crash into Neptune, but it's likely that Triton will be torn apart to form a major part of Neptune's ring system.

[@Exposing21]

Every planet is being set up to collide with each other whenever god wants it to happen. God told us this.

[@paulrose2107]

Will neither collide with Neptune or be broken up to form a huge ring system. Estimated time to Triton's destruction 3 billion years.

[@whaleyum3040]

Really liked this video! Keep the good work up!

[@basspuff514]

Inspiring series. Learned a lot so far!

[@adityadivyansh]

probably the best space educational channel ....love from india

[@uprightape100]

Beautiful as always, Alex. But we launched the Voyagers in '77........seriously, we need orbiters around ALL the planets. If only NASA, ESA, and SpaceX could get together and make it so.

[@deslokrising7560]

Agreed.. get it done

[@ValentineC137]

well when you find a way to print infinite money you can go ahead :P

[@uprightape100]

@@ValentineC137 Yo Val, you need a lesson in economics......the ISS or International Space Station has cost over $150 billion US dollars, or more than enough to maintain robotic orbiters around the other planets, and the ISS has returned negligible scientific discoveries. And then there was W. Bush and the hunt for Iraq's Fictional Nukes that cost $3 trillion US dollars, all wasted money. Cost is relative.

[@ValentineC137]

@@uprightape100 so you're telling me that the space station russia and the US worked together on that countries all around the world has had some influence on and is only in low earth orbit, is a realistic thing to compare interplanetary space missions to? alright sure :P

[@pansepot1490]

Upright Ape, talking about economics I don’t know why you lump spacex with NASA and ESA. SpaceX is a for profit company and the only way it will partecipate in a scientific exploration of space is by becoming a NASA or some other government contractor. Which means that 1. it’s still taxpayer money that is going to fund research and 2. SpaceX is no different from any other contractor nasa uses. I mean, Musk has been great at exploiting commercially old space technology and selling himself to the public as an innovator and a dreamer but reality is catching up with him and he’s awfully behind schedule with his grandiose promises. For instance he’s not yet been able to send a man on low earth orbit and NASA still has to rely on the Russians and their 50 years old Soyuz rockets to get to the ISS.

[@helsiclife]

I love your videos!! You're the best!

[@Ctenomy]

I would love to see a mission to the ice giants, especially Neptune and triton... I know it's far far away, but who can't be fascinated by Neptune, its strange orbit, its magnetosphere, the composition, the moon and even Uranus, the black sheep of the solar system, has probably many secrets to unveil if only we would send a probe. Nevertheless, we are really living exciting times and I'm sure the future will shed some light on our distant neighbours :)

[@almatt21]

Narrator, easy to listen too. Great delivery, understandable and interesting. Thank you. I've learnt much about this moon.

[@BothHands1]

Really really cool video, i had no idea how cool Tritan was. I always think of Europa and Enceladus as the cool moons, but you've really got me interested in Tritan :)

[@hnc1500]

Thank you for a wonderful video. And thank you for not having a click bait thumbnail and headline like some of your other videos. That deserves a like and comment 👍👍

[@pranayagrawal6598]

Amazed by ur work as always. Please do a video on Enceladus as well. Would love to watch u exploring it deeply.

[@davidgrech4574]

Thank you for sharing your insights and I hope you know how much I appreciate your videos 🙏👍

[@lemagreengreen]

Triton has always fascinated me, great video! Have always wanted to see what Neptune looks like from the surface, it must look stunning.

[@StevenRud]

Once again a marvelous video! Thanks, Alex! Really good work, I loved watching it. Editing, narration and sound just perfect! Hope to see more...😊😊👍🏻👍🏻

[@uniqko]

Amazing....

[@ameliadiaz8040]

Fantastic.....

[@silverhowl9331]

Same!

[@cow_tools_]

Good for you for supporting Space Engine. It's such a great program!

[@lmlmd2714]

Thanks for much for these moon visits! They are absolutely facinating. I had no idea Triton had an atmosphere and cryovolcanism, nor that it was likely captured. It seems like we do have an excellent outer dwarf planet, conveniently captured by Neptune and just waiting for us. If a Pluto orbiter or lander is out of the question, a Neptunian orbiter would seem to make sense. Technically easier, and we get a two-for-one deal with Neptune and Triton. Let's go check out some tholin plumes.

[@MarkPierro]

Superb video Alex, thank you

[@alexandertaylor2951]

Amazingly, we have visited Triton! To spend millions on a satellite that could be captured by a moon that was captured by a planet. Mind blowing!

[@gordogmc13]

Great video as usual 👍🏻

[@solarsystem4458]

Amazing explanation of similarities with Pluto, thanks

[@andrewbrown3156]

Indeed, they are siblings, along with Eris.

[@dolorscirera100]

Thanks a lot for uploading this video pretty informative. Cheers

[@vgaakash]

Really informative !! Thanks

[@mircea1910]

yay, I was waiting for a Triton vid!

[@rkornilo]

Beautiful episode. Only wish it was longer. ;-)

[@georgschmidt2143]

Great work once again!

[@SPACETVnet]

Thanks for making a video about Triton. Not enough videos about Triton.

[@alejandronasifsalum8201]

I loved it. Looking forward to more videos about moons. =D

[@facitenonvictimarum]

Facinating! And really makes one appreciate the miracle of Earth, life, and human consciousness, without each of which we wouldn't be appreciating any of this! 😉 Thank you.

[@shiwanshprakash9224]

Your videos are so informative and interesting

[@njm3211]

Fascinating. Thanks

[@Kradse]

Thanks for another great vid :D

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

Interesting moon, I hope you do more.

[@elkieno1]

I absolutely love ur work mate, I love space and everything in it. even ur accent is great!

[@randygunn9499]

Man I dig your voice and vids! Keep it rolling Alex 💪. PAPA GUNN MINNESOTA SON

[@cherolyntaylor277]

Gay

[@iraw7430]

Love the channel, Alex! Could you please make a video about Ganymede? I really like the Our solar system's moons series, and I would love to see a video about Ganymede.

[@pal7252]

Fascinating! Thank you. :-)

[@clewis519]

Incredible quality! ty

[@dennishartnett684]

Another winner!! Those stills of the moons and their relative sizes are especially interesting - did you create them yourself?

[@astrumspace]

One I did, one was from wikipedia and the other from the Planetary Society :)

[@stephenhughes9548]

Your doing an amazing job So interesting and informative thanks