What Life Might Look Like on a Tidally Locked World?

On a tidally locked planet, one side always faces its star, while the other side remains in perpetual darkness. This unique configuration creates a range of environmental conditions that could give rise to diverse and fascinating forms of alien life. In this video, we're gonna explore some possibilities.

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Produced, directed, and edited by:
Ardit Bicaj

Narrated by:
Russell Archey

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Space Engine
MBARI (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)

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[MGDrzyzga]

A thought on photosynthetic plant-like life (plants from hereon): I know on earth, there are plants with very broad root systems. They can tie forests together. I think it was with molds and clonal colonies that you can see miles-long networks of roots. So imagine similarly broad roots for a plant on a tidally locked world, and it has secondary leafing bodies that extend further sunward than the main body - these outposts are able to gather more sunlight, but they experience more radiation damage. Some species are able to retract these beneath the soil and take respite from the sun. Others shed their leaves, renewing cells more frequently. And this leaf litter makes the sunward elements more nutritionally rich, so some herbivores adopt migratory patterns - browsing for periods sunward, then retreating duskward to rest...

[roadArt]

What type of gravity would allow for a species to remain grounded if there's no spin around its own axis? Is my question.. also no wind and no atmosphere that moves. Only stays put

[randomchannel]

Oh boy, I sure do love this (totally not AI Generated) video.

[bartolomeestebanmurillo]

It would be a bizarre ecosystem that's for sure. There's modeling that indicates that winds would circle around the planet so the night side wouldn't be freezing cold while the day side might be a permanent rainstorm. There could be distinct ecosystems evolving on those parts and then there's the terminator zone, the permanent sunset.

[김민성-hiu]

I have question. I think tidally locked planet will lose all liquid form water. Because all water will ended up to ice when they reached to night side pole. Is there any explanation about this??

[RandyChan-gx]

The possibilities on a titally locked planet is very interesting and that I'll be way different than Earth.

[pacifist]

Awesome video, but how could life on this type of planet exist if it offers the possibility of only two weather conditions, and both are extreme weather conditions. There would also be no seasons to support life. If one side of the planet is facing the star, it would be extremely hot to bare any life forms, perhaps even hotter than that on Mercury and Venus. We would all melt or even boil within seconds. There would be no seasons otherwise, to allow for plants to grow or vegetation to even exist, subsequently no food for animals, and animals won't be able to survive the extreme heat of 500 degrees celcius. The other problem would be exteme solar radiation and greenhouse gases and no oxygen since one side of the planet would only face the sun, therefore no magnatic field to protect from solar radiation. The side facing away from the star would be an inevitable ice age and worse, everything and everyone would freeze to death and it won't even allow microscopic life to survive, since everything will be so cold and frozen like in space. All lifeforms will crystallize into solid ice. Even if simple bacteria can bare the exteme cold, another problem would be everything is covered with ice, no access to drinking water for survival needs unless you go deep into the planet where it's closer to the core, that would give off heat and some microscopic life forms may exist, as it might happen in Mars. And I believe someone already mentioned if there is no rotational movements and everything was stationary, how would friction even exist. Everything in a standstill would just collapse since there would be no platform or any form to sustain any landforms. If Earth suddenly stopped rotating or moving in its axis as an example, everything would collapse, all buildings would drop miles beneath the Earth's surface within seconds. It would be really bad.

[techandscience]

You all make great videos except the ear piercingly high pitched noises. The sounds are so high that they make the videos impossible to watch. The sounds I am talking about are the ones at points when text is displayed on screen or when a noise of a creature is simulated. Example 0:50 through 0:54 when the alien is on screen. Another example is around 0:15. This is a problem with almost every video you all make.

[seriousmfr]

These life forms probably have some form of antisocial personality disorder as well