The Secret Landings on Mars

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  • After the United States first put a man on the Moon and the Soviet Union landed a rover that could freely move across its surface, the USSR’s next goal would be more ambitious: to finally touch down on Mars.
    The Soviets had been developing a space program to send a rover to Mars since 1960. But it wasn’t until the launch of Mars 2 in 1971 that they were close to achieving their objective. However, the rover crashed on the planet after a landing malfunction.
    The mission was shortly followed by Mars 3, which completed its goal of becoming the first spacecraft to land on the red planet and capture footage of its rocky surface.
    Minutes after its activation, the rover began transmitting data back to Earth. But 14 seconds after it started moving, the first man-made object to reach Mars lost signal.
    Before going black, the rover transmitted a fuzzy black and white image. It then went silent forever.
    Russia initially kept the Mars 3 landing a secret. And for almost 40 years, the mystery of what happened to the spacecraft remained unanswered. It was until the late 2000s that an astonishing satellite discovery left the space community in awe...
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  • @nickmudd
    @nickmudd 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3092

    Watched in 0.75 speed cause this guy can talk at a significant percentage of the speed of light

    • @akashsoni589
      @akashsoni589 2 ปีที่แล้ว +81

      😂 hahaha loll 🤣😆, true

    • @LichaelMewis
      @LichaelMewis 2 ปีที่แล้ว +117

      Lmao. I always wonder if he intentionally speeds his voice up for his videos.

    • @Will-tm5bj
      @Will-tm5bj 2 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      Great idea. Thanks lol

    • @chadgericke1170
      @chadgericke1170 2 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Great idea!

    • @savourypotato
      @savourypotato 2 ปีที่แล้ว +98

      I love it, I’m so happy to finally have somebody talk at my need for speedy knowledge
      Watch lots of videos in 1.75x or 2x

  • @isabellaangeline2175
    @isabellaangeline2175 2 ปีที่แล้ว +185

    I don’t have a problem with how fast this guy speaks as I can still understand him and process what is being said. My problem is that it still takes him forever to get to the point.

    • @Mark-qq7io
      @Mark-qq7io ปีที่แล้ว +11

      He makes more money that way

    • @ATATURKdusmanlarininAMK_NJ
      @ATATURKdusmanlarininAMK_NJ ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Lmao

    • @wesleygary6651
      @wesleygary6651 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      absolutely. .

    • @abf213
      @abf213 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      9 mins is a little long for someone with an attention span of 1 minute.

    • @rayvs5447
      @rayvs5447 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It's funny, but only for the first 2 minutes... than irritating comes to mind.

  • @paulschryer9571
    @paulschryer9571 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    - Nicholas Creeger..... you beat me to it !!!
    I thought he had wayyy too much coffee.
    LoL !!!

  • @JESTAz
    @JESTAz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Wow I just had to drink 17 coffees to get my brain to speed up to this guys voice 💥💥💥meep meep 🤣🤣😁

    • @janicesmith2475
      @janicesmith2475 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Lol. I’m playing it on 3/4 speed. 😆

  • @vaporwave2345
    @vaporwave2345 3 ปีที่แล้ว +536

    Next up: *Dark Food*
    *Discover the Dark Secrets of Ronald Mcdonald's hidden underground grease chambers.*

    • @einienj3281
      @einienj3281 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      As a chef, I would definitely watch! 😄

    • @danielcarpen
      @danielcarpen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Lol

    • @charletonzimmerman4205
      @charletonzimmerman4205 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      for sure, every McD's got a grease trap, outside, by kitchen, thats were to find "ALIEN LIFE", don't tell the "RUSSIAN'S".

    • @yahnnobber5096
      @yahnnobber5096 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Really sold it with the concept of underground grease chambers, mate. Sounds like an URBEX horror movie plot. I'd watch!

    • @theFLCLguy
      @theFLCLguy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      There's actually a lot you could cover on that channel.
      Like how slurpee machines are never cleaned. I worked at a 7 eleven and was told by the owner it's never been cleaned in the 20+years of use. Only the outside has been cleaned. Even then we used the same rags to clean everything in the store.

  • @royalspin
    @royalspin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +747

    It's such a shame that there's been so much distrust between the US and Russia .If we were able to combine our efforts to explore our own solar system and share the costs ,the results would be amazing .

    • @gamingcreatesworlddd2425
      @gamingcreatesworlddd2425 2 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      Russia sadly is now economically super weak still trying to capture land like Chechnya

    • @dudelebowski8629
      @dudelebowski8629 2 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      @@gamingcreatesworlddd2425 Look at them now u right.

    • @gboogie360
      @gboogie360 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Are you kidding??

    • @dudelebowski8629
      @dudelebowski8629 2 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      @@gboogie360 Are they not about to capture LAND?(UKRAINE)

    • @TydalWind
      @TydalWind 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      ALL the major gov'ts have been secretly working together for decades - ever since the Roswell incident. They use the illusion of conflict to be able to appropriate huge sums for the MIC, which then supplies the technology and manpower to build all the projects the 'secret space program' requires. What we see in public is but an illusion and psy-ops to keep the public in the dark.

  • @donkeyballs3081
    @donkeyballs3081 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It sounds like he's afraid the battery is about to die on the device he's using to record this

  • @eyechi9365
    @eyechi9365 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    I can't get a cell signal next to a tower, but they have the ability to transmit from Mars? Facinating

    • @ACDZ123
      @ACDZ123 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Space nerds love this fantasy ..NASA keeps pumping out the BS and the space nerds 🤓 keep lapping it up

    • @toejamisgreat
      @toejamisgreat ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@ACDZ123 dude your parents are definitely siblings

    • @ACDZ123
      @ACDZ123 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@toejamisgreat hi space nerd 🤓

    • @toejamisgreat
      @toejamisgreat ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ACDZ123 hello product of inbreeding

    • @1C3CR34M
      @1C3CR34M ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ACDZ123 are you 12? Go home

  • @harrymoyer866
    @harrymoyer866 3 ปีที่แล้ว +236

    The Jawa likely scavenged it by now.

    • @kryoboy36
      @kryoboy36 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Disgusting creatures 😉😂

    • @jeffmullinix7916
      @jeffmullinix7916 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It was made by MZ and Jawa stolen the good parts from the beast .

    • @RockLeeMC
      @RockLeeMC 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      "Ootini!"

    • @jukesters123
      @jukesters123 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      The Jawas Zapped it.then took the stuff.

    • @chrisparkes2179
      @chrisparkes2179 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@kryoboy36 Careful, you don't want to be called speciesist. We have to say that they're "differently hygienic" these days.

  • @UltraNyan
    @UltraNyan 2 ปีที่แล้ว +280

    NASA: "Lets build a rover that can survive on the surface on mars."
    Russians: "If it survives our winter, its OK"

    • @maximnoize8760
      @maximnoize8760 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Americans once invested 1 million to invent a pen which could write in space. Russians just took a pencil 😉

    • @PopatMomu
      @PopatMomu 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      What about Chinese 😂😂

    • @MrTadas21
      @MrTadas21 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@maximnoize8760 if you would do your research you would know why they don't use pencils in the station, cause of graphite, it can clog the vent systems and cause disasters.

    • @maximnoize8760
      @maximnoize8760 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MrTadas21 research anecdote

    • @MrTadas21
      @MrTadas21 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@maximnoize8760 makes no sense.

  • @danielstone9978
    @danielstone9978 ปีที่แล้ว +55

    It's cool how the ski rover needed a cable to operate (maximum 15M) but the camera recording it all, with incredible zoom capabilities, had no problem from approx 100M without cable.

    • @darawhelan4324
      @darawhelan4324 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      That’s because the image you saw was of the rover in operation on Earth! As stated no clear images were ever received from the cameras on Mars 3

    • @pastiesandagstring
      @pastiesandagstring ปีที่แล้ว

      @@darawhelan4324 even the u.s. videos of our moon landing are from earth. Buzz himself has even stated this was a recreation. They did not have the technology then to stream a video from the moon to earth and broadcast it live on top of that.

    • @1eyedwilli3
      @1eyedwilli3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@darawhelan4324 that’s cause it never happened lol

    • @darawhelan4324
      @darawhelan4324 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@1eyedwilli3 spooky…! 🤣

    • @Dietdeprogrammer
      @Dietdeprogrammer 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@1eyedwilli3i concur

  • @Chris-lz1fs
    @Chris-lz1fs ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Well, either I've forgot there was landings on Mars or I never knew in the first place! Either way, I've learned that there have been landings on Mars and from what I can make out, they're still planning future missions.

    • @stevenserna910
      @stevenserna910 ปีที่แล้ว

      The knowledge you can't get in college.
      You need to remember this was during the cold war. Not a lot of cooperation between US & USSR. It wasnt until 1978 that there was a joint mission in Skylab where a Soyuz capsule dockef with Skylab, and the crews shook hands in a photo op.
      Shortly after (3 years) Skylab burnt up, & crashed into the ocean. NASA started the Shuttles programs testing in 1979. The ISS didn't come about until the turn of the millennium. But yeah, Russia's been sending stuff to Mars and Venus too. I belive theyve also been shooting sattellites to Jupiter as well.
      We concentrated on the Moon, and Voyager's 1 & 2.

  • @Kurzula5150
    @Kurzula5150 3 ปีที่แล้ว +573

    I'm gonna take a wild guess and say that the small rover is within 15 meters of the lander.

    • @thepvporg
      @thepvporg 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      So the lander is in pieces... no rover has been found yet... you assume that it is within 15 meters making the assumption that it wasn't torn from its umbilical.

    • @scottconcertman3423
      @scottconcertman3423 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      I thought our favorite narrator was going to tell us USAs CIA spirited the Rover away to study its secrets.
      Or ussr's best working Theory assuming astronauts from the US Switched Off the Rover.
      No doubt entire Landing site will become one of the red star space line tourist attractions opening by the year 2121.
      And a debate whether to protect early era probe from Mars elements will ensue. Either by constructing an overhead building or moving its Underground.

    • @quokka7555
      @quokka7555 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@thepvporg there is nothing to tear it away from the lander.

    • @thepvporg
      @thepvporg 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@quokka7555 So velocity and the impact that was sufficient to break the lander apart, the rover miraculously was still attached by the umbilical.
      Me thinks you not thought it through enough.

    • @AJ___USA
      @AJ___USA 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      😆

  • @toddholmes4480
    @toddholmes4480 2 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    In 1969, the whole country was riveted by the NASA landing of men on the moon. Obviously BIG news that was covered in full page newspaper articles. But I remember reading the newspaper, and reading a tiny article that stated that the Soviets had landed an unmanned vehicle on the moon, just days after the Apollo landing. Obviously, this was overshadowed by the Apollo mission, but I was still impressed by the Soviet venture.

    • @blackholeentry3489
      @blackholeentry3489 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was actually on the way to Yosemite, along with my brother for a three day there. We had stopped in Mariposa for a lunch break and heard the landing announcement on the car radio.

  • @bcactus3510
    @bcactus3510 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Much respect to the russians for their contributions, hopefully we can get the past this current madness and not destroy each other

    • @ronofthesea5953
      @ronofthesea5953 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      People have been wondering that aloud since 1980. No, I've been hearing it for that long. That was the year I became old enough to fall for the fear campaign.
      Me at age ten: 'Oh no a nuclear war is coming! We're all going to die!'
      I don't even know how long this has been going on.
      My point is - don't live that way. Stop watching the news or whatever media it is that has you wasting your thoughts on this.

    • @Showerofjyzz
      @Showerofjyzz ปีที่แล้ว

      @@ronofthesea5953 dont be silly. now is the time to panic! a nuclear war is coming!

    • @ronofthesea5953
      @ronofthesea5953 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Showerofjyzz No need to panic. Just go under your desk and curl up with your hands over your head, fingers interlaced. Do that and you'll be safe, they told us so in school. No worries bro.

    • @MetalNick
      @MetalNick ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@ronofthesea5953 It's worth being aware of and concerned about. I support strategic arms reduction and peace agreements, it's the least I can say. Conflicts between nuclear powers are dangerous.

  • @garysmith6094
    @garysmith6094 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Your breathless,rapid commentary leaves much to be desired...

  • @joshuazoldschool4720
    @joshuazoldschool4720 2 ปีที่แล้ว +74

    I appreciate the narrator's speed and cadence because I am a lifelong sufferer of HDHD and prefer to absorb information on Turbo-mode.
    Keep em coming 🤞😉🚬

    • @miguelcastaneda7236
      @miguelcastaneda7236 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Mean drinking two red bulls and a jolt cola in ten minutes

    • @jackandblaze5956
      @jackandblaze5956 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah, I usually have to listen to TH-cam vids at 1.5x or 1.75x. This was almost perfect.

    • @vanya3393
      @vanya3393 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      yeah, everybody has some kind of disorder now... snowflake.

    • @merxellus1456
      @merxellus1456 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      U mean ADHD?

    • @ats-3693
      @ats-3693 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Me too

  • @Bruce-vq7ni
    @Bruce-vq7ni 3 ปีที่แล้ว +242

    The narrator needs to ease back on the coffee.

    • @voteindependentforindepend7181
      @voteindependentforindepend7181 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Just dial back the video speed by .25

    • @SgtDreTecKeGamer
      @SgtDreTecKeGamer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      or let em smoke some wacky weed to mellow out a bit.

    • @mrrcassidy
      @mrrcassidy 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Unusually, played backwards it sounds exactly the same.

    • @hungryalsatian
      @hungryalsatian 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Nah

    • @fatal8656
      @fatal8656 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Clearly sped up so the video isnt too long 🤦‍♂️

  • @Ronin4614
    @Ronin4614 ปีที่แล้ว

    To the master of the dark videos, you bring us some of the most fascinating videos. Your vocal speed is unique and I have rather enjoyed it. Thank you for all you bring us❕

  • @uniquerebel385
    @uniquerebel385 ปีที่แล้ว

    Most interesting video, thanks for the upload. Also so very full of information, more than any other video ever

  • @sonoinpace
    @sonoinpace 3 ปีที่แล้ว +84

    "I'm not saying it's aliens....but it's aliens." -History Channel

  • @reliablethreat23
    @reliablethreat23 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    I love these "Dark" channels! Absolutely amazing content!

    • @donluego9448
      @donluego9448 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Galileo7, Dark5, Dark Docs, Dark Skies

    • @nullc0ntext
      @nullc0ntext 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I feel like this is what Quibi was trying to be and charge a premium subscription for before it mercifully got taken off life support.

  • @uniteentierly2773
    @uniteentierly2773 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Your voice is so intense... Perfect for the content. Thanks. Subbed.

  • @mikakettunen7939
    @mikakettunen7939 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fascinating info that have not been aware before, thank you

  • @FUL0H8
    @FUL0H8 3 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    Wonder what it would have been like if the USSR and US worked hand in hand for space. Where would we be today?

    • @krishnamittal1858
      @krishnamittal1858 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      i think that if that had happened then we wouldn't even have reached to the moon because all these developments were made due to competition for example - now, there haven't been major developments as now no competitions is there

    • @tvian45
      @tvian45 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Russian stuff, American stuff…all made in China.

    • @jonnyq680
      @jonnyq680 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I'd be herding robot cows from my hacienda on a lunar ranch...

    • @bulletjones119
      @bulletjones119 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      We can't work with commies!

    • @liquidbeaf
      @liquidbeaf 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Ironically, competition probably made both sides work harder, so collaboration may not have bore the same progress. I know you want collaboration to be king but competition sometimes can bring out the best in humans.

  • @102tbl4
    @102tbl4 3 ปีที่แล้ว +174

    The fact that people still talk about the speed of the narrators speech is astonishing..

    • @NocturnalNews
      @NocturnalNews 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Not sure what you mean?????

    • @GrandpasRevenge43
      @GrandpasRevenge43 3 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      @@NocturnalNews lol people have been complaining that the narrator speaks too fast for literal years. I understand him just fine personally.

    • @vampcaff
      @vampcaff 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      😂

    • @bennybottleface8804
      @bennybottleface8804 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Pretty fuckin fast🤷😆

    • @aragos32727
      @aragos32727 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      Slow down playback speed...? 🤔
      I have no problem understanding him.

  • @trump45and2zig-zags
    @trump45and2zig-zags ปีที่แล้ว +3

    We "landed" on Mars shortly after the set of the moon was changed lol

  • @traviswebb3532
    @traviswebb3532 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Loving the playset short videos.

  • @michaelc2321
    @michaelc2321 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I love the fast talking. For someone with a busy schedule, I value videos that are quick, straight to the point with no BS filler intro shit. I’m always trying to cram more information into a shorter period of time, so thank you!

    • @josephstevenson7997
      @josephstevenson7997 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was listening to this and trying to fall asleep...but it felt as though I was getting a rollicking

  • @davidknisely3003
    @davidknisely3003 2 ปีที่แล้ว +167

    Well, Mars 3 wasn't exactly "secret", as its launch was known about and its landing on Mars was mentioned at the time by the USSR on December 7th, 1971 (the Prop-M rover *was* secret however). It was the 2nd spacecraft to *hit* Mars, as it landed at the speed of 20.7 meters per second (46 mph) which is a pretty darn hard landing! It also didn't send a full picture, but only 70 lines that only showed a grey noisy background and no detail. By contrast, the Viking 1 lander touched down at only 2.4 meters per second (5.4 mph) and took a very large number of images from the surface.

    • @ethanrecords3612
      @ethanrecords3612 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I have heard about the prop-m rover but I don’t think it worked.

    • @usernotfound904
      @usernotfound904 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      It was on the red planet when I first received fellatio from an Extraterrestrial 😉 💦 👅

    • @im1who84u
      @im1who84u 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@usernotfound904 Was that you? !

    • @im1who84u
      @im1who84u 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Yeah, I remember some of that being talked about when it was happening.... so it wasn't all THAT secret.

    • @tossr4716
      @tossr4716 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      5:43 radiowaves do not travel through vacuum HOAX

  • @blindspotspotter.2352
    @blindspotspotter.2352 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Yeah, the Soviets really did have a bold space program and the only one that maintained manned space flight contiguously since the 1960s. Even though the first manned Soyuz flight resulted in the death of the astronaut onboard, they fixed the parachute issue and kept that Soyuz program going to this day.
    There is something to be said for consistency. They found a solution and stuck with it.

    • @1sorryham
      @1sorryham 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Well, I think you mean continuous rather than contiguously. There were some gaps in the early Soviet manned space program, most notably a 2-year gap between Voshkod 2 and Soyuz-1, and another 2-year gap between the fatal Soyuz 11 mission and the redesigned Soyuz 12 spacecraft mission. The US also had a number of gaps between its various crewed space programs as well.

    • @rhesusminus7303
      @rhesusminus7303 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The problem with the west is that the western media would not let go of scandalizing a project that suffered casualties. It would be an endless trope of whining and demands for resignation and shutdown. That’s the one thing dictators got going for them, they don’t have to put up with journalists and other whiny maggots.

  • @user-df3uk5od9w
    @user-df3uk5od9w ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you Nikolas I thought I was the only one..truly hyper speed

  • @pip6136
    @pip6136 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    I remember now. The narrator guy has a small data package with his provider and has to say everything he can is as short a time possible 😉
    That's it for this months data.
    Expected the next upload when his data is renewed 👏 👌

    • @pavel9652
      @pavel9652 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      They are broadcasting from a small submarine that is on the secret patrol in undisclosed location. They are allowed short transmissions only when sub is on the surface ;)

    • @pip6136
      @pip6136 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@pavel9652 great theory 😃

    • @NN-Nathan
      @NN-Nathan 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      a demo version of the audio software and he times his vocal to sit between the ' watermarks ' maybe ?

  • @springbloom5940
    @springbloom5940 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Thats a pretty brilliant rover design

  • @easyadmin3429
    @easyadmin3429 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love your Vidz! keep it on! Cheers from Montreal, CANADA

  • @jianoconnor8414
    @jianoconnor8414 3 ปีที่แล้ว +67

    Fastest speaker i've ever heard. Can get used to it though .

    • @danm936
      @danm936 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      He's pretty bad in this video

    • @actionknight93
      @actionknight93 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@danm936 playback speed = 0.75x

    • @zzz-pu5im
      @zzz-pu5im 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Nope this video joined my reject list. He keeps going faster and faster and its silly. Ill look for a more scholarly and fresh approach

    • @Hashassin95
      @Hashassin95 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yeh he's hard to keep up with

    • @tonycritcher3419
      @tonycritcher3419 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He's just a Martian panicking that Earth may go to Mars and litter the planet with fast food litter!

  • @Terry_and_Glenn
    @Terry_and_Glenn 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Please slow down a bit, and annunciate carefully! Awesome content, just struggled to keep up without slowing it down.

  • @kuri369kuri
    @kuri369kuri ปีที่แล้ว

    Love your videos by the way.

  • @evanrandall1675
    @evanrandall1675 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hey be sure to put everything in playlists please! I often background play entire channels at work I'm sure others do too

  • @johnathandavis3693
    @johnathandavis3693 3 ปีที่แล้ว +188

    I wish I had known about this landing when it happened. I think my whole (American) opinion of the Soviet Space program would have been different. I know it was the height of the Cold War, but it sucks that humans can't just openly share information because of politics. I have always been a fan of The Soyuz Heavy Launch Vehicles -I think they are cool -looking in their own right...

    • @johnmorelli3775
      @johnmorelli3775 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      They even politicized Mars!

    • @jonnypena7651
      @jonnypena7651 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      For I what I read, Only US is that Open with their things.

    • @bigtinasoup2927
      @bigtinasoup2927 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      America won't even share information with its allies when it says it will. Not in a million years would they have discussed anything back then with those pesky commies.

    • @fortusvictus8297
      @fortusvictus8297 2 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      It wasn't because of politics...it was because this tech is the same tech you'd use to deliver nuclear payloads to your adversaries and/or establish bases throughout the solar system. Not the kind of thing you should be flippant about in the name of some sentimental 'brotherhood of science' way.

    • @criticalevent
      @criticalevent 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Look up the movie "Tank on the moon" if you want your mind blown about how advanced the Russian space program was in the early 70s.

  • @ProjectFlashlight612
    @ProjectFlashlight612 3 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    The footage of the "first man made object on the Moon" is not of that at all, but is instead of one of the Lunokhod probes, which were launched well after Apollo 11.

    • @chrisparkes2179
      @chrisparkes2179 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @george vcelar I think the animation of the descent to Mars us from something else as I instantly recognised it as something I saw on TV when I was very young in the 70s, when this was still secret.

  • @DoctorQ9
    @DoctorQ9 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm out of breath just listening to this guy!

  • @jakubkrcma
    @jakubkrcma 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Space exploration is a project unlike any in human history. Respect to ALL space explorers - the scientists, engineers, astronauts, workers, taxpayers etc. ❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @davidluna8372
    @davidluna8372 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Excellent video , informative , educational . Of fascinating subject matter . Keep up the good work !

  • @einienj3281
    @einienj3281 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Awesome, Thank You Guys! 🖤🤘🏻

  • @magicdreamlab8042
    @magicdreamlab8042 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great movie, thank you 🙏

  • @daveh9907
    @daveh9907 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank You for a Very Interesting account of space missions to Mars. The Audio play back was a bit too fast though.

  • @Ploggy.
    @Ploggy. 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Awesome vid again Dark Space 👍

  • @jmr1068204
    @jmr1068204 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    How much caffeine did this guy have, 10 cups of coffee? He's like the reverse of Chills.

  • @badgumby9544
    @badgumby9544 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Two robotic rovers reached the surface of Mars in 1971 during the Soviet Mars 2 and 3 missions. Neither vehicle completed its mission: Mars 2 crash-landed on the planet and Mars 3 ceased transmissions 20 seconds after landing.

    • @mrvn000
      @mrvn000 ปีที่แล้ว

      Damn!!

    • @gary1868
      @gary1868 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Gary Brown the magic fuel in question would be liquid nitrogen and liquid oxygen when combined it could be used to create thrust dunno how to explain it cause I'm not a scientist but there are informational videos about creating thrust in space. You can create thrust in space I mean look at the ISS it uses thrusters to keep its orbit level and the space shuttles they use thrusters to turn and descend down to earth.

    • @KevinR1138
      @KevinR1138 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Bm
      Let me guess, we never landed on the moon either and the Earth is flat as well?

  • @cubanassassinmma2040
    @cubanassassinmma2040 2 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Funny how we didnt have cellphones or internet or many other techy wireless stuff until less than a couple of decades ago but they could fly a spaceship all the way to mars and receive data and pictures all wirelessly in the 60s 🤔

    • @echodelta9
      @echodelta9 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Some hams did have a lot of this techy stuff and they picked up our signals in space as well back then, enough to know we did go to the moon.

    • @johnnyk434
      @johnnyk434 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Question everything. Its hard to believe anything anymore. Wow.

    • @wisam111
      @wisam111 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Did you know that we had internet in ww2?

    • @ericparker163
      @ericparker163 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Military spending goes into RnD all the time. They get all the cool tech toys long before the general public.

    • @freddybanuelos6378
      @freddybanuelos6378 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The govt will hold all tech for 50 years before releasing to the public if deemed beneficial. If you think we are advanced now, you can only imagine the tech now, govt is 50 years ahead of what we think is possible.

  • @tedthesailor172
    @tedthesailor172 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    All that work and hope and months of anticipation dashed in an instant - you've gotta have thick skin in the space exploration business...

    • @peoplez129
      @peoplez129 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @TILEN FABE They really learned nothing though. They don't know why or how it failed. They got basically no useful data of any kind. It was literally a total loss. Not that it really matters anymore. But at the time, it was just a blind failure that offered no insight, other than to not use that design anymore...even if it wasn't necessarily defective.

  • @alienmoosestudios
    @alienmoosestudios ปีที่แล้ว

    Very interesting...thanks for sharing...

  • @kieranjohns4182
    @kieranjohns4182 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wow this guy specks so fast chill brother 😳

  • @1joshjosh1
    @1joshjosh1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Don't worry about the comment about the speed of your talk.
    Everybody knows you can adjust the speed on TH-cam and I do it all the time for different documentaries.
    Most of the time it's speed up.
    Obviously what you're doing works!!
    Excellent work!!

  • @icescrew1
    @icescrew1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    His enunciation is perfect at high speed. I like it. Narrator's that slowly and painfully drag their way to a point. I can't deal with that. But we're all different.

    • @RGC-gn2nm
      @RGC-gn2nm 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      1.25 for me

    • @Moistye
      @Moistye 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @TILEN FABE .5

  • @s.alexander6379
    @s.alexander6379 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    all the images are breathtaking, moon landings was the most real life experience on film ,now this wow. just wow. I trust my government a lot. they are swell

  • @customconnections2425
    @customconnections2425 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    3:14 We are at that conjuncture once again this year, if every 17 years we are at the closest proximity to Mars…

  • @criticalevent
    @criticalevent 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The next Mars mission should try to find this lander to see how the materials have been affected by 50 years on in the Martian environment.

    • @cahg3871
      @cahg3871 ปีที่แล้ว

      Agreed,the information learned would help in future landing attempts.

    • @toddandangelbrowning2920
      @toddandangelbrowning2920 ปีที่แล้ว

      I’m sure they know, but we don’t.

  • @SvWarfield
    @SvWarfield 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    LOVE the Dark series videos, and they are one of the few channels I can keep the playback speed at normal.

    • @JokullFrosti
      @JokullFrosti 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I know right! I normally watch on 2x sped since everyone is excruciatingly slow. But, not this guy.

  • @manofsan
    @manofsan ปีที่แล้ว +3

    *So things got messed up because of the weather? If that dust storm hadn't happened, then maybe the mission would've been more successful?* 🤔

  • @Observer111
    @Observer111 ปีที่แล้ว

    The unusual, rapid, staccato narration makes for a strained listening experience.

  • @MatthewOfLondon
    @MatthewOfLondon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Fantastic video with an unquestionably supernatural narration. Respect.❤

  • @liammeech3702
    @liammeech3702 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Would be great if one of the current Mars rovers visited the sight

    • @PHOBOS1708
      @PHOBOS1708 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      most probably buried under layers of mars sand

    • @holoduke51a
      @holoduke51a 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@PHOBOS1708 not really. Mars is less dynamic than most thing. Ancient river beds, stone structures of millions of years almost entirely untouched. There are no super thick sand storms as we see in movies. Merely thin dust moving around the planet. But very thin and not causing erosion or big dunes.

    • @andymouse
      @andymouse 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes it would, don't listen to the idiots below!

    • @rodrogers6895
      @rodrogers6895 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Site

  • @timparker4160
    @timparker4160 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love when they put observational science out to the public shit gets done quick smart.

  • @iamcondescending
    @iamcondescending ปีที่แล้ว

    One thing I don't think anyone has talked about for mars: mars' solar calendar is so different from earth's, there's going to have to be a whole new calendar created for any colony. Any organization involved in supporting a Martian colony would have to adapt to that schedule, or vice versa, the Martians would have to have a shift on earth's schedule...

    • @caviestcaveman8691
      @caviestcaveman8691 ปีที่แล้ว

      Cause that's not really something to think about till we get there lmao like damn bro make your bed first before you lay down

  • @davidcardin3271
    @davidcardin3271 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I did not know these. Thanks.

  • @henryolague419
    @henryolague419 3 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    You may want to adjust playback to 0.75. That will bring the audio down to an enjoyable speed.

    • @authenticufo4822
      @authenticufo4822 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      The narrator’s natural speed is enjoyable. It’s all part of the beauty brother.

    • @Law0086
      @Law0086 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      This is definitely a different realm of listening though.

    • @Talasas
      @Talasas 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The narrator's speed is why some of us keep coming back. It's polarizing going by all the comments.

    • @Tinku1899
      @Tinku1899 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I always do whenever I watch his videos!!

    • @MarquisDeBlodey
      @MarquisDeBlodey 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I actually like the fast pace. Straight to the point.

  • @eskk2169
    @eskk2169 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When you only have enough time to record a video so you breeze through it while eating espresso beans

  • @CJ-nt4cs
    @CJ-nt4cs 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Kudos to this guy who sped up the audio
    so I didn't have to spend so much time learning what went on.

  • @Seniorsneaky123
    @Seniorsneaky123 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So sad that these things were happening in the 70s, but now here in the 2020's we can't even land a man on the moon anymore.

    • @your_average_joe5781
      @your_average_joe5781 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      We should have been on the moon 30 years ago. So much politics 😔

    • @simonruszczak5563
      @simonruszczak5563 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, it about time they faked it again.

  • @georgehill8285
    @georgehill8285 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    That shot of the guy writing equations on the chalkboard was used in the Enterprise intro. I guess it’s been a long road getting from there to here.

    • @theFLCLguy
      @theFLCLguy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      God, that intro was terrible. It was the start of the downcline for star trek.
      Now star trek is dead completely. The fact The Orville feels more star trek than STD is proof it's dead. And Picard was a mockery of Picard. He felt like a completely different person with everyone treating him like a senile grandpa wanting to go on an adventure.

    • @georgehill8285
      @georgehill8285 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@theFLCLguy agree that the Enterprise theme song was meh and didn’t really fit, but I disagree with most of the rest. All Star Trek has its good and its bad. For every In the Pale Moonlight, Doomsday Machine, or Inner Light, there’s a Move Along Home, Spock’s Brain, or Up the Long Ladder. Modern Trek has its good and it’s bad moments.
      And Lower Decks is hilarious!

    • @14yeartwitch14
      @14yeartwitch14 ปีที่แล้ว

      Lots of equations

  • @andya857
    @andya857 3 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    Great stuff, but listen at 0.75 playback speed ...

    • @somewhereinagalaxyfarfaraway
      @somewhereinagalaxyfarfaraway 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Why?? It's fine the way it is

    • @TheRedAirOn
      @TheRedAirOn 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Yeah he should slow down his speech a little bit for clarity

    • @somewhereinagalaxyfarfaraway
      @somewhereinagalaxyfarfaraway 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@TheRedAirOn yall need ADHD I was relieved to hear him talking at a speed I can follow without having to slow myself down

    • @themalaailaanaa1347
      @themalaailaanaa1347 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      How ? Please explain....those speed buttons are missing

    • @andya857
      @andya857 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@themalaailaanaa1347 Hit settings button , round one next to CC button...

  • @shandonmeadows8620
    @shandonmeadows8620 2 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    I am sorry…dark docs… Keep doing things at this pace, they have worked out tremendously for the last few years to all of your channels! Not everything is about looking at the pictures, and most sensory information is picked up auditory in sense. I think you were doing an awesome job! You have a disabled veteran here who has been listening and is very keen of your channel(s) and passing along the information you have informing us all to objectives we would have needed to read otherwise. Thank you very much for the information and work you do, please keep up The good work!

  • @MajDogMeat
    @MajDogMeat ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great info and vid!!
    Please slow down the speed of vocal delivery....

  • @Stk3r
    @Stk3r 3 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    I wish 'For All Mankind' happened in real life, space race would have been alot cooler

    • @koriko88
      @koriko88 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Yeaaahhhh let's probably not go having a war in space if we can help it. Or on the Moon, or Mars or anywhere else, for that matter.

    • @ckdigitaltheqof6th210
      @ckdigitaltheqof6th210 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The "Space Race" was a logo of attempting galactic domination, a starting age of star wars, the soviets trial and error, gained resaerch far beyond US, espionage of the west attempted to revert that, also a symbolic moon landing.

    • @chris.heffernan
      @chris.heffernan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It did. The solar warden program.

    • @Stk3r
      @Stk3r 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Casually waiting for season 3

    • @ar-sithf.austin3744
      @ar-sithf.austin3744 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The Soviets couldn't even quickly field reliable ICBM missiles back then. Much less build a reliable TV or car ... They "fought" half the cold war thru outright bluffs. I don't know where some of you get your info from but to wonder why the Ruskies utterly failed going to Mars and deploying anything isn't a mindbender or the embarrassment of why they "hid it". Like we didn't know. Y'all might want to actually look at some real history thru the declassified eyes of those who were there fighting this "war" of information and not believe so much b.s. like I'm reading on here from half wacked out Q nutjobs.

  • @Aengus42
    @Aengus42 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    This reminds me of the British lander Beagle 2. That was a hell of an xmas letdown! I really feel for the Russian team.

  • @tzzogg
    @tzzogg 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    nice work, well cone.

  • @horatiohornbie7395
    @horatiohornbie7395 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Dude, there were pictures of Mars' surface in my school textbook.... in 1983..... it was no secret, dude.

  • @SkyraHope
    @SkyraHope 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Wow you keep out doing your self! Another epic video! Keep up the great work and thank you!👍♥️🤘

  • @arlenholton9917
    @arlenholton9917 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I had to slow it down to 0.75 speed to hear him normaly

  • @edwino1612
    @edwino1612 ปีที่แล้ว

    Amazing

  • @Eliwhygul772
    @Eliwhygul772 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    How does everyone have an issue with the way this guy talks?? Apparently I'm able to listen at a crazy pace. I don't know I just don't see why everyone complains at least one person was smart enough to slow down the playback.

  • @TomTimeTraveler
    @TomTimeTraveler 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    The Mars 2&3 spacecraft shared a similar design with the "Luna" series of moon lander's in the 1960s.

  • @christophernoah3749
    @christophernoah3749 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Yet again. Fantastic work brother. Glad to be able to say I have been with you on this journey for so long. Progress is great especially when you stay the original you. Continue the outstanding work you do. Stay you. Stay positive.

  • @enomisitnoc3653
    @enomisitnoc3653 ปีที่แล้ว

    This Quantum Rap is fire meeein!!! 🔥🔥

  • @pronateceepadm7852
    @pronateceepadm7852 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    WoW... what voyager man

  • @flyboy38a
    @flyboy38a 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    FYI, the tilt angle of the Earth is about 23.5 degrees. I wonder how messed up our seasons would be if we were tilted at 64 degrees. It would definitely mess with our day/night cycle as the year progresses. A lot more of the planet would experience total darkness during winter and the opposite for summer.

    • @jnsjws
      @jnsjws 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      There would be no ice caps!

    • @tr7b410
      @tr7b410 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Have you noticed how the moons phases have gone wonky since 2012.?
      The moons usual phases here in California were always in a predictable vertical shaded position.These days it is shaded in its vertical position for a few days,than flips into a horizontal position for a few days.
      This would indicate a change in the wobble of the earth's rotational spin.The culprit must be the uneven melting of the ice caps at the poles.
      Indeed there is an ancient predynastic hieroglyphic carving in Egypt that talks about how during the reign of 1 Pharoah the sun rose in the east,& during the reign of another Pharoah it rose in the west.
      What that suggests is pretty obvious,a pole shift.

    • @jm131719
      @jm131719 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      And Mars;s tilt is about 24.5 degrees if I remenber correctly. Its day is 24.5 hours,

    • @flyboy38a
      @flyboy38a 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@tr7b410 I have heard of this event in ancient Egypt, but I don't know what to make of it. From my understanding a pole shift has more to due with the magnetic polarity of the planet which has shifted in the past. For the whole planet to actually shift would be absolutely devastating, especially since this reference seems to say that it occurred over a day's time frame. I would need to see a lecture by an actual planetary specialist or group of specialists before I would believe the planet flipped in a day. You have to remember that the planet is about 24,000 miles in circumference, so to have a planet shift in a days time frame the planet would have to travel 12,000 miles in a short period of time. The acceleration a deceleration for this to happen would knock everyone and everything off their asses. The amount of stress placed on the tectonic plates would cause world wide earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, as well as massive tsunamis. In other words, worldwide destruction on a scale not seen since the extinction of the dinosaurs.
      If you find out anymore information on what happened in ancient Egypt let me know.

    • @tr7b410
      @tr7b410 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@flyboy38a All I know is in the past 4 nights the 🌙 moon has been shaded in 4 different positions relative to earth.This is not procession.
      4 years ago I read several reports of people claiming the sun was now rising in a different position than they had observed previously for decades.Those comments cannot be found anywhere on the internet.
      Ditto people observing tides flowing out of certain bays,& onto other areas where they never flowed before.
      I saw 1 scientific blog about the uneven melting of the ice caps.That resource has also been deleted.
      Something ain't right.

  • @nunoalvarespereira87
    @nunoalvarespereira87 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Dude just slow down a bit and your videos are perfect

  • @RamZar50
    @RamZar50 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The first fully successful landing on Mars was Viking 1 on July 20, 1976 exactly 7 years after the successful Apollo 11 landing on the Moon.

  • @roefversluijs3360
    @roefversluijs3360 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yes!

  • @thegunslinger1363
    @thegunslinger1363 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    These videos are amazing!

  • @OCMike
    @OCMike 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Playing this at .75 speed makes a huge difference

  • @keithkleveno4129
    @keithkleveno4129 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    How d you get a picture of the device on mars?

  • @johnpower8356
    @johnpower8356 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great

  • @PaulA-zp7hn
    @PaulA-zp7hn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Man, your videos are always so intense 😂
    Nice dark soundtrack on this one too. Subbed.

  • @trojanthedog
    @trojanthedog 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Axial tilt 23 and 25 degrees for Earth and Mars (approx).

    • @chrisparkes2179
      @chrisparkes2179 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That got me, he calls it the tilt from the orbital plain. Which is, I suppose, correct, but confusing as everything else I've ever read or heard measures from the vertical, not the horizontal.

    • @trojanthedog
      @trojanthedog ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@chrisparkes2179 Yes. Pretty strange.

  • @rupertchappelle5303
    @rupertchappelle5303 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Mars base just below the coat hanger formation/porpoise formation from the first Malin "Face on Mars" strip bottom half.
    Used for demolition operations.

  • @mhb41
    @mhb41 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You need to cover the Phobos incident!

  • @OzzMazz
    @OzzMazz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    The window to reach Mars from Earth occurs every 780 days, roughly every two years.

    • @MasterMayhem78
      @MasterMayhem78 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      There’s multiple windows throughout the year.

    • @OzzMazz
      @OzzMazz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@MasterMayhem78 I don't think so, there's only one window that's a certain number of days wide. After that you have to wait for the next window, two years.

    • @aaron5222
      @aaron5222 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @the2from1205 he believes in order for humans to continue to grow and continue to exist is dependent on our ability to become mulit planet species.

    • @gordonpeacman2126
      @gordonpeacman2126 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The U.S. an other allied countries are still financing them today from their military budgets, note the U.S. budget size ... they're no longer the Foo Fighters, they're the I.P.N.
      Interplanetary Police Nett...
      their Bases the Moon, B.C.an Venus, the Solar Council has Jurisdiction over them baring, 6 U.S. Canada, Gt Britain, have 2each for their own Defense, permission is still needed to use them in conflict ...
      B.C. is their H.Q. where they were built, 1940/1943 ... their crews well over 3k are from N.Z. Australia, Norway,Gt Britain, Canada, U.S. their Moon base app 10k ppl ...
      Pope Paul spent 3mnths on Venus, guest of the King, Eisenhower, disappeared to Venus for 2days.
      Roosevelt, Churchill, both had been there that's where the Tech came from ...
      By the very early 70s because of increased Earth traffic, the U.N. had been directed by the Solar Council to Establish a Embassy on Venus, Right in the very centre of Venus's Capital City, Hheelliittoooogg ... is a super modern Crystal Building, above the Facade, of the main Entrance is a Sign, that reads,..
      United Nations Embassy, Planet Earth....
      Canada has 2sightings a day ...an ppl can't figure it out ... unbelievable aye ...

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      @gordonpeacman2126 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The Terrestrial Embassies, on Earth are/were on the 7th an 8th Floors of the New Diplomatic School Building in Washington D C. 1988, on the
      7th Floor, are the Inner Earth Terrestrials diplomatic offices, Atlanteans, Bodlanders, Vikings,.... New Germany, are at the German Embassy, Reservoir Rd ...
      The Outer Terrestrials, Diplomatic Offices are on the 8th Floor,
      Pluto, Martians, an of Course Venus, Modern Humans, 3ancestor civilizations ....
      they cater for all Terrestrial traffic from across the Universe ...
      an believe you me, there are 1000s yrly ... well over 50k reside permanently on Earth...these human hybrid shapeshifters, many are from well beyond our Solar System an Galaxy...an they're all here to help they're the Universal Red Cross ...
      Men in Black was how Earth was pre Flood, when Earth was the Capital Planet of our Solar System...
      Now it's Venus, the ancestral Planet of Modern Humans...