+SBroproductions because there are aliens and water everywhere and stupid people don't believe it, because they don't think, what they do is to follow someone, and the discussion is between following one or another, when it shouldn't be about following but thinking.
+Rottensteam According to the internet, the Earth is flat! Also, the Moon is a spaceship! Also, the military is hiding a secret teleporter to Mars! Also there are alien cities on Mars!
Aren't they worried about contaminating Enceladus with extremophiles, hence they crashed Cassini into Saturn? I wonder what steps are needed to decontaminate spacecraft.
+ljmasternoob And we're finding out there is no such thing as a habitable zone, because planets (and moons) can generate heat from the inside, so life may live well outside what we use to call "the habitable zone". When we find life, we might find we've been surrounded.
i really wish you hadn't pointed this out,... i usually let these run in the background to listen to and don't look at the screen but now i'm just staring at her waiting for her to blink. wtf! ugh, there's a half blink at 2:26 on one of the scene cuts. the head bobbing distracts from the teleprompter reading but still!!!!
iambiggus I just read the book, knowing that it would be way better than the movie. It was, in fact, fantastic. I feel like more people will watch the movie however, and a video not long after its release would be pretty topical.
+iambiggus I read the book and listened to the audiobook. The latter has an extended ending with a funny interaction with a kid, not sure why it didn't feature in my paperback.
+SwedishPerson Intriguing question. The ocean on Enceladus might be very different to how we think of them on Earth. It could be a viscous, saline slush... more akin to magma on Earth than a traditional free flowing liquid. I don't know.
+Twixgtx you'd need to work out g with G and Encelidus's mass and radius. Which is tricky because deep inside you'd be guesstimating on the depth of ice, and core composition for an accurate model.
+Thomas Mason aren't alots a bit small, and also quite fuzzy, so even smaller than they look like? Unless you mean that there won't be much pressure compared to Earth's oceans, then I agree
They should supply those astronauts with plenty of books. Im sure that would extend their morale and productivity for about a year and a half longer. Of course, they must have some personal favourites and what not.
Love Sci-Show! Watch the kids channel with my kids all the time and this one and the main with my friends. Will there be a Sci-Show episode about the Super-moon and Lunar eclipse that is supposed to happen on Sunday 27 September starting at 9:09 ET?
Imagine showing this video to someone 60 years ago... "Oceans on another moon? Astronauts in space for a year?!" We've learned so much and we're just scratching the surface.
The coolest thing about this year in space mission is that Kelly has and identical twin brother, also an astronaut, who is staying on the ground so when he returns they can make direct comparisons!
It's not like a planet needs to produce heat or be heated in any way to have liquid water - the deep seas aren't called the "crushing depths" for no reason. The immense pressures from the weight of the ice can increase the pressure so much that water doesn't freeze for hundreds of degrees below zero. I haven't done any calculations for how much pressure would be needed for an ocean the size of Enceladus's, though. So it's entirely possible that there isn't enough pressure from the ice to bring it down to a liquid form.
Any older folks remember it being hammered into our education that Earth is the only place that has water? Good to see science expanding what we know as fact. Keep exploring!
+Fortstorm I'm pretty sure it was all water. That, and we of course were taught that there are 9 planets, and Carbon Dioxide is good for the environment. At this point, I just kind of roll with it. I don't know how old you are, but once you hit the 30's, if you can remember the facts from your youth, facts change. Some for the best, like East/West Germany being a thing, and others just leave you thinking, "well, that can't be right."
That is the first time I heard of a link between living in a confined space and a lack of motivation. So, if I were spending most of my time inside my home, and every day, doing similar things...that would cause a motivational decline. ...That would explain a lot of things.
I used to just stay inside and I got really low self esteem and motivation. my friend asked me to go running with him and I have every other day for about 3 months now and I feel 1,000,000 times better. not only is the increased motivation and self esteem better, but I am overall a lot healthier physically lol
Rob Rod And if you don't like running. Simply taking a different path each time you leave home can improve your health. Same goes with picking random places to visit along the way or going to random events. Variety of experiences is very healthy for your brain.
+сталкер чворович The concentration of those radioactive elements in materials protoplanetary nebula (and therefore in planetoids and planets) is way too low to be a sufficient explanation, especially for such a small body that, unlike Earth, is mostly made of water rather than rock and metal. Tidal heating remains by far the most likely explanation as to why so much of this water is liquid, with perhaps a minor contribution from radioactive decay. The error that caused the possibility of a global ocean to be overlooked in the first place probably lies within our understanding of the complex process of tidal heating, an overestimation of the thermal conductivity of that ice crust, or possibly the migration of its orbit further away from Saturn.
with the water so deep wouldn't just the weight of the water and ice above it be enough to keep the water in a state of liquid regardless of temperature? we have that effect here on earth, waters under glaciers that are below freezing but still liquid due to pressure.
Enceladus' tidal heating doesn't mesh with the results and the New Horizon results show that Pluto acts like it has tidal heating but it doesn't. ...I think we're on the verge of re-thinking a lot of things.
I wonder if it could still have a geologically active, or at least hot, core and inner surface. I'm sure its no Io, that has its teeny orbit and Jupiters titanic gravity, but if its a rocky core there could be plenty of radioactives to decay and heat it. We'll have to probe and see!
Okay, so Enceladus has water without tidal heating, and Pluto has active geology without tidal heating. What are we missing? Could this have implications for rogue planets or dwarf planets? Why isn't this process affecting Mars?
Enceladus is by far my favorite object in our solar system ! That ice is like a huge radiation shield for possible life to thrive !That would be incredible if microscopic life existed in the oceans of Enceladus , Titan , or Europa . I cant wait for the Europa Multiple Flyby Mission. If I had any power I would team up with NASA, ROSCOSMOS and the ESA to put together a massive mission to each of these wonderful moons!!
Forget microscopic life, what if there's giant Nordic space worms the size of a jumbo jet living there? That would be badass, I would want to ride one.
If the tidal heating from Saturn is strong enough to melt all that ice would it also be strong enough to produce the friction required for underwater lightning? Is underwater lightning even possible? Are these silly questions?
Just think of what the water molecule is made of - hydrogen, which is the most abundant in the universe, and oxygen, which pretty much every supernova farts out. And considering how little energy is needed to bond the two together, you really can say that there's much water in the universe. Well, much compared to us of course, on the cosmic scale, it just barely constitutes a drop.... pun intended.
It seems like water would have been a pretty decent amount of the protoplanetary disk, starting at the inner boundary of the "habitable zone" and going out. Any loose oxygen would probably have bonded with the preponderance of hydrogen and there you go. If the water molecules were distributed more or less evenly, then anywhere in the solar system it could exist, it would. Which seems to be what astronomers are finding now. I think eventually we're going to just drop the whole "comets brought the water" idea as unnecessary. That always seemed stupid to me anyway, cause wow, that would be a lot of comets.
+EJGilb In micro-g water will tend to form a thin film around anything it touches - tricky-sticky surface tension and all that wet. Now, if you had hydrophobic shoes, but then again - which way is 'up' to walk against? Oh drat, there goes my orange juice...
+EJGilb In any substantial gravity field (i.e. a moon) density gradients remain relative. That is to say sinking and floating depends on the density of the two objects in question. In short - no, you could not walk on water. You would, however, sink more slowly in a lower gravity field.
but if you could apply enough force on the water (since it still has mass relative to you) could you generate enough propulsion to stay sort of on the surface
As I appreciate the amazing work put into these experiments, and I acknowledge the immense quantity of extremely useful details and results that will come out of them, I think even 10 people repeating this experiment wouldn't be a high enough number to judge for this kind of psychological studies at a world-average level, even with thorough personality checks before the game; it very well could be a minor personality trait that some of them appeared to have, and if in that collectivity they happened to be the majority nothing prevents them from being the minority in a larger group, and so on up until a fully standardized and agreed upon average..?
Hasn't it been suggested that a gas giants gravity could put enough stress on an icy moon to produce enough heat to keep ice from forming? I recall reading something like that years ago, about one of Jupiter's moons. It could also not be water under the ice.
Wait... if Enceladus has been spewing water for a few hundred million or billion years, then is it possible that Enceladus could have been much bigger than it is right now? Like it's dying a slow shrinking death.
+Krazorr Landing is hard. Really hard. You just won't believe how vastly, ridiculously, mind-boggling hard it is. I mean, you may think landing is easy: humans and probes have landed on other bodies plenty of times. But really, that's just peanuts to landing on Enceladus.
+Krazorr Landing successfully is way harder than zipping by in an orbit. Primary problem is slowing down so the rover/sub doesn't get eviscerated on impact. However there are plans to send a submarine that would drill through the ice and explore the oceans.
+Krazorr Main issues with landing on Enceladus: 1. No atmosphere to slow down the probes without using fuel like on Earth, Mars and Venus (although Venus' atmosphere is so thick and hot that landers never survive more than a couple of hours) 2. What to do after landing? A small 100kg probe would have to drill a hole possibly hundreds (or thousands) of meters deep, into extremely hard ice and only hope to find water at it's maximum stretch. 3. Money! To land somewhere without an atmosphere you need a LOT of fuel (PLUS harpoons such as those which failed on that comet recently). Lots of extra fuel means lots of extra weight to get off the Earth = lots of millions of dollars.
Maybe, if it's just water. There's probably other minerals dissolved in it. And knowing NASA, they would lock it away for months in ultra high security storage 'just in case' it contains alien superbugs or something...
They should send a playstation up and require the astronauts spend at least a couple of hours every day relaxing outside of their eating and sleeping time, or use their weekends to relax. Burnout is caused by an imbalance of work and relaxation... excessive work without enough down-time leads to burnout. They might be prestigious scientists, but they're still workers and we should all advocate for their rights.
what if there was an intelligent space faring specie's on this water moon that recently sent a probe to earth and they know the planet could harbor life and they wonder Are we Alone in the universe
Just hurry the eff up and invent the damn starship so we can all just go on some star trek space adventures. Why let the probes have all the fun. It'll probably be dull as all hell and I am sure I will have some crappy job like cleaning engine liners out all day, but I might get to SPACE
+indubualisticism123 Gravity has little to no input in forming life. The problem would be something chemical... like, the concentrations of required elements and compounds dissolved in the oceans.
MrFreakHeavy so then life could possibly form out in space? interesting. Well enceladus had somewhere around 4.5 billion years to accumulate all those chemicals. i hope life took hold there and we send a probe to find it in my life time. would like to be around for the discovery of aliens..
a moon the width of Arizona with oceans deeper that most of earth's? this moon sounds more like a giant water baloon with a rock inside.
You mean a colossal rocky core inside.
Deeper than all of earth's oceans, actually
All I hear is "ALIENS ALIENS ALIENS WATER ALIENS"
You might want to see a doctor
+NamelessHere Forevermore ALIEEEEEEEEEEEEENS
+NamelessHere Forevermore
Or Giorgio Tsoukalos
+SBroproductions because there are aliens and water everywhere and stupid people don't believe it, because they don't think, what they do is to follow someone, and the discussion is between following one or another, when it shouldn't be about following but thinking.
Im so horny rn lol
now we just need to send a space submarine there!
woah calm down there dude! According to the internet, we haven't even been on the moon yet!
+Rottensteam According to the internet, the Earth is flat! Also, the Moon is a spaceship! Also, the military is hiding a secret teleporter to Mars! Also there are alien cities on Mars!
+William Jakespeare I give them 20 years for that.
If it wasn't done till then I'll do it xD
Aren't they worried about contaminating Enceladus with extremophiles, hence they crashed Cassini into Saturn? I wonder what steps are needed to decontaminate spacecraft.
Who knew that enchiladas had oceans?
+Krilln You probably just can't sea them.
+Krilln Of course they do. Where do you think fish tacos come from?
good one dude me neither
NASA knew
Who knew Echinacea had water?
This was very informative. And, she slowed down -- job well done.
+David Townend Makes her easier to understand when I watch all these videos at 1.25 speed.
LOL
4:20 video length. snoopluminati confirmed
+mitchelnext1 You cool
4:21 nice try though
mines 4:20
+mitchelnext1 ive noticed that their are quiet a few 4:20's in scishow....i suppose its just an accident...a reoccuring accident....
+mitchelnext1 I stopped at 3:55.
Water is everywhere - soon we will find life!
+ljmasternoob And we're finding out there is no such thing as a habitable zone, because planets (and moons) can generate heat from the inside, so life may live well outside what we use to call "the habitable zone".
When we find life, we might find we've been surrounded.
+Bob Hope there is no other life
Calikid331 That you know of, but the category of things not known by you is massive.
I'm pretty sure we have found life. You aren't a robot, are you?
Bob Hope There's mathematically no other life in the Universe
I love the presenters on this channel so much!
"I'm pickin up good Librations, that planets got a wobbly rotation"
Caitlin is seriously so adorable I just can't handle it
.......WHY WONT THIS GIRL BLINK FOR THE LOVE OF GOD?!?!?!
SHE'S FREAKIN ME OUT MAN!
She's actually an android they use when they don't feel like making videos. She doesn't need to blink and she doesn't need your sass.
Sass? Hey I don't need to be taught things by a Henson's creature shop creation.....hell, even THEY blink for Gods sake!
i really wish you hadn't pointed this out,... i usually let these run in the background to listen to and don't look at the screen but now i'm just staring at her waiting for her to blink. wtf! ugh, there's a half blink at 2:26 on one of the scene cuts. the head bobbing distracts from the teleprompter reading but still!!!!
Hey wait you got Alex DeLarge as your profile pic...
You guys should do a video on The Martian movie when it's released.
+Verdiss The book is fantastic, in case anyone is wondering )
iambiggus
I just read the book, knowing that it would be way better than the movie. It was, in fact, fantastic. I feel like more people will watch the movie however, and a video not long after its release would be pretty topical.
+iambiggus I read the book and listened to the audiobook. The latter has an extended ending with a funny interaction with a kid, not sure why it didn't feature in my paperback.
I saw a TH-cam comment by Scishow somewhere that "we could do a whole series on the science in that book(/movie)". They'll probably do a video.
+iSquared The pdf version online had that funny interaction too.
Hey 4:20! I feel like i am your only subscriber who would say that lol
only? haha no.
hahaha not the only. just one of the people who are like me lol
What water pressure would the bottom be at on Enceladus? Since it has lower gravity but also deeper oceans.
I think you could calculate that yourself. I know the equation has gravity in it. I think it's something like p=density * gravity * height
+Twixgtx It's a bit different on Enceladus due to the crust, that will be adding allot of pressure.
+SwedishPerson Intriguing question. The ocean on Enceladus might be very different to how we think of them on Earth. It could be a viscous, saline slush... more akin to magma on Earth than a traditional free flowing liquid. I don't know.
+Twixgtx you'd need to work out g with G and Encelidus's mass and radius. Which is tricky because deep inside you'd be guesstimating on the depth of ice, and core composition for an accurate model.
+Thomas Mason aren't alots a bit small, and also quite fuzzy, so even smaller than they look like?
Unless you mean that there won't be much pressure compared to Earth's oceans, then I agree
I'd love to learn how extended periods in space effect astronaut's "stamina." We should get on that right away. ;)
+Sensual Nudibranch *affect
+Nilguiri Grammar Nazis man
Ask Scott Kelley or Mikhail Kornienko!
Caitlin's back
+Wes G Yay!
They should supply those astronauts with plenty of books. Im sure that would extend their morale and productivity for about a year and a half longer. Of course, they must have some personal favourites and what not.
Love Sci-Show! Watch the kids channel with my kids all the time and this one and the main with my friends.
Will there be a Sci-Show episode about the Super-moon and Lunar eclipse that is supposed to happen on Sunday 27 September starting at 9:09 ET?
What happened to those unknown shiny surfaces in Ceres?
+Harold no news on that at all.. just a 3D map of the crater.. kind of disappointing.. I hope news comes from that soon
+Harold They're just deposits of a white sediment, so light reflects off of it more easily.
+Harold it was donald trump's stash of cocaine, they shut down the investigation.
***** It's in one of their videos, I believe.
Maybe they're hiding something lol
Water is everywhere!! I hope we find life elsewhere within the next half a century!
Yeah!!!!!! Caitlin my favourite SciShow presenter!!!
Imagine showing this video to someone 60 years ago... "Oceans on another moon? Astronauts in space for a year?!"
We've learned so much and we're just scratching the surface.
I meant in orbit of Earth.
Earth's water combined into a ball, would be as big as Pluto. That's some heavy shit.
The coolest thing about this year in space mission is that Kelly has and identical twin brother, also an astronaut, who is staying on the ground so when he returns they can make direct comparisons!
It's not like a planet needs to produce heat or be heated in any way to have liquid water - the deep seas aren't called the "crushing depths" for no reason. The immense pressures from the weight of the ice can increase the pressure so much that water doesn't freeze for hundreds of degrees below zero.
I haven't done any calculations for how much pressure would be needed for an ocean the size of Enceladus's, though. So it's entirely possible that there isn't enough pressure from the ice to bring it down to a liquid form.
Any older folks remember it being hammered into our education that Earth is the only place that has water? Good to see science expanding what we know as fact. Keep exploring!
+cjxgraphics Are you sure they didn't say "liquid water"?
+Fortstorm I'm pretty sure it was all water. That, and we of course were taught that there are 9 planets, and Carbon Dioxide is good for the environment. At this point, I just kind of roll with it. I don't know how old you are, but once you hit the 30's, if you can remember the facts from your youth, facts change. Some for the best, like East/West Germany being a thing, and others just leave you thinking, "well, that can't be right."
3:13 "... means more science can get done."
... and they make a neat gun, for the people who are still alive...
Anyone else have a flashback?
We HAVE to go there!
If there's no life we should plant it there. Earth life deserves to spread beyond it's boundaries.
Oh nice I like your hair! :D
What's making all that water gush? Probably two fingers.
2:14 aww you got me exited.
*excited
That is the first time I heard of a link between living in a confined space and a lack of motivation.
So, if I were spending most of my time inside my home, and every day, doing similar things...that would cause a motivational decline.
...That would explain a lot of things.
I used to just stay inside and I got really low self esteem and motivation. my friend asked me to go running with him and I have every other day for about 3 months now and I feel 1,000,000 times better. not only is the increased motivation and self esteem better, but I am overall a lot healthier physically lol
Rob Rod And if you don't like running. Simply taking a different path each time you leave home can improve your health.
Same goes with picking random places to visit along the way or going to random events.
Variety of experiences is very healthy for your brain.
Holy shit !!! We discovered water!
2:11 best part
Who else has a small crush on Caitlin's smile and brain?
No ...
no one.
I've watched *every single scishow & scishow-space video to date*, but still can't get used to Caitlin's presentation style :/
The moon's LIBRATION = It's DRUNK
love
plain simple there are radioactive isotopes like uranium a thorium in the core
+сталкер чворович I love it when you talk dirty.
+сталкер чворович The concentration of those radioactive elements in materials protoplanetary nebula (and therefore in planetoids and planets) is way too low to be a sufficient explanation, especially for such a small body that, unlike Earth, is mostly made of water rather than rock and metal.
Tidal heating remains by far the most likely explanation as to why so much of this water is liquid, with perhaps a minor contribution from radioactive decay.
The error that caused the possibility of a global ocean to be overlooked in the first place probably lies within our understanding of the complex process of tidal heating, an overestimation of the thermal conductivity of that ice crust, or possibly the migration of its orbit further away from Saturn.
dont worry california we got u covered now fam
I want to hug her
Enceladus sounds like Enchiladas. Spellcheck agrees.
General decreases in motivation and productivity happens in every job where you're doing the same things for 100 days.
Seems normal to me.
with the water so deep wouldn't just the weight of the water and ice above it be enough to keep the water in a state of liquid regardless of temperature? we have that effect here on earth, waters under glaciers that are below freezing but still liquid due to pressure.
All of these oceans are so tantalizing!
Is it because your a fish? How do you type?
My Own Spaceship *you're
My Own Spaceship Honestly, I just get my secretary to do it. She has fingers.
PogieJoe I bet that's not all she does with those fingers. 😘
My Own Spaceship Well you've heard the term fish fingers certainly...it means something different than you think entirely!
Do a video about the 3 body problem please!!! or at least a video on the science of the book, theirs alot of astrophysics jargon in it
I promise you these guys next video will be about nasa finding running water on Mars...
the second half seems a little off of the topic indicated by the title but still interesting information.
Believe it or not, Enceladian geological features are named after characters and places on The One Thousand One Nights, also known as Arabian Nights.
I love this woman.
this video is dank
probably, most likely, probably, results confirming, that probably, most likely.
Question: Would the salt content of the water account for it being there? (Rather than relying on tidal forces to explain its presence)
Water = H2O
H2O = Eskimo
Enceladus' tidal heating doesn't mesh with the results and the New Horizon results show that Pluto acts like it has tidal heating but it doesn't.
...I think we're on the verge of re-thinking a lot of things.
you can easily fix the 'Third Quarter Phenomenon' by not telling when the mission stops(!) right?
I wonder if it could still have a geologically active, or at least hot, core and inner surface. I'm sure its no Io, that has its teeny orbit and Jupiters titanic gravity, but if its a rocky core there could be plenty of radioactives to decay and heat it. We'll have to probe and see!
Okay, so Enceladus has water without tidal heating, and Pluto has active geology without tidal heating. What are we missing? Could this have implications for rogue planets or dwarf planets? Why isn't this process affecting Mars?
Enceladus is salty, and Pluto might have radioisotopes in it's core, but just not enough to create a liquid mantle.
SPACE MERMAIDS
Yeah but the morale "burn out" on the way to Mars will just arrive much later.
And my guess is that it will last longer and be more difficult.
Enceladus is by far my favorite object in our solar system ! That ice is like a huge radiation shield for possible life to thrive !That would be incredible if microscopic life existed in the oceans of Enceladus , Titan , or Europa . I cant wait for the Europa Multiple Flyby Mission. If I had any power I would team up with NASA, ROSCOSMOS and the ESA to put together a massive mission to each of these wonderful moons!!
Forget microscopic life, what if there's giant Nordic space worms the size of a jumbo jet living there? That would be badass, I would want to ride one.
BOOM Colorado's future water problem solved. 😁
NOO I WANT THE BOY
I hate enchiladas.
If the tidal heating from Saturn is strong enough to melt all that ice would it also be strong enough to produce the friction required for underwater lightning? Is underwater lightning even possible? Are these silly questions?
Do the thing about liquid water on Mars!!!!!!!
Just think of what the water molecule is made of - hydrogen, which is the most abundant in the universe, and oxygen, which pretty much every supernova farts out. And considering how little energy is needed to bond the two together, you really can say that there's much water in the universe.
Well, much compared to us of course, on the cosmic scale, it just barely constitutes a drop.... pun intended.
The fix for loss of productivity is VR
It seems like water would have been a pretty decent amount of the protoplanetary disk, starting at the inner boundary of the "habitable zone" and going out. Any loose oxygen would probably have bonded with the preponderance of hydrogen and there you go. If the water molecules were distributed more or less evenly, then anywhere in the solar system it could exist, it would. Which seems to be what astronomers are finding now. I think eventually we're going to just drop the whole "comets brought the water" idea as unnecessary. That always seemed stupid to me anyway, cause wow, that would be a lot of comets.
Is it possible that there's a shit ton of radioactive material in the core?
QQ: Could you walk on water in micro gravity?
+EJGilb In micro-g water will tend to form a thin film around anything it touches - tricky-sticky surface tension and all that wet. Now, if you had hydrophobic shoes, but then again - which way is 'up' to walk against? Oh drat, there goes my orange juice...
The water would be floating around.
No i mean if there was just enough gravity to keep it as a body of water, for example on Enceladus. I didn't phrase it very well
+EJGilb In any substantial gravity field (i.e. a moon) density gradients remain relative. That is to say sinking and floating depends on the density of the two objects in question. In short - no, you could not walk on water. You would, however, sink more slowly in a lower gravity field.
but if you could apply enough force on the water (since it still has mass relative to you) could you generate enough propulsion to stay sort of on the surface
As I appreciate the amazing work put into these experiments, and I acknowledge the immense quantity of extremely useful details and results that will come out of them, I think even 10 people repeating this experiment wouldn't be a high enough number to judge for this kind of psychological studies at a world-average level, even with thorough personality checks before the game; it very well could be a minor personality trait that some of them appeared to have, and if in that collectivity they happened to be the majority nothing prevents them from being the minority in a larger group, and so on up until a fully standardized and agreed upon average..?
Hasn't it been suggested that a gas giants gravity could put enough stress on an icy moon to produce enough heat to keep ice from forming? I recall reading something like that years ago, about one of Jupiter's moons. It could also not be water under the ice.
Can u make a video about the bloodmoon
I do love her hair :3
Wait... if Enceladus has been spewing water for a few hundred million or billion years, then is it possible that Enceladus could have been much bigger than it is right now? Like it's dying a slow shrinking death.
why dont they just fucking land there... they have been by it many times....
+Krazorr Landing is hard. Really hard. You just won't believe how vastly, ridiculously, mind-boggling hard it is. I mean, you may think landing is easy: humans and probes have landed on other bodies plenty of times. But really, that's just peanuts to landing on Enceladus.
It's a lot easier to nearly miss something than to successfully land there
+Krazorr Landing successfully is way harder than zipping by in an orbit. Primary problem is slowing down so the rover/sub doesn't get eviscerated on impact. However there are plans to send a submarine that would drill through the ice and explore the oceans.
+Krazorr Main issues with landing on Enceladus:
1. No atmosphere to slow down the probes without using fuel like on Earth, Mars and Venus (although Venus' atmosphere is so thick and hot that landers never survive more than a couple of hours)
2. What to do after landing? A small 100kg probe would have to drill a hole possibly hundreds (or thousands) of meters deep, into extremely hard ice and only hope to find water at it's maximum stretch.
3. Money! To land somewhere without an atmosphere you need a LOT of fuel (PLUS harpoons such as those which failed on that comet recently). Lots of extra fuel means lots of extra weight to get off the Earth = lots of millions of dollars.
+turkwinif Your Avatar checks out. You know how hard it is to land. #KSP4lyf
i wonder since the moon is vaping water is it slowly shrinking?
Here is a question I don't think is tackled very often: Is it safe to drink that water if we had a sample?
Maybe, if it's just water. There's probably other minerals dissolved in it. And knowing NASA, they would lock it away for months in ultra high security storage 'just in case' it contains alien superbugs or something...
+Nae Dolor it all depends what is dissolved in it. Just water? sure. Very Fast Death Factor? I'd advise against
Video is 4:20 minutes... well play sci-show... well played.
WATER ALIENS FTW
They should send a playstation up and require the astronauts spend at least a couple of hours every day relaxing outside of their eating and sleeping time, or use their weekends to relax. Burnout is caused by an imbalance of work and relaxation... excessive work without enough down-time leads to burnout. They might be prestigious scientists, but they're still workers and we should all advocate for their rights.
0:04
Shit...
i'm thinking how it would like if instead moon we had another earth sized planet
what if it's not pure water?
Ammonia can drop the freezing point relay low.
Since the ISS shows the earth is round why do some people think the earth is flat?
Got Enceladian fish?
what if there was an intelligent space faring specie's on this water moon that recently sent a probe to earth and they know the planet could harbor life and they wonder Are we Alone in the universe
Anti-science skeptic: "Ha! Scientists got something wrong! Told you they don't know anything!"
Scientist: "LEARN ALL THE THINGS!! xD"
dark energy is melting the ice.
That's not how any of this works
+Gerald Dokka I'm not saying its aliens.
But its aliens.
Just hurry the eff up and invent the damn starship so we can all just go on some star trek space adventures. Why let the probes have all the fun. It'll probably be dull as all hell and I am sure I will have some crappy job like cleaning engine liners out all day, but I might get to SPACE
Take the metal spikes out of your face
Its just a bar piercing. What is she an estate agent?
I wonder if life could evolve with such low gravity.
+indubualisticism123 Gravity has little to no input in forming life. The problem would be something chemical... like, the concentrations of required elements and compounds dissolved in the oceans.
MrFreakHeavy so then life could possibly form out in space? interesting.
Well enceladus had somewhere around 4.5 billion years to accumulate all those chemicals. i hope life took hold there and we send a probe to find it in my life time. would like to be around for the discovery of aliens..
Or as Estonians would say ''Pig ocean, pig, pig ocean''
Guys it's actually 4:21 lol
I would like to see some evidence.
Caitlyn is adorable
blue pikmin
Is Enceladus more likely for life than Europa?