How (the lack of) Geography Doomed Venus

Venus is often referred to as Earth's sister planet. But if this were true, how can the two planets in some respects be so radically different? Well as it turns out, the answer may in fact lie in the planet's geography, or really in the planet's LACK of geography.
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[@perturabo7825]

I like how this channel isn’t limiting geography to just earth

[@ProfezorSnayp]

Shouldn't this be called 'venerography' instead?

[@michaelmaurice5412]

Oh, is that what you like?

[@puchamati]

@@ProfezorSnayp that's what I thought! How should the prefix be tho? My first thought was venugraphy, venerography sounds better but I don't feel it...

[@BenediktGruber]

​@@EmblemOfCoD While you're not far off, it's not quite correct what you were saying. Both "geo" and "graphy" come from ancient greek, "geo" meaning obviously earth and "gráphein" to write. That's also the reason why it's called "Areography" (from the god Ares) and something along the lines of "Marsography". If you wanted to latinize the phrase, it could be something along the lines of "terrascripture" consisting of "terra" and "scribbere". For Venus the terms could be "Venuscripture" or "Aphroditeography".

[@Erde_midget770]

@@ProfezorSnayp yes

[@KhAnubis]

So what you’re saying is Venus is a... bread planet?

[@Fjiere]

lol

[@kenneth5355]

@KhAnubis you, Atlaspro, and Economics Explained make a good trio. 👍

[@hastur9271]

KhAnubis yesn't

[@dannyboy218]

All hail the bread sister planet

[@apotato6278]

If humanity ever gains the ability to move the celestial bodies we should immediately ram our moon into venus; in so creating an astronomical cheese sandwich.

[@Rebun24]

What I learnt this episode: - Atlas Pro officially has a mascot - Venus is bread

[@justurordinaryperson7215]

What I’ve learned: He has a cat

[@arvurebantra7639]

What I learned: Metalic snow is a thing.

[@duetopersonalreasonsaaaaaa]

Venus is bread. France is bacon

[@henrycarpenter5733]

There's another feature of venus that made it unable to have a magnetosphere: its slow rotation. A day on venus lasts longer than a year.

[@slavikvsvega]

I think that's the real reason. It's probably the rotation of the molten metals, not their surfacing that causes the magnetism.

[@DJ_Bonebraker]

@@slavikvsvega That is what most theories I've heard are.

[@snigwithasword1284]

You def need rotation to create a magnetosphere. I don't know tho if Earth's core rotates much relative to the rest of the planet or if the 24 hour day cycle does it all. The why is much more interesting tho, everything had angular momentum as the planets were forming, what stole it away from Venus? Probably the Sun mostly but did having a hotter more fluid core contribute..??

[@DJ_Bonebraker]

@@snigwithasword1284 One of the prominent theories is that it was a large object impact event (similar to how they theorize the moon was created), but one that hit at such an angle & with enough momentum to actually cause Venus to start rotating backwards at a very slow rate.

[@laerin7931]

@@snigwithasword1284 Not just stole - Venus is rotating in the opposite direction compared to all the other planets in our system. So something reversed its rotation and left it with little momentum.

[@almostsirens6577]

"Why is Venus bad?" Melts lead. Next question

[@alilweeb7684]

I still think we can cool down the planets temperature. Maybe by poking holes in the atmosphere so the planet can cool off and breaking the crust

[@zidanasg9410]

@@alilweeb7684 we can cool it down maybe by giving it water via asteroid

[@lunaticbz3594]

@@alilweeb7684 It was quite awhile ago, but someone wrote a pretty detailed plan for how to terraform Venus in only a few hundred years. You'll want a solar shade to block all sunlight, Giant atlas pillars with radiators on them reaching from the surface up into space. You'll have to strip most the atmosphere away, forget how that was done. None of that solves the problem he mentioned with the magma, it just gets the surface down to Earth temperatures. The fact that this is actually a lot less work then it would take to make Mars earth like, is why I don't think we will ever terraform planets.

[@lunaticbz3594]

@@zidanasg9410 That would just make it hotter. As there is no way to gently drop an asteroid on a planet.

[@lonestarr1490]

@@lunaticbz3594 I prefer the plan where we don't attempt terraforming at all and instead build Bespin like cities floating in the upper layers of Venus's atmosphere.

[@sakataginko9092]

I remember reading science books as a child and seeing Venus' surface being depicted as literal Hell, with volcanoes, lava everywhere, and a reddish yellowish overall nightmarish landscape.

[@jasonreed7522]

I mean that isn't entirely wrong. 90atm pressure So hot it rains molten lead (snows it in the mountains) Clouds made of sulfuric acid Surface occasionally drowns in lava from flood volcanism releasing pressure from radioactive decay I don't know what the surface light looks like though. So its basically as close to hell as you can resonably get, excluding a magma chamber with enough air to be considered spacious, all you need are some souls of the damned but that can be fixed with a manned mission gone terribly wrong.

[@radu-andreinitu3961]

@@jasonreed7522 Here is a video that shows some of the photos taken and the audio recorded by USSR when they sent the Venera missions. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hmSsl5hsnqeXqbc

[@Skoomz]

@Weasel 鼬は悪くない how are the minerals in the ground supposed to get to the microbes in the atmosphere

[@quisqueyanguy120]

Thats because it is, the place is hell

[@quisqueyanguy120]

@Weasel 鼬は悪くない You cant live or extract resources from a cloud.

[@classyonion3754]

The soviets were the first to land a probe on Venus' surface, and sent amazingly clear pictures for the conditions. It's called the Venera 14 probe for those that wanna check it out

[@brianarbenz7206]

The success of Venera, very short termed though it was, was the most uncanny accomplishment in drone space exploration.

[@johnzuijdveld9585]

If I remember correctly I think it lasted about 5 minutes before parts of it melted and it stopped sending pictures. But they beat the USA. who were very disappointed if not disgruntled at being so far behind in the 'space race' it was the main thing that prompted Kennedy to set a goal for the USA. to land a man onto the Moon. I have to correct this, it's wrong, Rahadi Dwitama wrote: 3 weeks ago @john zuijdveld actually they sent 2 Venera, the first one was lasted about 50 minutes, then the second one was lasted about 2 hours,

[@rahadidwitama8267]

@@johnzuijdveld9585 actually they send 2 Venera, the first one was lasted about 50 minutes, then the second one was lasted about 2 hours, cmiiw......

[@williamharis2467]

@@johnzuijdveld9585 how do they able to send pictures from different planets back during the 70s, 80s?

[@johnzuijdveld9585]

@@williamharis2467 I'm pretty sure it's the same way they do it now with radio signals, but the pictures in that time were not of the same quality as they are now.

[@captainpalegg2860]

Venus is like the planetary equivalent of someone who keeps their emotions bottled up and then eventually explodes at one tiny inconvenience.

[@patriciaviles4033]

Which kinda describes the mythological relationship between Venus and Vulcan as much as the geographical relationship between Venus and volcanism.

[@shannonrhoads7099]

I was going to joke about a petition to rename Venus 'Karen'...

[@donaldscott9909]

@@shannonrhoads7099 hilarious, you should post that on Reddit

[@thalmoragent9344]

@@patriciaviles4033 Didn't Venus cheat on Vulcan with Mars? I thought it was just a Greek thing, but I guess the Romans copied that over too

[@Raul_Menendez]

Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus....

[@axeldaval3410]

Spoilers: no satellite images were used in this video, only footage from his local bakery

[@sebastiaomendonca1477]

"why is it Mars that receives all the attention?" Just 3 days after this video was posted NASA announced not one, but two missions to Venus in the next few years

[@draculacat5616]

win!

[@JoseMolina-ij3xx]

@@draculacat5616 That's because they detected phosphene in the atmosphere. The Cloud of Venus are more interesting than the Geography of Venus.

[@ernesttiu5674]

Actually 3 now because ESA also announced their own mission to Venus. It's Uranus and Neptune that has no dedicated missions except for voyager 2 which visited them decades ago.

[@bae4768]

@@ernesttiu5674 they are going to do a uranus mission soon and they may fo the trident mission

[@ernesttiu5674]

@@bae4768 amazing hope all the best for this new Uranus mission. I believe the Trident mission was part of the discovery program to send a fly by probe to Neptune and Triton, but it was cancelled in favor of the Venus missions last year. But the Trident mission team might apply for the next discovery program, I hope it will get selected!!!

[@chikensuup7746]

Venus was just like: Being rocky is overrated, Imma half-switch to the gas gang

[@Fjiere]

lol xD

[@jk-gb4et]

well earth got gassy animals.. cows

[@KarmasAB123]

Is Venus non-binary, then? XD

[@MarloSoBalJr]

Venus became a NAZI, I see...

[@boygenius538_8]

Not really. The mass of the atmosphere is hardly anything compared to the rocky post

[@nathanhartanto2544]

Next: how the lack of geography doomed Jupiter.

[@lipslide101]

LOL

[@alfonsohuaman6116]

Would make a good April Fools Day episode

[@Drahko12]

Actually there are theories that Jupiter started as a rocky planet until it grow to its current size by absorbing pretty much other planets and rock material from the early solar system

[@MedicMain9]

GONE VIRAL. GONE WILD

[@dorderre]

I know this was meant as a joke, but is there a term like geography for rocky planets but for gaseous ones? Gasography or sth? Or even more literally "geography" translates to earth description, applied on other planets this would be, like, jupitography? So basically any other planet suffers from a severe lack of geography by virtue of, well, not being Earth :D

[@allature]

Earth: My surface is constanty expelled and inhaled a glorious eternal cycle. Venus: I just kinda... Explode every couple aeons...

[@NanoCubeOG]

lol

[@sumreensultana1860]

Jupiter:- What are you talking about

[@WanderTheNomad]

This is what happens when you bottle up your anger and frustration.

[@rageraptor7127]

Earth: I have the best most unique geographic landscape. Not to mention I have life! Saturns moons: who decided that?!

[@jaybonn5973]

Sometimes it be like that.

[@Rytonic69]

First astronauts to Venus: "Wait, it's all bread?" "Always has been." *loads gun

[@mrbisshie]

News: This just in, we have received our first message from first Astronauts to land on Venus! Astronauts: AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[@mek101whatif7]

*planet explodes in global resurfacing event*

[@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman]

@@mrbisshie 😂

[@raydunakin]

13:20 Is that a ladder going up the side of the volcano, at bottom center?

[@Banov0312]

Its just an illustration... (I guess?)

[@marcellodepa]

It is indeed, it's in the Bromo Tengger Semeru national park in Indonesia. 7°56'23.18"S 112°57'10.28"E

[@kacperwoch4368]

Because it is a volcano on earth. Only humans could come up with the idea of having a ladder to the gates of hell.

[@Voron_Aggrav]

@@kacperwoch4368 how else are we gonna poke it then?

[@ccvcharger]

@@Voron_Aggrav with a really, and I mean reeaally long stick.

[@duskpede5146]

i love how whenever you see a source describing how Venus is, they literally always say "hot enough to melt lead". every article, every video, every paper will always say hot enough to melt lead

[@SiamHossain7]

Damn Venus a baddie 🤤

[@talia1899]

because it's metal asf

[@jasonreed7522]

Because its context, saying its 880°F (470°C, 743K, 1340°R) is almost completely meaningless to the average person, sure is almost 5x the boiling point of water but saying it melts metal is much more intuitive to the average person. (Granted earth melts mercury and bromine)

[@georgewbush9326]

Because that fact is so shocking lol

[@unknowngod8221]

@@SiamHossain7 yeah i want that planet

[@carbonium1264]

we need video on geography of Titan, considering it has rivers and lake it is more interesting then Venus or Mars.

[@pitipiti_]

Up

[@bobi200samatar6]

Absolutely yes

[@gabrielreal2172]

That would be very interesting indeed

[@supersheets12]

Rivers of methane Check out Europa, which is a much more interesting moon of Saturns.

[@panosmosproductions3230]

Titan’s rivers and lakes are composed of liquid methane. But there is liquid water beneath Titan’s icy crust.

[@jameskirkland3187]

Kind of looks like a randomized map from Civilization

[@ephraimboateng5239]

Yeah like a fatasy map. Cool!

[@illegal_space_alien]

Someone years ago made this map for Civ 4, so not far off.

[@user-ft3jq5vi2l]

Yeah, like it seems somewhat accurate and realistic, but all the little details and overall feel of a real map are off.

[@jameskirkland3187]

Wow I've never got this many likes before

[@TAP7a]

Eerily similar to a map generated from summing fractal noise, which given that it isn't tectonically driven isn't too surprising. I wonder if anyone has dressed up the Venus map with the Azgaar's generator design language to see if it fits?

[@lewismassie]

Bonus fact, in the same way geo- is for Earth and areo- is for Mars, veneri- is for Venus. So Venus has a lack of veneriography

[@robertraymond762]

How would you pronounce that?

[@jQuse]

@@robertraymond762 I guess Vin nair e o

[@ΝίκΠαπ-ψ8η]

Geo(Γη-γαια) and areo(Αρης-Ares) are the greek words for these planets. So, if it is to keep the same way it would be Aphrography or Aphrodiography from greek Aphrodite(Αφροδιτη) meaning Venus

[@detorrV2]

@@robertraymond762 the same way you pronunce venereal, as in venereal disease.

[@vincentcleaver1925]

@@ΝίκΠαπ-ψ8η I support Aphrodiography

[@reubentirkey5436]

So you’re saying Venus is just Earth’s hot twin and is pretty shallow

[@theexoticproject]

Atlas Pro and Real Life Lore posting content more than usual 🤩

[@connerstewart7155]

ikr it’s weird but I’m happy to see it ofc

[@beem1114]

and aperture uploaded on thursday instead of friday

[@AlexMathiesen]

Aphrodite Terra - "okay, I know who Aphrodite is. The name is appropriate." Ishtar Terra - "I know who that is; very appropriate name." Lada Terra - "okay who's that?" one google search later "yep, checks out. Venus' geography is for mythology nerds. Edit: oh shoot, people actually saw this. Yes I know that's the case for basically everything in space. But I learned a bit about Baltic Mythology. Woohoo

[@ShihammeDarc]

I think it's the same for mars too

[@PaolaEP]

Search the geography of Pluto, it’s peak nerd hahaha

[@عمرالطاءي-خ8ب]

Afrodiety rifts split open afrodiety (fertility) goddest in greek or roman mythology Ishtar is an ancint sumarian goddest

[@GuiSmith]

@@عمرالطاءي-خ8ب Funny thing, they’re technically the same goddess. Ishtar was directly adapted as Astarte, a Phoenician goddess, whose worship eventually landed on Kythira. This cult was then adapted by the Greeks when Sparta repeatedly invaded the island. From there we have the Greek Aphrodite. They’re directly related.

[@borkwoof696]

That goes for astronomy in general. All our solar system’s planets have mythological names, you know.

[@thefrozenflames1658]

You’re like the only KZbinr who’s face fits with their voice

[@BigEvan101]

ikr lol

[@Jobe-13]

Nah

[@hastur9271]

true

[@marshalltucker9690]

AGREED

[@imcarlosjr4898]

For real

[@luckyn4t0r]

Greenhouse gases: *exist* Venus: "It's getting hot in here..."

[@shriihanmukherjee6502]

So take off all your atmospheres...

[@Versuffe]

I am.. am so hot I could shed my atmosphere!

[@shriihanmukherjee6502]

@Weasel 鼬は悪くない You ruined the chain

[@shriihanmukherjee6502]

@Weasel 鼬は悪くない bruh

[@rafaelmartinez9259]

@Weasel 鼬は悪くない prove it boyo

[@ts25679]

"It doesn't have the right geography" sure, if your intention is to build on the ground. That's why we want to build floating cities in the atmosphere.

[@Pacbandit13]

City skylines on Venus

[@acutechicken5798]

Cloud city.

[@rais1953]

Out of what? You don't have access to the ground to get raw materials. It took years to build the ISS. It's taking a couple of years to build smaller Chinese space station, both with pre-manufactured parts lifted just a few hundred kilometres from the Earth.

[@metal3543]

Metroid prime vibes

[@lukejohnson6415]

Appreciated the explanation behind why Venus has no continental plates

[@RyujinNoKami]

When venus' "continents" were defined my head quickly began imagining civilization and countries

[@danielawesome36]

"Minecraft Maps in a nutshell" for me

[@lunaticbz3594]

Honestly the map has quite a few similarities to the map used of 'planet' in the game Alpha Centaurai.

[@calebkirschbaum8158]

I imminently also wanted to see a show based on that. Can you imagine how life would evolve on a world with that kind of geography?

[@Simon-nw9bf]

It's one of those shitty Civilization maps where you send settlers out to whatever random islands you can find

[@dorderre]

"Geography" translates to earth description, so any other planet suffers from a severe lack of geography by virtue of not being Earth :D

[@thePronto]

Under-rated comment.

[@ccvcharger]

To be fair though, can you imagine saying Aphroditeography?

[@imcool2931]

@@ccvcharger no

[@DeliberateContrarian]

@@ccvcharger Is that what it would be? I was going to ask what the proper term would be.

[@ccvcharger]

@@DeliberateContrarian Honestly, I just made a guess, since for geography comes from Greek ge, and is also associated with Gaia, and areography for Mars comes from Ares, which was the Greek name for the red planet as well as the associated god, it only made sense that the word associate with Venus should be derived from Aphrodite. That being said, I saw another comment that used a completely different word, and I'm gonna have to look deeper into why that one was used.

[@tiget8627]

“How the lack of geography doomed the sun” is gonna be next guys

[@unggoymaster1217]

The absent of the father doomed the sun.

[@Chuked]

In an alternate universe: How geography doomed Earth

[@ccvcharger]

Plate tectonics existed, and created the conditions that allowed for complex life to evolve. Then life evolved into humans, and that is what doomed the Earth.

[@panosmosproductions3230]

That will happen eventually due to human-induced climate change and the sun’s eventual death cycle.

[@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman]

Humans

[@saksagan1436]

​@@ccvcharger🤓🤓🤓

[@SuperNovaJinckUFO]

I'd love to see a video about the geography of the moon. I feel like that would be really interesting, since that's pretty much the only world that you can look at with the naked eye, and recognize geographic features

[@niety5914]

Hell yeah, Atlas Pro time

[@janmelantu7490]

Aphroditeography: not as catchy as “Areography”

[@denelson83]

It's actually cythereography.

[@JPTQJR]

Aphreography is near there but still not as good as Areography

[@paulastalas8691]

I was looking for this comment

[@thulyblu5486]

Venography? (I know, it's Roman instead of Greek, but still more catchy than aphroditeography)

[@paulastalas8691]

I could get behind venography even though it doesn't follow the greek naming rule.

[@nickbz1303]

Your astrogeography content is, pardon the pun, stellar! We'd love to hear similar diatribes about how the tidal forces at play in the gas giant sub-systems create interesting geography (Titan, Europa, etc.).

[@MistarZtv]

That Venus map looks like the fire nation is about to attack.

[@aaronseet2738]

Meanwhile in local Venus news: How we are long overdue for the next Artemis Chasma super eruption. And politicians have no plan whatsoever.

[@FNLNFNLN]

"Why aren't people interested in Venus" Because they're boring. Someone fund HAVOC already.

[@fakename2336]

because were more interested in uranus

[@rmi12]

@@fakename2336 nice 1

[@suzannebrown2505]

I am fascinated by all the planets, their moons, AND Pluto also (planetoid or not). Throw Ceres in there too! Nothing is boring about the reality of the Universe and everything in it, including other dimensions and all our aliens who have visited, are visiting, and will visit!!! Reality is so cool!!!❤️

[@jasonstephen7564]

What's HAVOC? Edit: Found it. High Altitude Venus Operational Concept. I think I saw an Issac Arthur video on it. It looks super cool!

[@ccvcharger]

@@jasonstephen7564 Ah, I see that you too are a person of culture.

[@MauricioDreiling]

Great work, as usual. This has become one of my favorite YT channels. Regarding ideas for the next one, Mercury, the Jovian Satellites, or Pluto (I know, that's a longshot) sound interesting to me. A bit closer to home, Andes and Patagonia regions would also be interesting.

[@AtlasPro1]

Patagonia is going to be included in the next video ;)

[@EAdano77]

The visualisations in this were both breathtaking and immensely informative. Excellent astronomy video!

[@trijizvy]

👍👍👍❤❤❤

[@akiriith]

I really liked having this recommended to me! You're very didactic in your explanations, I would legit love a whole series on geography of more planets!

[@gordonchao3074]

Here is a suggestion: Why is there large basins next to the Tibetan Plateau?

[@Deeplycloseted435]

Cat: ignores you all day You: presses record Cat: OH HEEEYYYY!!!!

[@carschmn]

You need to do a geography of cats now.

[@YataTheFifteenth]

Meography

[@NetarAlt]

It would been called "Felinegraphy".

[@trulyinfamous]

I seriously love these videos about geography of other planets. It's incredibly interesting stuff.

[@trijizvy]

Me too - extraordinary much!!!👍👍👍❤❤❤

[@concept5631]

It is very interesting.

[@Maker_Star_Hero]

Man "METAL SNOW!" Would make for a great clickbait thumbnail caption lol

[@bastodona]

as he said "basin" then immediately after "guinevere" I had some dark souls ptsd not gonna lie

[@ripHalo0002]

Gank ahead

[@unoriginal_name7091]

Don't give up, skeleton!

[@AlvinBalvin321]

wow ur already at 800k i knew u would grow, i remeber maybe even before 100k when i found ur channel i was like, this channel has potential

[@pedrovascodeoliveiraveriss6293]

The "Terraformed Venus" Map looks like something from a cheap (Science) Fantasy Novel.

[@StuffandThings_]

Maybe those aren't so wrong after all. If Earthlike tectonics are so rare, then randomly shaped and randomly placed islands and basins are more likely the norm than our well-defined continents and oceans.

[@pedrovascodeoliveiraveriss6293]

@@StuffandThings_ Good Point.

[@jora9655]

Man, I haven't watched a video of yours in way over a year and seeing how production quality has risen while your content is still recognizable as clearly the same channel makes me really happy. Well, I've gotta go, there's a lot of catching up for me to do :)

[@jaybonn5973]

So it begs the question: How many nukes do we need to tear a permanent rift in Venus?

[@sayvionwashington1939]

"Yes."

[@mek101whatif7]

Nukes might not be enough. Antimatter bombs it is

[@jacobgorokhovsky4677]

Atlas Pro uploaded twice in one week, Let's Go!!! Thank you Mr. Pro for continuing to give us this amazing knowledge and putting so much effort into your video's, keep up the good work :)

[@fennoscandianmapping7037]

He also uploaded at midnight this time so you win some and you lose some :D.

[@jamescusack6511]

Next time: how (the lack of) space on Atlas Pro’s shoulders doomed Atlas Pro’s cat to fall down

[@AlexandreRibeiroXRV7]

This now makes me wonder what would've happened if Venus and Mars ended up in each other's place early on the Solar System's formation. Mars becoming a little ball of molten heat and Venus a cold-analog of Earth which could have developed some form of life on its surface...

[@pocketmarcy6990]

We’d basically have a solar system with a colder Earth, but with Venus’ Gravity and it being cold enough for plate tectonics to develop, I could see both planets developing life independently and eventually becoming aware of each other’s existence as cities develop and they see the lights, which could lead to technology developing slightly faster and interest in space exploration actually staying around after the moon landings. Basically that’s a much cooler timeline, since we get a solar system with two Earths

[@nomorok15]

Really like that you put some takes of you talking into the camera in those last videos makes it more personal and gives one the feeling that you are teaching instead of presenting :)

[@stephenbruner5820]

I like how you referenced "Nature" as a source. It would be really cool if Atlas Pro did a side by side by side video of the 4 billion year history of the Venus, Mars, and Earth. It could show Mars and Venus having and then losing water, and how Earth's surface was once molten, snowball-earth, and at other times even had purple life covering the surface. I suggest using globe images, maybe even showing how mars and earth rotate and Venus is almost tidally locked.

[@crackedemerald4930]

Are you gonna do the geography of every planet now? I'd be into it Especially mercury, have fun with venus but even more boring

[@Dragrath1]

Actually there is some pretty interesting stuff on Mercury www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-59885-5 Note here that in the actual (open access) paper above unlike the popular clickbait "misinterpretation" that when they say Volatiles they are talking about volatile metals such as Sodium Potassium Lead etc. that is to say sublimating rock not Earthly volatiles. There is a big difference.

[@Leyrann]

Mercury would be more interesting than the gas giants though.

[@skyebluesilly]

@@Leyrann the gas giants' moons though, thats a different story

[@anonymousfellow8879]

Or the dwarf planets: Eris, Pluto, a good number within the Asteroid Belt, other Kuiper Objects. They’re WAY more interesting than not-even-an-atmosphere Mercury. -Pluto beats you out there, Mercury!!-

[@Dragrath1]

@@anonymousfellow8879 Eris would be amazing alas we have no knowledge about its topography as its so far away and hasn't been visited by space craft. And technically mercury has a tentative exosphere composed of solar wind particles and sublimating rock

[@cardenasr.2898]

Why is Venus so hot? Because its atmosphere is hella THICC

[@unknowngod8221]

Mmmmmmmm

[@laturnich9507]

I love these extraterrestrial geography videos. Could you do videos on the Moon and Pluto?

[@lollertoaster]

We could have lived in a solar system where two neighboring planets evolved life independently, we could have lived in a solar system where we could set up independent colonies on other planets as easily as anywhere on our world. The random chance factor could have turned Venus into a second Earth just as easily as turning Earth into a second Venus. The history of Venus and Earth is a tragedy.

[@monhi64]

Idk seems like it’s so hard to get one habitable planet so the chances of two are astronomically low. I feel like the fact that Mars is kinda habitable was already super lucky

[@reillycurran8508]

Aphrotitography, the study of the bread planet

[@malapertfourohfour2112]

Atlas Cat confirmed new star

[@alfonsohuaman6116]

After watching a narrator for 3 years I don’t know if I’ll get ever used to his face

[@typhoidtyphoon]

Yeah I kinda liked the faceless narrator. Not sure why that changed.

[@Roel922]

When I saw the images of Venus surface I also thought it looks like Venus crust has broken open with giant lava flow coming out of it. But Earth did also experience such a event on a smaller but still catastrophic scale when the Perm extinction did happen. The atmosphere and also oceans did get poisened. It was when the supercontinent Pangea did split apart.

[@ephraimboateng5239]

Oh yeah thats true. So its not only Venus that exploded in magma. I wonder if Mars even had that kind of event on its surface? my guess is no. I think the planet was just too small to accumulate enough energy to "blow its top. Plus she had volcanos that grew insanely big, so i assume most of that energy was released then

[@brothergrimm9656]

I've seen studies that suggest Venus actually had oceans not just 'Early' in it's history but for around 3 billion years, also the current consensus is that the hellish conditions on the planet happened relatively recently, as little as 700 million years ago which means for a good part of it's existence it probably lived up to it's nickname of Earth's sister planet.

[@feynstein1004]

- Why is everyone afraid of moving to Venus? - Because it has a Lada Terra 😉

[@Jobe-13]

Makes me imagine if the Earth had a bunch of islands and archipelagos instead of continents. Would also be cool if Venus had developed into a second earth with all of these “continents” on it were actual continents on it.

[@magmacube8689]

During the very early Paleozoic, that was the case. Earth was still too hot to have significant tectonics, so the planet was an ocean world with thousands of volcanic or rift islands.

[@Jobe-13]

@@magmacube8689 Nice

[@Kentucky_Caveman]

That would be epic. Just imagine how different history would be if instead of empires there where thousands of island nations fighting eachother

[@magmacube8689]

@@Kentucky_Caveman No advanced civilisation ever, then

[@Kentucky_Caveman]

@@magmacube8689 exactly, that's why it would be cool. A wise man spoke wise words once "Reject society, embrace le monke"

[@zinthezweihander2053]

So... you're telling me that only in reality does Vulcan (Hephaestus) tear Venus(Aphrodite) up? XD also, keeping in the technical fault where the laptop goes to sleep was pretty funny XD

[@ChenAnPin]

Billions of years ago: Plate tectonics exists. Present-day: Atlas Pro happens.

[@deckwolf3442]

This answers the question “why not go to Venus?” which was explained better than “it would be easier to go to mars” from my physical science professor.

[@Jablicek]

Hey AtlasPro, finding this format both more interesting and easier to follow - there's less imagery moving and changing, and it allows the mind to concentrate on the spoken information. Cheers!

[@safetymeasures167]

As a guy who just really likes the look of maps, thank you for those Venus continents. Now all I need is Mercury's geography

[@hastur9271]

0:18 That made me laugh hard, so cute 🤣

[@exudeku]

Atlas' cat: *I shall take over your chann-* ok ok but I will have my revenge!

[@smarteasylearningalmanejaz6204]

what time does the cat come

[@iraqbeentheredonthat]

Wow, this channel had 2k subs when first subbed. I knew you were going to get huge. Amazing work, keep it up!!

[@factualhunter2663]

Hey, sir this is the first time I have seen you making face cam video,it's more interesting & it feels me that I'm more connected with your chosen topic than just looking animations & listening to voice. keep it up👍

[@all3ykat79]

It's quite cool seeing your face in the videos these days. My favourite of your videos by far is the one where you showed the greening of the Sahara. My second favourite is your expansion of fauna territories by utilising land bridges. Any more along those lines will be greatly appreciated. In the mean time I might go rewatch them now.

[@notbranch9657]

it’s midnight where i am, but i can’t sleep until after this

[@mysterious7215]

It's morning here

[@jr2904]

It's 21:30 on the west coast of the States

[@michaeldmingo1525]

6:02 am in London

[@AntonioCarlos-gx6vd]

3 AM in Brazil

[@vilena5308]

I didn't know Venus is a planet with a single, unbroken surface! That's so different.

[@michaelkirouac3680]

All your videos are informative and so well done. I’ve learned more about the surface of Earth, Venus and Mars than any documentation. Awesome channel, you have a new supporter on Patreon!

[@michaelradke2507]

Great video! One small clarification though. We think Venus was much more temperate and had liquid water when it was young. So the idea that plate tectonics did not initiate because the surface was too hot is probably not correct. For all we know Venus maybe *did* have plate tectonics early in its history--before it lost all its water. But the rifts, mountain ranges, and other evidence for that is gone now due to volcanism that has almost completely resurfaced the planet after the cessation of plate tectonics.

[@daudkharal1328]

What we want: More videos on planets and exoplanets More of your cute cat distractions Do keep your face appearing in the vids, it's far more engaging

[@PATRICKxSTRAWN]

Hey dude glad to see you posting more often again. Take breaks whenever you need to, this community will be here always. If you’re reading this, sub if you haven’t! Very few are more deserving!

[@Ifoundnohappinesshere]

So inclusion, Venus is a giant cooked dough in space

[@Marine_Dynamite]

Earth is a bread that is soaked in water and becomes moldy

[@KatarinaBohtana]

@@Marine_Dynamite lol

[@ldelgg]

The parallels between baking bread and venus’ surface are amazing

[@Galaxia7]

Hope you'll do Pluto (and charon) next ! Tbh it's the only rocky (dwarf) planet left to talk about. And with the recent great pictures of its surface we got, we have a good view of its surface & features.

[@christosscapularis4483]

Atlas Pro: *makes an interesting and detailed video about Venus* The comments: He has a cat 🤩

[@shawn_in_toronto]

This totally makes my Sunday night

[@jacobgorokhovsky4677]

Wow, great video! Geography of Titan next please

[@Danishmastery]

Ohhh yeah. It could accompany his life on titan video well kzbin.info/www/bejne/qJPCk2SKh6ismKM

[@rayorcc]

Thanks for your great work! Your topics are super interesting and you find so many interesting details, I'm always surprised how many interesting and well explained features you bring up!

[@aidan8473]

One of the only channels I check every video on. Love your channel

[@Roblockhead]

I remember an article from a few years back talking about how we could in theory live in Venus' upper atmosphere like some real life analog to Star Wars' Bespin

[@johnmorelli3775]

Not a new idea. I know lots of people who live in the clouds (then inevitably crash down to reality)

[@notapplicable7292]

man would I love to see images of metal snow mountains.

[@theninkyn0nk463]

This channel's quality will never dwindle. Edit : also, how about some merch? I'd love one of those mars maps 😉

[@hoperobers4542]

It was nice to see your face to put with the voice! Oh, and the cat is awesome!

[@sonjayor]

While watching this video I couldn't help but thinking: "How come am I watching such a high quality content?" & "This deserves to be commented on." Let me say: "I am proud of you man." Greetings from CentralAmerica

[@YAAH-E]

Atlas Pro: The Most Casual Education Channel.

[@Vienna3080]

People always ignore the fact that the area above the clouds of Venus is actually very habitable and easier to colonize then even Mars

[@michaeldmingo1525]

Airships on Venus would be a nice place to live.

[@tdawgmaster1729]

@@michaeldmingo1525 Except that the clouds would react with organic tissue, since they're largely sulfuric acid. I'd take slow radiation poisoning on Mars over getting dissolved alive by clouds on Venus any day

[@aayushbhat188]

How are we supposed to live in the air?

[@shibomi1]

Maybe that's true in the short term until the air ships start to break down from wear and tear. At least with current technology we can build structures on Mars to last hundred of years on the surface and below.

[@michaeldmingo1525]

Sky Cities

[@emilyofjane]

Venus isn’t Earth’s twin. Venus is Earth’s insane cousin who regularly gets in bar fights and snorts coke at family reunions

[@ianwilbanks3015]

Here is a suggestion that is kind of dumb, but I really like it. Take a picture of something mundane, like a pizza or a popcorn ceiling, and then describe it like it's the surface of a planet. Maybe you could do this for April 1. Cheers!

[@slavikvsvega]

The Venetian atmosphere (~55Km up) is the most earth-like place outside Earth we know of. Earth-like gravity: check; additional atmosphere shielding from the sun: check; Earth like temperature: check; Easier to get to than Mars (easiest infact), etc. Now that you've made this video, you *have* to make one about the viability of floating cities there: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_Venus