Making the space probe for Titan - BBC

[HNMpepper]

Assuming we forget about the low quality, the main things to do would be to strip away some the atmosphere and then add Oxygen and CO2.

[00alistair]

should have put plants on to see if they would grow :/

[DaringGirlProduction]

it wld b great if u cld put "part 1" and part 2 and so on, on the titles of the documentary, thanks!

[000someone0xxx]

terraforming! that's the key to get life to titan. for over a freakin' long time. we need to get a lot of carbondioxide to get a better 'titan warming' (the same as global warming but i made titan warming up) if that happens the sky will hold much more heat of the sun. in 2024 we're going to send the first human to mars i have heart im not for sure. But, will titan be touched by an astronout suit?

[detibry]

haha when he said "this 400 million pound probe" i like, WTF, then i realized he was talking about the price.

[AgrivatedKillah]

@detibry Lmaooo

[JordanMedina]

@detibry hahaha I just had the same reaction!

[Amarx00]

the order of theplaylist is the wrong way round!

[lejink]

i would sign up for a 1 way trip to titan!

[nickalexrock]

and get alot of coats and jackets

[1234yersiman]

@nickalexrock Forget that, at this temperature, it is impossible to breathe!

[funncubesde]

@lejink oh i hope there are lifeforms, because if not: it would be very boring up there :D

[Malfunction0982]

Titan would probably suck!!

[Malfunction0982]

People will hate it there

[csnc82]

Well maybe you can add Europa, you know....for winter Sports!!!!

[My5Cents]

I like how some idiots on here are talking about over-population.

Shit get a reality check, more than 80%+ of the earth surface is vacant.

Only feasible reason to spend trillions to move to a moon is cause of the possibility that Earth will be annihilated.

Over-population my ass.

[shalashaskalives]

i think the reason overpopulation was suggested would relate to current studies which state the earth's biocapacity, or 'global hectares' are being exceeded through power production, cultivation, transport, etc. overpopulation/consumption are key factors in this. james lovelock suggests that the earth can comfortably sustain 0.5 to 1 billion. nevertheless, i don't think it's time to adorn the spacesuit just yet.

[Helge129]

That's not the only feasible reason, just because it's not feasible.

Look at animals, they, just like us, allways try to expand their territory. And since our territory is the whole (solid) surface of Earth allready, the only feasible way to expand, is to colonise another planet.

[nemsison]

I think chances on life in europa are much more possible than mars, venus and titan

[mariusrodrigo]

Yes you're right, but some exoplanets probably have an atmosphere.

[bombarderoazul]

The pictures returned by huygens were of very bad quality, europeans just aren't that good. The probe should have been designed in the US by JPL or someone else. The europeans can't design anything good.

[mariusrodrigo]

You idiot, it's much harder to land on Titan than on Mars. This mission is one of the greatest achievement of modern astronomy.

And Huygens was not designed to take nice pictures for idiots like you, the SCIENTIFIC datas collected by this probe will take at least 15 years to be analysed.

[yiotos]

Your quite right.

[curea229]

It's always bothers me when scientists make the mistake of overlooking the cameras. The Mariner 5 probe didn't have cameras, and despite magnetic and spectroscopy data, most people (tax payers who funded it) didn't know Venus any better than before the probe was flown.

It's very important to show people (not just scientists) what these distant planets look like. Huygens' cameras are at least as important as its other scientific instruments.

[Fuuin]

He's probably American himself. And, well, I'm sure you know how they love to brag regardless of the circumstances.

[curea229]

That's pretty ignorant. You can't just bolt on the Canon EOS you bought at your local Circuit City into a space probe flying through space for 8 years and slamming into Titan.

Europeans made it possible for the US to build the atom bomb and the Apollo moon rocket, so don't get obnoxious. You probably didn't contribute to the US' technical expertise anyway.

[illuminatislut]

hm, I hear from leading world shamans that the most dangerous beings of darkness attack the earth via Titan daily :/

[nanus9273]

beceuse thath`s to cold for life (abaut -200 celcius )

[nanus9273]

i like it that`t probe it was cool but i don´t know if human will reach the surface on Titan in the 2000century

[revankader]

don't be so pessimistic. do you think Galileo ever dreamed of a man on the moon, or a robot exploring the surface of Titan? i doubt it. and he is only 5 centuries old. so i think in 5 centuries we would have colonies on Mars and the moon and titan would be a holiday destination.

[sesshy34]

because that moon is just as big as the earth? Because it even has most things required for life?

Its got no Liquid Water/Oxygen which are both essential for any colonial settlement and yeah, the temperature on Titan would be enough to crystallise you in a matter of seconds, even if it meant you wore the best space suits.

[rpgamer94]

dude, they beleave it could be going threw a simular state of early earth. but no matter ur point is true but watch the other vids and read a few books. and if they can survive in space 600 years from now for 25 years with 100 people. bet your ass they could would and will live on it, couse they damn well please

[andriod84]

Its called adaptations, just cause we rely on oxygen and hydrogen to live dosent meen the cells on titan cant adapt to the climate, yes they are frosen, but the smallest thing can make it happen

[yiotos]

Yes their could be crazy forms of life we don't know of!

[JyoKhmer]

what a waste why would you wanna live on a moon?

[thenightgamer]

um if the population grew to much then u mite wana go there

[Helge129]

because that moon is just as big as the earth? Because it even has most things required for life?

[DrCarl]

Titan is almost as large as Mars and very cold. I doubt that you could survive on Titan without protections.

Until they terraform it, I stay on earth! :P

[Helge129]

Almost as large as Mars? Dude, it's just a few kilometers smaller than Earth! Teraforming would be rather hard, it's too far away from the sun.

[cdoheadbaby]

whats terraforming?

[Helge129]

Transforming the enviroment of a inhospitable planet to earth like conditions.

[cdoheadbaby]

and how will that work, i mean you cant simpy change the atmospehere, dont you?

[Helge129]

It takes decades to transform a planet, if possible at all.

[monimstarfox]

The first thing you have to do is create an atmosphere this is were the green house effect comes in. You purposely create the green house effect to thicken a planet's atmosphere until it can keep in its gasses and then you can begin

[micheals1992]

titan is to far away to get warmed up even with the green house gasses the heat would still escape faster then it absorbed heat from the sun

[Zamerakk]

manipulating the plant or moon in this case to be habitible

[SWATLeader91]

because the fucking idiots on earth cant get a clue and are over populating it? fucking DUH dip shit

[JyoKhmer]

there's other planet that human can spend the resouces and go rather than Titan. You dip shit. Spend sometime to sutdy remedial physics and probability. Shit brain like you wont survive the blood line to there any way. get lost!

[sikdogs48]

shit we found more asses in our lifes phuckin scientiest lol hahahahahahahahah

[nemesys16]

cool

[sikdogs48]

a like my comment on titan a place like home? lol koll hahahahah

[AyyItzThaGangstah]

Nice, Where Are They Build It?

[OOPSIEOOPSIE]

A good question. I've done some research, and all I can find is that the actual probe that landed was made by ESA, which is the European Space Agency. No idea which actualy country/countries it was constructed in.

[jrcgarry]

It was a truly european probe - the surface science package (hurrah!) was built by Rutherford Appleton labs (mostly) with sensors built at Manchester University, Canterbury University, ESTEC and so on.

All of the science payloads were made by different groups from around europe.

The Huygens website at ESA will have a break-down of contributions somewhere.

[stensoft]

Huygens (the probe) was build by Aérospatiale in Cannes, France (now Alcatel Alenia Space) with heat shield system from Aérospatiale, Aquitaine near Bordeaux, France (now part of EADS SPACE Transportation) and parachute from Martin-Baker Space Systems, Denham, UK.

Cassini (the orbiter) was build by some contracts of NASA with antenna and radar by Italian Space Agency.

The complex was fired up in the sky by Titan Ⅳ booster rocket provided by US Air Force and build by Lockheed Martin.

[HAL11000]

Thank you.