Titan - A Frozen Oasis | The Lesser Worlds

Of the hundreds of moons discovered in our Solar System, Saturn's largest moon "Titan" stands out as a true champion. In this new series, we will cover the past, present and future of this unique, bizarre and fascinating satellite.

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The Lesser Worlds is the title of my new mini-series dedicated to exploring the moons of the Solar System. Moons are often overlooked in astronomical content, especially my own. However, the moons of the Solar System are some of the most interesting discoveries we have ever made, and with more than a few showing promising conditions that may be, may have once, or may in the future harbor life. In this series, we will be covering the most notable moons in the Solar System, one satellite at a time.

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MUSIC: All tracks in this video were sourced from the YouTube Audio Library
- Gaia in Fog - Dan Bodan
- Sad Piano Wind - Coyote Hearing
- Obelisks - Jesse Gallagher
- Sea Space - Emily A. Sprague
- Water Lillies - Density & Time
- Meadow - Density & Time

FOOTAGE:
Multiple sequences in this video were captured using SpaceEngine Pro, a virtual universe simulator!

SOURCES OF INFORMATION:
- BBC Documentary "The Planets" Episode 1 - A Moment in the Sun - The Terrestrial Planets

Cassini Mission:

Titan Profile from NASA:

Titan’s Atmosphere:
Coustenis, Athéna; Taylor, F. W. (2008). Titan: Exploring an Earthlike World. World Scientific. ISBN 978-981-270-501-3.

[SEA]

Feel free to suggest which moons I should do next!

[bye]

Everyone's talking about thanos but nobody talks about those damn hive.

[JianJiaHe]

Dragonfly is going to Titan, but we have to wait 14 years until Dragonfly arrives at Titan..

[astraeanova]

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[BilalAhmed-ixsg]

I have watched all your videos twice and am on my third run now 😂 great footage, knowledge and objective narrative- always pick up new info which i missed. I also get excited like your massive fanbase when there is a new upload! Many Thanks indeed! Surely you are an astro physicist working for the UK version of NASA whateever that's called lol if you don't you certainly seem like you deserve to. Thanks again for divulging the secrets of space.

[alexalex-zyil]

We have been waiting for a new video! Keep up the good work!

Great video! Only one thing, AFAIK, near the end of the life of our Sun, not only its size will be bigger, but the luminosity too. So it's not just because the more close surface of the Sun will cause more heat for Titan, but (and maybe more importantly) its increased "output power" as well. Sadly not for a very long time (well, "long" for human scales, that's true ... but not so long for life to evolve maybe ...), as you stated too ... Certainly I can be wrong here, just this is how I know, as a "hobby fan" of science, nothing more :) And btw, sorry for my lame English.

[rexdalit]

ps W. Reid Thompson did a PhD thesis with Sagan in which he predicted "free surface liquid" and rain on Titan, based on his models of Titans atmosphere. The rain and surface liquid being mostly nitrogen, methane, and ethane, with many other minor chemical components. Unfortunately, Reid died way too young, but I believe he would have truly enjoyed this video.

[xitheris]

I'm from the future now. NASA is building a mission called a Dragonfly — essentially a flying drone instead of a driving rover.

[danielalvarez]

At 2:30 of the video you say that Titan appears bigger than Ganymede due to its atmosphere. If that's the case then Jupiter is not 87, 000 miles in diameter but instead it's just about 10, 000 to 20, 000 miles. This is because its solid core is about 10, 000 to 20, 000 miles in diameter. That means its atmosphere is about 33, 000 to 43, 000 miles above the surface. But we don't take into account Jupiters atmosphere. Nor do we take into account the atmosphere of Saturn, Neptune and Uranus. Based on this train of thought none of these gas giants are the size that we all know them to be. But if we still say, that Jupiter is 87, 000 miles in diameter including its atmosphere then we must also conclude that the atmosphere is every bit Titan as the rocky surface is of Titan. So from that I must believe that Titan is bigger in diameter than Ganymede. Perhaps Titans rocky surface isn't as big in diameter as Ganymede but its atmosphere does count as part of Titan which makes Titan bigger in Diameter than Ganymede.

So with that in mind. The Earth is said to be 7, 926 miles in diameter. The clouds can reach the upper atmosphere of Earth at 11 miles. So does this mean that the Earth is 7, 948 miles in diameter instead of 7, 926 as previously thought?

[admiralcat]

I've heard of the Kraken Mare incident and how the Collapse showed the gravitational anomalies that the Pyramids are capable of on Titan by bending the moon and creating a "god wave" in its ocean.

[talesfromthetrip]

I don’t know how you don’t have at least a million subs.

[fyrstormer]

4:13 - I don't know if the orbital period of a moon is referred to as a "year", but regardless of what it may officially be called, I think the best informal name is "month" instead of "year". Our benchmark for such things is _our_ Moon, and our Moon's orbital period was our original definition of a month. Even now that we use a solar calendar instead of a lunar calendar, the reason our solar calendar is divided into 12 months is because that's the nearest-whole-number of lunar orbital periods in a solar year.

[Koko-kuio]

So much history things .0. I love these! Keep going strong!

[jacobwest]

Great content with high quality and a not annoying voice. You've earned yourself a sub, now to binge your other vidoes!

[goremall]

Wow! Imagine if the sun dying could actually create life on a moon 😳 this is so cool! Makes you wonder how many forms of life have existed under such conditions for very short periods of time. Kind of sad really

[josue]

Titan does not have any planned mission? What about Dragonfly??

[sunshotwithanornament]

I don’t think it’s worth going to Titan especially when the hive are crawling all over it

[ajmittendorf]

(8:53-9:00) Titan "has all the ingredients to be a thriving, habitable world; it just LITERALLY needs defrosting, SO TO SPEAK" (emphasis mine).
The narrator suggests that the word "Defrosting, " in the above sentence, is both literal AND figurative?? How is that possible?

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