The First and Only Photos From Titan, Saturn's Largest Moon - What Did We See? (4K)

Only one spacecraft has ever returned photographs from the surface of Titan, Saturn's mysterious gas-covered moon. Titan doesn’t make it easy though, below its clouds is a frigid surface where mountains are made of water ice frozen harder than granite. Titan is also the only other world in the solar system where liquid flows across its landscape. But this is not water as we know it, instead, liquid methane creates vast seas, lakes and rivers. The European Space Agency's, Huygens probe is the only spacecraft to ever land on Titan, and what it observed is truly incredible. Here are the only photos we have from the surface of Titan.
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[@V101SPACE]

Enjoy this video? Now find out what it sounds like inside the stormy clouds of Jupiter! - kzbin.info/www/bejne/a5S1homip9hqm6Msi=igiqxi8XSfWEfZBA

[@matbroomfield]

Imagine how ecstatic the team must have been as those first mountain images started to come through.

[@dr4d1s]

If you want to see their reactions, NASA has the video uploaded to KZbin.

[@russellszabadosaka5-pindin849]

My gosh, I was ecstatic enough as a space enthusiast. I can't imagine if I'd spent years of my life actually working on the project.

[@matbroomfield]

@@russellszabadosaka5-pindin849 Absolutely.

[@proapocalypse1448]

I'm sure a few of them got wet.

[@matbroomfield]

@@proapocalypse1448 🤣

[@BubbaGubban]

Fun fact: Most people don’t think we landed on Titan because of how “unrealistic” the “video” is. It’s not a video but a large number of photos squashed together. When the Huygens probe entered the atmosphere, it began spinning out of control making images difficult and distorted. Some guy at NASA made a computer of some sort to put the smudged or blurry images together and the computer gave that decent “video”.

[@JoeSmith-hv7oe]

People also think the Earth is flat...some people can't comprehend beyond their hand in front of their face

[@Derflingerblade]

@prestallar4339 I dont realy care but why is the resolution like from a nokia from 1989 ? If they had 300+ of Images do they have at least one in HD ? I am confident that the data from the space programs is true , but I dont understand why for the public the images of Mars or other planets are so shitty. Cant see ANYTHING on those

[@matthewlillistone5943]

Money for nothing and your clicks for free

[@rickdagrexican7351]

​@prestallar4339 Well, I didn't know about how Cassini spun. It's an interesting fact to learn about the process of how the video was created. Huygens spin reduced clarity. If it hadn't spun, imagine how clear it could have been.

[@Joe-lb8qn]

@@Derflingerbladewut? are you kidding me? Have you not seen the incredibly detailed hi res pics of mars? Right down to dust particles around the drill bits as the robot drills into rocks to take samples?

[@delavalmilker]

I've always been extremely interested in planetary science and the space program. I'm old enough to remember the first Gemini launches---watching them on a 13 inch black and white TV. I'll be 79 in 2034. And nothing would mean more to me than the chance to see the first images of Titan from Dragonfly. I hope I make it that long! When I was born, the first Earth satellite had yet to be launched. Now I'm looking at seeing images from a drone flying over the surface of Titan. All that in one lifetime. Sometimes it blows my mind to think about it.

[@rainbowseeker5930]

You will...I'm 80 and doing amazingly fine.

[@kzero9714]

Good luck to both of you. I'm as enthusiastic as you both. I'm 39.

[@drumrocka]

The technological progression over the last 100 years is truly phenomenal, especially over the last 40 years. It blows my mind how fast things have progressed, and makes me excited and nervous for the future!

[@donaldcarpenter5328]

I have sat IN a Gemini capsule at the Pacific Science Center @ the Seattle Center!!!

[@mogznwaz]

❤

[@zombie_snax]

This is a really big deal. I'm happy that people are still out there having amazing adventures. The amount of effort that went into this is difficult to image. Bravo to everyone involved.

[@ellisonhamilton3322]

I never fail to be amazed by the fact that we can fire probes into space, have them travel many millions of miles for years and arrive at the correct destination and then release landers that survive and gather data. Again, it amazes. Thank you. Give Rolo a scratch for me and have a stellar weekend. 🇺🇸❤🇬🇧

[@MichaelAxelKlose]

It is actually amazing if you think about it.

[@urbanfashionhouse1]

But our cell phones drop calls at random moments five feet from the house , SMH

[@lvsqsd6897]

@@urbanfashionhouse1 Our phones didn't take a few billion dollars to make

[@antiquefuturistic]

This was also possible 70 years ago, smartass

[@TacoMonster4eva]

Yet we are unable to get the cable and I tercer guys to actually come to their appointment between 1 and 3pm.

[@markb20]

The Cassini mission was such an amazing accomplishment for NASA and the scientific community, and the Huygens drop down to Titan's surface is just mind-blowing. Seventeen years later, it's still so stunning to see this; thank you for providing this wonderful video.

[@webertbaiao7045]

NASA Facts: Secret NASA documents reveal the real shape of the Earth! 1 - LOCKHEED SR-71 BLACKBIRD: Technical Memorandum 104330: Predicted Performance of a Thrust Enhanced SR-71 Aircraft with an External Payload: Page 08: DIGITAL PERFORMANCE SIMULATION DESCRIPTION: The DPS equations of motion use four assumptions that simplify the program while maintaining its fidelity for most maneuvers and applications: point-mass modeling, nonturbulent atmosphere, zero side forces, and a “nonrotating Earth”. 2 - NASA Reference Publication 1207: Derivation and Definition of a Linear Aircraft Model: 08/1988: 2.1 Page 02: SUMMARY: This report documents the derivation and definition of a linear aircraft model for a rigid aircraft of constant mass flying over a “fiat and nonrotating Earth”. 2.2 Page 30: 3 CONCLUDING REMARKS: This report derives and defines a set oflinearized system matrices for a rigid aircraft of constant mass, flying in a stationary atmosphere over a “flat and nonrotating Earth”. 2.3 Page 102: 16. Abstract: This report documents the derivation and definition of a linear aircraft model for a rigid aircraft of constant mass flying over a “flat and nonrotating Earth”. 3 - NASA General Equations of Motion for a Damaged Asymmetric Aircraft: Page 02: Rigid Body Equations of Motion Referenced to an Arbitrary Fixed Point on the Body There are several approaches that can be used to develop the general equations of motion. The one selected here starts with Newton’s laws applied to a collection of particles defining the rigid body (any number of dynamics or physics books can serve as references, e.g. reference 2). In this paper, the rigid body equations of motion over a “flat non-rotating Earth” are developed that are not necessarily referenced to the body’s center of mass. 4 - NASA: A METHOD FOR REDUCING THE SENSITIVITY OF OPTIMAL NONLINEAR SYSTEMS TO PARAMETER UNCERTAINTY: NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION WASHINGTON, D. C. JUNE 1971: Page 12: A NUMERICAL EXAMPLE: Problem Statement: The example problem is a fixed-time problem in which it is required to determine the thrust-attitude program of a single-stage rocket vehicle starting from rest and going to specified terminal conditions of altitude and vertical velocity which will maximize the final horizontal velocity. The idealizing assumptions made are the following: (1) A point-mass vehicle (2) A “flat, nonrotating Earth” 5 - NASA Technical Paper Nº 2835 1988: User’s Manual for Interactive LINEAR, a FORTRAN Program To Derive Linear Aircraft Models. 5.1 Page 01: SUMMARY: The nonlinear equations of motion used are six-degree-of-freedom equations with stationary atmosphere and “flat and nonrotating Earth” assumptions. 5.2 Page 126: 6. Abstract: The nonlinear equations of motion used are six-degree-of-freedom equations sith stationary atmosphere and “flat and nonrotating Earth” assumptions.

[@philipschoen3857]

Let's go to eropa not titan. Why the heck titan, waters on eropa

[@charlesbromberick4247]

I worked on Cassini at JPL.

[@frankpienkosky5688]

@@philipschoen3857 lots of water in the solar system....most of it frozen.....

[@jacklingham6069]

@@philipschoen3857 titan is sooo much bigger plus we cant see into titan whereas on eropa you can see the surface, also we now know that titan has liquid on its surface unlike many other planets and moons

[@cjsm1006]

That the Huygens probe worked so well in such a harsh environment is a tribute to the scientists of the ESA.

[@jjmah7]

Imagine seeing Saturn on the daytime and nighttime sky from Titan 🤯

[@michaelbruns449]

Wow, totally mind blowing, the massive rings of saturn rising and setting, slowly traversing across the sky.

[@rais1953]

It's probably not visible through the smog in the daylight but might be visible at night. Remember that Titan is tidally locked to Saturn so only the side permanently facing the planet could see it and seen from there it never moves in the sky. But the moon goes through day and night cycles as does our Moon by orbiting around its planet.

[@aspenrebel]

I want to honeymoon on Titan.

[@aspenrebel]

Which spacecraft looked back at Earth from deep in space? Was it New Horizons at Pluto?

[@peteb901]

@@aspenrebel Voyager 1 took the "Pale Blue Dot" photo in 1990. Earth was imaged 3 times (along with the Moon in a transit across the Sun) by Cassini.

[@tjsogmc]

It never ceases to amaze me that we can send probes to other worlds and return 4k images, but a bank security camera on Earth only captures a fuzzy blur....

[@avo616]

Security cameras don’t have millions of hours and dollars invested in them

[@hulahula6182]

Or pentagon VIDEO cameras taking only 1 frame per second

[@tjsogmc]

@@avo616 the hell they don't. It's a big industry with lots of technology.

[@blogattacker]

No, they are not 4k, it is enhanced. Many times they are composites

[@badweetabix]

@@tjsogmc You are still missing the point. It is big industry with huge profit margins that are the result of selling and using cheap low quality cams while charging their customers through the nose. Big does not mean high quality. GM, Ford, and Chrysler are big industry, but are you seriously going to argue they make high quality cars?

[@timwhite5562]

Why have I never seen these? I remember the first time I saw images of the surface of Venus. I stared at it for and an hour and a half, the whole time with a feeling of existential loneliness and doom. I imagine standing there, knowing that no one else ever had or likely would. The awareness that no matter how far I travel, I'll never find a single sign of life.

[@Britishblue.]

Id go lol. I mean youd probably be crushed or burn alive but going to another planet would be awesome. I want them to make cloud venus cities.

[@AndersWelander]

All these missions to other places in the solar system are such wonderful gifts to humanity. I am so happy to know more what Pluto looks like just to name another one.

[@frankpienkosky5688]

the time may come in the distant future when cruise ships will transport people to these places.....

[@adventurefighter7501]

I like how it has sand made from fine ice. It’s truly amazing how planets/moons can make out materials and elements nowhere to be seen on earth.

[@adammorris3082]

Wow - It really doesn't seem like 17 years since Huygens probe touchdown, The pics were and still are amazing to see.

[@user-je3fx6li3w]

Stunning shots ... From my youth I remember how they were printed in newspapers. It's hard to imagine anything more amazing... This Cassini mission is an example of the fact that Science is the most invaluable experience available to man.

[@markb20]

Well said

[@AFMMarcelD]

Well said, now please let’s us tell that to the believers and religious…they won’t accept reality. Science is reality and facts at its best.

[@darylfoster7944]

What about sex?

[@jimfisk4474]

There's much more beyond science!

[@AFMMarcelD]

@@darylfoster7944 Sex is always welcome indeed.🍆

[@brhodes0]

Possibly the only time I will ever hear the word ‘atmosphere’ pronounced as three separate words. Well done!

[@Osk.S57]

It's amazing what human beings can do in the field of science. Also totally incomprehensible what human beings are doing to their own planet, the only place we have to live.

[@coreenjordaan6294]

Amazing! In SA we dont even have electricity nor clean water!

[@littlemouse7066]

sitting at home and watching the surface of another planet is mindblowing. the images of Mars are even more impressive.

[@c.b.e.8555]

I know. Wonder how much it cost to produce the footage in Hollywood

[@Dark_Richician84]

Love Titan. I could look at its surface forever.

[@JRFrancisco20088]

All these images always make me grateful to live on a habitable planet with air and water. The odds of that are astounding. Think about it.

[@SonOfTheDawn515]

I think it would be better if we vertebrates were never born. All the suffering we go through as sentient creatures could have been prevented if Earth never formed the way it did.

[@jimm8246]

The teams behind these expeditions are absolutely phenomenal. To manage systems to achieve results like this are highly commendable. Great job!

[@theobserver9131]

Accomplishments like this are what redeems humanity. This is the definition of awesome.

[@billybob-ro6qf]

Only ONE thing can redeem mankind & that is JESUS our LORD & SAVIOR! PRAISE GOD OUR REDEEMER LIVES & IS ALWAYS FOR US & WITH US!

[@theobserver9131]

@@billybob-ro6qf Lol! Yeah, like religion has a great track record for making the world a better place. If you love torture and murder and war.

[@theobserver9131]

@@billybob-ro6qf education, science, and birth control have done much more for humanity than any religion ever has.

[@theobserver9131]

@@billybob-ro6qf if you Christians would follow your prophets advice, and renounce all your possessions, and spend your life serving people and practicing nothing but love and kindness and compassion for all people of all colors and persuasions, I might take you halfway seriously.

[@billybob-ro6qf]

@@theobserver9131 NOTHING to do with "religion" It's all about having a personal relationship with JESUS our Lord & Savior. Those who truly follow Jesus & have Him living in their hearts always do what's right, holy, & righteous. It's when people begin to stray from God that sin enters in & the world becomes a mess full of wickedness.

[@DemoCatMan]

I still have that picture of Titan's surface as my wallpaper on my main computer. I still think of it as the most difficult picture that has ever been obtained. I've imagined myself being down on the surface of Titan and having the best view of Saturn if the thick atmosphere ever cleared up for a look, what a view that would be, especially that of the ring system. It would also be very interesting to be on the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Dreaming of one day having a ship that could get there and back inside of a day would be fun.

[@Kanamit.]

I absolutely love these types of videos. Thanks.

[@Sly88Frye]

Absolutely incredible to see this. I wasn't even aware of these images. Glad to see them. It's going to be a long wait, but I look forward to when we get more images from Titan in 2034

[@r_thekingslayerx4352]

Still my #1 channel for space related videos. Thx for the amazing content V1. 💯🔥

[@Peter_1986]

Imagine if they ever noticed evidence of life on Titan, and started doing a kind of "live recording" with minimal possible delay where they explored an area that had showed very promising signs of life; that would be extremely exciting.

[@JavaBum]

Minimal delay? Are we talking hours here? I think we're nowhere near that just yet.

[@knightofwind2929]

It wouldn't be released to the public, were as supposed to stay in the dark

[@subrotomitra]

Outstanding presentation ! Thank you

[@methanoid]

Beautiful imagery, well put together in video and atmospheric sounds. Really enjoyed this one. Keep this standard up 😀

[@ponytrekker8996]

No word’s to describe..what a truly amazing discovery. when Huygens plunged through Titans atmosphere.

[@shanmugambala1883]

Amazing. Thanks for your post.

[@timsimpson9367]

Just to see the photo's is amazing. All them millions of miles away is fantastic, Thank you.

[@paulcateiii]

V101 never disappoints - thanks for all the great videos thru the years

[@slaughterhouse5585]

Absolutely mind blowing accomplishment. 😳 Congratulations to all those involved in this mission. 👍🏻

[@1DTL]

The only thing mind blowing is just how many people think this is real... Congratulations to NASA for creating the biggest lie ever to exist.

[@JOEGAMESLAB]

Only yesterday did i mention Titan, and search engines recommended this one. Great video and details..

[@briannolan7818]

Great video. Thank you for sharing with us.

[@scottpitner4298]

This feat is one of the most mind blowing things we’ve done.. Those photos of it landing show a landscape so foreign it’s astonishing!! I can’t believe there’s so many planetary and moon bodies out there. Even just in our galaxy!

[@webertbaiao7045]

NASA Facts: Secret NASA documents reveal the real shape of the Earth! 1 - LOCKHEED SR-71 BLACKBIRD: Technical Memorandum 104330: Predicted Performance of a Thrust Enhanced SR-71 Aircraft with an External Payload: Page 08: DIGITAL PERFORMANCE SIMULATION DESCRIPTION: The DPS equations of motion use four assumptions that simplify the program while maintaining its fidelity for most maneuvers and applications: point-mass modeling, nonturbulent atmosphere, zero side forces, and a “nonrotating Earth”. 2 - NASA Reference Publication 1207: Derivation and Definition of a Linear Aircraft Model: 08/1988: 2.1 Page 02: SUMMARY: This report documents the derivation and definition of a linear aircraft model for a rigid aircraft of constant mass flying over a “fiat and nonrotating Earth”. 2.2 Page 30: 3 CONCLUDING REMARKS: This report derives and defines a set oflinearized system matrices for a rigid aircraft of constant mass, flying in a stationary atmosphere over a “flat and nonrotating Earth”. 2.3 Page 102: 16. Abstract: This report documents the derivation and definition of a linear aircraft model for a rigid aircraft of constant mass flying over a “flat and nonrotating Earth”. 3 - NASA General Equations of Motion for a Damaged Asymmetric Aircraft: Page 02: Rigid Body Equations of Motion Referenced to an Arbitrary Fixed Point on the Body There are several approaches that can be used to develop the general equations of motion. The one selected here starts with Newton’s laws applied to a collection of particles defining the rigid body (any number of dynamics or physics books can serve as references, e.g. reference 2). In this paper, the rigid body equations of motion over a “flat non-rotating Earth” are developed that are not necessarily referenced to the body’s center of mass. 4 - NASA: A METHOD FOR REDUCING THE SENSITIVITY OF OPTIMAL NONLINEAR SYSTEMS TO PARAMETER UNCERTAINTY: NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION WASHINGTON, D. C. JUNE 1971: Page 12: A NUMERICAL EXAMPLE: Problem Statement: The example problem is a fixed-time problem in which it is required to determine the thrust-attitude program of a single-stage rocket vehicle starting from rest and going to specified terminal conditions of altitude and vertical velocity which will maximize the final horizontal velocity. The idealizing assumptions made are the following: (1) A point-mass vehicle (2) A “flat, nonrotating Earth” 5 - NASA Technical Paper Nº 2835 1988: User’s Manual for Interactive LINEAR, a FORTRAN Program To Derive Linear Aircraft Models. 5.1 Page 01: SUMMARY: The nonlinear equations of motion used are six-degree-of-freedom equations with stationary atmosphere and “flat and nonrotating Earth” assumptions. 5.2 Page 126: 6. Abstract: The nonlinear equations of motion used are six-degree-of-freedom equations sith stationary atmosphere and “flat and nonrotating Earth” assumptions.

[@rainbowseeker5930]

You probably meant "just in our Solar System",,,,,

[@youtubeSuckssNow]

We currently have a craft returning to earth after collecting a sample of material from an asteroid which is fascinating.

[@1SeanBond]

Sure loved seeing Titan! Ever since seeing the movie Creature (1985). Aka The titan find . The video was absolutely amazing! And to think what lakes & seas are made out of ....I believe this prob was one of the best in seeing what it looks like. I'm just blowin away of how clear the footage was after rendering it all ....Thank's for your efforts and quality content...I'm in awe of the content you post & create Ty Luv&Peace Cheers from Sean&family!

[@alexandertaylor1225]

Great video, liked and subscribed thank you.

[@geemanbmw]

This channel you have to admit is awesome I just wish you uploaded more videos not shorts but like 10-25 minute videos. Great narrator and excellent content.

[@darkfox2076]

Amazing as always vidi thanks for the really interesting content 👍

[@oc2phish07]

Excellent video. Very interesting and enjoyable.

[@charliepearce8767]

Good vid. Well done to all involved 👏

[@V101SPACE]

Sometimes you've got to look back 17 years or so to find the best photos. Or, in this case, the only photos! What did you think of these images? Pretty impressive, right? Let me know below! Have a great day! V

[@user-mb2im5nv9r]

Incredibile interesting facts about congratulations for material shown 😅🐯🛸

[@jason_m_schmidt622]

If you really research Titan it’s a much better option for future habitation than Mars.

[@user-mb2im5nv9r]

Very important much

[@terrysmith6157]

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[@murielvaillancourt3855]

This video is awesome, like all the wonderful work that you send to us. ❤❤thank you so much, Sir.

[@aparajitadeb9790]

Very nicely explained each and every thing thankyou 😊

[@scottscott232]

Wow, what an incredibly informative and exciting video.

[@paulesterline5714]

Amazing! I have seen most of these photos before, but I never get tired of seeing them or learning about the things in outer space. You taught me some things I didn't know! Thank you!

[@craigthacker]

I'm not sure of how enhanced the footage is, but I'm surprised by how well-lit the moon is considering how far from the sun it is and how thick the haze/clouds are.

[@hulitonuras4177]

Think of it like this. When you look into the night's sky, on a good night you can easily see Saturn with the naked eye. Somehow light is travelling all the way there and then is being reflected all the way back to earth. Even from earth its pretty bright so how much brighter if you were standing on the surface? The same applies to titan. All that light bounces off the relatively light colored atmosphere and environment. It certainly is strange I agree and as you get to a dwarf planet like pluto you would certainly become confused looking around for the source of why the surface is dimly lit only to realize that one of the more brighter star like objects in the night's sky is actually the sun illuminating the surface of your distant dwarf planet.

[@kikidevine694]

Ice reflects light really well. Pure , clear water even better. I was taking a used milk bottle made from cloudy plastic out to the recycling last night and there was enough ambient light to literally illuminate it and turn it into a light. If that can happen with a small hollow translucent item, imagine what a planet covered in ice could reflect

[@XtreeM_FaiL]

@@hulitonuras4177 Between Earth and Saturn there are whole lot of nothing.

[@Henning_Rech]

It is more computer graphics simulation than the real pixels transmitted from ESA's Huygens probe. I still remember when I saw them the next morning after the landing. BTW it was all grayscale, the colours are invented.

[@DaveTexas]

Only the very last image of the fuzzy-looking landscape is an actual photo. Everything else is an animation based on the still images that were captured on the descent. That’s why it looks like video game graphics from 20 years ago.

[@douglasharbert3340]

The surface temperature of Titan is -300 degrees Fahrenheit. So no, we will never live there. You could never even step foot outside. Ever.

[@burtw.9018]

That is absolutely amazing!

[@_stardust62]

I've been viewing Saturn every clear night with my telescope and Titan is there as a tan dot circling as always. Cool video!

[@naveenraj2008eee]

Hi Thats awesome video. Thanks.

[@refurbrob3609]

Being part of that mission sending there what us humans have engineered and built, mind blowingly amazing, thank you NASA or the ESA, whichever sent it there, WOW 👌

[@user-wm4rl4pt7c]

Great video .outstanding coverage great sciencetific knowledge.

[@Sp_416]

These images are... out of this world! Great video as always!

[@taboovsknowledge1603]

Your comedy is... out of this club! Do you do prop comedy?

[@billygribble9939]

Except they're of this world... a Hollywood basement.

[@cerealata9035]

@@billygribble9939 Nice argument there, dude. Why don't you back it up with a source?

[@billygribble9939]

@@cerealata9035 try reality bud. You're eyes should do most of the work

[@grant1739]

This dude probably walks around telling knock knock jokes

[@kenwiggins2699]

Awesome job!!!

[@keithbill310]

Great vid x

[@slowraceultra]

Absolutely fascinating .

[@stuartgray5877]

The instrument that took those images, the "Descent Imaging Spectral Radiometer" (DISR) was the first piece of flight hardware that I ever worked on when I first started at Lockheed Martin in the 1990s.

[@MsOSheDidIt]

Great job dude! It worked. Now let's fly into space 🚀

[@jasongoodman3546]

The narration is very good. Thank you Sir.

[@fantomghost6213]

Great video!

[@matthewbryant958]

Imagine how scary it would be to enter another planet, moon going through the clouds and not having any idea what’s below. That would be possibly the most terrifying thing anyone or anything could do

[@LLH7202]

Kind of like me when I did my first instrument approach by myself.

[@SnowWhite-hr4ho]

It's unmanned

[@jackesioto]

That's why the first craft descending and landing is a relatively simple probe. Once you know vaguely what the surface is like, then rovers or similar mobile robots can be deployed, and maybe eventually a crewed mission or two. No doubt if and when we get fast enough propulsion to make crewed missions to the outer solar system possible, Titan is likely to be one of the first places people visit beyond the asteroid belt.

[@rais1953]

The Soviet landers did that on Venus and surprisingly a couple of them lasted as long as Huygens while returning pictures and data.

[@tnnetnattninuttn4627]

Yea. just imagine crashing into alien's kindergarten. That would make them so angry.

[@elleni-41]

Cassini Huygens was my favorite trip to space, titan n saturn.. Thank u v101 science, my favorite science channel!..👍👍💞💞

[@Damn_it.]

You always make the best videos of this universe. Universe is making video for universe

[@Ed-jv3xu]

Wow so awesome thank you for sharing 👍

[@user-du6qi6zb3r]

Great video and very interesting

[@hydrostatic8048]

Titan is always an interesting moon. Imagine if we swap it for our moon.

[@Amit_Gupta216]

Then it would lose its atmosphere as methane compound breaks in High temperatures and also titan is a frigid moon and it's core has cooled down so no magnetic field means no atmosphere and it will be barren like our moon.

[@taboovsknowledge1603]

You touch the moon and you'll be the actual face on it!

[@Drakey_Fenix]

Then it would completely change. The much closer distance to the sun would cause the temperature to rise and all the oceans and lakes would dry up.

[@VG_164]

@@Drakey_Fenix It would have been able to maintain its atmosphere for a few tens of million years, maybe mlre, and have similar temperatures to Earth since the atmosphere would spread out the heat like it does on Earth. But eventually all the atmosphere would have escaped into space as its gravity is not enough to keep it and solar winds would only speed up the process.

[@louise_rose]

"Moons are rising on the planet /where the worst must suffer like the rest" (from the poem in the liner notes to the brilliant Relayer album) ;)

[@tenebrousoul9368]

Great video y'all

[@AlanHodgkinson-cc1ok]

Magnificent video 😊

[@MrPetepuma00]

Outstanding! The solar system is part of our home. Time for us to see more of where we live.

[@simonmcnicholas]

Titan never fails to amaze me, absolutely fascinating

[@frankpienkosky5688]

...even back in the '50's...when we knew from nothing about the place....it was fascinating....it has an atmosphere, and a thick one at that...

[@comicalgamer6590]

I miss when NASA had these crazy long missions to the outer parts of the solar system

[@JeffreyLemsl-vi9qf]

Juno is at Jupiter right now

[@Banu720]

Amazing stuff Congratulations to the team

[@larrybaker5316]

How amazing to be someone here on Earth looking at "stones" millions of miles away that have never been seen before by anyone in the whole totality of mankind. Simply amazing, and the technology to get it there and signals beamed back to Earth.

[@dukevandine5080]

Simply amazing

[@mikecarbone828]

It seems like it would be a good idea to plan to have an orbiter equipped with cloud penetrating radar or LIDAR to survey the moon Titan to choose the best places to explore prior to deploying landers or drones, to make the most of such a mission. Thank you for posting these videos! Please have an excellent and awesome day! ☀️✨

[@webertbaiao7045]

NASA Facts: Secret NASA documents reveal the real shape of the Earth! 1 - LOCKHEED SR-71 BLACKBIRD: Technical Memorandum 104330: Predicted Performance of a Thrust Enhanced SR-71 Aircraft with an External Payload: Page 08: DIGITAL PERFORMANCE SIMULATION DESCRIPTION: The DPS equations of motion use four assumptions that simplify the program while maintaining its fidelity for most maneuvers and applications: point-mass modeling, nonturbulent atmosphere, zero side forces, and a “nonrotating Earth”. 2 - NASA Reference Publication 1207: Derivation and Definition of a Linear Aircraft Model: 08/1988: 2.1 Page 02: SUMMARY: This report documents the derivation and definition of a linear aircraft model for a rigid aircraft of constant mass flying over a “fiat and nonrotating Earth”. 2.2 Page 30: 3 CONCLUDING REMARKS: This report derives and defines a set oflinearized system matrices for a rigid aircraft of constant mass, flying in a stationary atmosphere over a “flat and nonrotating Earth”. 2.3 Page 102: 16. Abstract: This report documents the derivation and definition of a linear aircraft model for a rigid aircraft of constant mass flying over a “flat and nonrotating Earth”. 3 - NASA General Equations of Motion for a Damaged Asymmetric Aircraft: Page 02: Rigid Body Equations of Motion Referenced to an Arbitrary Fixed Point on the Body There are several approaches that can be used to develop the general equations of motion. The one selected here starts with Newton’s laws applied to a collection of particles defining the rigid body (any number of dynamics or physics books can serve as references, e.g. reference 2). In this paper, the rigid body equations of motion over a “flat non-rotating Earth” are developed that are not necessarily referenced to the body’s center of mass. 4 - NASA: A METHOD FOR REDUCING THE SENSITIVITY OF OPTIMAL NONLINEAR SYSTEMS TO PARAMETER UNCERTAINTY: NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION WASHINGTON, D. C. JUNE 1971: Page 12: A NUMERICAL EXAMPLE: Problem Statement: The example problem is a fixed-time problem in which it is required to determine the thrust-attitude program of a single-stage rocket vehicle starting from rest and going to specified terminal conditions of altitude and vertical velocity which will maximize the final horizontal velocity. The idealizing assumptions made are the following: (1) A point-mass vehicle (2) A “flat, nonrotating Earth” 5 - NASA Technical Paper Nº 2835 1988: User’s Manual for Interactive LINEAR, a FORTRAN Program To Derive Linear Aircraft Models. 5.1 Page 01: SUMMARY: The nonlinear equations of motion used are six-degree-of-freedom equations with stationary atmosphere and “flat and nonrotating Earth” assumptions. 5.2 Page 126: 6. Abstract: The nonlinear equations of motion used are six-degree-of-freedom equations sith stationary atmosphere and “flat and nonrotating Earth” assumptions.

[@MomolosZtips]

@@webertbaiao7045 You can repeat this admission of mental masturbation a dozen times ... nobody is listening.

[@frankpienkosky5688]

...which is what we've already done with Venus....but it's much further away...

[@thatfeeble-mindedboy]

Very, very well done. Quite professional in construction.

[@Wassup-Doc]

Excellent video

[@exclamationpointman3852]

Whoever does the music set the atmosphere perfect for these videos! The graphics, sound effects, editing, narrations: all top notch. I like that these subject are kept with respect and not flippant. People like me really wonder what's out there....

[@rudevalve]

Certified Gold!!!!!

[@ziggeman]

The Huygens and Cassini mission is a fantastic feat. I was glued to the Nasa website the days the Huygens probe was about to land on Titan 😊

[@heroknaderi]

I lok foward for the dragonfly mossion. keep them coming.

[@kuyajj68]

Can't imagine how much preparation the engineers did for that mission. Smartest of the smart people are in NASA.

[@darylfoster7944]

Actually they're probably at SpaceX.

[@iananderson8498]

The Huygens probe was designed and built by the European Space Agency.

[@Osmone_Everony]

If you pay closer attention you can see the ESA logo on the probe! NOT NASA!

[@_thespacegazer]

Imagine once they cleared the clouds they saw buildings and civilizations

[@survivor.99]

Best imagination

[@mfazmonty12]

That's likely to be possible.

[@RavenJCain]

@@survivor.99 Sadly much of this stuff is imagination. You have an image or blur, and the rest is all imagination. Like this is all ice sand and ice rocks, because plain old rocks are boring.

[@darylfoster7944]

With the lizards from Aliens running around

[@tommissouri4871]

I occasionally envision a Mars rover moving forward as a couple of Martians walk along behind trying to figure out what it is and who sent it. Or the one that almost made it to a ridge, only to stop short and not see the city on the other side. I think the movie "My Favorite Martian" started off like that.

[@johnkeane5851]

Amazlng for sure!!!

[@JoeDeglman]

One could almost make the case that Titan's mountains are formed into the Lichtenberg pattern, like most of the Earth's mountains.

[@etherraichu]

We should do this way more often. there are a lot of places i'd like to see

[@TucsonDude]

Our changing demographics doesn't care. They're still operating on a survival level and will always vote for sustainance over higher goals.

[@billybob-ro6qf]

try seeing places here on earth first.I've been in Floirda my whole life & still many place I never seen let alone the entire world!

[@frankpienkosky5688]

@@billybob-ro6qf ...join the Navy...and see it on the cheap...

[@billybob-ro6qf]

@@frankpienkosky5688 Navy, army or any branch not for me. I'm too old, fat, & lazy for all that LOL. And don't want to get shot at & definitely don't want to work for Biden.

[@frankpienkosky5688]

@@billybob-ro6qf well, then...you'll have to go the expensive route...as a tourist...but be aware a lot of people travel from a lot of places to be where you are...me included...maybe you could work a house swap deal?

[@Yora21]

The rotors on the Dragonfly are tiny. But with the low gravity and thick atmosphere of Titan, that should easily be more than enough.

[@jymihawk2740]

Its absolutely outstanding and mind blowing

[@padmac8176]

Very nice indeed! Looking forward to the Dragonfly mission in 2027.

[@shawnmoebius5997]

I love that line “ice frozen as hard as granite.”So on earth, our granite is frozen as hard as granite.

[@anjou6497]

No, he said frozen as hard as rock. There are many kinds of rock.

[@williegillie5712]

I can still remember that one. Good memories

[@TiagrajI]

The Huygens mission was ground breaking. Don't forget however that we had similar missions like venera on other planets

[@marccracchiolo4935]

When I first saw the video of a landscape on that moon I was amazed. There are so many questions we need to be asking about Titan. I’m really glad to see we are going back and with a flying drone no less- awesome! I hope it’s nuclear powered and can last for years gathering data for us. Be great if we could send multiple probes to this moon maybe other countries will join in to make it even cheaper?

[@Proemed44G]

Really good video nice job !

[@hypnophonz]

Interesting, but it would've been nice to learn about: An estimated gravity ratio and wind current. You see, I'm researching places to visit on my next summer vacation and was considering Titan.

[@theresecooper3034]

This is just awesome.

[@loisrossi841]

Our solar system continues to amaze. Thank you.

[@DairyAirGunners]

It seems odd that there would be so much light on the planets surface under a thick haze and considering Titan is so far from the sun.