Landing On Titan

[humzayunas2]

wowwwwwwwwwww what a great landing

[academicroach]

i did nor know this and now its 2011 ! yaaay nasa!

[ChrisRenucci]

@academicroach Huygens was made by ESA. Nasa made the Cassini, which flew around Titan.

[academicroach]

@ChrisRenucci so the ESA managed to land something on titan?

[academicroach]

Svara på det här videoklippet... 

[ChrisRenucci]

@academicroach yes, Im not sure why the comment of EuroGuy is marked as spam, but he is in most points right. We have missions on mars, moon, sun (not really on it, more of an orbit around sun ;) etc. But you will see that today, most projects are an cooperation, mostly ESA/NASA but also more and more others, like Russia, China and India. Science in Space is very expensive and the goals of NASA and ESA are the same. For more informations, you can check wikipedia.

[academicroach]

@ChrisRenucci i will thank you :)

[marginallymental]

I never did hear what happened to little Huygens. Did it freeze? Implode?

[malkyouns]

i want to go there.

[PatrickT22]

It has flashing lights and epic sounds. It MUST be scientific

[Cachicochip]

The readings and signal sounds are an orchestra to me. The biggest disappointment about knowing that I'm going to die some day is knowing that I wont live enough to see a deeper space exploration. Like an influent person from my country once said: I'm not afraid of death, I'm afraid of not being alive!

[Axgoodofdunemaul]

First look at a new world. I am so glad I have lived long enough to see this. Thanks for posting this.

[jmccuen]

That poor poor spacecraft, doomed to spend the rest of its existence on a desolate, cold, windy planet

[monkpkey]

Final air temp reading -180 C :(( , also probe says 146.7 AB air pressure , whats earths AB air pressure at sea level ?

IF i had untold amounts of money i would surely have a lab/facilities/warehouses with huge chambers housing same data studied from mars surface and titan, recreating almost same surface conditions and trying to grow plant life , cross breeding plants , trying to make something grow !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! just incase theres nothing out there on those two planets

[Y0uEnj0yMyself]

how crazy is it that we land ships on planets 400 million miles away? Mind boggling. I really hope humans achieve all the great things that I know we can as a species.

[ScottishNelf]

this is just amazing

[branzombie]

If I threw a talking digital camera at a rock, my mom would yell at me.

[flymanwebster]

@branzombie how old are you? 5 years old? your joke failed

[branzombie]

Sucks that they threw such a feature-rich digital camera at an orange rock. :\

[speedcheese]

this is amazing considering they were only able to receive half the data

[xambius0]

that is so cool

.......and it sounds like The Orb, Towers Of Dub!!!!!

[jwesolowski80]

That was awesome!

[DerPLODCC]

Interest that... all of that had about 1 hour and 10 minutes delay!!!! so.... when JPL/NASA 'd had watched that thing... the ship was already grounded about an hour! Amazinnnnggg

[GelandnaleG]

3:33pm Saturday (CST) - Time in Mississippi

C:CCm AlexanddriaST) - Time in Mississippi

[Alexanddria]

You think these comments are 'retarded'? Just wait until someone asks for an mp3 of this.

Thanks for posting this, by the way.

[dyldyldylwiiwiiwii]

Dont worry if somone is interested enough in science to search this up then they should know what the sounds mean. its not retarded at all

[ixonixas]

LOL xDD 

[Warren111able]

..it is a fantastic representation-where did you get it?

[inc2000glw]

...Remix !!!! LOL

[mXmVideos]

It's amazing that we can transmit and receive this much data over such a huge distance... Does anyone know how long it took the data to arrive from this probe?

[icannotfly]

@mXmVideos divide the distance between earth and saturn by the speed of light

[icannotfly]

did anyone else get a bit sad when the signal strength dipped to zero?

[Quantumjolt]

Wow - looks like the scientists are also visual and audio artists! This is a great idea with the sound indicating all the data changes.

[Salvin14]

Something really prodigious.

[EarthSoldier3]

Amazing.

[riverratt101]

The Moon foot photo with man at a known distance in the background is for perspective dumb-dumb

[subzeromind]

Please find this in HD PLEASE!

[6SpAr6TAN69]

so they landed on Titan? no shit, they aint morons like I thought they were wasting our money.

Now only if we could win the Iraq, Afghan wars then our money will not be wasted there either.

[histermx]

Dios mio que maravilla, que hermoso

[icannotfly]

every time i watch this, i see something new.

[SydEllPops]

Are those foot prints at 3:58 ? lol

[dwmcm1]

@SydEllPops Hmm Yea, The photo on the left looks like a photo of a moon footprint, and at the top I think you can see a man and a flag. Yea, I'm sure of it. Wonder why thats there.

[wiyowiyo4]

why don't they attach better and more cameras so that we can see better look? The quality? how much did they spend on it and only has one photo? i don't understand, even as a physicist. Correct me.

[icannotfly]

@wiyowiyo4 it's about bandwidth. none of this data is stored on the probe itself; it all has to be transmitted back to earth.

[gqdr77]

INcredible!

[amtek666]

lol the sound funny!

[ionglacier]

Frick

our tech is so cool now a days

[ThArt001]

FANTASTIC!!!!

[mjmerie]

Is this video real?  Looks like it's from a video game or something. Regarding alternative energy....oil will be replaced by solar, nuclear, and hyrdrogen (made from solar or nuclear electricity and water) in less than 50 years.

[naflodii]

Sadly, humans will never visit another planet. Once we run out of Oil we will return to the days of horse and buggy. Our children will live impoverished lifes.

[nataliaisuglyandfea]

fucking retard if we run out of oil we will find an alternative resource like vegetable oil or some shit

[naflodii]

it takes more oil to harvest vegetable oil than it produces. Humanity is doomed.

[nataliaisuglyandfea]

still wil find other alternative resources like i dont know uuu sun energy?

[jackwolf131]

@naflodii fat chance

[Ramshobraja]

Whic moon has the heated oceans?

[BlueStarFlower]

@Ramshobraja You're probably talking about Io. It's thought the oceans are heated underneath the exterior ice sheet by Jupiter's gravity (tidal effects)

[gqdr77]

You mean Europa, not Io. Europa (a moon of Jupiter) has the ice sheets. Io (also a moon of Jupiter) is the most volcanically active body in the solar system.

[BlueStarFlower]

@gqdr77 Quite right, I think I must've wrote that half asleep. Yes, Europa is the ice moon. Though technically I suppose Io does have heated oceans, just made of molten rock instead of water lol. Anyhow, I stand corrected.

[leegolas14]

lol my school is called huygens

[KadajSouba]

The sounds that are sinchronized with the circular screen... are those the pictures that the probe is taking????

[G0dsAssassin]

lmao wtf

[Snowwie888]

No. What you see here is the descending Huygens probe. While descending it took thousands of pictures. These pictures have been put together to get this "film". As you keep watching you notice the ground is getting closer and closer. The sounds are added later.

[arlpainbringer]

Yes i know that. But it doesn't change fact that it looks and sounds ridiculous and silly.

[chodaboy51500]

It looks and sounds ridiculous only because you don't understand what you are watching. It's visual and audio representation of all the data received from Huygens probe, including altitude, wind velocity, air pressure, radar, chute stage and condition etc...

A retard may think it is for retards because they have no understanding of any of this so your response is understandable.

[arlpainbringer]

I didn't questioned data itself but it visual and sound representation which unfortunately mimic cheap and childish sci-fi.

Its far more disturbing than informing, isn't it?

[chodaboy51500]

You may not like the aesthetics of it but it is far from being retarded.

Did you know that the vehicle spun as it descended so that the one camera could get panoramic views. That's the whirring and gauge at the bottom, RPMs. The patches that pop up are the range and scope of different instruments taking readings from the surface. Each color is a specific instrument. It is facinating once you look at it more and find out what it is actually show us. I wish I could find a high-res version.

[arlpainbringer]

@chodaboy51500

I'm ashamed. Thanks you I didn't knew that.

[arlpainbringer]

@chodaboy51500

PS:Thank for your effort explaining this.

[chodaboy51500]

I wish I could explain it more, but the resolution of the video makes it hard to read. Hence why I would love to see a higher res version :)

[chodaboy51500]

Even better

watch?v=SedRrGuT8Kg

Still same resolution, but info details all the instruments and what the sounds represent.

[faceyfaceface]

@chodaboy51500

I for one love the aesthetics of it! This video is beautiful for many many reasons.

[sbergman27]

@chodaboy51500 Interestingly, it was designed to spin in one direction, but ended up spinning in the other, for unknown reasons. Fortunately it was still at about the same angular rate. So it didn't make that much difference. Also, someone forgot to turn on the 2nd receiver channel on Cassini. Fortunately, most of the science data was sent redundantly on both channels. But we did lose a lot of images. The VLA, while not able to salvage any data, did salvage one of the experiments.

[Miiaku]

@chodaboy51500 So is that terrain that the probe is procedurally mapping Titan's surface from it's upper atmosphere?

[chodaboy51500]

@Miiaku Yes, but it is actually being mapped from the lower atmosphere. The upper atmosphere is much too hazy to see through.

[mobinmahmoudi]

Thank You, my friend tolled me it look retard too, this retards know nothing of Astronomy and Plantry science.

[MallyVision]

@chodaboy51500 You're a jerk.

[chodaboy51500]

@MallyVision Why am I a jerk?

[EarthSoldier3]

@chodaboy51500

Most people who visit youtube are retards. It's just a small sample size of global population.

[surgednb]

@chodaboy51500 well now that you mention it, I DO think its retarded. lolz

[pluto4847]

@Snowwie888

I am very serious here. I propose we all get together and campaign for a global fundraiser so we can colonize Titan. It has everything Mars does not have. Titan has a thick atmosphere, rich in nitrogen, and maybe with a bit of luck we could make it our new EArth. What do you say? Are you wuth me?

[WeAreTheRobots]

@pluto4847

I'm not sure that's a good idea.

It would be like -179ºC (-290 ºF) outside.

There is ~14% of Earth's gravitational acceleration, less than 1% of the sunlight we get here and phone-calling Earth requires waiting 150 or more minutes to get an answer.

It took 7 years to the Cassini spacecraft to get to Saturn...

And we are still not talking about heating and filtering really cold water and getting oxygen!

Mars still sounds like piece of cake besides that. XD

[Snowwie888]

I would love to. Forget all the other stupid missions Nasa has, things like studying the Sun, or a dull moon like planet like Mercury.

[pluto4847]

Yes, and Titan has a thick atmosphere similar to EArth. I suppose a pressure suit would not be needed. Although, we would need oxygen, but we'll do it.

[nusucker]

Yep, but its cold down there, Liquid Methan and Ice are on this Planet, what means its under Zero Celsius, maybe even Colder...., it would be Impossible to live down there...., without gettin frozed, but it could change..., idk maybe its getting warmer.

[pluto4847]

nusuker, yes in the near future warming Titan up will be challenging. Lets say in 5 billion years time, the sun will turn into its red giant stage, This will practically destroy EArth. But as the sun gets bigger, the outer solar system will heat up. Then Titan may be seen as a suitable outpost. It will take a long time, but its still there.

[nusucker]

Yeah, but lets say, that over those Billions of Years, the planet maked a Lifeform, basicly it only can live under a O Celsius Area, means when the Sun heats up and the methan on titan gets hotter it basicly means when its over 30c the Planet Could Burn kinda or, and when its over 30c maybe the LifeForm down there get overheated and dies.., maybe they cant handle hot ClimaticAreas.

[bullfrogeth]

lol by that time we'll have found much more suitable outposts to colonize

[iliekchocolatemilk]

Where's the damn beacon?

[Ranteal]

BIG WORDS!!!!

[johnnykatt2009]

oh im sorry,you guys still believe in CREATIVE WRITING 101 also known as conventional astronomy.

hey I have a PHD in alice and wonderland,the easter bunny and frosty the snowman literical studies.

[saidtothehead]

what are you talking about?

[johnnykatt2009]

can you believe this moon was birthed from saturn and the seas are scarrred electrical etching fom the charge exchange during its ejection from its parent,AND that titan is stil warm from it birth 10,000 years ago.candlescent the plasma cosmology(real astronomy).

[Deadlycolli]

Its pretty brilliant how we've managed to land space crafts on objects that are a billion miles away!

[phongbong]

I don't get the sounds? is it added post?

[DonPMitchell]

Google for "lpl titan movies" you'll find the the page.

[DonPMitchell]

OK, I tried to point folks to the real high res wmv video at U of Arizona, but Google is just too good at automatically censoring URLs.

[kachinababe]

What the hell is this? A Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy????

[zvanavz]

Fermiimplosive: yeah man HQ is not even good enough to see the details. Uuum could you put the url of the official website for the original video man.

cheers

[Fermiimplosive]

Thanks for posting, totally awesome vid.. Too bad you can't see the interesting readings, even in HQ. Luckily, the original vids are still available on the official site.

"Neptune, Titan, Stars can frighten...."

This just confirms one of my fave adages,

Pink Floyd - Still First In Space!

[johnsmdm]

and I told you ham n eggers that why trade a benz in for a pinto....the earth is the class of em all!.....

[sharinganx12]

yes people are so over-obsessive about terraforming objects and finding another planet/moons to terraform that they sure will regret it if Earth is gone...

[masticina]

CCD going down to -100Celsius..that is torture! That camera..wasn't going to survive for long!

[monkeyboy4746]

Another one of them new worlds. No beer, no women, no pool parlors, nothin'. Nothin' to do but throw rocks at tin cans, and we gotta bring our own tin cans.

[illuminatislut]

Is it true that Lucis Trust - UN NWO luciferian spiritual cult is invoking some beings of darkness from Titan? Maybe that explains why NWO scums are so much interested to spend money to terraform Titan????

[HamburgerExplosion]

hi anyone want to chat

someone smart please help me PN

[leslieTS]

PINBALL MACHINE!!!!

[jwallbanger]

is this for real or some acid freak school project?

[Uberhombre]

you should really put an epilepsy warning on this.

[DysgenicPrototype]

Wow that thing was going so fast! After it hit the atmosphere how'd it change directions like that?

[BjornPalmen]

@DysgenicPrototype The winds blow in different directions at different heights.

[randallcheng]

wtf?

[kamranshere76]

are those footprints on the section of the 1st screen after the probe has landed?

[jbw1294]

if it wasent so cold i'd live there in the future

[vadersar]

In spanish say: es lo mas fantastico que es visto!!!!

[johnsmdm]

I have it!..if you could pull a high value moon out of orbit and place it in the earth orbit, say on the opposite side of the earth's swing, a place like Titan could dethaw & be used, can it be done sirs?

[videotimesss]

I thought I saw Walter Robot down there.

[Scion85]

I'm sure one day in the DISTANT future, Titan will be colonized, but one major issue that would have to be tackled is the fact that it's F#*KING freezing! It's about -180 degrees Celsius on the surface, from what i've researched. Then there's the higher surface pressure, lower gravity, lack of sunlight...you know, little things :P

[improvmaniac]

Cold yes, but rivers made of methane!! If we could utilize the methane as soon as we arrive we can build a fire.  well, hopefully the entire moon will not blow up.

[blursst]

A+ for effort.

C- for relevance.

[Gormanmod]

break down the methane into hydrogen and carbon dioxide, then use microwaves to re-energize the core, figure out someway to get it rotating, and then plant some trees.

[sweetgirl4JC]

sounds like the shot machines in vegas.

[erik11235813]

the sounds are really cool.

the sound comes from the data sent back?

trippy!

lol

[Eihort]

Didn't really need all the fancy schmancy sounds, but it was awsome to see all the telemetry of the probe as it decended. Sometimes I wonder if we'll ever get up there. Be kinda funny to hvae a picture of dudes in suits saying "Look at this neat piece of antique junk we found!"

[JRTEN]

itd be even better if they were just standing there in regualr street clothes

[Logan5v]

What I want to know is were they right, the scientist?

Before the probe entered titans atmosphere there were all sorts of theories about the compostion of the atmosphere, methane rain drops the size of golfballs, rivers and lakes of liquid methane etc. Was any of that detected by the probe?

[bigdom555d]

the liquid part was right but the atmosphere is not yet proven the atmosphere is a oxygen and carbin dioxide and nitrogen and methane astmosphere wich is true by scientist and is knon to have humet asmosphere

[ivopivomak]

wtf is this

[lamnaa]

If the moon landing was fake then why are the insruments they left up there still sending back data?

[Eihort]

Google fake moon landing if you want a good laugh.

[Curbswirvin]

technically, you only know they send information back to earth because THEY tell you THEY do;p

[locolozer77]

wtf...

[subach]

A great presentation, I like how the data was shown, though it was difficult to see.

[BipedalHumanoid3]

Where are the aliens?

[AltruisticPervert]

Apparently, the ESA is still using cutting edge technology frontiered by the Williams Co., the makers of Defender I & 2.

[rockusa]

I think that's from NASA'S next PC game.

[LucabratZ80]

That was just the foot prints left over from the camera crew. We never went to Titan. It's a conspiracy. Everything great is a conspiracy.

[Etchyboy]

I thought so... They fake the moon landing now we are seeing that they have faked this!!! j/k

[Zea107]

Lol!

[Nokaia]

That is what the Moon is compared to Titan, I saw the video played at my school and the guy told me about it.

[Eihort]

It's to give a sense of scale. Anything in that region of the photo as the footprint is the same size, so you can see that the "rocks" in the photo are only a few inches across.

[Etchyboy]

is it just me but what was the deal with the footprints in the last shot?

[rasfarli]

It's the moon surface, they have put it there so you get a comparison.

[ebruddah]

All the real-time metrics make this a repeat viewer.

[ottawaoctane]

wow was there a land rover on that probe

[BlueSkyBag]

The European Space Agency's Huygens probe wasn't a moving rover like the ones on Mars. It was a stationary science probe that parachuted to a soft landing on the rocky surface of Titan. More info and images from the whole Cassini/Huygens mission can be found here: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/hom­e/index.cfm

[wxnut]

a land rover eh? and just who would be driving this land rover? hehe j/k!

[Eihort]

The "forward" and "backward" motion was extrapolated from the 2D picture. The camera never really moved at all.