Thank you for using the actual Dragonfly logo! I I'm a graphic designer at JHUAPL -- nearly every video about the mission has not used it. Great video!
Caleb Heidel, wow, that is marvelous! I’m immensely jealous of your great job! I’m also tempted to say something rash like “can I have your babies,” but that might be just a wee bit inappropriate! 😳 In any case, I’m very pleased for you getting to participate in some way in this mission and thanks for contributing your comment. 🚀
What one are they using? I actually created my own vector version of it in illustrator because I couldn't find a decent PNG of it. Most journalists are going to be lazy with that and just use whatever is available. That may be why
Wow as a fellow graphic designer I'm really jelous. Must be amazing working there, these days I keep thinking about working on state organizations or NGOs, you know anything to put my grain of sand.
New horizons was also powered by Plutonium too.... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPHS-RTG The RTG is the power source of choice for almost everything past mars because solar panels get less powerful the further you are from the sun.
Woops, didn't meant to publish this while it was still processing. Please wait to watch in it's fully glory. Mike's hard work on the Titan animations shouldn't go to waste!
Moon landing was fake news of nasa but India proved by successfully launching 104 amerian satellite in single rocket and successfully launching chandranaya 1 and 2 respectively till now none of any country had ever succeed the moon mission.aniwa 36% nasa scientist are Indian so nasa could successfully send robo on mars and sending astronomers in space but in first attempt kalpana chawla a indian scientist astronomer was dead during her soace mission.
I remember being so crushed to know it would take almost a decade before we got proper high res pictures of Pluto when New Horizons got launched. Yet here we are. It will come to pass before you know it.
And then you'll just get twelve more blurry images for the billions of your taxes. Unless SpaceX does it, then you'll get panoramic 4K video of the entire thing live because unlike NASA they know how to do bang for buck!
And then it takes another 7 years or so to get there... so look for a landing image on the front pages of the papers (if they still exist) in about 2033...
I feel like I can't wait, but at the same time I don't wait at all.... I am 27yo now, and I will be 44yo by the time it reaches... I don't want to get old.
even in 360p great stuff as always mate. Truly is an exciting time that we live in with what is becoming possible. I almost wish I was scientifically inclined enough to work in one of these institutions pushing the limits of this kind of technology. It almost seems like these kind of engineers are as creative as they are technically brilliant.
I love the _thunk_ that Huygens made when it landed. Those little extra details you put in and occasional jokes while making it good enough for the layman to understand is awesome, why I keep rewatching your videos again and again!
They better be better flyer than me, having like 20 spare propellerblades for each drone raze. Because on titan it seems tricky to switch propeller on the drone.
Energy source problem? Didn't you just said atmosphere and river full of methane? Why not make a small combust.... Oh wait, there's no Oxygen.. *Walk Away*
What if the spacecraft took some bottles of liquid oxygen and was powered by some small internal combustion engines running on methane ? Must be lighter than batteries and RTG ?
Don Graham It might be lighter but it’s going to only have one fueling and then it would be done. With batteries it can be continually recharged for a long time.
Wait - don't give up so quickly. There are innumerable solid oxidizing agents in the universe; solid, and therefore more compact than a gas. Any salt with fluoride as the anion, for example. Wicked nasty to transport and store, but you asked for an explosion...
It would make sence to do so. The double helix might signify our dna which to us humans is life, considering we want to know if life is going to/will form (mars is after, titan before, and earth the middle child) on titan. Unfortunately the US government isnt known for making sence, they might just identify the probe as an Attack-Helicopter.
It's the actual logo for the project to develop the Dragonfly by Johns Hopkins. More than likely, NASA will come up with their own. It is really cool, though.
"Prepare for forced dutch pronunciation." "Dutch, a beautiful language." There's an old story that during the construction of the tower of babel clay fell from the level above and got caught in the dutch man's throat.
Ik vat m niet, i expect you speak Dutch so i am going to give in to lazyniss as i type Dutch further. Ik had een antwoord gepost omdat ik t vreemd vind dat hier t over een gecombineerde missie zou gaan van NASA ESA en de Italiaanse ruimtevaard org. Niemand zou never te nooit het hebben over een combi mission hebben als NASA en de Californian space agency. Of overdrijf ik nu.
Titan is 1.4 billion kilometres away from the Sun. The 1.2 million shown here is the distance between Titan and Saturn. Also yes, the distance between Titan and Earth should deviate between 1.55 billion to 1.25 billion kilometres.
This was a year ago. I would totally watch an update on dragonfly. Thanks for your channel. I teach engineering in HS. I show your videos to my students.
Alpha particles, not alpha waves! Alpha particles are helium nuclei, spat out by decaying heavy nuclei. Alpha waves are something the brain makes when you're sleeping, not anything to do with radioactivity.
You realize that military and Aerospace technology serve to influence and improve each other synergistically... we wouldn't have the F-35 multi-role fighter without a space program, and we wouldn't have had a space race in the first place without leadership based in national pride and patriotism on both sides. Not to mention the fact that most of the first astronauts and cosmonauts were both military aviators or decorated officers.
@@HuntingTarg And the entire space program was built using, at least at first, repurposed ICBM's for launch vehicles for spacecraft, and the ICBM technologies for designing and building subsequent "space booster" vehicles that were too large or had no direct lineage from ICBM's... Later! OL J R :)
james murphy, we need to focus on a lot of priorities more than the military. We have institutionalized poverty, an entrenched tiny 1% economic elite who possess 90% of the nation’s wealth, school children without textbooks or necessary school personnel (like nurses!), people without health care, an entire working population practically a pink slip away from no health insurance, etc. The Pentagon gets 67¢ of every tax dollar of non-entitlement spending. People owning billions pay no taxes or very little while the middle class and poor pay a far greater amount and percentage of their incomes. There is a definitely a helluva a lot of things to address and fund rather than the military.
@@inkyguy The left complains about the military budget. The right complains about the national debt. Bottom line is that neither of them actually gives a damn about the finances. They're too concerned with beating each other to care. American politics aren't about finances or even about the well being of our citizens. American politics are about one thing and one thing only: Ideology.
Hopefully they do what they did with Percy and put something similar to it’s label of “Mars 2020 NASA JPL” on it. I just have this thought that in 60-100 years people will find Percy and just wipe off the dust and see that label and have to go back a look it up😅. I do hope eventually all the rovers are put on display, and it would be awesome if perhaps they could be brought back to Earth on a Starship soon so they could be displayed here.
@@benjaminriches9736 While I feel I would love that, I’m sure some of these have sisters that would fit the part. We intended for the rovers(and drones now) to stay, so they should at least as monuments
@@benjaminriches9736 It seems like they would more likely be recovered, stored and then displayed on Mars once colonization reaches a stage where it becomes feasible and practical to do so. Weight will probably still be a very significant factor in determining whether or not it's worth it to transport something to another planet.
To be fair, there's actually some fossil evidence for life on Earth around 3.8-billion years ago, and Earth was utterly uninhabitable for the first few-hundred-million years of its existence (the Hadean Eon) due to the Late Heavy Bombardment. So, the gap between Earth first being habitable and the first life appearing is much shorter than one-billion years.
@Yung cash register A.K.A Lil Broomstick Look how easily you two are distracted. This is fantastic example of how we dont deserve nor appreciate life. Fkin idiots. This conversation and saying shit like fam is far more important than evolution and exploration apparently. "Gotta look and sound cool"
Imagination is endless. You can travel the whole universe using your imagination. The reality we don't know what stars are and never been there accept a bunch of theories, computer graphics and Marvel movies to feed your imagination. The Sun is local light source but you have never took the time to look at it. The Reality is out there for you to see . It's not on your TV. Fiction movies and our imaginations are endless but the reality is what it is.
@@linecraftman3907 If Dragonfly finds a landscape on Titan similar to Utah, it will probably be for the same reasons Utah looks like it does. The explanation for this type of landscape is undergoing a profound revolution. Here's one link to Andrew Hall's new series, but I give six stars to them all: th-cam.com/video/j5rRFkksvfc/w-d-xo.html
The more of these space videos I watch, I realize that I exist in perhaps the best time to be alive in Human history. So many new discoveries, and I'll be getting to watch the next manned Moon landing!
I've been watching this for only 15 minutes, but seemed like a documentary. This was one of the most interesting videos i've seen recently. Your content is excelent, thank you!
"Prepare for forced dutch pronunciation." "Dutch, a beautiful language." There's an old story that during the construction of the tower of babel clay fell from the level above and got caught in the dutch man's throat.
5:17: You were not wrong about RTGs being fission devices. All of the radioactive decay that heats those materials are in fact nuclear fission events. It is not stimulated fission, but it is fission, and you get the same total energy from the fuel whether the fission is stimulated or not, just at a lower power. The Seebeck effect has nothing to do with the nuclear side of an RTG. Any temperature gradient, regardless of source, can be used to power a Seebeck effect gnererator. In an RTG, nuclear is how you are converting fuel to heat and a Seebeck effect generator is how you are converting heat to electricity (in essentially a single step). In higher power situation it is more cost effective to use phase transition, turbines, and magnets to convert the heat to electricity (in a lot more steps). If you are going to call yourself wrong about something, please actually be wrong.
No he was really wrong. If you count it by the number of particles then what becomes of Pu 238 is supposed to be 72% alpha decay and 28% spontaneous fission. It is mostly alpha decay. That isn't fission.
I was at John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory a day after they received the project. It was really cool to see the full sized version in augmented reality.
Titan is an amazing learning opportunity, and possibly even colonization opportunity: Early Titan and early Earth appear to have been very similar. However, while Earth “took off,” Titan essentially went into the deep freezer!
I remember the excitement 17 years ago when the first images from Titan were released. It followed the mission since it launched from earth. It was an incredible technological achievement, but I had trouble making sense of the few surface images. They weren't as clear and sharp as the pictures taken by NASA's Martian probes, but more importantly, there were no scaling references to gauge size and distance. They may have improved some of the images now, but it had been nearly impossible to distinguish whether the landscape images were the size of the Sahara Desert, a small beach, or a playground sandbox.
Kilograms represent mass, the mass stays the same no matter what so it still is going to be 450Kg on titan. The difference is that its weight here is 4420N (g=9.81m/s^2) while on titan it would be around 620N (g=1.37m/s^2), around 7 times less as you said. Therefore the force in N needed to lift it up there is indeed way less.
@@adam_papamastorakis even if you were lying no one would know. I sure as shit wouldn't, because I have no idea what any of that means. Lmao. Looks right to me boss. Haha.
@@frankierzucekjr He’s telling the truth. Lol. Kg and lbs are units of mass. Weight is technically a force, measured in Newtons. I know it’s confusing (especially because scales show your WEIGHT in units of MASS for some reason) but it’s really easy if you think about it. Stand on the scale in your bathroom and pull up on the counter to push yourself down on the scale. The reading will go up. Why? Your mass never changed, right? That’s because scales actually read the force you’re putting on it, and the readout is showing you how much mass should cause that much force under earth’s gravity. Don’t ask me why they designed scales to do that though 🤣
@Anessen says the person who called me names because “the pound is not a unit of mass” and then googled it, found out they were wrong and did a dirty delete 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@frankierzucekjr you can check it in a calculator, weight is mass multiplied by the flat value of gravity, meaning 450 x 9.81 is the weight of the 450kg object.
So... If we have to ship a big antenna to Saturn anyway, why not go with the Kerbal approach and put a more permanent relay in orbit there, using the same launch?
@@Mbeluba The Kerbal approach has a 75% higher chance of free explosions, making it an objectively superior solution. It would also only require some extra boosters and duct tape.
Naza, no disrespect, but I am 100% certain that the hundreds of engineer's from the 3 collaborative agencies (NASA, ESA, and the Italian space agency) are far, far smarter than you and I put together. Plus, they must work under a budget.
Money, little demand, limited plutonium If you do it right it could help other deep space probes, but the alignments would constantly change, so it really wouldn't help. Sending probes to the Trojan asteroids would probably be more useful, solar power, new science, and if you put one in each group, they could be use full to most stuff outside of Jupiter
@@philb5593 I imagine it would take some fairly detailed calculations to decide whether to use a relay satellite near Titan or just go direct from Titan surface to Earth. I guess Titan should be easier to land on than Mars (where the stupid atmosphere is too thick to ignore and too thin to supply ALL the braking you need), so if Titan's atmosphere is reasonably transparent to the radio frequencies they want to use, landing the main antenna makes more sense on Titan than on Mars. Relay communications satellites anywhere in the outer solar system except in orbit around the right planet are not much help because they will be further from Earth and/or from your mission vehicle than the Earth to mission vehicle distance most of the time. On average over time, which is the closest planet to Earth?
Yeah, placing it at Saturn's Lagrange points would give a permanent solution to the problem. Cause I can bet that after the Dragonfly mission Titan would eat up Mar's allocated resources.
Out at Saturn there is not enough sun light for solar power, meaning that this relay satellite would also need a RTG, however, plutonium 238 is in short supply, and is reserved for only the most necessary circumstances.
@@philb5593 Well, despite the fact that a solar panel would receive 1/100th the energy at saturn, that wouldn't exclude it from possibilities. They could use light weight mirrors (like a solar sail) to reflect light into a solar panel. Making it easier to fill the few hundred square meters of sunlight needed to power the relay satellite. Of course this is all speculation, and odds are they won't end up using a relay satellite unless it has some other use. For example, a satellite meant for scanning the surface of titan. But in that scenario, they'd most likely warrant giving it an RTG or two.
@@goldenfloof5469 This is often overlooked. A thin film solar concentrator mirror on the Titan orbiter could produce ample power at low mass penalty and beam that power down to a drone from orbit via microwaves in addition to comm relay. For a given mass power levels could be much higher.
@@ABorno-gp5rr What do you like to watch and follow. Put your cards on the table and see if you get any cude disrespectful bulling comments. What makes you think you can slag off other people. Have you got issues or were you a bully or bullied when you were at school and growing up.
We already know everything we need to know about Titan. “Titan was like most planets, too many mouths, not enough to go around.” Then when Thanos offered a solution they called him a madman. And what he predicted came to pass.
The seebeck effect, thermal and electrical conductivity, chemical composition, Reynolds's number, man this video is revision for half my first year of engineering
Sounds like it'd be pretty worth it to just send orbit relay satellite with the drone. But I guess they concluded the extra benefits weren't worth the costs and additional mission complexity.
I was thinking that too but I’m not a rocket scientist so I’m guessing they have it all figured out on which method is better. It probably would have been a lot more weight on an already very far mission. It would be interesting being at the meetings where they start coming up with plans on how they’ll do it.
Top notch animations. It’ll be interesting to see if this project continues and evolves. Hopefully by 2026 we’ll all have personal quad-copters for transportation.
Watching the parachute fall to ground after the probe landed at 2:40 gave me he shuddering heebie-jeebies. How confident were the designers that the parachute wouldn't cover the probe? What did (or, indeed could) they do to mitigate that risk?
Wilhelmus van Nassouwe ben ik, van Duitsen bloed, den vaderland getrouwe blijf ik tot in den dood. Een Prinse van Oranje ben ik, vrij, onverveerd, den Koning van Hispanje heb ik altijd geëerd. In Godes vrees te leven heb ik altijd betracht, daarom ben ik verdreven, om land, om luid gebracht. Maar God zal mij regeren als een goed instrument, dat ik zal wederkeren in mijnen regiment. Lijdt u, mijn onderzaten die oprecht zijt van aard, God zal u niet verlaten, al zijt gij nu bezwaard. Die vroom begeert te leven, bidt God nacht ende dag, dat Hij mij kracht zal geven, dat ik u helpen mag. Lijf ende goed tezamen heb ik u niet verschoond, mijn broeders, hoog van namen hebben 't u ook vertoond Graaf Adolf is gebleven in Friesland in den slag, zijn ziel in 't eeuwig leven verwacht den jongsten dag. Edel en hooggeboren, van keizerlijken stam, een vorst des rijks verkoren, als een vroom christenman, voor Godes woord geprezen, heb ik, vrij onversaagd, als een held zonder vrezen mijn edel bloed gewaagd. Mijn schild ende betrouwen zijt Gij, o God mijn Heer, op U zo wil ik bouwen, Verlaat mij nimmermeer. Dat ik doch vroom mag blijven, uw dienaar t'aller stond, de tirannie verdrijven die mij mijn hart doorwondt. Van al die mij bezwaren en mijn vervolgers zijn, mijn God, wil doch bewaren den trouwen dienaar Dijn, dat zij mij niet verrassen in haren bozen moed, hun handen niet en wassen in mijn onschuldig bloed. Als David moeste vluchten voor Sauel den tiran, zo heb ik moeten zuchten als menig edelman. Maar God heeft hem verheven, verlost uit alder nood, een koninkrijk gegeven in Israël zeer groot. Na 't zuur zal ik ontvangen van God, mijn Heer, het zoet, daar na zo doet verlangen mijn vorstelijk gemoed: welk is, dat ik mag sterven met ere in het veld, een eeuwig rijk verwerven als een getrouwen held. (Sorry idk why i do this)
I'm also Dutch, Huygens is a sir name in old Dutch. In modern Dutch you pronaunce it like Huigens. The craft is likely named after Christiaan Huygens (astronomer 17th century).
“Prepare for a forced dutch pronounciation” *H U Y G E N S* “Dutch, a beautiful language” Made me laugh out loud. Jokes aside, pronounciation was pretty decent :p Keep on doing what you’re doing. Your vids are really amazing!
Ingenuity has been providing valuable data from Mars now - but mainly, it has proven our ability to fly rotorcraft on other worlds. Big step forward for Dragonfly.
Wow this is amazing, can't wait to see what happens in the next several years. Also, amazing video, very well done!! You should definitely monetize your videos (even though it's just for 30 days you opted out for). We can tell how much time/effort it takes by the amazing quality you put into it :)
Huygens is pronounced “hoy-gens”. My grandpa worked on that project for more than a decade. No disrespect! This video is awesome! Also, monetize your videos! Make your money.
MrBlockyTV There’s a disclaimer at the bottom of that part about Dutch being a crazy language. That probably was how Huygen’s pronounced his name, but all the NASA people pronounce it how I said. It’s not a big deal at all and doesn’t detract from the video by any means. I just thought it was a funny detail.
THE CHILD WHO UNDERSTOOD GRAVITY Her name was Sarah, Sarah N. Dipity. As a child Sarah often overheard her parents, who were scientists, discuss gravity. They'd often bring Sarah to their office, where they did experiments about gravity and discuss them with other teachers and scientists. They assumed that she wasn't able to understand them, but in fact Sarah understood more than they did. It was frustrating that she was too young to talk. All of them said they didn't really understand gravity, which was why they were doing all that work. Somehow Sarah DID understand. She watched them try their experiments, draw on blackboards, and discuss things well past supper. Sarah realized, like them perhaps, that if someone could describe what she knew that it would be helpful. But she also couldn't write. She watched the adults head off in so many wrong directions. She worried that they'd try to teach her incorrectly, insisting that she learn their ways, which were often wrong. So, Sarah decided not to speak or write, which caused her parents to think that she was slow. She was perfectly pleasant, just silent. In her mind she continued to do thought experiments, using her knowledge of gravity. (c) 2016, Scott Myers all writes preserved
Oh shit you didn't ask for subscribers, normally people who say that say something like "it would be awesome if you checked my channel out" or something. So you earned my subscription 😂
1:20 ahhm, I think that should be megameters. 1 million km is only like 4x our moon distance 4:00 eh? the atmosphere is too thick and blocks too much cosmic radiation, not sunlight 6:00 *alpha PARTICLES 7:00 telurillium??
@@isaacflett1321 yeah but it's not the sunlight that's the relevant factor in neutron activation gamma spectroscopy. For something like the mercury orbiter this is easy, all you have to do is use a gamma ray spectrometer on the spacecraft to look at the energy of individual gamma rays coming from the surface of the planet to deduce the composition of the rock and soil which is neutron activated naturally by high energy solar wind and cosmic ray particles smashing into atoms on the surface all the time. The collisions produce neutrons and the neutrons are absorbed by adjacent rock atom nuclei converting them to a different isotope with a short half life that emits gamma rays at a known energy. For a lander on the surface of Titan with a thick heavy atmosphere shielding it from cosmic rays, you have to bring your own neutrons to activate the regolith yourself to then allow gamma spectroscopy to be done. Sunlight is superfluous, it never factors into any of it.
Anyone got some spare zeros lying around? We seem to have ran out while animating the distance to Titan.
Wot
Lies , quit spreading NASA'S lies
@@doozy6914 Titan doesn't exist? Big brain moment
Doozy Oh yeah its big brain time
*_bIg BrAin MoMeNt_*
I've seen Saturn + Titan through a telescope, so NASA must be sticking photos onto all of my lenses! We've been bamboozled!
Thank you for using the actual Dragonfly logo! I I'm a graphic designer at JHUAPL -- nearly every video about the mission has not used it. Great video!
Caleb Heidel, wow, that is marvelous! I’m immensely jealous of your great job! I’m also tempted to say something rash like “can I have your babies,” but that might be just a wee bit inappropriate! 😳 In any case, I’m very pleased for you getting to participate in some way in this mission and thanks for contributing your comment. 🚀
What one are they using? I actually created my own vector version of it in illustrator because I couldn't find a decent PNG of it. Most journalists are going to be lazy with that and just use whatever is available. That may be why
Real Engineering oh wow! Well, nice tracing haha. I’ll talk to the media people and see if they’ll post vector logos on the dragonfly website gallery.
Wow as a fellow graphic designer I'm really jelous. Must be amazing working there, these days I keep thinking about working on state organizations or NGOs, you know anything to put my grain of sand.
I just wanna say, I googled "graphic designer at JHUAPL" cause I wanted to confirm and yep, your name popped up.
Nice design, mate!
Imagine some Drone from another galaxy comes to earth and start drilling small holes everywhere. moving around at snail pace...
Itd be cute
At 10m/s (22 Mph roughly) it's actual a decent speed, and on earth it could be faster (but would need to be lighter)
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I’d throw a bottle at it, just like that guy did to the Amazon drone in Texas
Especially if it landed in the middle of the Sahara.
It really is just another slap in the face to Pluto that we use an element called plutonium to explore other planets
this deserves more likes
New horizons was also powered by Plutonium too.... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPHS-RTG
The RTG is the power source of choice for almost everything past mars because solar panels get less powerful the further you are from the sun.
I think Pluto, being a rock and all, won't mind much.
Reparations now!
Woops, didn't meant to publish this while it was still processing. Please wait to watch in it's fully glory. Mike's hard work on the Titan animations shouldn't go to waste!
why not both?
;p
ok then.
I think you are off by about three orders of magnitude with your distance from Earth to Titan :)
@@PK-xe6sm BALLS! How did I miss that? Even calculated the speed of communication with the correct number
oops
Half lives(for anyone interested):
Plutonium-238: 87.7 years
Strontium-90: 28.8 years
Curium-244: 18.1 years
RTG efficiency is only 5%.
What abt uranium 238
@@cybersentient4758it probably doesn't meet all the criteria
Lives*. Learn English.
2:33 that fucking thump when it landed is hilarious
*DONK*
Can’t wait to see pictures of the surface of Layth- I mean, Titan
A fellow man of culture
Moon landing was fake news of nasa but India proved by successfully launching 104 amerian satellite in single rocket and successfully launching chandranaya 1 and 2 respectively till now none of any country had ever succeed the moon mission.aniwa 36% nasa scientist are Indian so nasa could successfully send robo on mars and sending astronomers in space but in first attempt kalpana chawla a indian scientist astronomer was dead during her soace mission.
@@gyanendrasapkota4583 scuse me what
@@gyanendrasapkota4583 I don't understand a thing you said
@@zimTOAA something something India something something fake moon
Sadness is when you realize we have to wait 14 years to know the secrets Titan holds...
Damn
I remember being so crushed to know it would take almost a decade before we got proper high res pictures of Pluto when New Horizons got launched. Yet here we are.
It will come to pass before you know it.
And then you'll just get twelve more blurry images for the billions of your taxes. Unless SpaceX does it, then you'll get panoramic 4K video of the entire thing live because unlike NASA they know how to do bang for buck!
Very much so.
Be grateful you will (hopefully) live 14 more years. Imagine being a scholar in your 70s. how would you feel?
2026? Damn
I can’t wait to see the results of all these projects being announced.
Wait 6 years because this 2020 (if you still alive)
And then it takes another 7 years or so to get there... so look for a landing image on the front pages of the papers (if they still exist) in about 2033...
On December 2034 It will land.. So a long time
Cancer Called Human Species Meh. I’ll still be young, only 23 in 2026 and 31 in 2034.
I feel like I can't wait, but at the same time I don't wait at all.... I am 27yo now, and I will be 44yo by the time it reaches... I don't want to get old.
even in 360p great stuff as always mate. Truly is an exciting time that we live in with what is becoming possible. I almost wish I was scientifically inclined enough to work in one of these institutions pushing the limits of this kind of technology. It almost seems like these kind of engineers are as creative as they are technically brilliant.
I love the _thunk_ that Huygens made when it landed. Those little extra details you put in and occasional jokes while making it good enough for the layman to understand is awesome, why I keep rewatching your videos again and again!
4x thick atmosphere, 1/7th the gravitational force. As A UAV designer I was grinning widely
They better be better flyer than me, having like 20 spare propellerblades for each drone raze. Because on titan it seems tricky to switch propeller on the drone.
Yeah but also the lower speed of sound and higher chance of turbulence reduces maximum speed obtainable by a propeller craft
Haha your average 5-6" race quad could take you for a ride.
Slap some 2306s on it and you could send it off to the moon
send a steel zeppelin instead.
Energy source problem?
Didn't you just said atmosphere and river full of methane? Why not make a small combust.... Oh wait, there's no Oxygen..
*Walk Away*
What if the spacecraft took some bottles of liquid oxygen and was powered by some small internal combustion engines running on methane ? Must be lighter than batteries and RTG ?
@@jerryseinfield and who's going to refill the bottles?
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U can man, I'll pay for your one way trip.
Don Graham It might be lighter but it’s going to only have one fueling and then it would be done. With batteries it can be continually recharged for a long time.
Wait - don't give up so quickly. There are innumerable solid oxidizing agents in the universe; solid, and therefore more compact than a gas. Any salt with fluoride as the anion, for example. Wicked nasty to transport and store, but you asked for an explosion...
2:35 that landing noise was so out of place hahaha 😂
No. If you slow the video down, it was in almost exactly the correct place. Precisely at the point the lander touches down.
@@joshuapotts6361 I was referring to the actual noise itself, as opposed to the timing...
*splonk*
Big *B O N K*
Doink
i'm pretty sure it's 1.2 billion km, not 1,2 million.
Let's hope they know how much coal to shovel in
1,2 million km is from Saturn not from Earth (from Earth is about 9,5 AU = 1421181000 km)
Isn’t that what the pinned comment is about?
@@fiveoneecho, we are anarchists and we have our own pinned discussion here. Not some government pinned bs ;).
It was a lot simpler when it was measured in miles but by all means... let's all rush to left wing, liberal globalism and embrace the power of 10.
2:58
I really hope that's the actual logo for to project because it looks really cool. I like how it forms a double helix.
It would make sence to do so. The double helix might signify our dna which to us humans is life, considering we want to know if life is going to/will form (mars is after, titan before, and earth the middle child) on titan. Unfortunately the US government isnt known for making sence, they might just identify the probe as an Attack-Helicopter.
It's the actual logo for the project to develop the Dragonfly by Johns Hopkins. More than likely, NASA will come up with their own. It is really cool, though.
Humanity's ultimate question is not *"How did we get here"* but *"Did anyone else get here too?"*
Yea. Imagine finding alien drone from billions of billions years ago from the earth soil
"Prepare for forced dutch pronunciation."
"Dutch, a beautiful language."
There's an old story that during the construction of the tower of babel clay fell from the level above and got caught in the dutch man's throat.
Ik vat m niet, i expect you speak Dutch so i am going to give in to lazyniss as i type Dutch further. Ik had een antwoord gepost omdat ik t vreemd vind dat hier t over een gecombineerde missie zou gaan van NASA ESA en de Italiaanse ruimtevaard org. Niemand zou never te nooit het hebben over een combi mission hebben als NASA en de Californian space agency. Of overdrijf ik nu.
The finger in the dam story springs to mind
@@ikkezelf599 Zo zou het na 2021 kunnen blijken :-)
@@MadazzaMusik oh yeah, that piece of fiction no dutchman has heard about.
Isn’t it Hye-you-gens?
I'm pretty sure that Titan-Earth Distance @1:30 and @9:10 is missing like three zeros.
Titan is 1.4 billion kilometres away from the Sun. The 1.2 million shown here is the distance between Titan and Saturn. Also yes, the distance between Titan and Earth should deviate between 1.55 billion to 1.25 billion kilometres.
Fortuna Khalifa yep
Thanks, I didn't notice. You're right
This was a year ago. I would totally watch an update on dragonfly. Thanks for your channel. I teach engineering in HS. I show your videos to my students.
Alpha particles, not alpha waves!
Alpha particles are helium nuclei, spat out by decaying heavy nuclei.
Alpha waves are something the brain makes when you're sleeping, not anything to do with radioactivity.
Alpha-rays?
@@IM4fLEX You are probably getting confused with a different type of radioactivity, gamma rays. (Also known as gamma waves).
@@joshuap7406 But they travel in a straight line until disturbed yeah?
@@IM4fLEX Only if there is no magnetic/electric field, no air, or anything other than empty space. They are helium atoms without their electrons.
@@joshuap7406 so its just emission of alpha particles, electrons and other particles during radioactive decay.( and EM waves)
Humanity needs to send more missions now !
We need to focus more on space technology over military technology
You realize that military and Aerospace technology serve to influence and improve each other synergistically... we wouldn't have the F-35 multi-role fighter without a space program, and we wouldn't have had a space race in the first place without leadership based in national pride and patriotism on both sides. Not to mention the fact that most of the first astronauts and cosmonauts were both military aviators or decorated officers.
@@HuntingTarg And the entire space program was built using, at least at first, repurposed ICBM's for launch vehicles for spacecraft, and the ICBM technologies for designing and building subsequent "space booster" vehicles that were too large or had no direct lineage from ICBM's...
Later! OL J R :)
james murphy, we need to focus on a lot of priorities more than the military. We have institutionalized poverty, an entrenched tiny 1% economic elite who possess 90% of the nation’s wealth, school children without textbooks or necessary school personnel (like nurses!), people without health care, an entire working population practically a pink slip away from no health insurance, etc. The Pentagon gets 67¢ of every tax dollar of non-entitlement spending. People owning billions pay no taxes or very little while the middle class and poor pay a far greater amount and percentage of their incomes. There is a definitely a helluva a lot of things to address and fund rather than the military.
@@inkyguy The left complains about the military budget. The right complains about the national debt. Bottom line is that neither of them actually gives a damn about the finances. They're too concerned with beating each other to care. American politics aren't about finances or even about the well being of our citizens. American politics are about one thing and one thing only: Ideology.
Why not focus on our planet itself? We waste enough money on space and military.
Anyone else a little worried if, when there is life on Titan, they discover Dragonfly and are like “Whoa!”
Hopefully they do what they did with Percy and put something similar to it’s label of “Mars 2020 NASA JPL” on it.
I just have this thought that in 60-100 years people will find Percy and just wipe off the dust and see that label and have to go back a look it up😅. I do hope eventually all the rovers are put on display, and it would be awesome if perhaps they could be brought back to Earth on a Starship soon so they could be displayed here.
@@benjaminriches9736 While I feel I would love that, I’m sure some of these have sisters that would fit the part. We intended for the rovers(and drones now) to stay, so they should at least as monuments
dont let thanos get it
@@benjaminriches9736 It seems like they would more likely be recovered, stored and then displayed on Mars once colonization reaches a stage where it becomes feasible and practical to do so. Weight will probably still be a very significant factor in determining whether or not it's worth it to transport something to another planet.
Let's just hope the people there aren't maniacally hellbent on eradicating half of all life on earth.
Wow, pretty incredibly to hear somebody publicly own their past mistakes. I wish I could award many gold coins
Life: first!!!
Earth: you're a billion years late fam where have you been this whole time
lol, Earth might also be a late bloomer cosmically though.
To be fair, there's actually some fossil evidence for life on Earth around 3.8-billion years ago, and Earth was utterly uninhabitable for the first few-hundred-million years of its existence (the Hadean Eon) due to the Late Heavy Bombardment. So, the gap between Earth first being habitable and the first life appearing is much shorter than one-billion years.
@Jake Watson Congrats, you reiterated what was said.
@@mvmlego1212 universe is 14 billion years old, so it could still be a late bloomer.
@Yung cash register A.K.A Lil Broomstick
Look how easily you two are distracted. This is fantastic example of how we dont deserve nor appreciate life. Fkin idiots.
This conversation and saying shit like fam is far more important than evolution and exploration apparently.
"Gotta look and sound cool"
2:36 what a graceful touchdown
Still safer than my plane landings in ksp!
@@Hiperruimteindustriee same
*THUNK*
"Another happy landing"
NASA : *landed on Titan
Thanos : tf u doing here?!
Mega oof
Haha so funny
Your home?
NASA: _I am inevitable_
Imagination is endless. You can travel the whole universe using your imagination. The reality we don't know what stars are and never been there accept a bunch of theories, computer graphics and Marvel movies to feed your imagination. The Sun is local light source but you have never took the time to look at it. The Reality is out there for you to see . It's not on your TV. Fiction movies and our imaginations are endless but the reality is what it is.
Kinda trippy that titan looks, geographically, like Utah. Hey NASA, you can run tests in my backyard.
because it's probably utah aerial footage
@@linecraftman3907
Sure, buddy. And the Moon landings were hoaxes. Sure...
@@linecraftman3907 what
@@linecraftman3907 If Dragonfly finds a landscape on Titan similar to Utah, it will probably be for the same reasons Utah looks like it does. The explanation for this type of landscape is undergoing a profound revolution. Here's one link to Andrew Hall's new series, but I give six stars to them all: th-cam.com/video/j5rRFkksvfc/w-d-xo.html
They do.
As a Dutch constituent I humbly apologize for the unsettlingly "Klingon" aspect of our language.
@@MiticDane sure that ll be 1000 euro plus expenses.
noooo no no i am not ferengi...
Loling
Sounds to me like irish
Dragonfly arrived at Titan.
Thanos: INSECT!
Hahaahahhahahahaha. Lol so fun I like really
I understood that reference
@@madgaming3172 I understood that I understood that reference reference.
"my big ass fly swatter could eradicate that soulless insect..." (Thanos in not surprised face and tone)
@@madgaming3172 god this joke is so cringey now after people realised whedons quips are cringe worthy
Oh hell yeah, 360p club.
Right here lol
The uploader could just schedule the time of publishing...
Yep :P
Still 360p, lmao
@@alexipeck4201 It's 1080p now
"Titan has a *THICC* atmosphere"
1000 Subscribers Without Videos thicc fucker to tackle
:)
Me: Give me all the notifications for this channel
TH-cam: No I don't think I will
11:28: "... laminar flow ..."
*SmarterEveryDay has entered the room
The more of these space videos I watch, I realize that I exist in perhaps the best time to be alive in Human history. So many new discoveries, and I'll be getting to watch the next manned Moon landing!
I'll take things an occultist would say for 500$ please......lmao
I've been watching this for only 15 minutes, but seemed like a documentary. This was one of the most interesting videos i've seen recently. Your content is excelent, thank you!
2:00 Very cool impression of Saturn. Would love to see this in person.
Just don't forget to bring a spacesuit...
“Incredibly difficult engineering”
This channel’s wet dream
Just how real is this engineering?
Approx 10.35%
Engineering is a scam invented by the corporations to sell more buildings
@@Adamsnadler214Quite the positive outlook on it
real
"Imaginary Engineering" sounds better.
Wow, this makes me feel amazing, like, what a great time to be alive. It's exciting! 🌎🌍🌏
well the perseverance's drone will be the proof of concept
Could be*
@@tadeoescudero9341 *would be. Either it flies or not
@@tomw.1793 no i mean like how the control,signal and stuff will work on other planet you know
"Prepare for forced dutch pronunciation."
"Dutch, a beautiful language."
There's an old story that during the construction of the tower of babel clay fell from the level above and got caught in the dutch man's throat.
5:17: You were not wrong about RTGs being fission devices. All of the radioactive decay that heats those materials are in fact nuclear fission events. It is not stimulated fission, but it is fission, and you get the same total energy from the fuel whether the fission is stimulated or not, just at a lower power.
The Seebeck effect has nothing to do with the nuclear side of an RTG. Any temperature gradient, regardless of source, can be used to power a Seebeck effect gnererator. In an RTG, nuclear is how you are converting fuel to heat and a Seebeck effect generator is how you are converting heat to electricity (in essentially a single step). In higher power situation it is more cost effective to use phase transition, turbines, and magnets to convert the heat to electricity (in a lot more steps).
If you are going to call yourself wrong about something, please actually be wrong.
Only time I've seen someone get called out for being correct.
No he was really wrong. If you count it by the number of particles then what becomes of Pu 238 is supposed to be 72% alpha decay and 28% spontaneous fission. It is mostly alpha decay. That isn't fission.
I was at John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory a day after they received the project. It was really cool to see the full sized version in augmented reality.
"Sadly we do not have a time machine"-Just imagine people in future commenting on it saying "yes we have it now!" Literally Goosebumps!!
But if they had time machines wouldn't they just post now anyway?
Yes we have it now!
I just woke up and saw a brand new Real Engineering video. Now that's epic
Even better, it's in 360p so nobody has to waste their internet for pixels
Nice
Do you live in the US since you've just woken up? Here in Hungary it's already 15:34
Titan is an amazing learning opportunity, and possibly even colonization opportunity: Early Titan and early Earth appear to have been very similar. However, while Earth “took off,” Titan essentially went into the deep freezer!
I remember the excitement 17 years ago when the first images from Titan were released. It followed the mission since it launched from earth. It was an incredible technological achievement, but I had trouble making sense of the few surface images.
They weren't as clear and sharp as the pictures taken by NASA's Martian probes, but more importantly, there were no scaling references to gauge size and distance.
They may have improved some of the images now, but it had been nearly impossible to distinguish whether the landscape images were the size of the Sahara Desert, a small beach, or a playground sandbox.
I didnt know that NASA was looking for the infinity stones as well
Just imagine how much cheaper space travel will be once we can just make a wormhole to whereever we want to go.
India is looking for the infinity stones as well in moon .
Oh, if only the kids knew half as much about the real world as they do about the MCU.
NASA is S.H.E.I.L.D
@@0xGAB but is SHIELD still HYDRA?
DJI: hold my beer.
450 kilograms on earth right ... That would weigh 7 times less on titan ... Suitable for a quadrocopter to fly ....
Kilograms represent mass, the mass stays the same no matter what so it still is going to be 450Kg on titan. The difference is that its weight here is 4420N (g=9.81m/s^2) while on titan it would be around 620N (g=1.37m/s^2), around 7 times less as you said. Therefore the force in N needed to lift it up there is indeed way less.
@@adam_papamastorakis even if you were lying no one would know. I sure as shit wouldn't, because I have no idea what any of that means. Lmao. Looks right to me boss. Haha.
@@frankierzucekjr He’s telling the truth. Lol. Kg and lbs are units of mass. Weight is technically a force, measured in Newtons. I know it’s confusing (especially because scales show your WEIGHT in units of MASS for some reason) but it’s really easy if you think about it.
Stand on the scale in your bathroom and pull up on the counter to push yourself down on the scale. The reading will go up. Why? Your mass never changed, right? That’s because scales actually read the force you’re putting on it, and the readout is showing you how much mass should cause that much force under earth’s gravity. Don’t ask me why they designed scales to do that though 🤣
@Anessen says the person who called me names because “the pound is not a unit of mass” and then googled it, found out they were wrong and did a dirty delete 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@frankierzucekjr you can check it in a calculator, weight is mass multiplied by the flat value of gravity, meaning 450 x 9.81 is the weight of the 450kg object.
So... If we have to ship a big antenna to Saturn anyway, why not go with the Kerbal approach and put a more permanent relay in orbit there, using the same launch?
"The Kerbal approach" doesn't sound like the most reasonable of approaches to take.
But to be honest, I don't know why wouldn't they do that.
@@Mbeluba The Kerbal approach has a 75% higher chance of free explosions, making it an objectively superior solution. It would also only require some extra boosters and duct tape.
Naza, no disrespect, but I am 100% certain that the hundreds of engineer's from the 3 collaborative agencies (NASA, ESA, and the Italian space agency) are far, far smarter than you and I put together.
Plus, they must work under a budget.
Money, little demand, limited plutonium
If you do it right it could help other deep space probes, but the alignments would constantly change, so it really wouldn't help.
Sending probes to the Trojan asteroids would probably be more useful, solar power, new science, and if you put one in each group, they could be use full to most stuff outside of Jupiter
@@philb5593 I imagine it would take some fairly detailed calculations to decide whether to use a relay satellite near Titan or just go direct from Titan surface to Earth. I guess Titan should be easier to land on than Mars (where the stupid atmosphere is too thick to ignore and too thin to supply ALL the braking you need), so if Titan's atmosphere is reasonably transparent to the radio frequencies they want to use, landing the main antenna makes more sense on Titan than on Mars. Relay communications satellites anywhere in the outer solar system except in orbit around the right planet are not much help because they will be further from Earth and/or from your mission vehicle than the Earth to mission vehicle distance most of the time. On average over time, which is the closest planet to Earth?
These animations are *super* smooth and professional.
It puts mine to shame 😩
I remind you that it's forbidden to fly a drone that's not in your visual field. FAA will surely make problems !
Fortunately the FAA does not have jurisdiction on Titan.
Too late ingenuity did it already
@@senorbullflag7346 That’s what you think
@@twaccital1966 😂
hey man, you gotta do a video on liquid air storage systems. There is a lot of potential in those.
I think this video has the smoothest transition to affiliate info, that I've ever seen, nicely done on that! Great info as well :)
I don't want "Brilliant" I need it. So good.
Honestly it'd make sense to send up a relay satellite with Dragonfly so they wouldn't have to waste energy on the probe itself.
You’d think they would do that. It wouldn’t even need to be a very big satellite, and it would give Dragonfly more power and room for sciencey stuff.
Yeah, placing it at Saturn's Lagrange points would give a permanent solution to the problem. Cause I can bet that after the Dragonfly mission Titan would eat up Mar's allocated resources.
Out at Saturn there is not enough sun light for solar power, meaning that this relay satellite would also need a RTG, however, plutonium 238 is in short supply, and is reserved for only the most necessary circumstances.
@@philb5593 Well, despite the fact that a solar panel would receive 1/100th the energy at saturn, that wouldn't exclude it from possibilities.
They could use light weight mirrors (like a solar sail) to reflect light into a solar panel. Making it easier to fill the few hundred square meters of sunlight needed to power the relay satellite.
Of course this is all speculation, and odds are they won't end up using a relay satellite unless it has some other use. For example, a satellite meant for scanning the surface of titan. But in that scenario, they'd most likely warrant giving it an RTG or two.
@@goldenfloof5469 This is often overlooked. A thin film solar concentrator mirror on the Titan orbiter could produce ample power at low mass penalty and beam that power down to a drone from orbit via microwaves in addition to comm relay. For a given mass power levels could be much higher.
Finally! Were getting Attack on titan Season 4.
Nice joke
Fuck Anime. Weebs.
@@ABorno-gp5rr let's be nice here. Each to their own we don't need to coming out with such terms that we've not heard since j left school.
@@ABorno-gp5rr
What do you like to watch and follow.
Put your cards on the table and see if you get any cude disrespectful bulling comments.
What makes you think you can slag off other people.
Have you got issues or were you a bully or bullied when you were at school and growing up.
The what probe? I think you've spat on me lol
We already know everything we need to know about Titan. “Titan was like most planets, too many mouths, not enough to go around.” Then when Thanos offered a solution they called him a madman. And what he predicted came to pass.
All that was left was Thanos, a survivor
13:20 “humans ultimate question... How did we get here”
*me deep inside while trying to keep a straight face* DO YOU HAVE 90 MINUTES?!!?
Vincent Van der steen #TheEntireHistoryOfTheWorldIGuess
I heard him say "how did we get here " so the first thing i did was to look in the comment section to see if legends watch videos like this.
The ultimate question is not "how"....it is "why".
i’m intrigued 😂 what is it that you’re talking about?
Richard Bersaky ever heard of jacksepticeye?
Please be careful there may or may not be a hive worm god in the moon.
You mean there would be buried Tyranids.
Finally, a Destiny reference
We yeeted orix worm to titan
What if we find actual dragonflies on titan
... we have then found the NASA version of Beep Beep I’m a Sheep
FocusFanatic h-what
What if we actually find thanos on titan
TomasTurner69 - Am I crazy, or is your profile pic a cross between Mr. Bean and the Mona Lisa??
The artist's rendition of Titan you used is really awesome.
I may have nodded at the mathematic equations more than i should. as if i understood what they were lmao **hits bong**
I guess when the Space Force gets there it'll be called _Attack on Titan_
Here's the door to the comedy club 🚪
The seebeck effect, thermal and electrical conductivity, chemical composition, Reynolds's number, man this video is revision for half my first year of engineering
Sounds like it'd be pretty worth it to just send orbit relay satellite with the drone. But I guess they concluded the extra benefits weren't worth the costs and additional mission complexity.
I was thinking that too but I’m not a rocket scientist so I’m guessing they have it all figured out on which method is better. It probably would have been a lot more weight on an already very far mission. It would be interesting being at the meetings where they start coming up with plans on how they’ll do it.
The quality of these videos. Damn man. Try to make some money of this please.
Top notch animations. It’ll be interesting to see if this project continues and evolves. Hopefully by 2026 we’ll all have personal quad-copters for transportation.
Quadcopters don’t necessarily scale up well to large size - bigger propellers can’t change speed as quickly as small ones.
Am I the only one here who loves the way he pronounces "but"?
*BOOUUT*
We The Animals toytun
I HATE IT
Us bigfoots would never go into space
We* Sasquatch's*
Watching the parachute fall to ground after the probe landed at 2:40 gave me he shuddering heebie-jeebies. How confident were the designers that the parachute wouldn't cover the probe? What did (or, indeed could) they do to mitigate that risk?
This is awesome !! Go NASA and every Space Agency expanding our knowledge !
Yes it’s a beautiful language ! You are very modest to say that ! Beautiful woman live in Holland .
@VampireVlad You've failed if you believe otherwise.
Ah yes the Dutch language. The pinnacle of human speech.
Wilhelmus van Nassouwe
ben ik, van Duitsen bloed,
den vaderland getrouwe
blijf ik tot in den dood.
Een Prinse van Oranje
ben ik, vrij, onverveerd,
den Koning van Hispanje
heb ik altijd geëerd.
In Godes vrees te leven
heb ik altijd betracht,
daarom ben ik verdreven,
om land, om luid gebracht.
Maar God zal mij regeren
als een goed instrument,
dat ik zal wederkeren
in mijnen regiment.
Lijdt u, mijn onderzaten
die oprecht zijt van aard,
God zal u niet verlaten,
al zijt gij nu bezwaard.
Die vroom begeert te leven,
bidt God nacht ende dag,
dat Hij mij kracht zal geven,
dat ik u helpen mag.
Lijf ende goed tezamen
heb ik u niet verschoond,
mijn broeders, hoog van namen
hebben 't u ook vertoond
Graaf Adolf is gebleven
in Friesland in den slag,
zijn ziel in 't eeuwig leven
verwacht den jongsten dag.
Edel en hooggeboren,
van keizerlijken stam,
een vorst des rijks verkoren,
als een vroom christenman,
voor Godes woord geprezen,
heb ik, vrij onversaagd,
als een held zonder vrezen
mijn edel bloed gewaagd.
Mijn schild ende betrouwen
zijt Gij, o God mijn Heer,
op U zo wil ik bouwen,
Verlaat mij nimmermeer.
Dat ik doch vroom mag blijven,
uw dienaar t'aller stond,
de tirannie verdrijven
die mij mijn hart doorwondt.
Van al die mij bezwaren
en mijn vervolgers zijn,
mijn God, wil doch bewaren
den trouwen dienaar Dijn,
dat zij mij niet verrassen
in haren bozen moed,
hun handen niet en wassen
in mijn onschuldig bloed.
Als David moeste vluchten
voor Sauel den tiran,
zo heb ik moeten zuchten
als menig edelman.
Maar God heeft hem verheven,
verlost uit alder nood,
een koninkrijk gegeven
in Israël zeer groot.
Na 't zuur zal ik ontvangen
van God, mijn Heer, het zoet,
daar na zo doet verlangen
mijn vorstelijk gemoed:
welk is, dat ik mag sterven
met ere in het veld,
een eeuwig rijk verwerven
als een getrouwen held.
(Sorry idk why i do this)
g_e_k_o_l_o_n_i_s_e_e_r_d
STROOPWAFFEL
German sucks. Dutch is less ugly
@@thomazzzzi
I strongly disagree with this
watching this after getting high makes so much sense!
This is so dang cool, amazing times we are living in!
Extremely interesting, thank you!
Fucking hell launching at 2026 and arriving will be 2034 and that's assuming everything goes smoothly
Since Titan already have an atmosphere of Methane they can also use fuel cell with other onboard chemicals needed to generate electricity for use
... or ignite it, so that we can enjoy the fireworks #nooffence
Mahmood Shaikh the atmosphere is mostly nitrogen. Methane is in lakes and clouds.
Ravitej V, Nice idea to ignite the methane, only problem is combustion needs oxygen, which isn’t there.
@@tejav1160 problem is fuel cells doesn't ignite methane it converts the gas to another compound while the cell plates generate electricity
1:52 I'm dutch and that did not sound dutch. also, I googled the name and have no idea how to pronounce it in dutch.
I'm not dutch and I can tell that sounds dutch.
Something like "Hoygens" i think
I'm also Dutch, Huygens is a sir name in old Dutch. In modern Dutch you pronaunce it like Huigens. The craft is likely named after Christiaan Huygens (astronomer 17th century).
Something like Hau-[chk]-en.
Sounds like someone clearing their throat to me. 😁
now THIS is the mission I have been waiting for! GO ALL OUT NASA !!!
Beware of the Hive on Titan!
“Prepare for a forced dutch pronounciation”
*H U Y G E N S*
“Dutch, a beautiful language”
Made me laugh out loud.
Jokes aside, pronounciation was pretty decent :p
Keep on doing what you’re doing. Your vids are really amazing!
Vids are pretty cool, but please let's not pretend this pronounciation is even close to decent
@@kzand6953 I expected a comment like that. I heared a lot of americans try pronounce that. Compared to that, it's pretty decent :p
Ingenuity has been providing valuable data from Mars now - but mainly, it has proven our ability to fly rotorcraft on other worlds. Big step forward for Dragonfly.
Good job explaining. Just one tiny misspeak, lower temperature is higher viscosity, not lower viscosity.
YES, generally higher viscosity increases proportionately to the inverse of temp. VISCOSITY is propensity of a fluid to resist flowing.
Yeh u are right
All I hear is THICC THICC THICC
*THICC* 👌👌
With the talk about RTGs you should go into some of the efforts being made to procure a reliable supply of Pu-238.
Buy it from North Korea... since we seem incapable or unwilling to produce more on our own... LOL:) Later! OL J R :)
Wow this is amazing, can't wait to see what happens in the next
several years.
Also, amazing video, very well done!! You should definitely monetize your
videos (even though it's just for 30 days you opted out for). We can tell how
much time/effort it takes by the amazing quality you put into it :)
they should make it a tricopter swinging bigger props
Corrections:
"alpha waves" - alpha particles;
"Lead tellurride" -> lead telluride;
"tellurillium" -> tellurium;
Distance to Titan 1,200,000 km -> 1,200 million km;
"Viscuosity" -> viscosity.
okay
You sound like a Canadian from the east coast.
Huygens is pronounced “hoy-gens”. My grandpa worked on that project for more than a decade.
No disrespect! This video is awesome! Also, monetize your videos! Make your money.
Your grandpa is an absolute legend!
He realy butchered the pronounciation - i was quite confused what kind of new probe casini had additionaly to the Huygens probe
MrBlockyTV There’s a disclaimer at the bottom of that part about Dutch being a crazy language. That probably was how Huygen’s pronounced his name, but all the NASA people pronounce it how I said.
It’s not a big deal at all and doesn’t detract from the video by any means. I just thought it was a funny detail.
Well - he was rather close to how it is pronounced - not his fault when the us americans butcher his name constantly.
ABaumstumpf You are definitely not wrong there.
THE CHILD WHO UNDERSTOOD GRAVITY
Her name was Sarah, Sarah N. Dipity.
As a child Sarah often overheard her parents,
who were scientists, discuss gravity.
They'd often bring Sarah to their office,
where they did experiments about gravity
and discuss them with other teachers and scientists.
They assumed that she wasn't able to understand them,
but in fact Sarah understood more than they did.
It was frustrating that she was too young to talk.
All of them said they didn't really understand gravity,
which was why they were doing all that work.
Somehow Sarah DID understand.
She watched them try their experiments, draw on blackboards,
and discuss things well past supper.
Sarah realized, like them perhaps,
that if someone could describe what she knew that it would be helpful.
But she also couldn't write.
She watched the adults head off in so many wrong directions.
She worried that they'd try to teach her incorrectly,
insisting that she learn their ways, which were often wrong.
So, Sarah decided not to speak or write,
which caused her parents to think that she was slow.
She was perfectly pleasant, just silent.
In her mind she continued to do thought experiments,
using her knowledge of gravity.
(c) 2016, Scott Myers
all writes preserved
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1:20 ahhm, I think that should be megameters. 1 million km is only like 4x our moon distance
4:00 eh? the atmosphere is too thick and blocks too much cosmic radiation, not sunlight
6:00 *alpha PARTICLES
7:00 telurillium??
dont you want to make your own videos?
Wouldn't the atmosphere block both cosmic radiation and sunlight?
@@isaacflett1321 yeah but it's not the sunlight that's the relevant factor in neutron activation gamma spectroscopy. For something like the mercury orbiter this is easy, all you have to do is use a gamma ray spectrometer on the spacecraft to look at the energy of individual gamma rays coming from the surface of the planet to deduce the composition of the rock and soil which is neutron activated naturally by high energy solar wind and cosmic ray particles smashing into atoms on the surface all the time. The collisions produce neutrons and the neutrons are absorbed by adjacent rock atom nuclei converting them to a different isotope with a short half life that emits gamma rays at a known energy. For a lander on the surface of Titan with a thick heavy atmosphere shielding it from cosmic rays, you have to bring your own neutrons to activate the regolith yourself to then allow gamma spectroscopy to be done. Sunlight is superfluous, it never factors into any of it.
The graphics in this video are outstanding! You've really outdone yourself.
Nice One. Thanks! Love the space stuff.
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