Venus Death of a Planet 4k

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Published 2020-10-16
Billions of years ago, our nearest planetary neighbor, Venus, may have harbored lakes, oceans, and life-giving habitats similar to those on the early Earth. Today, Venus spins slowly in a backward direction. It's a planet knocked upside down and turned inside out. Its burned-out surface is a global fossil of volcanic destruction, shrouded in a dense, toxic atmosphere. Scientists have come to see Venus as the alien planet “next door,” a laboratory for testing ideas about how planets evolve and the challenges they face in nurturing life. They are now unveiling daring new strategies to reach down to its hostile surface. From floating bases stationed high in Venus’ atmosphere, they hope to send down new generation probes to search for clues from a time when the planet was alive. How did Venus descend into this hellish state? And how did its sister planet, Earth, manage to survive?

All Comments (21)
  • @billy4734
    Props to the cameraman for having to go into such a hostile atmosphere
  • @Magic_dawn
    its frightening and also weirdly exciting to think that Venus was once like Earth. 10/10 video
  • The lack of a large moon may be a factor in venus’ condition as well. Lack of rotation also allows the surface to get hotter. The lack of rotation may be due to a large collision that didn’t form a moon and due to Venus being closer to the sun, making it locked to the sun’s gravity. Fascinating stuff regardless.
  • @mike814031
    I love how they narrate these videos, it's like it takes you on a ride through the solar system and you forget about everything else because it's so captivating, that's the difference between such a good documentary like this one, and others
  • @Foxxnioxx
    You know the video's gonna be intense when the first subtitle is (intense music).
  • The Venus cloud city concept is an insane, super cool idea. Human ingenuity and hardiness will never cease to amaze me.
  • @StaticBlaster
    Venus is a remarkable planet despite its harsh and extreme atmosphere.
  • This is the first time I've heard that there is a 'habitable' zone 54 miles from the surface of the planet in the atmosphere. Amazing.
  • @jus10lewissr
    The fact that 3 planets within one solar system (Venus, Earth and Mars) all had liquid oceans and were likely all capable of supporting life at one time really supports the belief that our galaxy (and the entire universe, for that matter) is riddled with Earth-like exoplanets. I know we've discovered plenty in the last couple decades but I hope I live long enough to see a technologically advanced telescope capable of getting a close-up look at some of them, even if it's only about as close as looking at the earth from the moon.
  • I think we should start exploring venus as much as possible you never know how much we may find out things which we need to know. Airships are indeed a way to do that. I would love to see what it looks like in visable sunlight.
  • sounds like one of the most important parts of forming an "earth" is getting hit by a mars size planet at just the right angle to send it spinning like a topand turning the core into a dynamo
  • @zinmomo7192
    I've always loved space documentaries like this, ever since I was 10 :) Thank you for uploading this! Its like a sort of asmr, I'll sleep well after this💫🌠
  • I find it fascinating that Venus spins at the same speed that a person walks. Lol, you could basically fast forward your day by driving in to the direction of the sunrise if you wanted.
  • @mark.083
    For a split second I thought he said venereal landers, and spat my coffee out!!!
  • @R1Willem
    Thank you David Sky Brody. It is magnificent. I hope more people get the chance to behold this epic story of our sister planet. So much we don’t know yet
  • @tommygreist9560
    I love Space Rip. I've been watching it since I first discovered it on Hulu years ago. I miss the old commentator. He was the perfect guy for the job.
  • I'm not sure why but this documentary puts me to sleep so well. That notwithstanding, once I finally watched it I found it fascinating.