The Planet With Supersonic Winds | The Planets | Earth Science
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- Neptune's winds can reach up to 1500mph, thanks to no mountains, valleys or continental boundaries to slow it down.
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Visited once, i was blown away.
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Well played, sir!
Nice
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One of the things I find most fascinating about the solar system is that each planet is beautifully unique. Yes, the inner planets all have similarities, as do the outer planets. However, not one planet is exactly like another.
Like uranus?
@@ponkee Who name have been changed to Urectum in the years 2620
@@Dubs_One 3323 the name has been changed to P
To be fair, no single proton is exactly alike, so it would impossible to imagine planets that are exactly alike
Humans are the only being who have the one face mentality. Even thr planets are different and such
I can't imagine seeing a cloud moving faster than the speed of sound, that's just insane
It would look normal to you, but looks can be deceiving
And the diamond rain
Actually the speed of sound is not constant but depends on the medium: density, temperature etc. so it might be that sound travels faster there than here, and what's supersonic down here might be subsonic up there
@@bennbeckmann3 how long until someone sends a mission there to pick those diamonds and bring them here? It's a shame they go to waste
@@JustRememberWhoYoureWorkingFor if it’s enough pressure to rain diamonds , we’d probdbly have a rough time
man, i could listen to astronomers and astrophysicists all day. They're so hyped about space all the time it's infectious
Do you think the Nazis have a base there?
Yeah but how much of that is 100% true? They’re made base on theories and data collected by the passing satellite 🛰 Nobody hasn’t even went INSIDE the atmosphere of Uranus
1:54 "Voyager discovers Neptune is warmer then Uranus"
Truer words never been spoken...
In my country Neptune is the most popular cooking oil brand. The name is used in every single homosexual jokes 😅
@@Sepia1989That’s hilarious, our version of those jokes had Crisco brand in The US.
My uranus is pretty warm!
@@Sepia1989 I'm glad I don't get the joke
@@BORN-to-Runme too
I used to think Neptune was an ice ball and you could stand on it’s surface in a space suit. Imagine the flatness, the horizon would be much further away. Now I know there is no actual surface, the wind speed is huge.
good thing you didn't plan that vacation
Fr fr when I was young I thought u could stand on Jupiter too until I realized it’s just a big ass gas smoke
I mainly wondered if you could stand on a sphere much larger than Earth, how far away you can see, the horizon would be flat. In any case the gravity would be much stronger.
The Majipoor Chronicles featured Majipoor, a very large planet with breathable air but metal poor so it was roughly Earth’s mass so the gravity was the same. But Majipoor was mostly ocean with some small continents.
@@darylcheshire1618 While Neptune is 17x more massive than Earth, its also 3.8 times larger in diameter, so if you could stand on Neptune, you'd be farther from its center of mass. This means that the "surface" gravity on Neptune is only about 15% higher than Earth's.
@@Creek0512 somehow, that’s good to know, maybe Majipoor doesn’t have to be lacking in metals.
It’s amazing to think that Neptune is a ‘strange’ planet when earth could be 1 in a trillion or more. The universe is mind blowing. Life and everything we find normal on earth isn’t normal in outer space(not that we know of).
Strange based on our limited view of what constitutes a normal planet. I'm sure microbes on a passing asteroid would be like, "that Earth is one straaaaange place". It's all about the observer, not the observed.
Earth is more like a strange planet if you think about it
@Brookie you’re nothing special brook
@Brookie
Well we are definitely special, consciousness is special
@Brookie
That’s personality and instincts you’re talking about, I’m talking about the awareness, or the experiencer, this is something which doesn’t seem lifeless but is indeed special, consciousness is not formed in the brain, even brain damaged people have consciousness, awareness, mystical experiences with almost zero brain activity. It is special.
My favourite planet, even strangely above Jupiter.
For someone who has been interested about space science for the last 30 years, this is great stuff, even if a bit familar mostly.
Thank you, BBC Earth Lab.
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@PoorMans Chemist coming from parallel universe Neptune is astonishing and mysterious. Not only that sometimes there are sparks as if there is friction in the atmosphere.
For me Saturn is quite fascinating
since everything is a gas giant,i guesz venus would be cool to see on the surface
The blue couloir is just so beautiful
Neptune has always been my favorite planet. Besides earth, it is the most beautiful planet in the solar system. I used to think it was a giant ball of water with some ice and snowy lands that we could one day visit. This video made me horrified to ever go there but it is still my favorite planet.
It's not real.
@Weezy.E Of course, it's real. It's been observed since the 1800s. Are you a Flat Earther or something?
@@WeezyExElol
You can go to Triton, Neptune's moon, it's the place of your dreams!
@@WeezyExE you say its not real but you people cant even find the edge of the earth
"80% hydrogen
19% helium
1.5% methane"
Ahh, yes, Neptune, the planet that gives 100.5%
Margin of error
Not everything is a total of 100% 🙄
@@nightfuchsia Percentage quantifications that vary from 100% only occur in comparative contexts where some quantity can be expressed as a multiple of another quantity. What is Neptune's composition being compared to, here?
@@wasd____ Read your reply again and you already answered your question.
@@nightfuchsia How about you answer the question instead of trying to avoid it? What exactly is the composition of Neptune being compared to to justify using a relative non-100% percentage scale?
80% + 19% + 1.5% = 100.5%, lol
Bad rounding
80%±3.2% hydrogen
19%±3.2% helium
1.5%±0.5% methane
Lmao I saw the same thing, hate to be that guy with a critical eye....but c'mon BBC, you already telling me you can measure 4.5 billion Kilometers from the sun, now your telling me Neptune can obtain more than 100% of its self. Lmao let alone that it rains diamonds😂🤣🧐
Likely a rounding error. E.g. could be 18.5% helium.
@@ollielewis8590 your probably right! It's crazy how they figure all this stuff out, like the distance between the sun and Neptune, hard to see how we can measure something 4.5 billion light-years away from the sun
1500mph = 2300 kph winds
great potential for wind energy!
You’d have to build some REALLY strong airborne wind turbines though!
eh well only if the wind turbine isn't moving with the wind itself, which is hard when there isn't ground so it would have to be a dirigible, so if you're being pushed by the winds you would be moving as fast as the wind and so from your perspective there wouldn't be wind, or at least nearly as much.
@@professorracc.9780 Yeh Neptune among other gas planets are useless...cuz they're all poisonous gases even if we were to harvest a gas planet for energy right?
1500 mph is greater than 2400kph you fucking dipshit
@@brohanime No need to be that pissed off about a 4% mistake
It's bizarre that such celestial bodies are just out there on their own. Alone and unconquered. Indifferent to those admiring its immense beauty from billions of miles. Perhaps one day we might find a way to tame this mighty wind god.
Nice
For what? harness it's energy or something?
They have moons they have satellites to talk to
@@charlesloftin8768 Who knows, outer solar system refueling stop before heading for the stars? We're not doing it any time soon anyhow.
How can we tame it? It has no surface, 1600 mph winds and it's a gassy ice giant.
Neptune is gorgeous,those shades of blue are breath taking 😍😍😍
It's actually very pale blue/green, in most images the colour is altered.
Neptune is absolutely maniac. 1500miles wind speed? What planet gets wild like that?!
Much worst ! Other 5k mph
theres a planet which rains rocks on one side of it
@@Jermain-cz4bhThere's also another that rains glass sideways
One whose remains were blown to smithereens and created 4 new "planets"
I honestly thought Jupiter had the most dangerous winds. This is awesome!
I mean, if you wanna get *really* technical, there's a planet 40 light years away that rains glass at 5,400mph
@@shreksslave2458 name?
@@shreksslave2458 63 light years*
@@ertorolrahmadow95 I keep trying to tell you the name but TH-cam flags it as inappropriate behavior
Jupiter is a gentle giant
Space is truly mesmerising
Hmmm almost seems like it was created by an all knowing creator
@@its_saintseems as likely to be a random fluke if you ask me.
At least our experience of it.
@@its_saintalmost lol 😂 ✝️
Yes
God is mesmerizing
Supersonic is an Earthbound term for how fast sound travels through the unique make up, pressure, and gravity of Earth only.
That’s correct, but most people who are interested in space facts know what Mach one is in miles per hour or KpH so it does have a obvious corollary because a kilometer per hour in miles per hour on another planet is still the same thing.
Well 🌎 is our only vantage point so.
Neptune’s winds are almost the same speed as the YF-23 Jet
You say that like the other planets have their own language.
And I thought it just meant "really good sonic."
I honestly really hope a new mission to Neptune gets accepted because it’s been over 30 years since we last visited the planet up-close. It’s changed a lot since then, and there’s still a lot we don’t know about this planet.
Let's go get the diamonds 💯
Hola hola 👋 freaking slow down. First of all we have to figure out what gender we are 😂😂😂
Relax, Its not China, nothing has changed, nothing will ever change in Neptune.
There are better things to spend limited financial resources on.
@@Carlos-hw8ho like moving to another habitable planet to suck on its resources
Listen up boys 1:56 Neptune is warmer than Uranus.
Brooo 😂
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Btw: The winds just reach the level of earths supersonic velocity, but are not supersonic on Neptune (which wouldn't make sense if you think about it). The winds on Neptune reach a peak velocity of 2.100 kmh/h. Earths supersonic velocity is 1.234,8 km/h while Neptunes supersonic velocity is about 8.928 km/h. So, yes: it reaches earth supersonic velocity, but not Neptunes. If someone wants their units in bananas: 3.141. :D
@Daniel R.:
wind can of course go faster than the speed of sound in that particular medium. How should a super-sonic wind tunnel work otherwise? Speed of sound is only relative to the medium, and if the medium moves, the speed of sounds changes with it accordingly (which means, during super fast storms, there is a noticably difference between sound events from different directions)
Yes not a fan of how they used ‘supersonic’ so loosely. They could easily have said ‘wind speeds that would be supersonic if they occurred here in our atmosphere on earth’. It’s misleading for the sake of sounding cool
1.476 x 10^10 hands per week
@@PoisonNuke Well it doesn't even have to be quite like that. "Wind" is just bulk movement of air, and if you are floating along with that air then you won't even notice how fast it is moving. Even if it is moving faster than the speed of sound in the medium, relative to the ground. There'll be some hectic interactions at boundary layers with other air masses (if their relative speed is high), but in the bulk nothing special need happen.
Their point wasn’t so much the supersonic adjective, as they followed it up with being 1500 mph.
Supersonic is arbitrary.
As a kid I remember thinking Neptune was a water planet
Me to
It kinda is
@@Luke205 good hopefully we will be able to drink from it
Like a ball of Coast Soap!
It is
The fact that there's a storm that massive is so cool
I love watching this in the comfort and safety of my bed
I honestly thought Jupiter had the most dangerous winds. This is awesome!. 0:33 Apparently Neptune is also remarkable for having 100.5% of an atmosphere!.
It's THICC bruh
Why is the first half of your comment identical to the one right below yours that was made a year earlier
This is great stuff. Love space and planet exploration.
Bullshit it's not that interesting
@@rodrozil6544 Constructive and helpful comment, thank you for contributing. 👍
@@rodrozil6544 grow up
@@rodrozil6544 keep trolling
@@rodrozil6544bocil lol
Jupiter got red spot/ giant red eye
While Neptune got dark spot
Both around size of the earth 😳
Back in in the 1870s the red spot used to be almost as wide as Neptune
Don't forget the hexagon storm on satrun. Its 14500km wide.
Saturn has the Great White Spot
Also bigger than earth, however, it only lasts a few years and dissappears, but it comes back every 30 years
The fascinating thing about Neptunes dark spot is that its probably not a chemically different patch of atmosphere like Jupiters red spot, but the center of a huge vortex that streches well into its lower atmosphere. Basically we're seeing a hole in Neptune's atmosphere...like the spinning cone of a whirlpool in water.
I would love to see them send a probe out there just to study this blue beauty.
Uranus has a brown eye!😅
huge props to BBC earth for the content, my only wish would be for it to be a bit longer but can't have everything right.
the pace, the way you illustrate everything, the ambiance you create everything is great thank you for that
this gives me interstellar vibes. the music makes a part of me want to take a spaceship to visit Neptune.
Neptune is more than a planet. It has 100.5% of an atmosphere, incredible stuff.
The latest Spock character from Star Trek actor Zachary Quinto's narration is so appropriate. Love his voice
Rain of Diamonds!!! 💎
Fry:”Slap a ring on that baby, and Leela and I will be doing the married horizontal mambo!”
Guys we must Reach The Veil before Calus. [TRANSMAT FIRING]
BBC earthlab should make each planet documentary more than 30 minutes ❤❤❤
Welcome to Neomuna!
I love the animations they put into this video!!
I’ve always had a deep wish for us to send another probe back to Neptune. I’ve just got a feeling it would return the most incredible information. Fingers crossed we do in my lifetime.
All the money gone to Ukraine
I want to drive a Ford Probe on Neptune. 🚗
0:33 Apparently Neptune is also remarkable for having 100.5% of an atmosphere!
Hydrogen is in Methane so
@@lEGOBOT2565
Typical passive aggression; just argue he's wrong. He's not your boyfriend or your absentee father and he can't strike you through a computer screen.
@@Mr.Ambrose_Dyer_Armitage_Esq. where the fuck did that come from?
@@lEGOBOT2565
First time in your life a guy's called you on your shit, little girl?
@@Mr.Ambrose_Dyer_Armitage_Esq. no? It was completely out of nowhere
Now THIS was a rabbit hole I’m pleased to say I went down. Learned a bit about each planet. Ok then, Good night world.
Imagine entering Neptune's atmosphere just to get torn apart by the wind speed! Something near the core of this planet is making the wind this powerful Im guessing.
If the diamond theory is true, good luck reaching deeper as you're then shreded by microscopic diamond dust with those speeds.
@@DundG unless u a superhero
Going through that atmosphere would be just as extreme if not worse than going into the Sun lol 😂
@@_MIKIMOTO_ going close to the sun you would probably start burning a long while before reaching the photosphere, with Neptune if you go in at the right angle and speed you might survive for a bit before descending deeper and facing the brunt of what happens inside an ice giant
I like space. This got me into astronomy. Thank you BBC!
You're a simpleton.
@@CooManTunes Why is that?
I'm mean he just got a new passion that's great isn't it?
@@CooManTunes , no I'm not.
@@CooManTunes lmao
Wow 1500 miles, I always thought it was around 900 from what I heard, but that's insanely fascinating!!
Me too
Could be maximum versus average.
That kinda speed will strip skin from flesh
BitcoinBojgo
none of both, just total made up bs
I wonder what the Neptunian system is truly like. Imagine being able to visit this cold planetary world, assuming we could with stand it, makes you wonder what these places are like. Each planet is beautiful yet terrifying.
Rain, made of diamonds. I’ve never heard a more gorgeous sentence ever muttered. I feel like visiting Tiffany’s now 💎.
2:18 when i go in my parent's room at night
This is incredibly beautiful and I hope we continue to launch craft that can make more discoveries.
fuck BLM!
Your name and BLM dont mix.
0:41 - before walter white got into chemistry he was into astronomy
Fascinating and very interesting planets.
So blue, so deadly, so beautiful. My favourite planet.
Science is simply amazing
Neptune is warmer than Uranus!
I don't know.....mine is pretty hot 🔥
1:10 can we all appreciate the beauty of this graphic depicting voyager doing its flyby 😍
I thought that was Voyager! Nice catch!
@@mikec3260 thanks. I've watched the ISS fly overhead plenty of times so it stood out to me
Big storm clouds are already unnerving with their scale and power. I cant even comprehend seeing a planet-sized storm. The sheer scale of the cloud walls would just be terror inducing with their speed and power
My Goodness. That's where my spirit will visit when I leave this world.
And this explains why we never knew Neomuna existed.
Wait, so the diamonds falling melt, which heat up the planet? That doesn't make any sense.
The atmospheric drag converts their kinetic energy into heat
Conservation of energy ma man
Wish I had access to the music composition playing in the background. Majestic sounds.
Zachary Quinton! You stud muffin, Star Trekian, smooth talkin, Vulcan. So glad you're doing my favorite planet as I'm studying to be an astrophysicist. Cus love Star Trek so damn much.
Had beans for dinner last night so I've been making my own super sonic winds today.
My entire life was shattered as Kid when I found out Neptune wasn’t an ocean planet
Absolutely Beautiful ❤️
If you focus hard enough, you can see Neomuna pass by
This is definitely where Bo-katan told Din Djarin to go looking for the Mines of Mandalore 🙌🏾
The narration on these TH-cam clips from the show is better than the actual BBC show.
Are they supersonic in the planet's atmosphere or supersonic if they were in the earth's atmosphere
They don't know, they can't even observe this one properly with their eye balls.
@@missymoonwillow6545 same with the sun but we know a lot about it
Supersonic just means at a speed greater than the speed of the sound.
@@khalil_art but the speed of sound is different in different media
The winds on Neptune reach a peak velocity of 2.100 kmh/h. Earths supersonic velocity is 1.234,8 km/h while Neptunes supersonic velocity is about 8.928 km/h. So, yes: it reaches earth supersonic velocity, but not Neptunes. If someone wants their units in bananas: 3.141. :D
I went to Neptune once as a boy. Can confirm it can get pretty windy at times.
HAHAHAHAH OMG YOUR SO FUNNY. CAN I HIRE YOU AS A COMEDIAN?
@@zer0bankoe What is so funny?
@@adammac6386 You failing to make a funny joke.
@@zer0bankoe What joke?
@@zer0bankoe What do you mean?
Man I hope there isn’t a supernatural object known as The Veil hidden here! Would be unfortunate if some golden space rhino tried to take it
I was waiting for someone to make this exact joke, thank you
XD There it is. Eyes up Guardian.
Wow, Neptune just blew my mind away
Crazy that these landscapes and places really exist.. If one could stand on the surface of some planets out there… im sure theres one thats just a grass like scape with several suns. Others like this, just a dense gaseous mass. Wild
Imagine if we do crack intergalactic travel and we could fly through it. What a ride
That would be an incredible thing to witness travel thru Neptune unfortunately technologically were not there yet maybe one day like 300 years from now we might be able to lol
And with all this, people really believe we're the only ones out here. We can't even fathom how big space is
We aren't alone, but we aren't close enough to them.
That's either Spock or Sylar narrating and either makes me uncomfortable not knowing which one 😂
Props to the camera crew for this stunning shots
Diamond melt? Science is amazing
Literally anything melts if it's hot enough. Chemistry is awesome
1:56 Neptune is warmer than my what???
😂
your cat🐱!
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I guess this is never going to stop, no matter how they pronounce it.
@@Vanished_Mostly Even in french we do the joke, and in this case the planet's name isn't even a litteral translation so it doesn't make sense!
Humanity requires a Neptune Orbiter like Juno, but for the Neptunian system
IMO We should rather send an orbiter to study galilean moons instead , Neptune is nice but Europa is so fascinating for its caracteristics!
@@geckoo7770 The Europa Clipper mission is already set to do just that.
@@Mr.Titanic Yeah I know, I just wanted to say that as of right now it would be a better mission, but I hope missions to Neptune and Uranus will be planned soon :)
My favorite planet,I love the blue. So glad I got a chance to visit Neptune,I'm going back again this summer.
Bro tf😵💫🤣🤣
@@avnisingh8514 yea man,it was a pretty cool experience.
Why am I watching this at 3:30 am 😂
The distance of these outer planets from the sun compared to the closest 4 still blows my mind.
I would love to take tour around space would be amazing!
I wish we were at a place in technology where we could easily and safely travel between planets and have infrastructure on each one. I know that may never happen in humanities life time if we keep destroying earth but it'd be so cool to one day have that capability. Wish I could be alive to see it.
Yeah i really wish we discover the following in the next 10years
1. A new form of energy
2. Some kind of medicine that extends life to 200 years
3. A way to create warmholes or portals
4. Some kind of way to travel at the speed of light
@@smithshelke2036 1. nuclear fussion?
@@smithshelke2036cern already doing some of that
@@kelseyvisionCERN are trying to create a portal to hell.
@@smithshelke2036 10 years is a bit too recent for that much innovation in my opinion
shout out to the camera man, who risk their life filming inside of neptune
Nobody went there to film that dummy lol. Only spacecraft of tepescope
@@Moodboard39 r/wooosh
@@Moodboard39 its a joke
@@severikarjalainen Joke ? See no laughing .Can't tell is a joke , cuz some people could be dumb
@@Moodboard39 yeah you are right. Its just a meme thou
My two favourite things to watch together when I'm free
1. BBC
2. BBW
I had my birthday there, i wanted to blow the candles but i was blown away
Where’s Neomuna?
If all of this is really there then you scientist are phenomenal...One thought everytime comes in my mind after watching these kind of videos is how did you guys control a space craft at certain heights......
Orbital mechanics: with all the theories put into work you can program a spacecraft to go to certains orbits to have the data. Now of course it didn't went into Neptune's atmosphere but by simply looking at the surface change you can see the evolution of winds just like for Earth's weather.
Wonderful storytelling!
The father's creation is magnificent.
cult
Our Solar System is the best Solar System in the entire Universe or the Multiverse (if the Multiverse exists). Change my mind.
Imagine getting hit by something going 1500 miles per hour.
Would prefer not to, the thought of that is horrifying.
Well, according to this documentary, you would be shredded by the raining diamonds.
Facts: Neptune is warmer than Uranus.
I thought Neptune would be warmer than Uranus because half of Uranus is always in a constant state of night.
Half of every planet isn't exposed by Sun light...
@@geckoo7770 Yeh that’s true but I would assume that Uranus’s North Pole would be extra cold considering it never sees the sun
@@honeymoon1263 Yeah but it must be like Venus's dense atmosphere where it's almost constantly the same temperature everywhere.
"Neptune is warmer than Uranus" cracked me😆
Aerospace Engineer here.
Speed of sound in outer planet atmospheres by Ralph D Lorenz shows the lower limit of the speed of sound on Neptune is around 600 m/s, however it can get up to 1200 m/s at relatively high pressures.
At the top of the atmosphere where wind speeds are high and pressure is low->1,500 mph (670 m/s) winds would result in a speed 11% higher than the local speed of sound. That atmosphere is moving…
Imagine harnessing the storms energy
Absolutely stunning planet to look at expected for a gas giant beauty. Will always be my favorite planet ✨🔵✨
Raining diamonds is crazy
"Neptune is warmer than Uranus" 😭😂😂 01:56
I beg to differ. 😂😂
Please elaborate more 😂
this is why being Superman would be awesome to be able to visit these places.
Give props to the camera man, he recorded all of this for us 👍🏻