Venus Death of a Planet 4k

Billions of years ago, our nearest planetary neighbor, Venus, may have harbored lakes, oceans, and life-giving habitats similar to those on the early Earth. Today, Venus spins slowly in a backward direction. It's a planet knocked upside down and turned inside out. Its burned-out surface is a global fossil of volcanic destruction, shrouded in a dense, toxic atmosphere. Scientists have come to see Venus as the alien planet “next door,” a laboratory for testing ideas about how planets evolve and the challenges they face in nurturing life. They are now unveiling daring new strategies to reach down to its hostile surface. From floating bases stationed high in Venus’ atmosphere, they hope to send down new generation probes to search for clues from a time when the planet was alive. How did Venus descend into this hellish state? And how did its sister planet, Earth, manage to survive?

[billy]

Props to the cameraman for having to go into such a hostile atmosphere

[P.A.C.E.automotive]

I liked the Venus snippets in between the commercials

[mike]

I love how they narrate these videos, it's like it takes you on a ride through the solar system and you forget about everything else because it's so captivating, that's the difference between such a good documentary like this one, and others

[ussindianapolis]

Earth quakes? I think you mean Venus 😂

[BlackFlagHeathen]

The Venus cloud city concept is an insane, super cool idea. Human ingenuity and hardiness will never cease to amaze me.

[Magic_dawn]

its frightening and also weirdly exciting to think that Venus was once like Earth. 10/10 video

[greghelton]

The lack of a large moon may be a factor in venus’ condition as well. Lack of rotation also allows the surface to get hotter. The lack of rotation may be due to a large collision that didn’t form a moon and due to Venus being closer to the sun, making it locked to the sun’s gravity. Fascinating stuff regardless.

[Foxxnioxx]

You know the video's gonna be intense when the first subtitle is (intense music).

[StaticBlaster]

Venus is a remarkable planet despite its harsh and extreme atmosphere.

[josiahdaniels]

I'm not sure why but this documentary puts me to sleep so well. That notwithstanding, once I finally watched it I found it fascinating.

[stormysampson]

This is the first time I've heard that there is a 'habitable' zone 54 miles from the surface of the planet in the atmosphere. Amazing.

[zinmomo]

I've always loved space documentaries like this, ever since I was 10 :) Thank you for uploading this! Its like a sort of asmr, I'll sleep well after this💫🌠

[michaelransom]

sounds like one of the most important parts of forming an "earth" is getting hit by a mars size planet at just the right angle to send it spinning like a topand turning the core into a dynamo

[juslewissr]

The fact that 3 planets within one solar system (Venus, Earth and Mars) all had liquid oceans and were likely all capable of supporting life at one time really supports the belief that our galaxy (and the entire universe, for that matter) is riddled with Earth-like exoplanets. I know we've discovered plenty in the last couple decades but I hope I live long enough to see a technologically advanced telescope capable of getting a close-up look at some of them, even if it's only about as close as looking at the earth from the moon.

[garywarburton]

I think we should start exploring venus as much as possible you never know how much we may find out things which we need to know. Airships are indeed a way to do that. I would love to see what it looks like in visable sunlight.

[RWillem]

Thank you David Sky Brody. It is magnificent. I hope more people get the chance to behold this epic story of our sister planet. So much we don’t know yet

[BoardwalkBullies]

I find it fascinating that Venus spins at the same speed that a person walks. Lol, you could basically fast forward your day by driving in to the direction of the sunrise if you wanted.

[MrTaxiRob]

Screw Mars, let's terraform Venus! First, we build a moon...

[IamCoalfoot]

I would imagine its slow rotation probably contributes to its weak/dead magnetosphere, considering rotation is what makes the magnetic field in the first place. That would have contributed to, as the video suggests, a loss of water from radiation. I also wonder if the rotation or lack thereof could have contributed to the hard-capping of the hard crust, or if our moon might have stretched our surface _just_ enough to keep it pliable enough to keep it flowing. Interesting thoughts.

[douglaswilson]

I have been recently fascinated by these space videos. I dont always understand what they are talking about but you do a great job of explaining these things to someone with very limited understanding if these things. Thanks for the education