What Huygens Saw On Titan - New Image Processing

For the probe landing’s 10th anniversary, a new sequence has been rendered from Huygens’ Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer (DISR) data. The craft landed on Saturn’s largest moon on 14 Jan 2005. -- Habitable Titan? Cassini, Huygens Revealed Wonders of Saturn's Biggest Moon: www.space.com/...
Credit: Erich Karkoschka, DISR team, University of Arizona

[@johnnorth9355]

I have seen things with my eyes that past generations would never have dreamed of. How lucky I am.

[@panjualede]

this is CGI bro, u have seen anything but a cartoon

[@nparsona]

@@panjualede Muppet.

[@nparsona]

@@panjualede Better to have your head in the sand than up your ass. Love how everything is a conspiracy or lie to you idiots. You think that you are so woke, enlightened, one of a few. You are one of a few, a few unthinking muppets.

[@Lunarfacia]

m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/foaaeJRtprl_erc

[@kunglao3381]

Wait so what am I watching right now

[@10n0]

If you're wondering why the footage looks so strange, it's because a) it's not video, it's a series of photos compiled together to resemble video, and b) Titan is very dark and hazy, so they processed the images to render a clearer picture

[@odinson810]

I hate processed images! I don't care if it's hazy or hard to see just show actual images. This is the one thing that hate about nasa.

[@chew7656]

It looks like a video game. I don't care how unclear the raw image is, i just want to see how the moon will realistically look if we were there ourselves. I have yet to see the images that aren't enhanced

[@penguin44ca]

@@chew7656 original jpl vid is not enhanced

[@chew7656]

@@penguin44ca is it on youtube?

[@penguin44ca]

@@chew7656 kzbin.info/www/bejne/o6TMfYquecasq6M

[@casienwhey]

Consider this thought: Two to three hundred years from now, humans will land on Titan and retrieve this lander and place it in a museum. They will think about our primitive and rudimentary technologies and wonder how we could have made it to Titan at all.

[@AndyHappyGuy]

When humans colonize Mars and make Mars Cities, the Mars Rovers will be displayed in their museums.

[@langelle1]

Why retrieve it? Just leave it where it landed.

[@AndyHappyGuy]

@@langelle1 and build a museum around it

[@alexkim5006]

I fear we might destroy ourselves before that time comes

[@sjnmhn]

@@alexkim5006 Bible says the "end days" are very near, we will not be living 200 years from now!!Maximum 50 years and after that armageddon!! Only, all devil worshipper will be wiped out and only true followers of god will live forever!!

[@guynakash]

I'm amazed at how far we got in the last 100 years or so... I'm lying in bed, holding a mobile phone and watching images for a moon of Saturn...

[@godsbeautifulflatearth]

This is CGI bro, not real.

[@evanwarthen1146]

@@godsbeautifulflatearth This is not cgi... that's the whole point...

[@jacquelineiona1996]

I know... right? Even I recently thought, why are we spending so much money and effort on space travel and the like...then I see something like this video .... something awesome and wonderful...to see what God sees

[@paulbryan4930]

Just bs

[@gilgemash]

....@guy nakash and 1912 we were juuuust about flying biplanes... 😁 😷🌈 Ain't we clever. In a manner of speaking...

[@fjoa123]

It is very curious how some people deny the fact of space exploration, for it being "too complex and difficult to even be possible" yet they don't even give a second thought to the fact that they're expressing their ignorant opinion through a machine, which has the capability of uncanny accuracy and precision to manipulate single electrons to operate billions of mathematical calculations per second inside a one inch by one inch piece of silica and gold, which are turned into graphic information by thousands of tiny lamps working in perfect conjunction. This machine consumes as much energy as a light bulb, and is connected via electromagnetic waves to a globe-wide network of information, which is contained in millions of synchronized electronic discs which store and manage almost unintelligible amounts digital data. Those machines are powered by streams of electrons which travel kilometers inside copper wires, from their source in a facility which transforms the many forms of energy in nature into usable electricity. All this seems negligible, but shooting a missile into the sky with enough accuracy to come close to another planet seems impossible. Who understands them.

[@ThreeLittlePixels]

Well said.

[@wolfcrewe7474]

fjoa123 when u put it like that lol

[@tobytoxd]

Your speech is hillarious faszinating AND TOO GOOD! :D

[@SevastianNandez]

fjoa123 ikr

[@grantrev-nz4337]

TO Fjoa123 VERY VERY well said . Cheers

[@stuartgray5877]

The very first piece of flight hardware that I ever worked on in my Aerospace Career was the Descent Imaging Spectral Radiometer (DISR) that took these images. I was working at Lockheed Martin Space Simulation Laboratory where they built the DISR. They also built the Cassini Propulsion Module and I got to see that up close and personal.

[@jimdunivent6525]

As a career aerospace machinist I was working for A-tron machining in Tucson Arizona. In a partnership with Martin Marietta and University of Arizona lunar planetary lab. I was given 2 miniature infrared camera bodies to machine from titanium. Back then machining titanium was still fairly new but I was given a document from when they built the blackbird spy plane from titanium. They had all the clearance angles to be ground onto cutting tools, the proper geo for drills and taps. Very interesting and probably highlight of my time, which included machining parts for space shuttle, Hubble, space station, stealth program, F15, Reagan’s Star Wars program and more. A little disappointed when they told me I would have to wait 7 yrs after launch to see results.

[@slow-mo_moonbuggy]

How does gas pressure exist next to a 10 to the negative 17 torr vacuum of space without a container as an anticedant?

[@kenshi_cv2407]

@@slow-mo_moonbuggy 😴 I can't believe you people are still talking about this. The answer is gravity! Earth's gravity contains the atmosphere.

[@slow-mo_moonbuggy]

@@kenshi_cv2407 Which theory of gravity and how does it contain gas pressure directly next to a vacuum?

[@arthurmead5341]

@@slow-mo_moonbuggy what?

[@slow-mo_moonbuggy]

@@arthurmead5341 The definition of gas pressure is gas molecules within a container. There is no experiment showing gas pressure being contained by gravity.

[@ARMAGODDEN]

I have now stood on the moon of Saturn. Thank You so much for such a wonderful gift!!

[@paulrichards2365]

Just take your litter when you go

[@ZASurvivalist]

Is anyone else just fascinated with seeing the makeup of different moons and planets and having actual footage relayed back? Its so alien, so different.. Truly awe inspiring.

[@bobh808]

Right there with ya, buddy

[@mikebockey4125]

no, you’re the only one

[@mattyy101]

@Matthew Lawton not all will just be rocks lol an that planet has lakes of methane an stuff too lol

[@evanw2195]

its incredible, what a time to be alive, I bet 99% of all humans dead would've given their entire soul to see the images were able to see nowadays, people without appreciation for it should be buried in the ground bc theyre so undeserving

[@KutWrite]

I just imagine how much better our lives would be here if we weren't forced to pay for such missions and the huge apparatus that supports them... and stays in place when there are no missions.

[@PiperTMTotalWar]

How did the google van get all the way up there?

[@dankamcdanka3804]

Through the google rocket, the only way to get to google space. You also need google oxygen, and google space suits. and google landing probes. and a google teddy. bear.

[@jupiter2448]

It was the Google Cassini probe

[@Hal-kj8ip]

Hey Jupiter! long time no see huh? remember? I spotted you with my telescope when i was 10!

[@jupiter2448]

+comments here Oh yeah. You freakin creep. I was weirded out by that, I don't look at you with a telescope and say " wow look at those bands" Stop doing that, man

[@MrLukestevens87]

warp 9

[@rickschwab6904]

weather update: slight chance of Methane

[@michaeldougherty6036]

I love that they can have weather forecasts on other planet's moons, but still can't figure out Indianapolis weather more than an hour ahead of time.

[@daddyrawkgames]

Feeling gassy myself, chance of shit in the near future

[@tms9995]

Anyone who lays a Fart on Titan can turn themselves into a rocket

[@marsupia]

bill wurtz?

[@squirlmy]

Titan is the Wet Fart Moon. Or Moon of Wet Farts? This needs to be formally declared an official name, ASAP.

[@lugodoc]

I did a little bit of work on the Cassini probe for Marconi in the late 80s, when we were settling on the overall shape and the disposition of the sensor packages. It was really nice to see it make Titanfall so spectacularly well, over 15 years later. It doesn't look like a moon, it looks like a real PLANET !

[@slow-mo_moonbuggy]

How does gas pressure exist next to a 10 to the negative 17 torr vacuum of space without a container as an anticedant?

[@slow-mo_moonbuggy]

Also how did NASA aquire the radius value of the earth to use as a tangent point to send objects into space?

[@Tidushii]

@@slow-mo_moonbuggy gravity / observations & radar data

[@slow-mo_moonbuggy]

@@Tidushii Which theory of gravity? There's more than one and can you give me a citation of an experiment showing a gravity containing gas pressure next to a vacuum?

[@slow-mo_moonbuggy]

@@Tidushii Also could you tell me exactly who and how they did observations and radar to know the radius value of the earth? Because I can't find that information anywhere. Literally tens if not hundreds of thousands of people have been looking for that information for years. Thanks

[@lambda494]

This is so amazing. Back in the 1980s all we had are hazy orange blobs for images of Titan. What a time to be alive.

[@bashkillszombies]

Personally I find most data released from NASA to be utterly underwhelming. It's either bad CGI, or raw numbers. At least the raw when it comes out can be turned into bad CGI. But shit me, man. Cameras are so fucking small now they could be shoved onto everything. SpaceX puts NASA to utter shame with their ability to still do great science yet also please us plebs with pretty pictures. But NASA isn't what it used to be. Even though the last two budgets are the FIRST and SECOND BUDGET EVER in NASA's history for NASA to get an INCREASE (not even kidding, they've been cut every year since invention, including when they landed on the moon) NASA is now all about diversity and inclusion and not meritocracy and science. So government exploration is dead in the water, here's hoping private companies pick up that slack more!

[@Chris-jw8vm]

@@bashkillszombies Nice to hear that Trumps space force thing wasn't bullshit. Actually pumping some extra funding into NASA instead of gutting it. And it's a perfect time for it to. The second space race has been heating up for a few years now and progress is remarkable. Who would have thought ten years ago that we would be capable of landing a rocket on a floating platform within our lifetime.

[@daveschidlmeier6425]

@@Chris-jw8vm it was said today on the news Trump wants to build the space force in BRAZIL to launch at the equator????

[@Chris-jw8vm]

@@daveschidlmeier6425 Makes sense. I'm unclear as to why but it's supposed to require less fuel to launch from the equator. We're lucky that gravity isn't high enough to make chemical based space flight impossible. The tyranny of the rocket equation works out so that we're just able to get into space without it being financially or literally impossible. Shaving a percentage point or two of the fuel required would be a massive benifit. Also think it probably makes sense from a diplomatic standpoint. The east has been looking to make allies in the Americas. So it wouldn't do well to continue to ignore them as many previous administrations have since the cold war ended.

[@daveschidlmeier6425]

@@Chris-jw8vm I agree on the more efficient launch theory at the closer equator locale. But doesn't that contradict Trump's theory on keeping American jobs in America ? I love his stand on that issue ...

[@filzaammar200]

"This...does put a smile on my face".

[@eliczek6142]

@J3R3MY W Yes, it was. And it was beautifull.

[@raizereaper4697]

Wilczek Titan was like most planets, twenty mounds not enough to go around

[@hda1010]

The more they research other planets, the more I admire and love the mine.

[@metaljar021]

@@gregpeterson3144 minecraft

[@andycopeland7051]

@@metaljar021 lol u beat me to it

[@metaljar021]

@@andycopeland7051 my bad lol

[@forloop7713]

Titan is objectively better than Earth

[@legoat34]

@Nerd in Disguise Not that serious

[@turnerthemanc]

something as simple and normal as the shadow of a parachute going by is the "pinch me" moment I needed looking at this bizarre world.

[@jimbo1066]

I was just wondering how they made sure the parachute didn’t land on the probe and its camera, thereby ballsing up the whole mission.

[@KororaPenguin]

Also, if Huygens had landed in the polar regions, Davy Jones could very easily have claimed it in a hurry.

[@alexandercarder2281]

And this shadow moving towards your backside is my foot about to boot you up the ass to wake you up out of your absolute stupidity

[@turnerthemanc]

@@alexandercarder2281 dont tell me....Sovereign Citizen? Flat Eather? Man didnt land on the moon?. How fuckin tedious.

[@fkerpants]

@@turnerthemanc Don't let him kill your buzz. He's nothing more than a fart in a hurricane. For what it's worth, you're far from alone.

[@JackFroster]

God I love space...so many mysteries...so much to see...

[@xaferix7921]

+TheJackFroster You know what else I find eerie... the phone app that shows you the constellation above you at any time. NOW IT COULD BE BULLSHIT. But the feelings it gives are not. To know that beyond that fking lunchtime thunderstorm there is a pretty constellation or when you face it down knowing that on the far side there is much of the same. Freaking. AWESOME.

[@Ce13stialBunny]

+Xaferi X People are saying it doesn't work because when you point it to the ground it shows stars. Like the only stars to exist are "above" earth.

[@xaferix7921]

LOL

[@maxisoulcaliber8941]

God didn't make this. Its straight out of a hollywood basement.

[@Chelovyek]

I would love to think that this video is actually true, and I will keep an open mind, but the fact that the government has lied to us so many times should always keep us skeptical.

[@steveky7829]

Looks like landing at LAX in the 70's ... Haven't been through smog like that since...

[@scarlettfever9483]

I remember the same but it was the early to mid 80s.

[@Blessed_by_Yeshua]

Or Newark, NJ in the 70s. 🤢

[@divinekate]

Me too but in 8os bad.L.A that is...

[@forloop7713]

So you don't have so much smog now?

[@retropulpmonkey]

​@@forloop7713 Economy tripled, air pollution down 75%. (70s to 20s). Astounding, really.

[@malcolmdale]

In case you were wondering the background music is Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5.

[@relentlessmadman]

I don't Live in a case and I wasn't wondering but thanks anyway!

[@XV250]

You mean like it says at the end of the video..?

[@vk4jsn]

Thanks, it's one of just a few pieces by Ludwig I like.

[@Gentleman...Driver]

So how did Beethoven get up their with his piano, huh? (just kidding) :))

[@dansv1]

I thought the music detracted from the video. Factual information does not need background music.

[@shanabidleman7240]

This was the best space exploration voice over journey I have ever watched, which is saying something. The piano music was wonderful and the delightfully educated enthusiasm of the narrator was a rare treat. Thank you!

[@Martin-sp4zf]

Yes. I had the same reaction to the detailed info and its excellent vocal delivery. This is one for saving, for sure.

[@jameshale1606]

"Let me guess, your home?" "It was, and it was beautiful."

[@MrBurns-um2id]

"I UNDERSTOOD THAT REFERENCE"

[@coltonlyons9230]

Where the experiments began....

[@B__SYAHRULMUBAROK]

"They called me madman"

[@guitarguru2000]

Oh yea, you are much more of a Thanos!

[@ferero6642]

@@guitarguru2000 Titan, Thanos. Hmmmmm

[@lt3533]

It was an exemplary mission between ESA and NASA. A wonderful scientific, technologic and human experience! I hope there will be many more extraordinary common work between our two space agencies.

[@gypsyking1761]

i love sarcasm

[@ueuedeplatano6931]

It's sad, that most people that saw this video will never see humanity colonizing the solar system. Maybe reach Mars, and that's it. But probably, a very long line of descendants of you will see humanity in other worlds, maybe even live on it. Time is sadly amazing.

[@arminiuschatti2287]

I wouldn’t be too sure about that. Many folks born in the 19th Century saw man’s first flight, man in space, moon landing and probe landings on other worlds within their lifetime. My great-grandfather saw all of this to include the Voyager 2 pictures of Neptune before he died.

[@iwillchoosefreewill2271]

We're not going anywhere. 99.999999% of us inhabit an area between sea level and 20,000 feet on the outside of a sphere. Nearly everywhere else in the universe is hostile to humans.

[@jonraybon8582]

@@iwillchoosefreewill2271 Space is always trying to kill you, yet we’ve had people continuously in orbit for over 20 years. Different people at different times, but still…. If there was a big enough push, and enough resources allocated, we could certainly go to Mars or Saturn. It’s all a matter of budget: NASA once had something like 5% of the total US budget, in the Apollo days. They have nowhere near that now.

[@slow-mo_moonbuggy]

Nobody and nothing has gone into a Second Law of Thermodynamics violation called outer space. The nessaary anticedant for gas pressure is a container.

[@Maryanne247]

Well I am glad that I even get to see the surface of other worlds that 100 years ago was not even possible. I mean we got to see what Pluto really looks like which 100 years ago was not even discovered yet. I think it is really neat how far we have come and it is exciting to see where the future will lead us.

[@BuriedFlame]

Everybody remember where we parked!

[@happyrick-c1327]

@Tempo Lmao 😂😂😂 yeah 💯

[@TomGodson95]

😂

[@davideverett2]

Don't worry I brought my compass.

[@MrWhoevr]

It’s right by that sand dune.

[@rpm1796]

But I gave you the keys....Right?.....Remember?

[@GarySchmidtPianist]

Beethoven I am sure never imagined his music would be used for this:) Incredible footage.

[@patrickvanbramer5318]

This is So Awesome. The narrator's voice is Incredible. Even if you didn't know english, you would understand because of the perfect, crisp pronounciation. This has increased my endorphins and life. I Love listening to this amazing man's description of a Titan of art while sipping my earl grey tea with honey. God Bless this man.

[@gilgemash]

Patrick...i did a double take with my ears... I thought, it was Carl Sagan👑.... 👻😷

[@mr.wigglemunch3856]

The chance to get a glimpse of these surfaces like Titan, Mars the moon and all the real images of these planets to me is amazing and a privilege. Leaving this life without ever seeing these images is such a waste.

[@andrewm478]

Agreed. I have never seen rocks so beautiful they make my own family look like dirt.

[@aaronwilson9763]

What a beautiful SUN! To see the perspective of the SUN in a sky from an alien world (even if through robotics and other tech)...is truly amazing; a spectacle of human curiosity and genius!

[@sebastienj.c.218]

Yeah, wow, so proud. I wonder if we shouldn't start saving people from starvation or.. Nah let's keep going to random moons with hundreds of millions of dollars every year to film some yellow rocks. Sounds great :) The hobos can wait, we gotta get to Pluto.. It's... it's vital bro !

[@jasonvoorhees8545]

@@sebastienj.c.218 You go do that then Rob, while you're doing that maybe a crackhead will shank you in the back for good measure and do us all a favor in shutting you up lol

[@sebastienj.c.218]

@@jasonvoorhees8545 Come again when you have something interesting to say, thanks.

[@jasonvoorhees8545]

@@sebastienj.c.218 I was a little tired and cranky last night, I apologize. That being said, you go save the world if you so choose, that's fine. Not everyone has those goals in life and some people cannot be saved no matter how hard you try to save them. Life is cruel like that, it lets you down hard and kicks you in face. Let science be science, some people like it, it gives them an outlet. People pour their life's work into these missions, it's how they feed their families and put their kids thru school. if you think you can save the world then have at er Rob, let's see if you can save the people that I couldn't....

[@sebastienj.c.218]

​@@jasonvoorhees8545 ​ I appreciate your comment and forgive you for being rude as it happened to me in the past as well. I would be extremely arrogant to even think for a second that I can save the world, but you gotta put the goal high if you want to get somewhere, so why not ;) I understand that people have to live their life according to their beliefs and that most of them gave up on spirituality or never touched it. But we have to keep in mind that maybe, just maybe, truth is what will save us from living our lives the wrong way, away from God. Science is only trying to explain God's creation. Some scientists saw God through their research because of the complexity of life and nature laws, some others kept rejecting the idea of God, and some hated God to the point that they worked on a plan to explain the Creation without God. From the point of view of a person who knows God is real and doesn't want others to be decieved, it is an urge to open other people's eyes but the response you get when doing that is often rough, as if you were trying to harm them while actually doing the very opposite. I recently found that quote : The only barrier to truth is the presumption that you already have it. - Chuck Missler I think that explains very well why people won't listen. They think they know. Taking some time to sit down and admit they could be wrong about the way they see the world and life would be a waste of time in their mind, sadly. Have a blessed day, I'll keep doing my thing ;)

[@B__SYAHRULMUBAROK]

Somewhere in that moon bunch of dude is fighting a big purple guy

[@robertnew4507]

Yah should've gone for the head.

[@magonus195]

That's sexist.

[@briantannenbaum8110]

Robert New that was on earth

[@tommeng6522]

Lol titan

[@qxotuffy1280]

@@thebrunoserge i thought it was the marvel thing

[@foodice11]

I feel I should point this out to everyone who thinks this is a fake and to those that think it's real. This is neither. It's as fake and as real as Google Earth. Huygens did not take footage, but a great many photos. Some are grainier due to being farther away. It's constructed using real images that were probably in black and white as to get the greatest exposure and capture the most surface detail. Color is added in later based on what we know of the materials.

[@pawelkoscielski1]

This comment deserves thousands of likes (ups! l need to come down on earth... huh)

[@hildea.e3319]

For some, that says it all, for others, it is, all good, and that's too, sad. 🙇

[@slingdang]

but why couldn't they just put a decent camera on the damn thing?

[@DFxyzzz]

then just show us some real still images, not some bullshit simulation. all fantasy.

[@gazoo-pl4nx]

im sure it does, just like the mars rovers. however they choose to show you low resolution grainy garbage images......what are they hiding?@@slingdang

[@kieronjohn6334]

I've been there, few years back, it was boring and crap and cold, couldn't find a shop to get tobacco or beer, never again, still no shops here where I am right now but it's nice and warm here on venus, crazy how bt came and installed WiFi to

[@anshu_108]

🤣🤣

[@cizzie219]

So many NASA experts on KZbin. I had no idea.

[@BitGridTV]

+Johnny Boy its a speed-expert as well. look at the counter man!!!

[@date_vape]

That smell... it smells like... bullshit! and its not coming from my backside, its coming from you.

[@CharlieWhiskeyGolf]

This has to be the saddest exchange of words possible on this video. I feel sorry for your children unless you were thoughtful enough to not procreate.

[@XV250]

Not difficult if you try reading once in a while.

[@date_vape]

LS650 Not really... You'd have to be specifically be reading astronomy articles and media... Something that a lot of people don't do or have time for. It's not like you can just pick up any book and learn this stuff.. You have to seek it out.

[@ThexDynastxQueen]

...Wait, we landed a probe on Titan? I didn't even know! You'd think that would be super huge news for like a decade cause that some amazing shit.

[@Airbiscuitmaker]

+The Dynast Queen No, technically a cute CGI animation has been made of it.

[@aesericho3651]

+The Dynast Queen it was probably in the news, but celebrity gossip probably out weighed it considering people are more interested in who's dating who than scientific achievements that explore the universe (solar system in this case) around us

[@patb5266]

+Aeser Icho isn't that the truth lol.

[@The_Bad_Guy.]

Aeser Icho um well yeah we had to see the latest Kim Kardashian/Kanye West tweet about the eggs they made for breakfast!!! landing on an alien celestial body is back page stuff!

[@MultiScrotch]

This was in 2005 and this had been super huge new on TV and papers in 2005

[@javierharth3647]

Wow, amazing stuff! The view from Cassini towards Orion has cemented my conception of direction in space. Up until now I have only imagined what was clearly visible today. Thank you for such valuable sight, and insight! Brilliant video.

[@mistreme8341]

Big things have small beginnings.

[@allanfada9830]

How can you not marvel in pure awe at mans thirst for knowledge. His desire to reach out with mechanical fingers and eyes and make tracks on a world where our bodies would simply shrivel away on.

[@gothiksaintt]

R.I.P Casinni 1997 - 2017 :( we will all miss you cassini-hugyens :(

[@cristoferjimenez8126]

F

[@franmellor9843]

I agree end of an era fantastic work done

[@estedav1093]

Superbes moments avec Cassini 🛰

[@williamjameslehy1341]

'But without religion, how will people find meaning in existence? How can they perceive grandeur, beauty, a transcendent sense of the sublime?' Like this.

[@untruereal]

+Jacob Hoss *tips fedora*

[@williamjameslehy1341]

meme machine *Euphoria intensifies*

[@polarisworks]

+Jacob Hoss astrology :)

[@user-earthandfire]

+Jacob Hoss we shall find meaning in the exploration of the stars...our destiny to spread LIFE, through out the galaxy. that's why we are here... it is simple... you will die and cease to be.. like the multitude before you, just like me..... spirit is an illusion, just like the Buddha said 2500 years ago... WAKE UP

[@telesniper2]

+Jacob Hoss What, from fake hoax CGI? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAH

[@ZeitGeist_TV]

Time to land a rover on Titan.

[@ExtantFrodo2]

+Michael Simmons YEAH! Methane powered rover keeps on going and going and going...

[@BloodySeaGullsRoss]

Deploy a balloon that can circumnavigate the moon with a rover attached of coarse.

[@Error_404_Account_Deleted]

just not a Land Rover, we need to send something that works. :)

[@mariovidmar7]

HomicidalNun666 robonaut maybe robotic astronaut controlled from safe distance ?

[@plumbus483]

With an atmosphere so dense we could probably fill a balloon full of oxygen and float it around the surface.

[@grahamck]

Knowing what happened during the descent of Huygens - the sun sensor malfunctioning and the probe occasionally spinning in the wrong direction - I'd like to thank everyone that worked for years to put these images together in this way - I know it was a monumental undertaking and it is very much appreciated. UofA - you rock!

[@honour123]

Amazing. Plus a chemical mix that has never been seen before on Earth!!! Absolutely Amazing!!!

[@sizanogreen9900]

might be a complex chemical process at work here, maybe even a form of life, it would be really amazing if we would send a well equipped rover over there^^, I bet the images of methane lakes and rivers would be amazing...

[@honour123]

Sizano Green Agree!!!!

[@Simonsays7258]

This is the coolest thing I've ever seen! 🤯

[@c.guibbs1238]

Actually, it's very cool up there...

[@FS-me8mj]

Nice pun👍

[@trafficjon400]

ON THE TELLIE

[@davidlang1125]

Very cool @ -180 degrees celsius

[@keithode1737]

Most of these comments prove as a species, we're fucked.

[@magicalfungi3206]

i wish it wasn't true...

[@keithode1737]

Magical Fungi Me too. How sad. I really hope our species hasn't already reached its scientific zenith. If Islam, women and the American education system have their way, we likely already have.

[@mnkwazi]

Why do you say that?

[@greenbird777]

Make a list of the top 25 scientists of the past 200 years. It would NOT be a list of white, American, Christian males who managed to do great things despite the lousy American educational system. Oh, and I hope you never break a bone, or need a bullet proof vest...

[@magicalfungi3206]

Christine Coles what is your point and who are you trying to make it to? seems like you commented on the wrong thread...

[@projectfreedom9510]

I really hope within my lifetime to see a video of a actual landing on a different planet. Not the moon landing, but Mars or Venus.

[@rauminen4167]

Mars, most likely. Landing a crewed craft on Venus is... inadvisable to say the least :D We could use a kind of... Zeppelin though.

[@MrMichaelBCurtis]

President Trump is planning one, a moon base to launch it from is in the works.

[@rauminen4167]

@@MrMichaelBCurtis Yeahm he would have done it too. I'm thinking Harris is going to cut the funding for that because of "equality" or something.

[@jamesbon1]

We’ve landed on Mars to the equivalent of this video, via a probe. Humans is another matter. I suppose extended stays would be the plan. I know the a Trump administration was part of the drive to unite government and the private sector and get the space program going again. I can see the frequent launches from my home in FL. Sadly, that might come to a stop again.

[@vijay-jw8gq]

you got ur wish, perseverance recorded the ladning

[@refinedhayseedappalachian9777]

The view of the sun from Titan is an unexpected treat.

[@gailhowes9398]

Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful video, everything is so clear and the narration explained extremely well!

[@Eguys]

The narrator is Dr. Sky! I hear him every week on Coast to Coast AM!

[@JuliusCaesar888]

No you don't.

[@Eguys]

@@JuliusCaesar888 haha funny guy

[@illogical1421]

0:00 Look how small we are.

[@planetpatrick1]

EXCELLENT VIDEO AND SOUND,, OUR SINCERE CONGRATULATIONS to the space-com team,, best regards from LOS ROBLES ASTRONOMY CLUB. located in Maracaibo,Venezuela, best regards. Prof Patrick Morton and students !!!

[@xtevetyler5332]

wow a solar transit of the earth and moon as seen from saturn, now you dont see that often, so cool damn it, amazing

[@BruceThomson]

Beautiful, magnificent. Thank you for posting this for everyone to see. Such a huge amount of work to successfully sent a craft and camera there and land it, send back these awesome views never seen until now. Bruce Thomson in New Zealand.

[@1956Caddy]

A landing animation is not a real footage. If you can't even see the difference, why bother to spend millions of dollars going over there ?

[@BruceThomson]

- Oops, I was a dumbo in a rush and didn't notice it was an animation. It was a nice thrill while it lasted, and one day is likely to be realized. - To answer your question about why spend millions exploring... - I quite agree about priorities for spending, but all life has this natural drive to trial-and-error explore its boundaries and limits, even at mortal risk to self and species. - This will happen everywhere eternally because nature rewards it by surviving groups that do (because they discover new and better ways of surviving), and disadvantaging to extinction the groups that don't (because they miss out on the new and better ways). It includes businesses too. - It's not an 'intelligent, deliberate' process, just a mechanical phenomenon of natural selection. = )

[@glenw1740]

honest mistake, Bruce!

[@florian619]

The animation was made from real pictures, taken by the probe while descending on titans surface. A great example of what outer space has to offer. Maybe in the near future we will be able to see this beauty with our own eyes.

[@keithwallis9799]

All "real footage" is animation. Just a matter of the process used to display the frames together in sequence. Would you call an old Skype call at 8 frames per second animation or real footage? What about slow-motion or fast-forward video?

[@edwardharley9]

Astounding images... and I thought landing on Mars was thrilling! This beats all !!

[@philipellis4530]

I must admit these guys from Video from space have a fantastic imagination, trouble is many people truly believe in this, I use ABC, Accept nothing, Believe no one, Challenge everything, then do your own research.

[@C4rnee]

@@philipellis4530 "believe no one" and "do your own research" doesn't quite fit together. Theres no way you'll send probes to planets of the solar system to find out what they're made up of

[@Nemsesis3624]

@@philipellis4530 You are soo stupid...

[@lycanthoss]

@@philipellis4530 doing your own research is good an all, but there is no way in hell you'll have the money to send probes to titan, so you just have to trust nasa on this, they have no reason to fake this and if you think they do then sorry, but you're stupid.

[@lycanthoss]

I just wish the images we got of titan were as good as the new mars images.

[@Be_Nice1200]

I wonder when Thanos shows up

[@lesseirgpapers9245]

So fossil fuels on Titan? So much for the ridiculous fossil fuel theory. Modern science is a joke. As example moder physics..All these overblown terms. Spooky action at a distance are out the scam artist playbook. This is a real interesting explanation of light kzbin.info/www/bejne/aZCaZJqtaL6ZlbM Reply

[@wowaround6601]

J V That is even more landscape realistic than this

[@VortexBricks]

It will never. Thanos doesn’t exist on me

[@troodon1096]

Need 10 years of movies here before that happens.

[@ortherner]

This is not Titan from the Movies.

[@bimmjim]

This is a good little documentary. I especially like the time/distance/speed display on the lower right. However, please get rid of the music. No documentary should ever have music on it. Never , ever. . . Music only harms the purpose of any documentary. .

[@s.bokowski8627]

bimmjim Right about that . Even when i was a kid at Dizney World - the music ruined everything , brainwashing. Documentary dont need music , just the extra data.

[@arif1984may]

it's amazing just to realize that there are such a worlds in our Solar system

[@MTC008]

they say that titan has a oil i have a feeling if NASA is going to colonize it for it's oil resources

[@Fraplu]

@@MTC008 try to keep it down on mentioning the oil. the US hears about this and they'll have troops on titan within a decade

[@MTC008]

@@Fraplu hahahaha

[@mickobrien3156]

Seeing our moon trailing behind Earth during the Earth's transit past Saturn... it's just so amazing to actually see our planet and moon to scale like this. The moon really is like a little dingleberry hanging off Earth's nut sack, but it's still cool to see it.

[@kashre]

You sure know how to class a joint up

[@lcobb5214]

Opening vid is not to scale. The sun is 865,000 miles across and 93,000,000 m Iles from earth

[@mickobrien3156]

@@lcobb5214 Dude... It's perfectly to scale except you're forgetting this picture was taken 2 billion miles from us, by Saturn's orbit near Titan. What you don't realize is how far back the Sun is from this video. The Sun would only expand out of frame if we began to fly in closer and closer. But from out by Titan's orbit.... This is a real video. It's not a matter of being 'to scale'. We can see transits of Venus crossing the Sun right here on Earth and we see something just like this, despite how much larger the Sun is than Venus. You're confusing the actual size of Earth and Moon and the Sun to a side-by-side image, as if all 3 were all next to each other. Only in that case would the scale be wrong. But, sorry, sir, you're completely wrong here. I say this because I don't think you appreciate what you're seeing in this video if you think the scale is all wrong. It's actual video (granted, not 24 fps like you're perhaps used to, but it's still a video).

[@mickobrien3156]

​@@kashre Ha! Sorry, perhaps that was a bit crass.

[@OzzmaticTheGeneral]

@@mickobrien3156 this is a real video? LOL no, it's not..... they said that on the moon there was a delay in communication between them on earth and them in space.... this delay was minutes... So you are telling me that they can communicate with machines as far out as saturn and predict at which times to take photos???? You would have to compensate for a delay so large that when you actually took the photos WHO KNOWS where the satelite would be..... LOL...= FAKE.... IF they can control a satelite millions of miles away how come they can't control a vehicle from another continent? that tech doesnt exist... because it doesnt exist. thats why.

[@dynjarren7523]

Great Video! It actually feels like your visiting this moon. What great footage and it’s so exotic looking. When it lands you see stones on the surface of this planet 🌎 which is familiar looking and yet it is a completely barren world. Fascinating views!

[@deetice2457]

Good luck

[@avidnongetit8710]

Just. Incredible! Thank you to everyone who made this possible for all humanity to see and enjoy! I hope we continue to use technology for our betterment.

[@thetinman5030]

Yea....the technology is called CGI

[@darth856]

Well, the CGI is based on actual photographs, so what's the problem?

[@thetinman5030]

@@darth856 no problem.. there aren't any planets.

[@darth856]

They have only been observed by the naked eye for thousands of years, but whatever dude

[@MarkoTribe]

@@thetinman5030 bruh

[@bhangrafan4480]

The large hydrocarbon lakes on Titan were found and mapped years ago by the Synthetic Aperture Radar on Cassini.

[@Krish-jm6ve]

1/7 that of earth, similar to that of our moon

[@haley1254]

His narration is so beautiful. It brought ke to tears to simultaneously realise how neglegent we are with earth. 😭

[@1503nemanja]

On Titan the air is so dense and the gravity so weak you could just about fly by flapping your arms. If you strapped on some wings you'd fly like a bird. Just imagine that, I am so envious of the future people who might experience that. :P

[@gavinstarks2761]

1503nemanja Same, though I imagine it would be difficult for humans to fly.

[@keithwallis9799]

Who are "they"? The people who can calculate what's required to lift an object above a surface based on gravity and differential air pressure? Or do you mean our reptilian shapeshifting overlords?

[@qwadratix]

Dunno where you got that - but it's wrong. Titans atmosphere is slightly denser than ours (about 1.5 atmospheres) and it's mainly Nitrogen (98%). Apart from the lack of Oxygen, you probably wouldn't notice much difference. You could use a simple respirator (scuba tank style) to walk around. But there's no way you could fly.

[@darthinvaderzimm]

I imagine a lot of people who “try it at home” on Triton will end up breaking their necks a lot then by landing wrong.

[@fromagefrizzbizz9377]

+Verruca the gravity on Titan is about 1/8th that of earth. Couple that with a 50% higher pressure providing more lift per wing beat, you probably could fly. Easier if you did it inside a large pressurized habitat where you didn't have to carry breathing gear. Can you swim with 1/8th your body weight in lead weights? With the right gear, you can. You'd tire out really fast tho.

[@toamaori]

what an amazing view that would be sitting just above the atmospheric haze under a blue sky with saturn floating above in all it's glory.

[@Iconoclasher]

I wonder what precautions are taken to make sure the parachute doesn't land on and cover up the probe. If there's zero wind speed, could be possible.

[@Radnugget]

It has a lot of wind, very slow, but persistent wind. Thick atmospheres like this have some extremely powerful but slow winds.

[@bernardputersznit64]

thank you for this - loved the musical tour down to Titan's surface

[@wallacegeller2111]

Fantastic. I wish I could go there and explore. I'm to old but one day some of young people will be able to explore moons and planets. Exciting.

[@AuthorityCat]

They already are! Don't discredit everything that's already happened, like this video for instance. "Walking around" on a planet or moon is not nearly as important as what is already being done.

[@candidcomments292]

Dude you don't want to walk on titan. Mars is warm by comparison.

[@dink72115]

Thanos was right. They really did mess that place up.

[@ortherner]

What the hell are you talking about?

[@dink72115]

@@ortherner That was Thanos' home planet. Where have you been?

[@coderspathway]

this titan is different from thanos titan

[@dink72115]

@@coderspathway idiot

[@coderspathway]

@@dink72115 you idiot Go search on google.

[@huygensmario9446]

What a nice memory. I was the Huygens operations system engineer. Simply fantastic

[@laloleon8443]

Are those real liquid rivers ? How amazing to be one of the first ones to see this your thoughts on extraterrestrial life on Titan ? I know not any type of intelligent life forms but any type of life forms you think might exist?

[@huygensmario9446]

@@laloleon8443 yes they are. All real images

[@huygensmario9446]

@@laloleon8443 difficult to say. It was such an emotion to be able to see something which no human has seen before and to have been an active part of it

[@ThomasKundera]

@@huygensmario9446 : Thanks for your work and to drop in here 🙂

[@huygensmario9446]

@@ThomasKundera 😊

[@glennwelsh9784]

It is really remarkable to be able to see photographs from the surface of one of Saturn's moons. They're the kind of images once thought impossible that humans would ever get to see.

[@kamuroshow4884]

I don't care how much taxes these missions cost... GO! coolest science ever. This is so beautyful.

[@aaroncoelho-irani4460]

Good to see that Thanos' was right about his planet

[@gavinodonoghue9523]

Aaron Coelho-Irani Titan is a moon

[@ajdipalma2146]

Moon dumbass

[@ortherner]

Uh this is not Titan from the Movies.

[@randomname5585]

@Dylan Stewart don't forget about Ganymede and titan are also both bigger than mercury.

[@shikigranbell7608]

@@ortherner planet titan is marvel comicbook planet not a movie planet.

[@raine8553]

3:21 is it so bad camera? (some seconds before touchdown) or its animation? yes I understand it other planet and it 1997 year camera

[@thegreatoutagesign9204]

The probe has many sensors and other telemetry that had to be sent back to earth, like atmosphere composition etc, and because of the distance they had to sacrifice speed to be able to have the data be intact when it returns. because of this the bandwidth used to broadcast said data is very limited. This makes it extremely impractical to send back a video. So what we got is a series of images and a ton of other information, and we used this information to reconstruct the whole landing into a seamless video. When the probe has actually landed you can see the original image to the left of the video. Hope this helps!

[@craig4451]

How do they determine East West South, etc on a non-earth sphere? the moon has no magnetic pole does it?

[@noggix3313]

A lot of our objects in the solar system have the same "level", that means you can "look" at them and tell thats up, down, left and right.

[@barnesj0007]

Absolutely spectacular! I bet NASA wishes they had a 360 view camera on that probe when landing!

[@bitcubik]

Huygens was built by ESA

[@turujeegamer3739]

I can’t imagine how terrifying Titans would be in real life

[@okrajoe]

Fascinating science. Amazing worlds and discoveries await!

[@TheNathanEverest]

sounds like seth rogan trying to sound like neil degrasse tyson

[@Coco-td2ty]

Not deception, it's reality.

[@chefgiovanni]

Thanks for sharing the video and your thoughts.

[@MachineThatCreates]

Sensational images. Such a far away place but we get a front row seat. I'm impressed.

[@MrHerodoto]

That video is amazing. Just magnificent!

[@shuearie6869]

How lucky are we to witness such features from our home?

[@alphamineron]

How fucked are we to have people who straight out ignore the evidence, call everything fake and drag our civilisation into darkness day by day because they are in power and think Science is a hoax and space exploration is a waste of money whereas military funding to abuse poor people is not! Yea, Its a fucking dark world..........

[@shuearie6869]

Right you are friend. It's 2017 and the mass delusion continues.

[@JaStvarno]

AlphaMineron bravo!

[@FirstNameLastName-gu1mu]

Actually, titan is not our home. Titan is a moon of saturn with 98% nitrogen. This means that we are not on titan, we can't fly with artificial wings. We actually live on Earth, this footage is from titan. It's basic science.

[@danielandrews7378]

perhaps you misconstrued her grammatical meaning... just saying. I did not take it as meaning she believed we were on Titan. Although, this person may be a nut and I might be wrong.

[@kevinpyne5808]

No coronavirus on Titan. Let's go and start life again.

[@orlandinabellini395]

Magnifica visione!!!! quando Heughens atterro'"non avremmo mai immaginato di vedere tutti questi particolari come se fossimo stati a bordo della sonda

[@puchopucho7790]

i have to make clear that this probe was launched in 1997 and this is an animation made of photos this probe captured. I'ts obvious the quality will not be the best, it's not a fucking go pro, duh

[@newhorizons2409]

2:25 what are these other out-of-this-world features that are being blurred out? Titan's area 51?

[@PD-ws4td]

Humans weren’t supposed to go that far, so the universe simulation hasn’t rendered that part properly yet. Hopefully it will be fixed next patch.

[@newhorizons2409]

@@PD-ws4td 😂😂😂 good one, gamer. That's exactly how it seems.

[@Sashazur]

Nothing’s being blurred out. They are trying to zoom into a part of a photo that is flatter and more boring than the areas around it, so as you zoom more and more you see less and less detail.

[@wmaxeyindiana]

Somewhere in space we are someone's evening entertainment.

[@lvgeorge]

No Sparks on this Huygens - Titan Landing! And, -180C is Very COOOLD! An Amazing achievement being able to land on another planet or asteroid and gather data to expand our knowledge of life. I Sincerely hope our Scientists will keep Exploring with success and Humanity will Survive, in a Peace World!

[@raccooncafe5689]

Imagine how much of a bruh moment it'd be if Hyugenes crashed directly into some alien skyscraper.

[@Vicorcivius]

Is there any clear high def images of Titans surface that don't look like a computer generated/rendered mess?

[@aditya-ml6km]

nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/titan_images.html here you can find all the raw images. Cassini- huygens was launched in1997.

[@carltaylor4942]

Right at the end you can make out ET cycling past the sun...

[@bolinocroustibat]

Easily the most fascinating space mission ever done according to me, along Pioneer, Voyager and Venera missions.

[@dommyajd9033]

the piece of music playing in the background is Beethoven's emperor piano concerto 2nd movement

[@SanjanaRanasingha]

Thanks

[@troytempest4918]

Most interesting, but I wouldn't build a hotel there just yet.

[@MrKzup]

The Dragonfly mission will be so awesome :)

[@streamtree3383]

people complain about the cost of the space program but these images are inspiring. please make more.

[@tanmaypojge1773]

I was hoping to kind of see a giant saturn on the sky but is still awesome

[@prismaticbeetle3194]

this is amazing makes u wish u can just go there right now

[@memegaminghd7561]

I will go there

[@Sem5626]

please go there

[@memegaminghd7561]

Sem I will *wink wink

[@prismaticbeetle3194]

Richard Moloney thats what space suits and colony pods are for :P

[@JojoushiPWI]

Fantasy wise yes, but realistically there would be no way we could live on any surface where the atmospheric and surface conditions are primarily made of methane--or liquid methane for that matter. No space suit or colony would survive that type of cold and gaseous environment.

[@lightningrod1063]

Did we get a view of Saturn from Titan? The probe looked up at the Sun. Did it ever turn it's head to see the planet? I wanna know how huge it is in the sky.

[@clarkfeeley1959]

Good question, though I'd imagine it would take up nearly the entire sky.

[@lightningrod1063]

Yet somehow we've seen no photos. Seems someone would have thought of trying to get that shot. I'd also love to see a shot taken from the surface of Our moon during a total lunar eclipse. The ring surrounding Earth would be epic.

[@clarkfeeley1959]

Lightning Rod I'm guessing that Titan probably blocks out a lot of light from its rise on the horizon. It was probably not an opportune time to try to get daylight pics from the surface during the landing. A total lunar eclipse from the moon's perspective in all fairness, doesn't make much sense. It's just the moon in the way of the sun casting a shadow.

[@lightningrod1063]

Not sure I have it backwards but I get what you're saying. What is eclipsed depends where the observer stands. If I send a probe to the moon to capture the photo I described, the probe would be photographing a total solar eclipse during a total lunar eclipse. Tricky language. I want to suggest this as a challenge to any Google X Prize participants. First team to get the eclipse shot wins a million bucks or something like that. Also, I'm pretty sure there would still be a spectacular red ring surrounding Earth. It's size isn't great enough to prevent the sunlight from shining through. In fact, that's what makes the moon glow red during a lunar eclipse. It's the red glow of a planetwide sunset on Earth. It would be quite a site from the moon.

[@XV250]

Titan is in a 'tidal lock' with Saturn. Like the Earth's Moon, Titan always keeps the same face towards its parent planet. That means that wherever you are on Titan (or our own Moon with Earth) the planet Saturn doesn't move around much. If I remember correctly, Huygens landed on a part of Titan where you could never see Saturn, even if you could look through the haze.

[@whitesimurgh6363]

It's scary and beautiful... A foreign alien world revolving around Saturn so so far away from the comfort of our home, Terra! 🌍

[@danksanchez4324]

“They called me a madman” “It was, It was my home and it was beautiful”

[@ratamacue0320]

It is unfortunate that you obscured the text in the lower right corner with your channel logo.

[@XV250]

Great video - really gives you a good idea of what it would be like to visit Titan.

[@unadin4583]

except for how cold it would be

[@Radonatos]

+LS650 Absolutely - knowing that this is _real_ data from a _real_ planet made this video more impressive than any special-fx scifi movie ever could be.

[@mrspidey80]

It's a moon, not a planet ;)

[@XV250]

No need to be nitpicky. :(

[@unadin4583]

Didn't the Ewoks live on a moon?

[@stefano2069]

These authentic and precious images and videos should be spread more on the web.