After recording this video, I threw them all out... just to be safe.
@truckcaptainstumpy19787 жыл бұрын
ME TOO. you should see all the great photo's i just took of me spelunking then! now if i could just remember to use the flash at night...
@doggonemess17 жыл бұрын
By the third lens cap failure, I'd be installing explosive bolts on the mechanism. Lens cover open? No? Deploy secondary lens cover remover!
@Gibson996 жыл бұрын
OBVIOUSLY they found aliens and just didn't want to tell us. Just like the "failed" missions to mars. YES, i'm being sarcastic.
@sahinyasar91195 жыл бұрын
@@frasercain I tihink we need an artificial Magnetosphere and a sun shield for terraform of Venus for make to reduce heat and to reduce atmospheric pressure on the planet Do you think it is possible to terraform Venus using these two?
@theCodyReeder7 жыл бұрын
Fuckin lens caps gave the landers even more trouble than they give me!
@frasercain7 жыл бұрын
They truly are a bane to all mankind. I've been trying to think of space-related projects for your channel, and you've already gone searching for meteorites, and space dust. We should think of some kind of collaboration some time.
@Tehom17 жыл бұрын
It made me feel better about every picture of my thumb I ever took.
@DamianReloaded7 жыл бұрын
It's gonna be tricky, cause cody's experiments take some time and preparation. Maybe Fraser could dig up some hypothesis from his archive on terraforming, like hydroponics from minerals present in regolith. Also: Cody, didn't you participate in NASA's 3D printing challenge? Your knowledge about materials and foundry could be useful me thinks. Cheers both of you.
@Pile_of_carbon7 жыл бұрын
Lens cap designer, you had_ ONE_ job!
@frasercain7 жыл бұрын
One job! I'm sure that was a sore spot in the Russian Space Agency. Did you think about the lens caps? Seriously... the lens caps.
@poppedweasel7 жыл бұрын
"23 minutes of robotic screaming." Funniest thing I heard all day!
@frasercain7 жыл бұрын
I'm glad you enjoyed that. :-)
@poppedweasel7 жыл бұрын
That comment, along with the great and informative video has been very much enjoyed. Thankyou. :) ..........subscribed.
@TheGunslinger0196 жыл бұрын
Robots have feelings too 😛
@nathanielworcester48435 жыл бұрын
This had me laughing too.
@freshang13 жыл бұрын
ditto
@DocWolph7 жыл бұрын
23 minutes of Robotic screaming.... "THE PAIN! THE HEAT! I'M MELTING! I WANT TO GO HOME!!!!.... I'm gonna die here aren't I?"
@frasercain7 жыл бұрын
That's pretty much what it sounded like, I'm sure.
@GilenoRanna6 жыл бұрын
DocWolph Now imagine this in Russian :p
@Room-xi6nb5 жыл бұрын
Now I'm gonna cry. :(
@Anonymity555 жыл бұрын
welcome to android hell
@stanleyjedrzejczyk29665 жыл бұрын
More like, 'It is getting wery hotski!'.
@KenMac-ui2vb6 жыл бұрын
I am STILL amazed at the success of the Venera Program. To this day, I am just floored that they were able to do it.
@frasercain6 жыл бұрын
TOTALLY agree. It actually went down into an incredible hostile place and took pictures. I can't wait for someone to go back and explore again.
@indiosse6 жыл бұрын
dont forget mars 3 onto mars it was actually a succesfull landing, but venus what an environment
@joshkusiak76136 жыл бұрын
K Mac yet the Russian keep fucking up mars mission
@killap3nguin5 жыл бұрын
K Mac literally accomplished nothing.
@anonb46324 жыл бұрын
@@joshkusiak7613 The Soviets* sent the first picture from the surface of Mars. It was barely usable but it still counts... * The majority of Soviets were NOT Russian.
@rebelScience7 жыл бұрын
So amazing! I was in Moscow Space Museum yesterday, there was a lecture by one of the engineers who worked on all Venera programs... and he personally knew Carl Sagan. He showed us many more images of Venus, I never seen before. Trying to get my hands on them right now.
@frasercain7 жыл бұрын
I would love to see them, are they available online or were they just photographs. If you can get copies of them, please email me. Did you ask about the lens caps? :-)
@rebelScience7 жыл бұрын
I tried searching for them on then bet after the lecture but could not find any. There were few, with some sort of vegetation... looked like a flower and one with, what looked like a lizard type of creature. Strange thing about those images was - they moved from image to image as if a lizard was crawling a bit and flower-like things were moving in a wind... He had his USB stick with slides and images. I have contacted the guy, who was the host of the lecture, asking about if we can get those images. Lens caps failed to drop off because of the dust and other elements... He said, that bolts, that had to explode and shoot the caps off got stuck in some sort of goo because of all that dust and other particles in the atmosphere.. I will definitely update you on my findings. Just subbed to you after being Isaacs fan for a long time.
@aompes6 жыл бұрын
is there any update about the pics ?
@notsure61875 жыл бұрын
rebelCoder (Юрий.Л.) lizards? what? lol
@ReneSchickbauer5 жыл бұрын
@@frasercain Don P. Mitchell restored the downlinked images from the original tapes. The pictures were far from grainy, only the western press showed 3rd and 4th generation copies, mostly to downplay the "communist" achievement. mentallandscape.com/C_CatalogVenus.htm Also, there weren't "color" and "black&white" cameras. The cameras where mechanically scanned single-pixel light sensors with a photomultiplier and a logarithmic amplifier. Every pixel was a scientific measurement. Color was achieved by flipping different color filters into the imaging path after the first full pass and doing partial passes to get a color image for part of the 180° view within the alotted lifetime of the probe.
@Federico847 жыл бұрын
the greatest enemies of the soviet union were lens caps
@frasercain7 жыл бұрын
Yeah, the evil lens caps. I sure would have hated to be the lens cap designer for the Soviets.
@stanleyjedrzejczyk29665 жыл бұрын
@@frasercain Yeah. Whoever it was died of a 9×18mm brain hemorrhage!
@zaho875 жыл бұрын
@@frasercain Ironically, I remember somewhere reading that it was the director of the Venera missions that designed the lens caps himself, and he was leading the best scientists the USSR had to offer. That person conducted some of the most horrific experiments on robots ever recorded in human history.
@ReneSchickbauer5 жыл бұрын
On the other hand, if you ever need a lens cap that stays on no matter what, the russian space agency has some great designs.
@wan7ucxOqSUBryTgfpBr77774 жыл бұрын
Venusians know exactly how to sabotage this project, just dont let the lens cap off
@blindandwatching7 жыл бұрын
Vega 1 and 2 used upgraded equipment from the Venera. Vega probes passed Venus to get on the right trajectory to intercept comet Halley. Vega 2's lander successfully landed on Venus in 1985 and lasted 56 hours. Also Vega 2 deployed a balloon that collected atmospheric data for several hours.
@christosvoskresye7 жыл бұрын
"Hey, Ivan, what's up? I thought this was the time for your engineering class?" "Da, but I'm skipping today. Today the prof is just talking about lens cap engineering. What possible importance could that have?"
@frasercain7 жыл бұрын
Ivan!!!
@s.wollberg42476 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite episodes. I had no idea about those lens cap issues. Love how the Soviets just stubbornly kept sending probe after probe after probe until it worked.
@taraswertelecki78745 жыл бұрын
There were two more landers that landed on the night side of Venus, which were carried by the Vega 1 and 2 probes, along with two balloon probes that studied the atmosphere in the clouds. Because they landed on the night side, no cameras were carried, but they analyzed the surface rocks and studied the atmosphere. As the landers separated from their aeroshells, the balloon probes were ejected, deployed a parachute, then inflated their balloons.
@sergio_botero7 жыл бұрын
The rover on Venus sounds exciting and interesting, but there are far more reasons to be hopeful about robotic landers on Titan and Europa among many other places that may contain liquid water and perhaps, primitive life.
@nicosmind37 жыл бұрын
Sergio Botero Id love to see Titan rovers. Rivers, lakes and methane "rain" falling like snow possibly. We dont know but since we can observe river channel from space, observe lakes from space and even waves. Well i dare say it would all be a beautiful alien site, unmatched in our solar system
@ABitOfTheUniverse7 жыл бұрын
They are too far away for presidents or their administrations to care enough to devote tax payer money to those sorts of endeavors. Sorry. Be happy we can do anything with the Moon in 4-8 years, let alone Mars, and don't hold out for anything else. It takes 20-30 years of persistence to get any sorts of missions, from suggestions, to actual products that get strapped to rockets, and then 5-10 years for them to reach places beyond Mars. That 5-10 years being greater than the 4-8 of an administration is a very serious hurdle when it comes down to the money spent. On top of that the negative press that comes from failed missions, vs the negative press that comes from just never even bother and just letting the space program slowly die, is so much greater, that it is more and more profitable for each new president to just reduce NASA's budget rather than to increase the safety or reliability of the rockets. But I'm American and so I am biased and just think NASA is all that matters in terms of space exploration. For the sake of the human race's future in space, I'm looking forward to the future where Chinese or Russian are the languages of the solar system, and English is just something primitives back on Earth, grunt to each other.
@ABitOfTheUniverse7 жыл бұрын
Here, I'll help you choose which language to learn. Which do you find more aesthetically pleasing: Я подчиняюсь. У ваших людей большая космическая программа, чем у моей старой страны, и я хочу помочь вам завладеть этой планетой. or: 我投降。你的人民有比我的旧国家更大的空间计划,我想帮助你接管这个星球。
@frasercain7 жыл бұрын
I agree that we should go to Titan, but why do we have to choose. In my imagination, we travel everywhere. :-)
@VRShow7 жыл бұрын
Exactly, everywhere would be my choice but if we do have to choose, let it be Titan and via a rover design that is amphibious well can drive over land and sail over liquid methane :)
@zapfanzapfan7 жыл бұрын
Venus is hotter than the average oven but just right for a pizza oven. I sense a business opportunity, Venus baked pizzas :-)
@ReneSchickbauer5 жыл бұрын
Not sure how you gonna achieve the "delivered in 30 minutes" promise most pizza places give you. And can i have mine without the "sulfuric acid" topping, thank you very much?
@lAsteriosl3 жыл бұрын
Did you ever smell sulfur? It does not smell tasty
@fubaralakbar68007 жыл бұрын
And to this day, Russian-made cameras do not have lens-caps.
@frasercain7 жыл бұрын
They learned their terrible terrible lesson.
@fubaralakbar68007 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the reply. It's a real honor to hear from you :D
@LENGTHEATER7 жыл бұрын
Welcome to lense cap hell!!!!!!
@frasercain7 жыл бұрын
No kidding, I wonder what happened to those poor lens cap engineers. :-(
@LENGTHEATER7 жыл бұрын
probably studying the sun with cameras (no damage to eyes, lense caps still on)
@bknesheim7 жыл бұрын
They used the original plastic cover. :-)
@i_notold85007 жыл бұрын
What happened to them? You really don't believe those are "volunteers" working and cleaning up at Chernobyl do you?
@LENGTHEATER7 жыл бұрын
They should have designed it with CAPS LOCK.
@unvergebeneid7 жыл бұрын
Decades later, Russian scientists are still waking up screaming, dreaming of lens caps.
@frasercain7 жыл бұрын
They know what they did...
@GodWorksOut7 жыл бұрын
Sending rovers and probes to other places is so amazing. We are lucky to live in a time where information is starting to come back to us and discoveries are being made. :)
@frasercain7 жыл бұрын
Yup, it's an amazing time. :-)
@teweller7 жыл бұрын
Great video. I never realized they sent so many. I figured it was just a couple. I bet the lens cap guy got shipped off to Siberia.
@frasercain7 жыл бұрын
No kidding. I didn't realize the lens cap disaster until I started researching the topic.
@danielebrparish42715 жыл бұрын
I'm assuming that they had to get a new lens cap team for every vehicle because each previous one was sent to Siberia.
@notsure61875 жыл бұрын
Venus is closer. probably why.
@stanleyjedrzejczyk29665 жыл бұрын
No, they just stuffed him into the next Probe!
@Markle2k5 жыл бұрын
@@danielebrparish4271 And that is why they never learned.
@georgebowyer51707 жыл бұрын
please do more videos like this on the history of space exploration i think this was one of your best videos. keep up the good work
@frasercain7 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot, I'm glad you enjoyed it. We've been pushing for longer videos, more pictures/videos. More better. :-) It's good to know you all appreciate that direction.
@arcitejack7 жыл бұрын
Lens caps!
@frasercain7 жыл бұрын
The scourge of all science.
@itzed7 жыл бұрын
Seems like the soviets had a lot of problems with lens caps.
@frasercain7 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I didn't realize that going in, but it was clearly the theme of the episode.
@tHaH4x0r5 жыл бұрын
It is interesting as to why they failed to deploy. They were designed with a small explosive charge, that build up pressure inside to push off the lens cap. However, in space a seal had formed around the edge, so the pressures could not equalize on the atmosphere and behind the lens cap. The result is hundreds of tons of pressure holding the lens cap closed, and a tiny explosive charge wont make a big difference in that (sadly).
@adfaklsdjf5 жыл бұрын
@@tHaH4x0r Hey, thanks for this! I dove into the comments to look for discussion of WHY the lens caps kept failing, and my guess was it had to do with 93 atmospheres of pressure holding them on...
@ReneSchickbauer5 жыл бұрын
It feels a bit like the Ranger program. A 3 out of 9 success rate isn't all that great.
@ekaichsani21715 жыл бұрын
you made a single mistake by saying that no lander after venera 14, actually there're another 2 landers which was on vega program that also landed on venus.
@marcusfpavani7 жыл бұрын
I think this was one of the funniest videos of the last couple months.. hahahahah. Great job Fraser!
@frasercain7 жыл бұрын
I'm glad you enjoyed it. :-)
@mantaskatleris82617 жыл бұрын
best video on Venus I've ever seen. You are the man Fraser
@frasercain7 жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it. :-)
@VRShow7 жыл бұрын
Great episode! Would have been interesting to add details about the cloud layers. I believe you may have in an earlier show? If memory serves...either way at 50 to 65km above the surface the cloud layer atmosphere and temperature is roughly that of earths, making it a cool place to hang out...if you could literally hang out there via some type of floating device like an airship :)
@frasercain7 жыл бұрын
Yeah, we talked a bit about it in this episode: kzbin.info/www/bejne/d32lfpePbpKGkNU&index=12&list=PLbJ42wpShvml6Eg22WjWAR-6QUufHFh2v
@bjmaguire62696 жыл бұрын
At those pressures even submarines would float in the atmosphere:)
No mention of the Soviet Vega probes, with landers and balloons? The spacecraft moved onto Halley's Comet after dropping off their payloads on Venus.
@frasercain5 жыл бұрын
I just wanted to cover the Venera program, which gave us the first images from the surface of Venus.
@IvanGalin3 жыл бұрын
@@frasercain Fake scientist - wikipedia reader
@TheDalitis85 жыл бұрын
At this point, a Soviet-Japanese collaboration on camera lens caps would do humanity a huge favor.
@dangerouspie03197 жыл бұрын
Lens caps: a rocket scientist's greatest weakness.
@frasercain7 жыл бұрын
We always suspected they were the weak link.
@wilsonblauheuer65446 жыл бұрын
they should have just sent it without lens caps
@notsure61875 жыл бұрын
wilson blauheuer they would probably be unusable then
@filiusstellae8497 жыл бұрын
Wow, a very interesting episode. I learnt so much for this. Thank you for your very informative videos. I know space is hard but testing the compressability of your lens cap would surely make you cry!
@frasercain7 жыл бұрын
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it. :-) Yeah, that must have been heartbreaking.
@torenico7 жыл бұрын
Thank you for making an episode on the Venera program!
@frasercain7 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching. :-)
@titantron18137 жыл бұрын
"to confirm that it really truly...sucks" hahaha made me laugh
@frasercain7 жыл бұрын
Now you're edutained!
@keithh68667 жыл бұрын
I want that high temperature circuitry for my PC and video cards. Put that space tech in my game tech.
@frasercain7 жыл бұрын
Overclock with impunity.
@edoedo86866 жыл бұрын
This is superb! I will keep seeing this as a reference. The Venera program is fascinating to me!
@frasercain6 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I totally agree, one of the most fascinating missions ever.
@Durrutitv7 жыл бұрын
And that's how the Soviets confirmed, for a fact, that women are not from Venus after all. Persistence pays off.
@frasercain7 жыл бұрын
That's all they really wanted to know. And to corner the lens cap market.
@AuthenticDarren5 жыл бұрын
Great video Fraser, I reallly enjoyed it. Thanks.
@frasercain5 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot for watching, I'm glad you enjoyed it.
@BensLab7 жыл бұрын
I am very excited by the thought of returning to Venus...This was a great video Fraser. It's such an amazing story. More Venus please!
@frasercain7 жыл бұрын
Agreed, more Venus. There are some great stories in history like this, I'll dig them up for you in coming episodes.
@BensLab7 жыл бұрын
Fraser Cain You're my favourite Canadian space guy.
@kinorai7 жыл бұрын
In Soviet's Venus, rover don't take picture, Venus takes pictures of you. ...
@Keith136ful7 жыл бұрын
Hi Fraser, how about a little translation on some of the data you mention on these videos. Had to stop the playback and calc 6.5m/s and 521 hours to get a feel for what these data really mean - about 31 mph and 3 weeks. I think giving data in everyday units gives most of us a better feel for the story you're trying to tell. Thanks for another great video and I love these historical looks back.
@frasercain7 жыл бұрын
Thanks Kenneth, m/s is a pretty common way to describe speed. Sometimes I'll remember to translate the metric into imperial, and sometimes I forget.
@joet-sk4sw6 жыл бұрын
thanks for the most detailed info I've gotten yet on the Venus topic,I never knew that there were that many cafts that had ever made it there,with that many lens cap issues.
@peterpanassow78144 жыл бұрын
Fantastic video! Thanks for posting. 👍
@frasercain4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching!
@chicagopianou867 жыл бұрын
who would give this a dislike lol
@frasercain7 жыл бұрын
The lens cap designers, obviously.
@xaraxen4 жыл бұрын
On a lesser degree, soil compression probe designer
@SecularMentat7 жыл бұрын
Those russians sure did send a lot of faulty lens caps to Venus.
@frasercain7 жыл бұрын
Maybe they were trying to get rid of them?
@robertbennett99494 жыл бұрын
They were Soviets and not Russians. Designing lens caps which would survive 90 atmospheres pressure and 800 degrees temperature and yet be removable was a real challenge.
@hrsmp3 жыл бұрын
@@robertbennett9949 Hate to break it to you: soviets were russians. Russian was lingua franca of Soviet Union (still used to this day in ex-soviet countries), the capital was in Moscow, soviet leaders spoke russian, whole west at that time referred to USSR as simply "Russia" (google some old magazines or newspapers, or ask your parents). After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, all foreign obligations including debt, etc, was inhereted by Russian Federation. Your fantasy world where "soviets" were an actual ethnicity never existed, i'm sorry.
@hrsmp3 жыл бұрын
@@robertbennett9949 In fact when Stalin trued to push for other soviet republics like Ukraine and Belarus to have a separate seat at the UN counsil, US president at that time (Truman, i think) replied: "In that case, every US state will have a separate representative too". And that story ended there.
@folkblues4u2 жыл бұрын
You really did your research on this. Well done!
@DuuudeMaaan4 жыл бұрын
"To confirm once and for all that it really truly does suck" hahahaa
@frasercain4 жыл бұрын
That place really is the worst.
@Arrowed_Sparrow5 жыл бұрын
It seems so ridiculous they couldn't get a simple camera working.... Then I remember, ITS VENUS! They basically landed in an active volcano that's set in deep ocean. It's truly amazing.
@DedSec_76 жыл бұрын
That line tho "23 minute's of robotic screamings" 😂😂🤣🤣
@AaezI7 жыл бұрын
Thanks for another great video!
@frasercain7 жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching, I'm glad you enjoyed it.
@kanchanlatamishra71765 жыл бұрын
Damn those lens caps
@frasercain5 жыл бұрын
It's tricky making a lens cap able to handle those kinds of conditions.
@kanchanlatamishra71765 жыл бұрын
Hi man ! I was just kidding in my comment I know it was really difficult to remotely operate the Venera spacecrafts during that time and that too under such extreme pressure and temperature conditions of Venerian atmosphere BTW, I really appreciate your channel for these cool space videos
@oleksiikovalenko85447 жыл бұрын
Imagine lens cap failure on the Titan probe... We'd have to wait so long for another one... btw, are there videos about Titan coming up?
@frasercain7 жыл бұрын
I don't have plans for one, but I can put that in the list. :-)
@samus50944 жыл бұрын
The reason so many Venus probes had problems with the lens caps was most likely the high temperature and pressure that prevented them from deploying; Titan doesn't have that specific problem. But you are right that if something major goes wrong, it's a damn long wait for the next attempt.
@jamesfrench72996 жыл бұрын
Despite the frustrating and darkly comedic errors, the Venera programme was utterly brilliant and showcased the capability of a determined Soviet scientific team. They even managed to construct a chamber that perfectly simulated the conditions of the Venusian surface just to ensure they gave the probes half a chance to function in the wretched conditions. This was 1970s communist level technology. Just think of the cars they were pumping out at the time. I'll never hear a bad word said about this extraordinary accomplishment.
@frasercain6 жыл бұрын
Yup, easily my favorite series of missions. :-)
@adamlamar1016 жыл бұрын
Fantastic history! LOL.. “23 minutes of robotic screaming”
@frasercain6 жыл бұрын
I'm sure it was horrifying to hear. The lens caps... they do nothing!
@paulbennett7723 жыл бұрын
In my (English) view, sending back colour photographs from the surface of Venus is the single greatest achievement of space exploration.
@andypandywalters3 жыл бұрын
Excellent and informative video. Many thanks.
@zapfanzapfan7 жыл бұрын
My suggestion for a mission would be a simple lander with a single purpose, to take a gigapixel panorama of the landing site. 1-2 hours survival time should be enough to accomplish that and send back the data. Maybe a Google Venus Lander challenge :-)
@frasercain7 жыл бұрын
But I think a lander or even rover should stick around and keep exploring. That would be ideal.
@treefarm32885 жыл бұрын
Wow, that was totally cool. Although I knew about many of the Venera landers, I hadn't considered how much work the Soviets had put into their program. They should take it up again!
@frasercain5 жыл бұрын
And the best part was the pictures from the surface of Venus. 😀
@chevyclean89717 жыл бұрын
I am upset because Frasier Cain doesn't have as many followers or views as other channels. And some of those other channels have straight up garbage!! Keep up the great work my brother. Huge fan.
@frasercain7 жыл бұрын
Thanks a lot. If you want to help out, definitely subscribe and click the little notifications bell. Then watch our videos as quickly as we post them. That'll let KZbin know our content is good for other users.
@Mirandorl6 жыл бұрын
1:10 I actually cheered. Out loud : ) SPAAAACE. Hell yeah I'm excited to see more venus. This time with a really good camera that you can move. And no lens cap. An aside - artists impressions = boooooooo. Can never tell if I am looking at painting, CGI or a real shot. Stop that, space artists : (
@mattizzle815 жыл бұрын
To think it's 2019 and they started exploring Venus in the 50's!! Though for all they knew if could have been a habitable earth-like world so I can see how there would have been a lot of motivation to explore and find out. Now we know it's hell so there isn't much motivation.
@anonb46324 жыл бұрын
Some people thought Venus would hide a sort of Carboniferous type world with swamps and dinosaurs on it. Which would have been cool.
@Fullmetalseth7 жыл бұрын
Venus is my favorite planet. So happy the Japanese are studying it. I would be totally stoked to see a new lander mission. Also can't wait for the day we go fossil digging on Mars and Venus.
@frasercain7 жыл бұрын
Agreed, but we're going to need some special technology for that.
@gSol783 жыл бұрын
There was also the Vega program (Venus - Halley), 1984-1987. Probes Vega-1 and Vega-2 in 1985 landed descent vehicles on Venus, as well as air probes that collected (and transmitted) information for 46 hours at an altitude of 55 km (34 miles). After which the probes went to a rendezvous with Halley's comet.
@vhyles7 жыл бұрын
Hi there Fraser, when are you gonna do a video about the difference between point singularities and ring singularities, and the difference between stellar non-rotating black holes and supermassive rotating black holes? Thank you
@frasercain7 жыл бұрын
I'm not sure I will do a video specifically on these. Rotating black holes get pretty complex. :-)
@vhyles7 жыл бұрын
Sure no worries (y)
@DrewLSsix6 жыл бұрын
Venera 7: "why! Why was I programmed to experience pain!?!?"
@frasercain6 жыл бұрын
Oh, that would have been extra cruel.
@Entropicalli7 жыл бұрын
I don't know why but I found this pretty funny 😂
@Ali1077 жыл бұрын
5:44 someone is walking in the background!!! XD
@frasercain7 жыл бұрын
Probably. We shoot on trails near my house, which sometimes backfires when people walk past, and we have to explain what we're doing.
@truckcaptainstumpy19787 жыл бұрын
...and next weeK: interview with Bigfoot - the real reason he hides from the crazy hairless simians? light pollution!
@AvyScottandFlower7 жыл бұрын
Well, at least it wasn't a bear..
@frasercain7 жыл бұрын
We've seen a bear coming back from a shoot, but we haven't had one actually wander through the shoot yet.
@zestydude877 жыл бұрын
Yeti photo-bomb....
@barryjgalbraith26356 жыл бұрын
Obviously the Venusians have developed a special super glue just for the Earthlings lens caps! Great video.
@denzelnyangombe40497 жыл бұрын
This guy is a great Presenter
@lambdaodysseus7227 жыл бұрын
Hey, what about the Vega program?
@horizonbrave15336 жыл бұрын
Awesome video Fraser! I had no idea the Soviets were so...obsessed with getting on Venus.. lol, good though as it seems we all benefited from the knowledge... When they were doing these landings, were they opening sharing the information with the US and the world? Or were they holding it to themselves and we found out later?
@greghanc7 жыл бұрын
Question to Fraser: You have previously said that Mars is not you ideal starting place to discover space. But you would not become suicidal if they descided to focus on Mars in the near future?
@frasercain7 жыл бұрын
It's not my favorite place to colonize. I think we should develop orbital colonies, but if someone wants to try to live on Mars, they've got my support.
@greghanc7 жыл бұрын
Sounds good. I Concur with your chain of thought..
@davecarsley87737 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the _Fahrenheit_, Fraser!
@davecarsley87737 жыл бұрын
Nevermind. It was just the first one
@frasercain7 жыл бұрын
I try to remember. Fahrenheit is the toughest one for me, because we have no concept of it in our normal thinking about temperature. Well, except for the oven.
@daTruChosen5 жыл бұрын
@6:43 Cool! Venera-9 was launched the day I was born.
@zauberschatzkiste6 жыл бұрын
"to confirm that it really truly sucks" -- xD ..that's the attitude!
@Makoto7787 жыл бұрын
9:30 - uhm dont forget about the Pioneer Venus probes and the Soviet Vega program that landed in the 80s
@taith25 жыл бұрын
Fun fact, when they first accurately simulated Venus environment and put their probe for test the only thing remaining from craft were just lenses
@frasercain5 жыл бұрын
In Soviet Russia, cameras lens you?
@alexandrebriard91755 жыл бұрын
Hey I have an oral in science about scientific discovery and advancement soon it must last 2 minutes and I would love to talk about the venera program! Do you have any ideas on what part I should talk about just to make sure I don't talk too much about history and I'm not out of the subject? Btw I love your videos! Greeting from france
@frasercain5 жыл бұрын
Thanks! Hopefully this video will help you. Good luck!
@Raz.C5 жыл бұрын
Dear Professor Cain Are you able to find out any information on the fate of the doomed Soviet schmuck who was responsible for the operation/ automation of the cameras (specifically, the lens caps) on the Venera missions? I mean, I think we can all *guess* what happened to him, to his family, to his neighbours, to the people who recommended him for his job, to his superiors, and to his cat's uncle's family. But it would be nice to *know* The Venera missions ran from '61 to '84, so that means he would have had to run the wrath of Khrushchev, Brezhnev AND Gorbachev (I think there was also 1 unremarkable, faceless minion between the last two). While I can see a certain laissez faire attitude projected by Khrushchev and Gorbachev, Brezhnev never struck me as the type to show mercy or spare lives, etc... I rather think he was the most Stalin-like G.S./ F.S. of the USSR since Stalin... Still, if he lived through that, Yeltsin was a drunk and he would have lived through his term, too. But if this mystery man was still alive in 2,000, something tells me he would have found all his teas had a unique polonium flavour to them...
@JimmyBlimps7 жыл бұрын
So cool. How are photographs transmitted over such massive distances? I've always wondered
@frasercain7 жыл бұрын
The spacecraft have very powerful transmitters, and there are even bigger receivers here on Earth.
@Vienna30805 жыл бұрын
The Soviets would just not give up, they are persistent In the USA we would have given up after the 2nd one, or waited 10 years till the next try
@GreenGoblinCoryintheHouse5 жыл бұрын
Space Missions require a lot of funding. Soviets were in competition with the americans,it was a matter of pride. Space race led to beautiful missions.
@darth8564 жыл бұрын
Venus is the closest planet to Earth, that probably played into how they could send so many
@mechanwhal65904 жыл бұрын
Soviet citizens: Where are the probes? Soviet government: *Gone, reduced to atoms.*
@cygnus11297 жыл бұрын
They learned alot about heat and electronics when they built the blackbirds. Parts of the airplane got to Venus-like temperatures and they had to overcome this if they wanted them to survive for hours on end. I know its an airplane but if they can find some of those old engineers and learn from them they might have a good facet of information to put into the design.
@frasercain7 жыл бұрын
The SR-71s are amazing aircraft, and the engineering that went into them is pretty mind bending. A lot of those engineers did continue working on spacecraft and various missions.
@1locust15 жыл бұрын
Damn those lens caps!
@interpretingscripture80686 жыл бұрын
HOT video! :) Love space exploration :) I would think after a couple of lens cap problems they might fix the problem or get a new lens cap designer lol
@Pendoza847 жыл бұрын
Crazy to see we almost made no progress in 30/40 years.
@frasercain7 жыл бұрын
Yeah, it's too bad we stopped exploring the surface of Venus.
@J117-t2g6 жыл бұрын
We sure need more funding!
@bobbarker77335 жыл бұрын
Almost NO progress? We have put several probes and rovers on Mars, including The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the LRO, the Huygens probe that went to Saturn and landed on Titan, the New Horizons probe that took nine years travel to and photograph Pluto and it moons, put the Hubble Telescope in orbit, built the ISS and made a great many discoveries about our galaxy and our celestial neighbors and you say NO PROGRESS? Only a mental pygmy would make such a comment! Please STFU.
@chucknorris38334 жыл бұрын
@@bobbarker7733 they were talking about Venus
@ChrisClark314157 жыл бұрын
With the thick atmosphere, a good robot for Venus could be some sort of small propeller aircraft that could drop off while the lander is descending. It could fly around in slightly less hellish environments at higher elevations.
@frasercain7 жыл бұрын
Yup, or fly up to cool down and then go down lower to investigate more.
@brendansully127 жыл бұрын
Great video!
@frasercain7 жыл бұрын
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it.
@Jesper834 жыл бұрын
Your channel is the best.
@mattizzle815 жыл бұрын
Poor Venus gets no love but has so much warmth to give.
@robertbennett99494 жыл бұрын
They were Soviets and not Russians. Designing lens caps which would survive 90 atmospheres pressure and 800 degrees F temperature and yet be removable was a real challenge.
@frasercain4 жыл бұрын
You can see that the lens caps were a really tricky part of the whole mission. I'm sure it'll plague future missions too.
@hawaiidispenser7 жыл бұрын
love this channel!!
@frasercain7 жыл бұрын
Thanks, and I love that you love it. Tell your friends. :-)
@frankdantuono25947 жыл бұрын
More excited about the possibility of cloud cities in the Venusian atmosphere.
@frasercain7 жыл бұрын
It's a pretty cool idea. :-)
@rvl480van56 жыл бұрын
Would give my right arm to see the surface of Venus, Mercury, to see inside the atmosphere of any of the gas giants such as Jupiter and Saturn, explore the oceans of the moons of either Saturn or Jupiter. The list goes on. I read that some Russian private contractor's were developing a device that could allow space craft to travel at least 1/4 the speed of light which would make it easier to travel to exoplanets that were reasonably close to our solar system and allow us to explore them in the future. Yes, I'm very excited about the potential of future space exploration.
@frasercain6 жыл бұрын
Any methods of traveling faster would be awesome to see, but even with the constraints we have now, we can still explore huge chunks of the Solar System. We just need to make it a higher priority.
@rvl480van56 жыл бұрын
Yeah I agree. Faster Than Light travel needs to become a much higher priority!
@ThePeterDislikeShow6 жыл бұрын
How hard was it on Galileo and Cassini to fly by Venus? Especially given they were designed for the other temperature extreme.
@Emdee56325 жыл бұрын
A flyby is just a flyby, they didn't go inside the Venusian atmosphere. They just stole a little bit of its momentum , to gain extra speed for themselves. Well I guess it's a bit hotter being closer the sun, that's all.
@IlicSorrentino7 жыл бұрын
Flying city on Venus! and Rovers on land!
@frasercain7 жыл бұрын
We're one step closer to those cloud cities we all deserve.
@truckcaptainstumpy19787 жыл бұрын
here is a question to answer for the crowds then: why would airships be a bad idea on Venus? We can call the first one Hindenburg Jr. !
@ollielewis85906 жыл бұрын
I still think the upper atmosphere of Venus is the most promising place in the solar system. Sunshine, ~0°C and suitable air pressure? Sounds perfect!
@frasercain6 жыл бұрын
I think floating around on a balloon, looking down at haze would get pretty boring after a while. Nice for a vacation, but I wouldn't want to stay there.
@chrisdooley64683 жыл бұрын
Listening to the Soviet ‘recordings’ of the sounds outside the landers is eerie to listen to. I think about what would be entailed in putting a person on the surface. Unfortunately we didn’t have the technology in construction materials to make something that’ll withstand the atmosphere and pressure. Poor astronaut would be crushed like a can and his remains burned beyond recognition I think
@DerBingle15 жыл бұрын
You would think that the Soviet Union would have someone better at lens caps then the guy who brought them the cement bicycle.
@samuelec7 жыл бұрын
Very interesting! Is there any plan for future missions on Venus? Is it possible to change that so hostile environment in a reasonable way? maybe bacteria?
@frasercain7 жыл бұрын
Here's a video we did on terraforming Venus: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pF7OmGN9l7aee80
@samuelec7 жыл бұрын
Thank you. I watched that episode but obscuring the sun, floating cities, dropping thousand asteroids doesn't sound to me a viable way of terraforming. It doesn't even have an "how"
@joe43247 жыл бұрын
We need to be working towards, a floating city on Venus, it has a high likelyhood of being able to be the largest, most cost effective, fastest to self-sufficiency and most comfortable (for human habitation) off world colony we could be developing. I would love a in depth, look at the the numbers on making this happen.