You make one hell of a documentary! You give major productions a run for the money!! Kick ass that we get this for free on TH-cam... Thank you for your hard work!
@@Heyheyhey0475 scientist one: but... how much does it suck Scientists two: surely not that much Probe 36 months later: yeah, so actually... its even worse then you thought
In Isaac Asimov's Lucky Starr YA novels that were written in the 1950s, Venus is covered with an ocean, and there's life. "Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus" was originally published in 1954. In later editions of the book, Asimov insisted on including a foreword that explained that Venus wasn't actually like that.
Fun fact. The Soviets called Venera 9's camera contrast meter so that if it didn't work, they wouldn't have to admit that they weren't able to take photos
I've heard that exact thing with their Luna 9 probe, the first successful landing on the Moon that returned images. It seems everyone would know the naming convention by time the Venus probes came along...to call it contrast meter again wouldn't hide the purpose very well. Odd coincidence the same story circulates, and it was both missions numbered 9 too.
Ah yes, Venus. Don't go 0/10 not recommended. Mr Kennedy, thank you again. May the luck and succes achieved by the Soviets with this program (lens caps non-inclusive) be with you.
Best space youtube channel at the moment. Not as flashy as some of the other big players, but boy do u delivery the information. I just wished you uploaded far more often
These videos are so good, incredibly interesting, getting you out of the short/reel swamp and just being relaxing These are really good and relaxing, thank you soo much and all the best for your personal Battles right now ❤
It really makes me wonder if we're ever going to actually in my lifetime have something like a rover on Venus. It's just such a hostile environment - if we find ourselves consistently surprised at how long Mars rovers last, I think we're going to be surprised by the opposite on the planet from hell.
@@WasatchWind yeah I would definitely say Venus would classify as a planet from hell not only that but most circuitry and stuff cannot handle anything even close to that temperature that they have on Venus. I was actually pondering that idea of how they would make a rover and if it was even possible for Venus. I was thinking maybe something like solid state coolers because if heat is applied to one side the other side will get cold it will also generate electricity at the same time but I don't think they can handle anywhere near that temperature.
@@CD3WD-Project You'd lose precious mass to cooling and still be stuck with a short lifespan after the coolant runs out. Luckily, NASA has found and tested temperature-tolerant electronics materials for its AREE rover concept, though microchips are out of the question for the foreseeable future(so AREE is heavily mechanical to compensate).
This is exactly the type of content I come to TH-cam to see and this was done exactly the way I want to see it done, 10/10, instant subscribe. There was also quite a lot of facts in this video which I didn't already know, which is extremely rare for this topic, I usually only get one or two insights per video. Can't wait for more!
The more I learn about Venus the more I learn that it's one of the last places you'd want to send humans. But let the baloon city people dream I suppose.
Fascinatingly it would be far easier to terraform than mars, as it comes with an atmosphere and all that. Rehabilitating it would require sunshades, much easier to do than somehow making an entire atmosphere like mars.
@@Solnoric My friend, you're forgetting that you need to get rid of all that extra atmosphere, and that you need to bring a bunch of water to the planet. I call poppycock, terraforming Venus would of course give you a more desirable end point, but it would be _far_ more difficult than Mars.
@@WasatchWindI disagree on the more liveable end point, you would have to look to move because of the heat of the sun pretty much as soon as you managed to terraform it if you ever actually managed to which I doubt we could.
@@Solnoricabsolutely not, that simple plan still requires technology we haven't yet invented, large amounts of money and thousands of years of waiting. Building up an atmosphere is actually much easier, we've significantly modified the trace gases in earth's atmosphere in multiple ways already without even trying. The easiest part would be producing greenhouse gases to affect the temperature, you could have robots mine and process regolith to synthesise gases with very high warning potential. The issue with terraforming mars is that this cannot be done when there are colonies on mars, which is another reason why colonising the moon should be the primary goal.
@mattsmith5421 the similar gravity to earth would make it ideal to terraform. I recommend sending giant blocks of ice to solve the heat and water problems at once ;)
I love this! This video seeks to document a simple question, the history of exploring Venus. You don't bog us down with random existential questions or try to wrap this around into some theological argument. You give the facts, and show the ups and downs, a perfect astronomy video for astronomy buffs. Thank you!
5:14 You can sort of recreate this retinal self scanning phenomena by shining a flashlight into your eyeballs pupils at an oblique angle almost from the side and move it around in a circle, keeping the same angle and distance. You will see a tree root-like network of blood vessels move around much like the one You depicted here!! I don't know what this is called but you have to keep moving around or it vanishes and you have to keep looking straight ahead meaning you can't look directly at the "image", much like you can't look directly at an object in the dark directly or you won't see it. Works much better in a dark setting!!!
6:40 saying the planet is rotating the other way, and saying the axis is tilted 180º is fundamentally the same thing. It's not one or the other, it's both.
@bugjams might be wrong, but i think it's the right hand rule. You make a thumbs up with your right hand and match the curl of your fingers to the direction of rotation and your thumb will be pointing to the positive pole. Venus is inverted compared to every other planet besides Uranus, I think.
Venus is my favorite rocky planet, besides Earth, but often seems overlooked due to the huge logistical challenges of getting any machine to survive long enough to collect the kind of information we have about, say, Mars. I certainly hope that some of the proposals for modern missions to return probes to Venus get the green light and we can, perhaps, take a deeper look into what may float in and lie under her extremely dense atmosphere! Disappointing the old idea of a jungle planet didn't pan out but still an absolutely fascinating world that may have an even more fascinating deep history! I'm really digging this series, but it's a little unfair to say because I love all of your content!!🙏 Glad to see the computer issues seem to have been overcome and you're back in the swing of things!
Really glad I found this channel today :) Love the video! Great research into the history and I like how you mentioned the upcoming missions at the end. Thank you!
Thank you for shoving this info into my brain. I'm currently writing a science fiction where sentient life evolved on Venus and intend to include lots of easter eggs to real life Venus research
Great video, I have been looking for long form space videos and this is exactly what I was looking for, just subscribed and I'm sure I will watch more.
The fucking balloons on Venus are severely underrated, how have we not tried that again? How have we not tried it on Titan? Surely we can build something that'll last a few orbits in the atmosphere
5:48 ok. You really blew my mind with the guy accidentally inventing retina scanning. Did his canals on Mars and Venus match? It would be really crazy if they compared the two and found some undiagnosed eye disease because his notes were that good.
Unfortunately the canals on Mars were caused by an artifact in older, low-quality telescopes. Other people saw them aside from Lowell, and they didn't match the Venus ones.
That was really interesting! I hope we send up more probes with better cameras b/c I want to experience walking on Venus in VR. I like the aesthetic - it looks like a strange world you could walk around & explore, but I know it would crush & pyrolize you IRL
The intro "Venus..." immediately made me think of the intro for the "In the Field" videos by Internet Historian on the Incognito Mode channel. I was waiting for the 'Venus...(intro music begins) VENUS!" 😂 Absolutely awesome video start to Star Wars end, your content is some of the very best in the space exploration genre! I also really liked your response comment on the video "The Buran is Overrated" when he called out your video about Buran.
Omg I was so excited to comment that the sound with the ??? Was a drill- then you immediately crush me with the awesome knowledge that they drilled through the lens cap!? That’s far out.
this is awesome! i would love to have titles or credits for the images. cause i was kinda confused by what i think were illustrations, but I'm not sure
Venus is a pretty fascinating place to me. I applaud the Venera missions for giving us a real glimpse of the surface. Such an elusive land to explore underneath that hellish atmosphere. It almost seems like a gas giant in a way, but with a solid surface one can land on. I wonder if our material science has advanced enough to make surface probes that can last longer nowadays.
Hey DKiS! I love your recent long-form videos but would really appreciate it if you'd add timestamps to the TH-cam playbar because sometimes I watch certain sections again or don't watch the entire 1h videos in one go
That space race painting is fabulous... does anyone have any details? I'm so glad you mentioned that Magellan was made from spare parts. As an avid dumpster-diver, I love to think that this highly successful probe was built from "old crap". :)
It appears to be from a Russian film about the space race, I found several versions with a Cyrillic title on it, but none of the websites seem to exist anymore. The cropped version I found came from this LinkedIn article: www.linkedin.com/pulse/space-race-reimagined-america-vs-china-who-reign-supreme-elharony-vsakf
It is humbling how hostile to human standards a rocky place can be. Like the moon is dusty and open to space and Mars is unpleasant but you can wear a reasonable suit and you'd be fine, but Venus is such a hellscape like I'd be really curious on what is going on at the time people would ever get to walk there.
Yeah, the big problem with Venus is that keeping a probe or rover at operating temperature is much harder due to the insane heat than on Mars. Cooling equipment is much more involved thus prone to breakage than heating equipment.
Well the temps are significantly harsher as well. Steady 950 deg F vs a swing from -125 to 25 F Lead melts at 620... Pretty much all that can be done is have a limited gas coolant system or vacuum isolation. It doesn't buy much time for electronics.
DKiS is one of the fines, highest quality, most genuinely well-researched and respected channels on TH-cam. Thank you for the amazing content over all these years. You have made a massive and positive impact to my life, and the lives of many, many others. Thank you DRiS - you have helped me through the darkness (and continue to do so). Peace, love, unity and respect ❤
Wonderfully informed content! I watch a lot of planet science content, and I feel like I never knew that Venus is upside down - no one else talks about this? Similarities with Uranus? Anyone for solar system billiards? 🎱
I know I said "reentry" when I meant "entry".
Thank you.
I know you said "Thank you" when you meant "Sorry."
@Nah_Bohdi no, I said thank you, as in "thank you for the corrections".
Thank you.
@@Nah_Bohdi I'll give ya "sorry"! **TAKES OFF BELT; HOLDS TROUSERS UP WITH LEFT HAND; SHAKES RIGHT FIST**
@@Nah_Bohdiyy
You make one hell of a documentary! You give major productions a run for the money!! Kick ass that we get this for free on TH-cam... Thank you for your hard work!
Scientists: “Yeah this planet sucks. Send up another probe.”
@@Heyheyhey0475 scientist one: but... how much does it suck
Scientists two: surely not that much
Probe 36 months later: yeah, so actually... its even worse then you thought
WE WANT TO QUANTIFY THE AMMOUNT OF THE SUCK!
SEND ANOTHER PROBE!
@Heyheyhey0475 🤣 LETS F'ING GOOO WOOOOOOOOO!
Probe Engineers: "I hate my job"
I have a book about space from 1954 and it describes how Venus is covered in "Lush tropical rain forests".
could you post the name or a link to a photo of that page? I'm interested.
@@Lemmon714_ Scientology?
@@komicsreviewer8505 I was thinking same thing. That sounds like a quote from an original L. Ron Hubbard pulp fiction
@@kamakaziozzie3038 L. Ron molested me. : (
In Isaac Asimov's Lucky Starr YA novels that were written in the 1950s, Venus is covered with an ocean, and there's life. "Lucky Starr and the Oceans of Venus" was originally published in 1954. In later editions of the book, Asimov insisted on including a foreword that explained that Venus wasn't actually like that.
Find yourself a partner that strives to love you the same way that Lowell strived to find canyons on other planets
I read that as crayons and was very confused lol
@@WasatchWind
That would have worked, if Lowell had been a marine :P
ok Mr.KV2
I so wish there were full on civilizations on the other planets. How cool would that be?
What, in the name of Newton's knackers, are you wittering about? Just mindless gobbin' off?
Mars: no magnetic field, dead core, but kinda chill.
Venus: magnetic field, hyperactive core, greenhouse effect through the roof, hell.
@@destroyerinazuma96 but Venus has more resources , if only we had a way of mining them lol 😂
Sounds like you're describing my grandparents after 65 years of marriage.
Old deep space probes sound like my modern car. Mysteroius electronic problems that solve themselves.
Fun fact. The Soviets called Venera 9's camera contrast meter so that if it didn't work, they wouldn't have to admit that they weren't able to take photos
I've heard that exact thing with their Luna 9 probe, the first successful landing on the Moon that returned images.
It seems everyone would know the naming convention by time the Venus probes came along...to call it contrast meter again wouldn't hide the purpose very well.
Odd coincidence the same story circulates, and it was both missions numbered 9 too.
You can't change your gender.
Crazy how the soviets had to lie about literally everything.
Ah yes, Venus. Don't go 0/10 not recommended.
Mr Kennedy, thank you again. May the luck and succes achieved by the Soviets with this program (lens caps non-inclusive) be with you.
In wolfenstein 2 you get to run across the surface of Venus, you have to keep hitting these cooling stations, or you eventually burn up lol
Spoiler alert...
Backronyms are where you pick the acronym first then figure out the words afterwards
I think SHIELD is an example of that 🤣
Mariner 2 sounds like it just had ghosts onboard
First we got Tims tour of Blue Origins launch pad, and now we get a new DKIS video about exploring Venus. This is the best Thursday of my life.
Here I am on a Friday paying respects to a Thursday and agreeing to that with respectful compliance. Humanity has truly evolved.
"blue origin" 😂😂😂😂😂
@@mcapps1 yeah...?
40:52 omg I'm almost falling asleep at 4pm and still recognized these parts to be the lense caps😂
Subbed. Thank god another human YT space channel, not AI. You are the few… against the many.
Ironic, given that I just replied to a comment from someone claiming I actually was AI, lol. Welcome aboard!
Best space youtube channel at the moment. Not as flashy as some of the other big players, but boy do u delivery the information. I just wished you uploaded far more often
I'm trying. These videos take a lot of research and effort to make, especially since I'm all alone in this.
Love your work @@DKiSAerospaceHistory
This isn't brief this is more like a documentary love it
you channel is so underrated, but i feel like one day it will explode in popularity so keep doing this my guy!
These videos are so good, incredibly interesting, getting you out of the short/reel swamp and just being relaxing
These are really good and relaxing, thank you soo much and all the best for your personal Battles right now ❤
I find it quite amazing that anything managed to last an hour plus on the surface of Venus.
It really makes me wonder if we're ever going to actually in my lifetime have something like a rover on Venus. It's just such a hostile environment - if we find ourselves consistently surprised at how long Mars rovers last, I think we're going to be surprised by the opposite on the planet from hell.
@@WasatchWind yeah I would definitely say Venus would classify as a planet from hell not only that but most circuitry and stuff cannot handle anything even close to that temperature that they have on Venus. I was actually pondering that idea of how they would make a rover and if it was even possible for Venus. I was thinking maybe something like solid state coolers because if heat is applied to one side the other side will get cold it will also generate electricity at the same time but I don't think they can handle anywhere near that temperature.
@@CD3WD-Project You'd lose precious mass to cooling and still be stuck with a short lifespan after the coolant runs out. Luckily, NASA has found and tested temperature-tolerant electronics materials for its AREE rover concept, though microchips are out of the question for the foreseeable future(so AREE is heavily mechanical to compensate).
That was a good one, btw that lens cap falling directly below the drill LOL!
This is exactly the type of content I come to TH-cam to see and this was done exactly the way I want to see it done, 10/10, instant subscribe. There was also quite a lot of facts in this video which I didn't already know, which is extremely rare for this topic, I usually only get one or two insights per video. Can't wait for more!
The more I learn about Venus the more I learn that it's one of the last places you'd want to send humans. But let the baloon city people dream I suppose.
Fascinatingly it would be far easier to terraform than mars, as it comes with an atmosphere and all that. Rehabilitating it would require sunshades, much easier to do than somehow making an entire atmosphere like mars.
@@Solnoric My friend, you're forgetting that you need to get rid of all that extra atmosphere, and that you need to bring a bunch of water to the planet.
I call poppycock, terraforming Venus would of course give you a more desirable end point, but it would be _far_ more difficult than Mars.
@@WasatchWindI disagree on the more liveable end point, you would have to look to move because of the heat of the sun pretty much as soon as you managed to terraform it if you ever actually managed to which I doubt we could.
@@Solnoricabsolutely not, that simple plan still requires technology we haven't yet invented, large amounts of money and thousands of years of waiting.
Building up an atmosphere is actually much easier, we've significantly modified the trace gases in earth's atmosphere in multiple ways already without even trying. The easiest part would be producing greenhouse gases to affect the temperature, you could have robots mine and process regolith to synthesise gases with very high warning potential. The issue with terraforming mars is that this cannot be done when there are colonies on mars, which is another reason why colonising the moon should be the primary goal.
@mattsmith5421 the similar gravity to earth would make it ideal to terraform.
I recommend sending giant blocks of ice to solve the heat and water problems at once ;)
This was amazing. I know no idea we actually recorded sound from the surface, or actually used balloons in the atmosphere.
I am sooo happy I chanced upon your channel :) Great work!!
I love this! This video seeks to document a simple question, the history of exploring Venus. You don't bog us down with random existential questions or try to wrap this around into some theological argument. You give the facts, and show the ups and downs, a perfect astronomy video for astronomy buffs. Thank you!
"lofty proposals such as floating outposts in the upper atmosphere", If this was an intentional pun that's genius. Banger video as always my man.
"And Venus was her name." Well done, another fine production.
Biological Determinism.
(guitar riff)
@@dubsy1026 The God of BioMechanics cant be denied.
@@farmersboy
Bananarama ☺️☺️
@@panosvrionis8548 Not bad for a cover version.
Goddess on a mountain top,
Burning like a silver flame.
The summit of beauty and love,
And Venus was her name.
5:14 You can sort of recreate this retinal self scanning phenomena by shining a flashlight into your eyeballs pupils at an oblique angle almost from the side and move it around in a circle, keeping the same angle and distance. You will see a tree root-like network of blood vessels move around much like the one
You depicted here!! I don't know what this is called but you have to keep moving around or it vanishes and you have to keep looking straight ahead meaning you can't look directly at the "image", much like you can't look directly at an object in the dark directly or you won't see it. Works much better in a dark setting!!!
Europa. We're looking for extraterrestrial life, right? It's on Europa. Great video. I learned a lot. Thank you!
This has brought feelings of my old love - astronomy, which has been killed by depression. Thank you.
Easily top 3 of my favorite channels. Love every video. :)
Great vid, one of the best on TH-cam about Venus.
Thank you for not buggerising around. This was very interesting.
Always enjoy your videos on space exploration and look forward to the next one.
I always learn something i didn't know.
6:40 saying the planet is rotating the other way, and saying the axis is tilted 180º is fundamentally the same thing. It's not one or the other, it's both.
Yeah I didn't get that either. How do you even tell if it's radial axis is inverted, like, what?
@bugjams might be wrong, but i think it's the right hand rule. You make a thumbs up with your right hand and match the curl of your fingers to the direction of rotation and your thumb will be pointing to the positive pole. Venus is inverted compared to every other planet besides Uranus, I think.
Venus is my favorite rocky planet, besides Earth, but often seems overlooked due to the huge logistical challenges of getting any machine to survive long enough to collect the kind of information we have about, say, Mars. I certainly hope that some of the proposals for modern missions to return probes to Venus get the green light and we can, perhaps, take a deeper look into what may float in and lie under her extremely dense atmosphere! Disappointing the old idea of a jungle planet didn't pan out but still an absolutely fascinating world that may have an even more fascinating deep history!
I'm really digging this series, but it's a little unfair to say because I love all of your content!!🙏 Glad to see the computer issues seem to have been overcome and you're back in the swing of things!
Reallly good work here DKiS. I’ve been into Soviet space travel for many years.
What a great way to spend my morning. Got a hot cup of coffee and a day of relaxation ahead. Thanks DKiS! ❤
Really glad I found this channel today :) Love the video! Great research into the history and I like how you mentioned the upcoming missions at the end. Thank you!
Welcome aboard!
Thank you for shoving this info into my brain. I'm currently writing a science fiction where sentient life evolved on Venus and intend to include lots of easter eggs to real life Venus research
This was an incredible video, I learned so much. I didn’t know about half of these missions. Venus is an amazing place.
Great video, I have been looking for long form space videos and this is exactly what I was looking for, just subscribed and I'm sure I will watch more.
Welcome aboard!
The fucking balloons on Venus are severely underrated, how have we not tried that again? How have we not tried it on Titan? Surely we can build something that'll last a few orbits in the atmosphere
Huge congrats again mate, your collection of content is truly top quality for all of us to enjoy!
Thank you for another wonderful video, DKiS! Gonna watch this immediately
Thank you for bringing up Kosmos 482, I've actually seen one of the "space balls" at museum in New Zealand
Thank you for this little informative gem! Much needed on a Friday after a tough week!
i get so happy whenever one of your videos makes its way through my watch later queue
Awesome job! Thanks DKIS!
The video I've been waiting for! glad to see more quality work :)
5:48 ok. You really blew my mind with the guy accidentally inventing retina scanning. Did his canals on Mars and Venus match? It would be really crazy if they compared the two and found some undiagnosed eye disease because his notes were that good.
Unfortunately the canals on Mars were caused by an artifact in older, low-quality telescopes. Other people saw them aside from Lowell, and they didn't match the Venus ones.
That was really interesting! I hope we send up more probes with better cameras b/c I want to experience walking on Venus in VR. I like the aesthetic - it looks like a strange world you could walk around & explore, but I know it would crush & pyrolize you IRL
Once again, I dont have time to watch the instant this dropped, but Im liking and commenting for the algorithm
A higly interesting video, as usual... Well done!
50:09 I leanred something today. That is a nifty experiment
Listening while convalescing. Spaaaaaace
Should have known that Dwight Schrute's Canadian cousin was the guy behind DKiS. Keep up the good work.
I wish more exploration was done on Venus! Great video!
Unless I’m confusing it with Mars, didn’t NASA map virtually the entire surface of Venus and animated the resulting images as a tour of the planet?
Hey, wake up! DKiS just dropped a new "Brief History" video...
The intro "Venus..." immediately made me think of the intro for the "In the Field" videos by Internet Historian on the Incognito Mode channel. I was waiting for the 'Venus...(intro music begins) VENUS!" 😂 Absolutely awesome video start to Star Wars end, your content is some of the very best in the space exploration genre! I also really liked your response comment on the video "The Buran is Overrated" when he called out your video about Buran.
"What is Venus? Is it a lush jungle inhabited by large-breasted women?... No." *cue fake ending.*
Super interesting. Thanks
Thanks for another great video buddy
Omg I was so excited to comment that the sound with the ??? Was a drill- then you immediately crush me with the awesome knowledge that they drilled through the lens cap!? That’s far out.
this is awesome! i would love to have titles or credits for the images. cause i was kinda confused by what i think were illustrations, but I'm not sure
Venus is a pretty fascinating place to me. I applaud the Venera missions for giving us a real glimpse of the surface. Such an elusive land to explore underneath that hellish atmosphere. It almost seems like a gas giant in a way, but with a solid surface one can land on. I wonder if our material science has advanced enough to make surface probes that can last longer nowadays.
I absolutely love such videos! Please do Saturn next!
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seeing that orbital transfer map and hearing about Delta-V made my Kerbal spot hurt, thank you :)
Great video!!! So much information and a lot of things I never knew. Venus is becoming my favorite planet now. I just subscribed too
Welcome aboard!
Hey DKiS! I love your recent long-form videos but would really appreciate it if you'd add timestamps to the TH-cam playbar because sometimes I watch certain sections again or don't watch the entire 1h videos in one go
Thank you 🙏 Another very interesting and informative video.
Thanks for you great work! I never heard of the balon misson
A lot of these craft just needed a better attitude... 🦗🦗🦗
Well, that's my set. Goodnight!
Ba dum tsss
Excellent content
@8:24
"That and the whole being cooked by the Sun thing" :D LoL!
That space race painting is fabulous... does anyone have any details?
I'm so glad you mentioned that Magellan was made from spare parts. As an avid dumpster-diver, I love to think that this highly successful probe was built from "old crap". :)
It appears to be from a Russian film about the space race, I found several versions with a Cyrillic title on it, but none of the websites seem to exist anymore. The cropped version I found came from this LinkedIn article:
www.linkedin.com/pulse/space-race-reimagined-america-vs-china-who-reign-supreme-elharony-vsakf
@@DKiSAerospaceHistory :)
42:25 they wanted to drill into the surface but it went into the lens cap lol 😂
It's a great day when DKiS uploads another Brief History video.
I'm seated
Comment for the algorithm
Great video, keep it up, these are so interesting!!!
great video. very informative. thankyou.
0:01 - I'm sold.
Great video as usual. I said to myself, he's probably seeing the back of his own eye, a few seconds before you said it 😅
the goat continues his run
At 36:55, that’s my favorite Venus mission because it’s almost a shotgun approach to studying Venus.
It is humbling how hostile to human standards a rocky place can be.
Like the moon is dusty and open to space and Mars is unpleasant but you can wear a reasonable suit and you'd be fine, but Venus is such a hellscape like I'd be really curious on what is going on at the time people would ever get to walk there.
Yeah, the big problem with Venus is that keeping a probe or rover at operating temperature is much harder due to the insane heat than on Mars. Cooling equipment is much more involved thus prone to breakage than heating equipment.
Well the temps are significantly harsher as well. Steady 950 deg F vs a swing from -125 to 25 F
Lead melts at 620... Pretty much all that can be done is have a limited gas coolant system or vacuum isolation. It doesn't buy much time for electronics.
Your content is absolutely amazing and is always a pleasure to watch. I hope your channel blows up soon, it deserves much much more attention.
i knew it was gonna be a good day when this popped up
55:17 I believe the term for that is called a back-ronym
we are so back
DKiS is one of the fines, highest quality, most genuinely well-researched and respected channels on TH-cam. Thank you for the amazing content over all these years. You have made a massive and positive impact to my life, and the lives of many, many others. Thank you DRiS - you have helped me through the darkness (and continue to do so). Peace, love, unity and respect ❤
Thank you so much!
KGLW has a great album featuring Venus called Infest The Rats Nest
41:50 the sound of those footsteps approaching are really scary....
Wonderful video 🫡🤘👍
Would be really cool to get high resolution video from one of those high atmosphere balloon probes.
What were those Lenin medallions made out of? It is really funny to imagine a little lead Lenin melting on Venus. 27:00
Unfortunately I can't find anything on the material, but I'm guessing it's something that wouldn't last on Venus.
The motor noise in the Venera 14 lander clip is a regolith drill; designed to drill a few centimetres into the Venusian regolith to sample it.
...that's what I said?
Excited to watch!
Wonderfully informed content! I watch a lot of planet science content, and I feel like I never knew that Venus is upside down - no one else talks about this? Similarities with Uranus? Anyone for solar system billiards? 🎱