The Soviet's Secret Mars Landing (declassified)

[@andrewbrown6745]

“Our closest planetary neighbor” Venus: am I a joke to you?

[@Wurtoz9643]

Mercury: Am I a joke to *you?*

[@nathanielbyrne1132]

Thanks, you saved me the comment

[@nathanielbyrne1132]

Wow I didn't know mercury is closer to us than Mars

[@HeadyEddie]

​@@nathanielbyrne1132most of the time the closest planet to Earth is Mercury. Only when planets are aligned in their orbit is Venus or Mars closer

[@johnwenzel2003]

The joys of orbital dynamics. 😊

[@GneasYTC]

That was a hell of an achievement for 1971, going in blind and managing to get the lander down safely. What happened then was just lousy luck on the timing.

[@hendrickswart4122]

I do allways get the lotto numbers righ, but my timing is still way out.

[@greg5326]

You are a victim of Soviet propaganda. Apparently there are a lot of you. I suspect you are also a victim of socialist American teachers.

[@Mor870]

did you know they went to Venus too insane what they did sure their country was crapy but the stuff they did was impressive

[@Otto-mq8lg]

Luck is preparation for the opportunity..

[@alexportiiii6414]

and instead of announcing an accomplishment and building on a great success, they lied

[@JasperH5150]

Thank you for not playing obnoxious dramatic LOUD music in your videos... We can actually understand your narrator... Thank you!

[@Team-fabulous]

Agreed..

[@AxxinTheSupernova]

Yes. Agreed

[@SmallGuyonTop]

Except for the incessant frog croaking in his voice for affectation! DRIVING ME NUTS!

[@twojaygotbales9787]

Imagine being the Russian guy probably running on 3 hours of sleep and mistyping “150” instead of “1.5” lmao

[@raedwulf61]

"Gulag for you!"

[@causewaykayak]

@@raedwulf61 How does SpaceX handle such lapses. Presumably the have them regularly. People DO make mistakes ...

[@tomsterbg8130]

@@causewaykayak technology advanced a lot, you can now have simulated tests to ensure the program works as expected

[@causewaykayak]

@@tomsterbg8130 Thanks for that. We can expect flawless performances. Dronescapes was saying something very similar about traditional test pilots and the modern methods

[@raedwulf61]

@@causewaykayak Ask Musk.

[@MattNolanCustom]

Only people on the fringes still thought there were canals on Mars before any flybys or landings in the 60s. In the early 1900s better telescopes had shown the canals not to be so visually and spectroscopy had shown that there simply wasn't enough water there.

[@TomasFunes-rt8rd]

Arthur C Clarke did a nice debunking of them in a docu in the 80s.

[@richardloewen7177]

Heinein, late 40s hard-science SF, still though some canals were possible. Final termination of that hope came in 65 or 65.

[@riccello]

@@richardloewen7177or... 65

[@gabrielshansen]

Can we just relish the fact, that USSR/CCCP managed to - more or less blindly - land a vehicle on mars at 2nd attempt, setting the template for all future landings? Well-produced and well-told, thanks for the good work! Ending was a bit abrupt, though! :) Would have liked to know more about why the failure etc, since the archives were scrounged when the Soviet Republic collapsed....

[@twitchy.mp3]

History is written by the victors and both of these countries are known for their disinformation. Hard to believe they landed on mars and decided NOT to say anything

[@binnichtaktiv_]

We watched the video…

[@ShawnSaunders-vg3ms]

Yes I agree. Congratulations America copying Russia and taking all the credit bravo

[@HH-vb9tw]

You must be russian loll

[@remypascal4872]

It shows how competition entoxicates the science and all the other stuff. No sharing of informations and no really help. The US gov tried as well for the space progam the socialistic model of a public project in science and production. Companies were included like in a public, sharing of everything process and the rescources were used after they were available, not after the crazy artificial cost. Of course the german scientists like v Braun were extremely useful, or lets say decisive(He had his success as well in a public national cooperative-supportive system before). The SU had accidential tried once in their progam two a bit competing scientists projects, that shared not so much(information and rare stuff). So they were slower and less efficient like normal capitalistic big companies.

[@magnetospin]

That walking robot was pretty genius.

[@rilluma]

ahead of its time

[@allan2914]

They do that for massive mining machinery because wheels wouldn't support it enough

[@fastdude2002]

@@rillumaexcept it didn’t work lol

[@mantha6912]

It's really cool to be able say that in 1971 humanity invented Mars walkers!

[@GoofieNewfie69]

It was so secret that it was in Newspapers all over the world

[@Team-fabulous]

Shusssss

[@STho205]

Yep

[@Atomwaffen-y3s]

Correct. But in Joe Biden’s America, it would have been suppressed.

[@ghost91698]

just because it wasnt a secret back then, doesnt mean it cant be kept secret in current times.

[@GoofieNewfie69]

@@ghost91698 Really, how do you figure that

[@Zogg1281]

That is HUGE!!!!!!! You just totally blew my mind! Thank you 😊👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@Sailor376also]

"our closest planetary neighbor." Incorrect. At :55 seconds in. Venus is our closest planetary neighbor. The USSR also landed a probe on the surface of Venus. Further, you could make a case that 'on average' Mecury is closer to the Earth than Mars.

[@TomasFunes-rt8rd]

Correction : they landed more than "a probe", they landed about 10 of them, some of which succeeded in beaming back footage.

[@KailamiMwiinga]

Mars has really got friend zoned by Earth a long time ago

[@Sailor376also]

@@KailamiMwiinga "friend zoned" Spot on. And for some good reasons. Venus surface,,, the bottom of an acid based atmosphere at a temp that can melt lead and zinc, where as Mars with a pressure suit, you can walk around, 24 hour day, an atmosphere , very, very thin,, but CO2 and water vapour. Sooooo, you could say,, 'closer to Earth',, and mean surface conditions.

[@John-j8g]

The fact is there is so much bad information on you tube. Just today one chance has a F-16 with the wrong engine and can go 500 miles + . Fact that they can go over 2000 miles . So don't believe it all.

[@kend6693]

Nice production, as always, appreciated.

[@edschultheis9537]

I'm 59 and grew up during the US-Soviet space race. Of note is that the US/NASA always covered its space launches and missions live on TV while the Soviet missions were always a secret until/unless they were successful. If successful, the world would hear about it in the news after the fact. During the space shuttle years, the US/NASA did have numerous missions that were entirely for the Department of Defense. We knew from the news that these missions occurred, but there were no details as to the specifics of those missions. Even to this day, I don't believe that much is known to the public about those NASA/DOD missions.

[@stscc01]

Surprise, surprise, NASA did not reveal what they did on their military missions... 😂 Of course not, and maybe a lot of this stuff is still classified even today, for good reasons.

[@edschultheis9537]

@@stscc01 I have no problem with the NASA/DOD missions being classified. The general public does not need to know any details of those missions. In 50, 75, or 100 years, we may learn the details of those missions, usually after all of the main people involved have died. For at least a couple of decades now, NASA/DOD (initially) and now (apparently) the US Space Force have been operating secret flights of the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle. This is a vehicle that looks like a mini space shuttle, is unmanned, and is entirely remotely controlled. Google it to see photos. This spacecraft remains in space for often 1-2 years at a time. Then it returns and then goes on another mission. There has never been (to my knowledge) any credible information about the purpose of details of those missions.... only guesses.

[@Atomwaffen-y3s]

You’re gawdamn right. The irony is that we have learned much about the Soviets space missions after the Cold War.. and still know little about ours. The Burans, the Soyuz, the RD-18-.. “built with pride in the US!”, lol

[@mirandela777]

"missions live on TV" - BS ! Moon "live landing" was in fact transmitted with many hours of delay.... ask why.

[@philt7597]

Thank you for using all correct international units (i.e., km) without apology (miles in parentheses). You are one of the few KZbin science communicators willing to take this bold step. I salute you!

[@clownassbutthead6378]

WHAT THE FUCK IS A KILOMETER 🦅🦅🦅🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

[@petarswift5089]

It is a myth that the scientific community before the American and Soviet space programs did not know that Mars was cold and Venus was warm.

[@larrymosher5045]

Thermostat don't lie.

[@ratrace468]

All theses soviet space secrets are fascinating

[@Redwave4547]

As an American I feel like we owe a slight nod to Germany. But neither of us want to talk about that era.

[@MrMoon-te5xw]

The space race between USSR and American was basically our German scientists vs your German scientists

[@ЛевГригорьев-б6л]

@@MrMoon-te5xw Немецкие ученые в СССР плохо приживались, потому он начал постепенно отставать от США. А после 1990 года последние могикане из немцев из РФ уехали и тут у нас все встало!.. ))

[@STho205]

Well German WW2 rocket engineers credited Robert Goddard and several 1930s British rocket engineers...all of whom published their results.

[@jah886]

@@MrMoon-te5xw you wrote complete nonsense. German scientists left the USSR even before the launch of the first satellite. and for that matter, these scientists did not make much of a contribution to the Soviet missile program, unlike the US

[@Atomwaffen-y3s]

Only liberal pha660ts try to shame America. A Nazi masterminded the US Space Program. They say the visionary of Tesla and SpaceX is racist. Yet they have no problem buying a Volkswagen, the people’s car envisioned by Adolph Hitler.

[@nutier]

Wonderful video ! I love it so much . Happy week to you !

[@liondriven9073]

Our closest planetary neighbor ? Edit that off dude !

[@user-vp1sc7tt4m]

Thank you. Great information about early landings on Mars. Subscribed!

[@pipersall6761]

Great report! Thanks!

[@raedwulf61]

Fascinating! Next time I go home to Mars, I will have to go see this lander.

[@OnkarPawar-lr3hi]

Invite me

[@stscc01]

you may not find much more than some debris... to call that a landing is somewhat ridiculous.

[@vulcan4d]

Imagine what we could do if we didn't focus so much on war.

[@thatguyoverthere8355]

And needless religions

[@dingickso4098]

Over eight trillion dollars has been spent on lost or unwinnable wars in recent two decades. Imagine all the science that could have been done with that sort of budget. The (admittedly somewhat tragic) fact that even the first "space race" and the moon landings would nver have happened if it wasn't for the ARMS RACE.

[@Atomwaffen-y3s]

Yeah. Just ask the British. We focused on war so they could give themselves free health care.

[@dingickso4098]

PoopooTube deleted my comment once again. and I still notified of this thread, which is rather annoying!

[@rickhunt3183]

@@thatguyoverthere8355 Do you really think not having a religion would make anything different? What would man have without carnage and destruction? It's man's nature to destroy and strive for self destruction. Man is a spiritual animal. He worships blood and steel.

[@BedujiNuji]

thank you for inspiring and educating with such passion!

[@Someone_else_u_know]

Thank you for such an interesting and revealing piece. 🤝

[@JesusisMySavior581]

I don't call it a failure- I call it a beginning

[@lh1690]

70 years ago or 1970? 70 years ago would be 1954 and Sputnik wasn't launched until 1957.

[@shimoarikiku7791]

Or so you thought..

[@TehAntares]

USSR: "We've managed so be first at so many space exploration stuff during the space race." USA: "Yeah, those don't count. The Moon landing is the only thing that matters lmao."

[@MusicalZombie]

Yeah, I'm always baffled when I hear this... 😅

[@JohnnyBravo-tn6kc]

Because the finish line for the space race always was getting a man on the moon. You don't win by finishing a lap; you have to finish the race. Landing a human on a stellar body then bringing them home is magnitudes harder than simply putting a probe in space or on a planet. The Soviets absolutely deserve their credit for the accomplishments of their engineers and scientists, but so do the Americans.

[@MusicalZombie]

​@@JohnnyBravo-tn6kc Interpretable. USA succeeded one big achievement during the race. The Soviets achieved multiple big achievements first. Everyone can decide for themself what is more important. In my opinion, a species which leaves their natural environment and goes into the dark, dangerous unknown is the first and most important steps of all. Landing somewhere else was also a huge achievement, but not as important as bringing the first human into space and countless other first-steps. Fact is, the Soviets were definitely leading the space race for most of the time and achieved the most of these first-steps, which was also much more scientifically valueable than landing on the moon (which was done mainly for prestige).

[@willian4428]

@@JohnnyBravo-tn6kc but the USA never really landed a human on the moon.

[@JohnnyBravo-tn6kc]

@willian4428 the Soviets disagreed with you

[@johnstewart579]

Thank you for this interesting history

[@Ceres_5]

Regarding 13:20: Olympus Mons is in fact NOT the tallest mountain in the solar system. It is the tallest volcano, but the tallest mountain is actually Rheasilvia on the protoplanet Vesta, which is about 0.6 kilometers taller than Olympus Mons. Olympus Mons is 21.9km, whereas Rheasilvia is 22.5km. Rheasilvia is also technically a central crater peak, which means it is measured from the bottom of the crater floor, but since Rheasilvia covers 95% of Vesta's mean diameter, it's hard to decide whether or not it really counts.

[@ardma02]

Your videos NEVER disappoint sir 💪🏼💪🏼

[@claing17]

The mini walker haha i love it.

[@soup9242]

Imagine wanting to assert your dominance over a rival country by proving that you can get to an unexplored before them, but the expedition was such an abysmal failure that you don’t even want to acknowledge that it technically got where it was supposed to go.

[@Alexandr_Lee]

Yeah, we had much better luck with Venus.

[@lucashinch]

I like this, decent narration. all great information. thank you

[@mrwhoo6329]

Amazing content! Keep up the good work!

[@DarthLink1986]

This was super cool to share ty 🙏

[@christophergoodrich4120]

Our closest planetary neighbor is Venus, not Mars.

[@IvanPlayStation4LiFe]

He means that we can colonize

[@kaiserwhence2468]

​@@IvanPlayStation4LiFeyou can also colonize Venus tho

[@STho205]

Closest orbit, but on average Mercury is closer by straight line.

[@STho205]

​@@IvanPlayStation4LiFecan't colonize Mars either. Just SciFi. In 50 years since manned flight to the Moon...we still have no colony because it is likely impossible to sustain humans on for longer than a few weeks. Thats even without an atmosphere...that is easier than hostile and corrosive atmospheres. Powerpoint animations are cool, but they aren't real

[@kaiserwhence2468]

@@STho205 who said you need to sustain human life to colonize Moon could be an automated industrial colony,most human presence will be for tourism and a few administration, Mars ...I don't think is that good for industry since everything there is also here and atmosphere,it will be mostly tourists

[@Jayrodgerm]

Legend has it, Yuri still lives in the caves of Mars, they sent a fellow comrade inside that thing.

[@waynegosson1793]

Seems like it's missing a lot of info at the end. It's there a part 2?

[@ch4.hayabusa]

In all but American English, the pronunciation of “Moscow” is “Moss-koh”

[@NocturnalNews]

Nobody cares

[@Hallvard0]

@@NocturnalNews Non-americans do :)

[@Kawamura2]

@@NocturnalNews I mean, you're wrong, but at least you're confident in your wrongness!

[@raedwulf61]

There's a book titled, "Is There a Cow in Moscow?" addressing this.

[@comment8767]

@@raedwulf61 No, but there is a lot of bull.

[@brianredmond4919]

Bet the soviet mission cost a LOT less than the US mission. Probably less than half the lunch money at NASA.

[@davidE.90151]

basically a very cool sciencey rock

[@vast634]

I would still count this as a first landing. Just not the most productive one. And the method the rover used to move is actually pretty good for some really sandy environments. More traction than wheels and less complex than tracks.

[@Real_Claudy_Focan]

NASA ; doesnt release weather forecast "In space exploration, this is considered as a dick move"

[@biggles258]

I live and learn. First I've heard of the Russian landings on Mars.

[@ЛевГригорьев-б6л]

В русском языке есть пословица: Век живи -- век учись!

[@bobapep20]

Venus is our closest planetary neighbor.

[@spreddyreds9408]

One small step for Mars-1, a giant leap for Ginny (ingenuity).

[@birdzbath4179]

The fact that NASA found the parachute, lander, and heat shield is an example of our technological advancements.

[@NickMartinez-l9t]

Imagine being a Martian (marsian) hiding from the deadly sun rays in your cave All your friends and family call you crazy for thinking aliens are real Then a weird looking spaceship crashes into your planet

[@DirkThys]

Yeah, that would whip up a storm for sure ! 😁

[@Vern_Trertnert]

America named their moon mission "Apollo". USSR named their mars mission "Mars 1". Debating whether I name my next driving mission "Heracles" or "Costco 1".

[@malcolmmurphy2924]

Never new they landed on Mars.

[@pqsk]

That's cool. Pretty shady that we didn't tell them about the storm though. If wasn't for that history would've been a little different in the mars domain

[@LegacyOfLearning123]

Your creativity knows no bounds; each video is a masterpiece.

[@screally1152]

Venus is closer than mars

[@MattNolanCustom]

Mercury is closer than both

[@screally1152]

@@MattNolanCustom Mercury's average position is closer to Earth's, but Venus' orbit takes it the closest to Earths.

[@MattNolanCustom]

@@screally1152 I know

[@Team-fabulous]

Yeah but what have the Venetians ever done for us?!.. Fuck em... 😅

[@MattNolanCustom]

@@Team-fabulous well there are the blinds and the glassware...

[@Renshen1957]

The canals were a mistaken translation of the word channels.

[@JusticeSR71]

Brilliant...many thanks! 👏

[@susannadvortsin]

If you could have kept out the glib comments about how the USSR's first attempt at landing on Mars failed because the lander only transmitted once and went dead and focus on the fact that they did it first that may have helped keep this video on the objective and scientific side.

[@mirandela777]

nah, he drank since he was a baby, his milk spiced with dumb russophobia, like most of the kids his age...

[@sabirrugunate1286]

So Mars is RED after all

[@Nuke-MarsX]

who thought different?

[@cardcasacardona8050]

Si y el sol verdoso visto desde fuera de la atmósfera...

[@ЛевГригорьев-б6л]

Марс не красный, а ржавый... ))

[@seagypsybnb]

How did we do any of this?! This is awesome! Im always blown away

[@audience2]

Even getting a single partial picture from the surface of Mars is a significant accomplishment for the early 1960s. It makes no sense to keep it a secret and let another take credit for doing it years later.

[@SebastianWellsTL]

Very cool! There are a lot of Russian accomplishments that are little known in today's world of aerospace.

[@YuriiHonta]

There are 0 russian accomplishments. Ussr was a lot of countries combined.

[@SebastianWellsTL]

@@YuriiHonta Fair point.

[@SWAPNESH23]

Only failures in space exploration are those who don't try. Well done USSR for for making the effort❤

[@blackbirdpie217]

You slaughtered the word Altimeter.

[@DavidGalich77]

Learn something new all the time. The space race is on and cooking!

[@jn1mrgn]

The proper grammar for this title would be "The Soviets' Secret Mars Landing".

[@johncate9541]

Funny how the Soviets couldn't get a probe to work on Mars, but then their engineers earned Demigod of Space Engineering honors by getting several to work on Venus!

[@stephen9892]

The camera man remains undefeated.

[@Swagmaster07]

Honestly, Soviets could have probably could have done more in space, with basically infinite money I think (because the Soviet Ruble wasn't that real) theoretically they could accomplish way more.

[@Atomwaffen-y3s]

Thank you, Kamala Harris speechwriter.

[@Swagmaster07]

@@Atomwaffen-y3s Did you just call me some kind of propagandist? This is just a thought I have had for quite some time about the Soviets and space.

[@smokeysky]

Was it really more red (mars)? as we know now they added a red filter to the mars photos.

[@markgarin6355]

Oh yeah, looking for martian canals.....in what 1890?

[@jamessharier7529]

Too bad for the scientific community that russias probe failed after it landed. The data that it could’ve provided would’ve been invaluable for future missios

[@Atomwaffen-y3s]

Yet neither the Ski’s or the Jone’s could find any trace of intelligent life, so they had to look on other planets.

[@kurtisengle6256]

0:04 ...where did you get this imagry? Beg pardon, obviously fake imagry?

[@hdufort]

In the end... Soviets were the first to land a functioning probe on the Moon and on Venus. The European Union was the first to land a probe on Titan (the lander was carried by an American probe though). The US was the first to successfully land a probe on Mars (if you consider the Soviet's 20-seconds mission a failure) and on an asteroid.

[@curtisquick1582]

The photo shown was from the US Viking Lander 1. It was a wildly successful mission, unlike the Russian ones.

[@jeffclarkofclarklesparkle3103]

You should have talked about the soviet probes, phobos i think were their names 1 and 2. Strange what happened, very strange

[@STho205]

Not really. Both probes were botched on their way by either flight controller human error or design mistakes.

[@jordansmith4040]

It's crazy we found the mars 3 lander on It's own on an entire planet.

[@Atomwaffen-y3s]

No. It isn’t.

[@jordansmith4040]

@@Atomwaffen-y3s why do you say that?

[@gigmaresh8772]

I still want to know who put that giant red standard Poodle up there? And what is that dog's name?

[@HenrykZ]

We need a building platform on the moon first, would speed up the whole process, even the landing and starting of space crafts!

[@musashi4856]

If Communism ideology didn't take itself so seriously, the USSR would have embraced their "failures" and celebrated these "imperfect" accomplishments. What a waste of talent and knowledge!

[@theofulk5636]

Was the photography taken in MARS, NEVADA, or in MARS, NEW MEXICO ?

[@sanjaygavade9722]

before any mission 100% preparation must be done and test must be carried out for any mistakes

[@DirkThys]

Elon Musk disagrees

[@KAHANE.CLIPS.613]

Think about how much humanity would have accomplished if the USA and the Soviet Union worked together in space even now we could do so much more if we just tried to work together on something.

[@hordesCoffee]

They must discovered something there? What I do know is, depending on where it landed, the conditions of making a controlled landing and the weather. Will have a significant impact on the longevity of the mission. Also strange sources of sounds have been detected on certain Mars landscapes. These sources are artificial and not of Mars. One source of a location is somewhere in the canyon that you can see with a telescope 🔭. Id like to elaborate, but I don't think anybody would believe its origin are, artificial. But, would like to know what happened to the lander once touch down was established?

[@DL-kc8fc]

What secret landing? "Orange" - landing module, was a popular topic of children in painting lessons.

[@Sonofdonald2024]

Cold war rivalries aside it's a pity these probes were not successful especially with the small rover

[@RasAlHaq]

It would be cool to send a rover to find and photograph the wreckage.

[@parapitro8828]

According to the statements of our friend John Lear we went to the Moon in 1962 and to Mars in 1966 so could the Apollo 18, 19 and 20 missions that were hidden from the public be missions to Mars?

[@pieceD399]

A few years ago i sended my microwaves to the Sun to find traces of water , some problems with the solar panels because it arrived at night but everything is working good now

[@sly2392]

IMAGINE what we could do if all countries worked together to explore space and the planets.

[@NIGHTFLIGHTVIDEO]

The United Federation of Planet Earth

[@joseph-mariopelerin7028]

Nice... planet wide dust storms... and we still thinking about a colony...

[@aleksanderkuncwicz7277]

Satilities to mine water and make a atmosphere on mars.

[@pauljcampbell2997]

Very interesting and informative video. Thank you!

[@xro5841]

Hummm, Electrostatic you say...

[@humanity1581]

Could you talk about Chinese first Mars landing! Thanks

[@Legicore]

Is that story real!?! I NEVER heared of that before!!! O______o

[@Charlotte-xh4lt]

Wow! I didn't know that Russia went to Mars? I learn something new everyday.

[@looseyourzlf]

11:23 at least they took photo in the electrostatic surface.

[@mirandela777]

You totally forgot / ignore the soviet historical landing on Venus, something much harder, something the US never managed to replicate, not even today.

[@thomascrutcher3331]

Dr James Lovelock determined in about 1961 there was no life on Mars based on his analysis of the atmosphere of Mars. He was fired from the nascent Viking program after this.