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  • Mars has signs of a waterfall up to four kilometres high, which makes it the largest known waterfall in the solar system. The Echus Chasma now serves as an arid reminder Mars was once a water planet.
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  • @hamzamahmood9565
    @hamzamahmood9565 Před 2 lety +3482

    "Those aren't mountains. They're waves."

  • @TJSaw
    @TJSaw Před 2 lety +1978

    A waterfall almost half the height of Mt. Everest. That would’ve been some sight.

    • @flanagamer
      @flanagamer Před 2 lety +147

      And if that existed here on Earth some daredevil would probably try to jump off and survive like they do at Niagara 😅

    • @BeanOnTheFlipside
      @BeanOnTheFlipside Před 2 lety +25

      @@flanagamer it probably did in earths earlier life span..

    • @flanagamer
      @flanagamer Před 2 lety

      @@BeanOnTheFlipside but dumbass people weren’t around then 😅

    • @EchoTravelsUSA
      @EchoTravelsUSA Před rokem

      @@flanagamer I’m Johnny Knoxville, welcome to jackass

    • @mikecurtis11
      @mikecurtis11 Před rokem +37

      At that scale, the water probably didn't look like the animation. For starters, from that distant view you wouldn't see the water moving.

  • @meri3947
    @meri3947 Před 2 lety +1833

    5:24 Seeing the waterfall, even tho it's obviously animated, made me so emotional for some reason. The wonders out there, that are or used to be, are just breathtaking, truly astonishing.

    • @EchoTravelsUSA
      @EchoTravelsUSA Před 2 lety +65

      Imagine going back in time to seeing the Niagara Falls of mars pour into the Grand Canyon of Mars. A natural wonder unlike anything we have ever seen

    • @xxxdieselyyy2
      @xxxdieselyyy2 Před 2 lety +31

      Ur genetic memory may be getting triggered 👍🏿

    • @muffledp1073
      @muffledp1073 Před rokem +59

      Its literally the music. People are conditioned to feel emotional when this sort of music plays

    • @SG003
      @SG003 Před rokem

      Animated? Are you stupid or what! Everyone knows cameraman travelled to past to get these visuals, trivial matter for almighty cameraman

    • @ViceZone
      @ViceZone Před rokem +4

      Imagine all kinds of amazing and beautiful landscapes in the universe waiting for us to explore.

  • @TechnologicallyTechnical
    @TechnologicallyTechnical Před rokem +573

    Given how Mars had the right properties for life, but that the scales tipped ever so slightly to cancel such a possibility, it really makes you realize how perfect conditions have to be on a planet for life to be possible over the course of billions of years, and how fragile those conditions are.

    • @itachi1165
      @itachi1165 Před rokem +11

      Like us we wont exist and be whipped out

    • @Mugen886
      @Mugen886 Před rokem

      also makes you realise there has to be a divine hand guiding everything because what is the chance the conditions are that perfect for life

    • @dsaikon
      @dsaikon Před 11 měsíci +14

      ​@@Mugen886ummm no it doesnt. If we take into account the vastness of the universe and the estimated billions of possibly habitable planets that exist within, it can very well just be random chance.

    • @dsaikon
      @dsaikon Před 11 měsíci +19

      ​​​@@Mugen886also we don't understand life or conditions for life well enough to draw any conclusions for that matter, because we have never observed it outside of earth. For example, the possibility remains that life could exist somewhere else with such extreme variety and under such different circumstances that we can't say for sure that earths parameters are close to being THE parameters for life. The only concrete thing we can say is that Earths conditions Support life as we know it

    • @joetyler7638
      @joetyler7638 Před 11 měsíci +22

      That’s why glory be to God 🙏

  • @VictorbrineSC
    @VictorbrineSC Před 2 lety +5747

    Gives me goosebumps to imagine standing on a Mars that still has water, perhaps in a suit since the atmosphere would still not be breathable, and then look up at the titan that is the waterfall, with clouds in the sky hitting against the rushing water itself, becoming part of the waterfall. Would have been an insane sight to see.

    • @ulrichraymond8372
      @ulrichraymond8372 Před 2 lety +159

      However the water (CLOUD) would rise even higher since the gravity is much less and the atmosphere is less dense.

    • @rubiks6
      @rubiks6 Před 2 lety +84

      Fantasy can sure be fun.

    • @philipnorris6542
      @philipnorris6542 Před 2 lety +12

      It sure would.

    • @mrsoisauce9017
      @mrsoisauce9017 Před 2 lety +53

      There’s no way 2 no the atmosphere wouldn’t b breathable. If the planet had life, it probably also had oxygen due 2 the similarities between Earth and early Mars. We wouldn’t know of the planet was habitable unless we discovered fossils on the planet, which we need a lot more time 2 do (we’ve only explored a small portion of Mars; fully exploring all of it, which includes paleontologic digs, will take time)

    • @HiiImChris
      @HiiImChris Před 2 lety +9

      @@mrsoisauce9017 wow thank mister soisauce u great

  • @antred11
    @antred11 Před 2 lety +5403

    It'd be interesting to see how differently water flows and falls at Mars's lower gravity.

    • @vomm
      @vomm Před 2 lety +278

      it's the same just slower

    • @mj2carlsbad
      @mj2carlsbad Před 2 lety +783

      @@vomm no kidding....... it'd still be interesting.

    • @walley2637
      @walley2637 Před 2 lety +340

      it may look quite a bit different actually. probably not like a waterfall as we think of it. depending on the volume of water going over the edge it would most likely slide down after rolling over the edge with a lot less separation.

    • @alextrabal6500
      @alextrabal6500 Před 2 lety +85

      @@walley2637 so almost like laminar flow?

    • @sbrmilitia
      @sbrmilitia Před 2 lety +31

      @@alextrabal6500 like tampax

  • @brucesbanner5057
    @brucesbanner5057 Před 2 lety +188

    Seeing that waterfall from a distance would be truly mindblowing

    • @EchoTravelsUSA
      @EchoTravelsUSA Před rokem +14

      The Niagara Falls of Mars, 40x higher than the actual Niagara Falls, flowing into the Grand Canyon of Mars. A natural wonder unlike anything we have ever seen. Something like this on earth would have national park status.

    • @Gingeryrezfdd
      @Gingeryrezfdd Před rokem +3

      I hope they would name it other than Niagara and grand canyon lmao

    • @dominiclester3232
      @dominiclester3232 Před 11 dny +2

      And close up would be fairly awesome too...😂

  • @bmjake
    @bmjake Před 2 lety +220

    My only regret is being born too late to explore the seas, and too early to explore the stars.

    • @Hollyucinogen
      @Hollyucinogen Před 11 dny +23

      But you were born in the right time to watch documentaries about them on CZcams. 😎
      (Side note: I highly recommend the dinosaur documentaries.)

    • @abdallahel-terry1263
      @abdallahel-terry1263 Před 9 dny +2

      agreed​@@Hollyucinogen

    • @diparnabsen7565
      @diparnabsen7565 Před 8 dny +1

      But you are at the right time to explore the land!

    • @Anonymous-lg5jg
      @Anonymous-lg5jg Před 5 dny +1

      The seas are unknown

    • @danmueller4021
      @danmueller4021 Před 4 dny +2

      Born just in time to explore our oceans depths

  • @kineticraptor3318
    @kineticraptor3318 Před 2 lety +3349

    Incredible to see that mars once looked like a more extreme version of earth. Massive props to the CG team that created these visuals.

    • @onion8216
      @onion8216 Před 2 lety +27

      @JJerem 👀 wut u on

    • @pimp43721
      @pimp43721 Před 2 lety +17

      @JJerem Lol 😭

    • @poopscoop6857
      @poopscoop6857 Před 2 lety +154

      Y’all acting like the camera man isn’t the one responsible

    • @andreahamilton6296
      @andreahamilton6296 Před 2 lety +31

      @JJerem the moons a hologram and the earth is flat as well no doubt.

    • @onion8216
      @onion8216 Před 2 lety +6

      Show me the vid u got this from, and get a grip. "Use a little bit of energy"

  • @zrebbesh
    @zrebbesh Před 2 lety +1584

    Most fatal accidents are over before the participants really understand what's happening. But It takes more than half a minute to fall four kilometers in Mars gravity. So if you took a rowboat over these falls you'd be able to fully comprehend the magnitude of your mistake before you hit.

    • @-M0LE
      @-M0LE Před 2 lety +134

      So definitely a slow death

    • @squiggletop
      @squiggletop Před 2 lety +51

      epic comment

    • @feizai245
      @feizai245 Před 2 lety +205

      Nah.... given that Mars's gravity is only 1/3 of the Earth, you may reverse the fall if you row really hard.

    • @mrsoisauce9017
      @mrsoisauce9017 Před 2 lety +28

      @@-M0LE If we’re just spawned into the planet I’m that mistake with the same bone mass we have now, I don’t think it would b that much of an injury, considering how Martian gravity is only 1/3 as strong as earth’s. If we had time 2 adjust 2 the gravity, however, we would definitely die, since the bones lose mass in lower gravity mostly because the body does not need massive bones in low gravity, and that’s assuming they’re needed at all (the whole reason y astronauts do a shit ton of exercise is 2 limit this)

    • @DJ.Apocalypto
      @DJ.Apocalypto Před 2 lety +41

      @@mrsoisauce9017 so technically standing on Mars would be like Kal-El (Superman) standing on earth sorta? Since Krypton I assume was double earths gravity?
      Edit: I got schooled by my coworker saying Kryptons gravity is like 10 times that of earths.

  • @Yoctopory
    @Yoctopory Před rokem +29

    Think about all the wonders that we have just here on earth. Beautiful dripstone caves, caverns full of huge crystals, mountains with snow and glaciers, waterfalls, canyons, deserts with colorful dunes, spectacular rock formations, weather phenomena like rain, purple sky from sunrise, tornados.. And that's just one single planet.
    Now imagine what wonders there are out there in the vastness of the entire universe.

  • @timonyevminov5496
    @timonyevminov5496 Před rokem +167

    Respect to the cameraman for travelling to space, Mars and giving us the footage we have now! 🗿

    • @m.ali.67.
      @m.ali.67. Před rokem +9

      The cameraman is just simply amazing.

    • @Havanah-ov4yt
      @Havanah-ov4yt Před rokem +14

      And back in time! 😂

    • @shaunv3673
      @shaunv3673 Před 9 měsíci +9

      @@Havanah-ov4yt All recorded in real time. On the all new iPhone 15. With the all new time travel option conveniently located right next to the time lapse feature. Now you'll never miss another moment again.

    • @glennmbilishi3542
      @glennmbilishi3542 Před měsícem

      @@shaunv3673 Yoooooo 🤣🤣🤣

    • @spervuurproduksies
      @spervuurproduksies Před 25 dny +4

      For how long are the world idiots going to laugh at this "joke" that has been repeated a million times?

  • @jonathanharris9924
    @jonathanharris9924 Před 2 lety +589

    They failed to say why the water disappeared. Mars magnetic field shutdown then high charged partials from the sun slowly stripped away the atmosphere.

    • @swift2677
      @swift2677 Před 2 lety +54

      So theres a possibility earth will go through the same thing, maybe

    • @redacted7104
      @redacted7104 Před 2 lety +172

      ​@@swift2677 Maybe not, Earth has an active core which constitutes its magnetic field which is absent in Mars' inactive core. Also, Earth's atmosphere has the ability to filter out cosmic radiation, whereas Mars has virtually no atmosphere.
      However, if we keep depleting the ozone layer, there's a possibility that Earth will go through the same thing.

    • @areong.
      @areong. Před 2 lety +14

      They have another video that covers the exact topic. Worth a watch czcams.com/video/5B8lm61KoYo/video.html

    • @bigsmall246
      @bigsmall246 Před 2 lety +52

      @@redacted7104 the ozone layer is unrelated to loss of atmosphere from solar wind

    • @bigsmall246
      @bigsmall246 Před 2 lety +65

      @@swift2677 only if the Earth's core solidifies and stops generating the protective magnetic field against the solar wind. Even if it stopped today, it would take millions of years for the air to be stripped away slowly.

  • @Gab22.
    @Gab22. Před 2 lety +1231

    It makes me so sad that we won't ever be able to see what Mars was, and could have been.
    Imagine the excitement of being able to go to another world, with water and atmosphere, possibly even life.
    I'm still excited for upcoming Mars missions but, well you know, it's not the same.

    • @summerrr1
      @summerrr1 Před 2 lety +81

      True, but be thankful that we have Earth.

    • @Gab22.
      @Gab22. Před 2 lety +134

      @@summerrr1 Earth is amazing, but I'm more interested about exploring other worlds, can't help it.

    • @billy5179
      @billy5179 Před 2 lety +67

      Same about Venus. seeing venus before its catastrophic atmosphere change would be just amazing.

    • @HowlingWolf518
      @HowlingWolf518 Před 2 lety +41

      A lot of stuff was over by the time humanity got here - Dry Falls in Washington, for example. Best to be grateful that we can even understand that it happened.

    • @DannyMancheno
      @DannyMancheno Před 2 lety +61

      Imagine if life develops on titan 2 billion years from now, and they investigate the same solar system we inhabit today.. Who knows, maybe they find earth nearly as a dead as mars. Maybe they find some satellites in high earth orbit.

  • @sheekm227
    @sheekm227 Před 2 lety +116

    I like to enjoy the thought that somewhere in a parallel universe, Mars is rotating on it's access complete with life and water teaming it's surface, and the inhabitants of Earth regularly travel to and from Mars as if it's just another home planet.

    • @studiousboy644
      @studiousboy644 Před 2 lety +6

      That might be our future.

    • @kirbed9486
      @kirbed9486 Před 2 lety +14

      @@studiousboy644 only if they dont mess it up though, but you know humans. If we can it’ll be awesome but if we mess up it could be catastrophic. Or maybe it won’t be either of those things, maybe nothing will happen, either way I’m here for it

    • @mfdoomnyc1471
      @mfdoomnyc1471 Před rokem +3

      Axis *

    • @SlapYou2Sleep
      @SlapYou2Sleep Před rokem +2

      Or this was our past

    • @Aki-ow9hd
      @Aki-ow9hd Před 19 dny +1

      ​@@studiousboy644 a future we'll never see in our lifetime

  • @CelticRover42
    @CelticRover42 Před rokem +76

    Breathtaking depiction of findings, and a truly moving tribute to Mars' dramatic last gasp of its near-habitable era. I had no idea we had figured out this much.

  • @b.rileyjowett6925
    @b.rileyjowett6925 Před 2 lety +961

    I think it’s fascinating how in a solar system where three rocky planets ended up forming within the habitable zone of their star only one managed to remain habitable for very long let alone actually develop large complex life forms. I wonder how many planets out there had oceans and maybe even simple life but became unstable or outright uninhabitable before anything came of them.
    Edit: to clarify I’m aware that Venus and Mars were both likely doomed from very early on, what I was trying to say with this comment was how interesting I think it is that in system with three rocky planets that technically could have had liquid water oceans only one actually maintained them and remained stable enough to support life, especially complex macroscopic life long term.

    • @cybisz2883
      @cybisz2883 Před 2 lety +110

      From what I understand, Mars was doomed from the start. It was too small for its core to sustain a strong magnetic field for long. Losing this magnetic field caused the solar wind to strip away most of Mars's atmosphere, and the rest was history. I don't remember why Venus turned out the way it did though.

    • @justsomerandombirdwithinte5896
      @justsomerandombirdwithinte5896 Před 2 lety +7

      @@cybisz2883 Wasnt it that multiple large asteroids killed venus and mars?

    • @VmsRms
      @VmsRms Před 2 lety +4

      @@justsomerandombirdwithinte5896 no lol?

    • @kateofone
      @kateofone Před 2 lety +2

      @@justsomerandombirdwithinte5896 Yes

    • @Raison_d-etre
      @Raison_d-etre Před 2 lety +52

      It may be easy for basic organisms to develop. It takes a lot more luck for resource-hogging species like us to evolve.

  • @himanshusisodia7065
    @himanshusisodia7065 Před 2 lety +237

    The background score with those stunning CGi showing the epicness of Mars, gave me goosebumps 🤯, Great Work BBC 👍

  • @shamsahmed955
    @shamsahmed955 Před rokem +69

    Once again props to the cameraman who went back 3.7 billions years to capture these moments 👏

  • @vaddokx
    @vaddokx Před rokem +44

    What a spectacular show! 5:24 onwards is the one I like most, especially the music. It feels like I've just discovered the most magnificent landscape on earth at the end of my journey. Absolutely magnificent

  • @GeoForge
    @GeoForge Před 2 lety +47

    If time travel is ever a thing, I'm going back 3.7 Billion years and you'll find me at Echus Chasma.

    • @anjou6497
      @anjou6497 Před 2 lety +2

      Bless.

    • @EchoTravelsUSA
      @EchoTravelsUSA Před 2 lety +7

      Can you imagine what a sight that must have been? The Niagara Falls of mars pouring into the Grand Canyon of mars?

  • @captainawesome9458
    @captainawesome9458 Před 2 lety +413

    Mars is truly a remarkable place. From having the tallest mountain on the solar system, Olympus Mons, to having the tallest waterfall. Tourism industry would broom here. 🙂😁

    • @olympiaskye2324
      @olympiaskye2324 Před 2 lety +1

      Wow. I Just wrote above, why I Don't trust humanity..Omg...pfft. You proved my point. We can't be trusted at simple maintenance! That water would be CLOGGED with trash, graffiti and rabid animals everywhere! 🤢🤮🤧🤯 NASA would open up a hornet's nest allowing tourism up there. Actual human trash floating through our universe....🤦......🧴🪒 🛏 📰 🚽 🛋 🪑

    • @captainawesome9458
      @captainawesome9458 Před 2 lety +3

      @@olympiaskye2324 Come down snowflake. 🤦😂

    • @JC-hp6pk
      @JC-hp6pk Před 2 lety +3

      @@olympiaskye2324 you sound like a child

    • @forgedtofight
      @forgedtofight Před 2 lety

      @@olympiaskye2324 shutup poindexter

    • @DionisoBaco.
      @DionisoBaco. Před rokem +19

      Mars would be an mesmerizing place to visit

  • @yolandaponkers1581
    @yolandaponkers1581 Před 2 lety +29

    Imagine archaeologists digging at the basin. Imagine the fossils that could be found under the surface.

    • @nick_0
      @nick_0 Před rokem +13

      The fossils could be crazy, I doubt we'll see anything too developed but at least some early bacteria

  • @skeleton599
    @skeleton599 Před 11 měsíci +65

    sad to think we were born too early to explore other planets

  • @NiX_aKi
    @NiX_aKi Před 2 lety +254

    What a beautiful dramatic presentation. I got goosebumps!

    • @titan9259
      @titan9259 Před 2 lety +2

      If only space engine was like this

    • @moroteseoinage
      @moroteseoinage Před 2 lety +1

      I got a stiffy.

    • @marshalsoult3860
      @marshalsoult3860 Před 2 lety

      Earth has always been flat.
      keep dreaming nasa lickers

    • @jpthepug3126
      @jpthepug3126 Před 2 lety +1

      @@marshalsoult3860 you are a sheep for those fake priest who sell you those fake bibles 🐑🐑🐑

    • @GrabinGears
      @GrabinGears Před 2 lety +2

      We know it's fake

  • @djmace9029
    @djmace9029 Před 2 lety +50

    Mars is a fascinating world already, but this video makes me wish it remained covered in water like how it was in the past.

  • @raulecreuset4558
    @raulecreuset4558 Před rokem +10

    I was there when it all happened. Back then I never realized the loss we had in Mars. Will be the beginning on what we have now on earth. I just hoped everyone is here now to see this.

  • @darkninjacorporation
    @darkninjacorporation Před 2 lety +228

    Earth almost had a twin. The Solar system could have been home to not one inhabitable planet covered in flora and fauna, but two. We could have strived to visit Mars for centuries, looking through our telescopes for generations at the distant blue and green ball that looked like ours.
    Maybe we would have met someone up there, who had been wanting to meet us too

    • @aconite72
      @aconite72 Před 2 lety +105

      Looking back at our history, I think there’s a much bigger chance of the two planets waging interplanetary wars than shaking hands.

    • @jpthepug3126
      @jpthepug3126 Před 2 lety +22

      @@aconite72 sounds fun

    • @hen5555
      @hen5555 Před 2 lety +4

      Who's to say it wasn't billions of years ago, the solar system didn't start when apes put on shoes

    • @mansimishra1496
      @mansimishra1496 Před 2 lety +5

      @@aconite72 most definitely! I was thinking the exct same thing

    • @elayedathanil7402
      @elayedathanil7402 Před 2 lety +1

      Is it so, why cant be the otherway ...
      we had our origin in mars and due to some unexplained reason...we shifted our base to a mars twin planet closer to sun...

  • @ariprabowo85
    @ariprabowo85 Před 2 lety +15

    Yup. Definitely Zachary Quinto.
    There's no mistaking that crispy nasal, silky-smooth deep timbre, and pleasant enunciation.
    BBC, you outdid yourself. You got Mr. Spock narrating this masterpiece.
    It's like giving wings to a tiger!

    • @Magneticlaw
      @Magneticlaw Před 2 lety +2

      I knew I recognized that voice - one of my favorite actors.

    • @anjou6497
      @anjou6497 Před 2 lety

      What are you on, man !? 🤪🌌🥸

  • @alexeiprescott8421
    @alexeiprescott8421 Před 2 lety +59

    The graphics are so realistic and beautiful

  • @creedyboy124
    @creedyboy124 Před rokem +6

    5:09 5:25 This is so beautiful of waterfall in Mars before disappeared in today. It's like a living in a fantasy place.
    If Mars was terraformed in the future, then tourism or visitors will goes boom and 10x more visiting than London to see largest waterfall above clouds.

  • @rubitch
    @rubitch Před 18 hodinami +1

    seeing the waterfall fade into what it looks like today did not have to make me that emotional

  • @Londonaviatior
    @Londonaviatior Před 2 lety +40

    So mars has the biggest volcano and had the largest waterfall. Wow. The wonders this planet holds. And it's relatively smaller to us-

  • @gregcorker2193
    @gregcorker2193 Před rokem +46

    Really remarkable to think what Mars once may have looked like. Utterly amazing that a planet somewhat smaller than ours once had a vast waterfall 4km high.

    • @WoofyMcDoodle
      @WoofyMcDoodle Před 9 měsíci +3

      it also still has the largest mountain in the solar system even reaching space.

  • @tunxlaw
    @tunxlaw Před 2 lety +20

    I can't believe the BBC would risk the lives of its camera men like this.

  • @hgbugalou
    @hgbugalou Před 2 lety +26

    Can we take a second to realize how amazing it is humanity has grown enough to watch the weather in near real time on another celestial body that is far enough away that light itself takes minutes to arrive to. That fact is stunning to me.

  • @mk1st
    @mk1st Před 2 lety +115

    Lovely visuals in these videos but there really should be a "simulation" or "artist's rendering" label put in the corner when appropriate.
    It's hard for folks who don't know what is actually possible to misinterpret the limits of science and lead to unrealistic expectations. This is especially true on the topic of exoplanets where we see lots of renderings of distant planets and solar systems which we can't yet see directly.

    • @KaraokeDuov2
      @KaraokeDuov2 Před 2 lety +9

      Really dude? If you're one of those without common sense, then your statement would make sense. I trust you have common sense so we'll just move on.

    • @mk1st
      @mk1st Před 2 lety +8

      @@KaraokeDuov2 Are you saying that only those with common sense understand when they are looking at a rendering? Please elaborate.

    • @KaraokeDuov2
      @KaraokeDuov2 Před 2 lety +1

      @@mk1st My point exactly. It's like videos of people asking if someone can water the trees on Mars because of the use of the word Mars in context while showing a tree during the narration. Yes it happens.

    • @norfangl3480
      @norfangl3480 Před 2 lety +12

      Yes I'm sure people are going to think somebody billions of years ago has footage of ancient Mars.

    • @mk1st
      @mk1st Před 2 lety +7

      @@norfangl3480 You miss the point. There were parts of the video showing the NRO from above, orbiting Mars. Who was holding the camera?

  • @G3LOFY
    @G3LOFY Před 2 lety +21

    Billion years from now, some life form will also do this kind of observation and monitoring to our planet.

    • @GilbyMinaj
      @GilbyMinaj Před 2 lety +5

      If they haven’t already…

    • @Speedplanet281
      @Speedplanet281 Před rokem

      True

    • @RogueElement.
      @RogueElement. Před 25 dny

      They might already be doing that. You can only hope we are still in the stone age for them... (As they are looking in the past with their telescopes)
      If they see our current technical advancements. They may feel threatened and work proactively to squash cosmic competition in it's infancy 😮😅

  • @ritemolawbks8012
    @ritemolawbks8012 Před rokem +9

    There used to be water in the Sahara Desert, too. It's more interesting visiting places where liquid water or surface liquids still exists.

  • @alexgetiton
    @alexgetiton Před rokem +4

    Big shoutout to the cameraman orbiting with the MRO. You're the real hero

  • @Hockeyguy8541
    @Hockeyguy8541 Před 2 lety +16

    Who narrated this and why does it sound like Robot from Invincible?

  • @gsurfer04
    @gsurfer04 Před 2 lety +65

    How much warmer was Mars during the time it could have harboured life?

    • @StarkRG
      @StarkRG Před 2 lety +57

      Probably roughly Earth temperatures, albeit with less extreme hots and slightly more extreme colds. Even today the very surface of Mars can get fairly warm, highs of about 20°C (68°F) aren't uncommon, what I'd consider t-shirt weather, the problem is that the atmosphere is so thin that those relatively warm temperatures only reach altitudes of a few inches and all the heat is lost to space so it gets cold as soon as the sun is gone, routinely dropping to -76°C (-105°F) at night at the height of summer. When Mars's atmosphere was thick enough to sustain liquid surface water, it would have been able to hold on to the heat a lot better. Even higher temperatures have been recorded as well, from Wikipedia: "The Spirit rover recorded a maximum daytime air temperature in the shade of 35 °C (308 K; 95 °F), and regularly recorded temperatures well above 0 °C (273 K; 32 °F), except in winter." It's definitely cold, it just isn't always completely, unsurvivably cold.

    • @aniksamiurrahman6365
      @aniksamiurrahman6365 Před 2 lety +6

      @@StarkRG Probably no. Mars is almost twice as far from Sun as Earth. Unless it had a large amount of CO2, it was far colder than Earth - at least like Finland or Siberia in the equatorial region.

    • @franthofcoralion444
      @franthofcoralion444 Před 2 lety +15

      @@aniksamiurrahman6365 mars is only 1.5 astronomical unit away from the sun. Clearly not almost 2x the distance of earth to the sun

    • @aniksamiurrahman6365
      @aniksamiurrahman6365 Před 2 lety +2

      @@franthofcoralion444 OK, my mistake. But it's still as cold as far northern countries like Sweden or Finland. And since Mars has only 0.38g, there's a good chance it didn't have much greenhouse gas in its atmosphere to keep the weather warm and toasty.

    • @mwanikimwaniki6801
      @mwanikimwaniki6801 Před 2 lety +7

      @@aniksamiurrahman6365 The habitable zone used to be larger. It actually shrunk. Venus and Mars used to fit quite well into it before something happened. Can't remember what it was exactly.

  • @sofiqulislam6447
    @sofiqulislam6447 Před rokem +11

    Thanks to the cameraman, this legend went 3.4 billion ago N captured those beautiful scene. Also capturing the satellite revolving around mars

  • @supraguy4694
    @supraguy4694 Před 2 lety +23

    Stuff like this brings a tear to my eye. Time erases so much but leaves hints at once was and I feel so lucky to live in a time when we have capabilities to uncover those hints and extrapolate

    • @kinkan5433
      @kinkan5433 Před rokem

      and spread our wokeness to the stars, one mutilated genital at a time. I prefer we are destroyed before wakanda spreads to others

  • @FloozieOne
    @FloozieOne Před 8 měsíci +4

    Those waterfalls could power the entire world without ever resorting to any fossil fuels. Its distance from the sun would preclude solar power, but hydraulic power would easily make up for that.

  • @vivekyadavvv
    @vivekyadavvv Před 2 lety +6

    Oh , We shifted from Mars to Earth now we are planning back To Home.

  • @plantnt489
    @plantnt489 Před 24 dny +1

    With an environment like this imagine how life could have looked like. An ecosistem divided by the inmense height of this waterfall, a species with the same ancestor could've evolved differently in the top of the waterfall from the bottom. Its just fantastic to think about this

  • @sashamoore9691
    @sashamoore9691 Před rokem +3

    Looks like Arizona when they showed a rendition of mars with water! Stunning 😍

  • @dannychan363
    @dannychan363 Před 2 lety +13

    Meanwhile, aliens on another planet are doing a documentary with their spacecraft orbiting planet Earth.

    • @hoot2416
      @hoot2416 Před 2 lety +2

      What if UFOs really are just advanced drones aliens use to make videos to post on their version of ticktok? 😂😂😂

    • @anjou6497
      @anjou6497 Před 2 lety

      Wonderful , could be !? 👍💥🥸🤣💥🌌

  • @davide.b8027
    @davide.b8027 Před rokem +4

    This was one of the best 6 minutes I've ever spent. Thank you 😊

  • @JackTheVulture
    @JackTheVulture Před 8 měsíci +1

    I feel a weird kind of grief watching this. the impermanence of literally everything. seeing how spectacular mars was, but could not stay. Its weirdly heartbreaking. Also knowing that earth will be like that one day. I'll never see that day, but it does make me sad to think about. We live on a spectacular planet, in a spectacular solar system, in a spectacular universe.

  • @xy1xy
    @xy1xy Před 9 měsíci +8

    That thumbnail is Fontaine

  • @molder2233
    @molder2233 Před rokem +33

    Lower gravity, bigger mountains and waterfalls, etc. I think it’s safe to say that living on Mars would have been pretty awesome if it had a viable atmosphere.

    • @DINU19317
      @DINU19317 Před rokem

      We can make it a safe spot if something ever happens to earth in the future
      Like saving the last few homo sapiens in the world

    • @PawSmalls
      @PawSmalls Před rokem +4

      @@DINU19317 if we'd be able to create an atmosphere around Mars, we'd be able to save Earth from whatever predicament we put it in. And if you're talking about domed settlements, I'd say that those would be too fragile to preserve our species for a long period.

    • @harimalviya5848
      @harimalviya5848 Před 7 měsíci

    • @harimalviya5848
      @harimalviya5848 Před 7 měsíci

      ​@PawSmalls

    • @harimalviya5848
      @harimalviya5848 Před 7 měsíci

      ​@PawSmalls

  • @biggwigg
    @biggwigg Před 2 lety +6

    4:33 Anyone else see the face of a space cat in the ice formation on Mars???

  • @TakuVR
    @TakuVR Před 9 měsíci +2

    It's good to see Robot getting work when he's not helping run Guardians of the Globe.

  • @demonkingr4648
    @demonkingr4648 Před rokem +2

    Wow the ambient mode mixed with rgb lights make this video absolutely mesmerising

  • @Hemp1972
    @Hemp1972 Před 2 lety +9

    I love this! Beautiful!
    Life is unimaginable fragile.
    🔆

  • @Sleepeasy32
    @Sleepeasy32 Před 2 lety +3

    It’s one of those things where it never seems possible till you see it in person

  • @salvatore8857
    @salvatore8857 Před 22 dny +1

    I'm excited, thanks for this wonderful video!!

  • @Iron-Bridge
    @Iron-Bridge Před rokem +6

    Makes me wish I could remote view. I'd visit these planets and space as much as possible.

  • @Rahul-ml2xb
    @Rahul-ml2xb Před 2 lety +23

    I feel sad watching this guessing what could have been

    • @Rahul-ml2xb
      @Rahul-ml2xb Před 2 lety +1

      Strange flowers and animals than we could ever imagine 😍

    • @silkyrider6916
      @silkyrider6916 Před 2 lety +2

      It could be the way the earth is heading long after humans have ruined the planet

    • @hajjdawood
      @hajjdawood Před 2 lety

      @@silkyrider6916 what a stupid take. Mars is the way it is due to a thin atmosphere. We are making it thicker by releasing CO2 that was once in the air anyways

    • @TrollTrollski
      @TrollTrollski Před 2 lety +2

      @@hajjdawood If anything, we are potentially making Earth more like Venus. Who knows what happened there?

    • @redacted7104
      @redacted7104 Před 2 lety

      @@TrollTrollski I think there was scientific speculation that life existed on Venus as they found some ammonium compounds in the atmosphere which, on Earth at least, were metabolites of microbial organisms.
      However, everything I read about this debunked these claims :/

  • @EpicTime33
    @EpicTime33 Před 2 lety +8

    *Let's appreciate the cameraman who recorded this millions of years ago*

  • @adiabadic
    @adiabadic Před 27 dny +2

    I was so confused when Rudy/Robot started narrating lmao

  • @chrisdkgaming
    @chrisdkgaming Před 2 lety +3

    Im always amazed with space documentaries..

  • @Muzhskoy
    @Muzhskoy Před 2 lety +4

    This is where I want my tv license money. Amazing stuff.

  • @NickWheeler9559
    @NickWheeler9559 Před 2 lety +4

    Imagine swimming on Mars when that was there and you have no clue what's possibly below you.

  • @prabhatbhandari8854
    @prabhatbhandari8854 Před 2 lety +4

    "Bahubali waterfall"

  • @dankmemer8737
    @dankmemer8737 Před 12 dny

    Props to the cameraman who went back in time on mars to give us this amazing footage.

  • @JustAPersonWhoComments
    @JustAPersonWhoComments Před 2 lety +14

    In a 3D image from MRO's Context Camera, the northern rim of a 30-kilometer diameter crater situated in the western part of the Tharsis volcanic province is shown. (See the HiRISE 3D image as well.) The image shows that a lava flow coming from the north-northeast surrounded the crater rim, and rose to such levels that it breached the crater rim at four locations to produce spectacular multi-level lava falls (one in the northwest and three in the north). These lava "falls" cascaded down the wall and terraces of the crater to produce a quasi-circular flow deposit. It seems that the flows were insufficient to fill or even cover the pre-existing deposits of the crater floor. This is evidenced by the darker-toned lavas that overlie the older, and possibly dustier, lighter-toned deposits on the crater floor.

  • @insertnameatgmaildotcom
    @insertnameatgmaildotcom Před rokem +9

    Respect for the cameraman going back in time to Record this majestic waterfall

  • @Gingeryrezfdd
    @Gingeryrezfdd Před rokem +1

    This is the BBC people should be watching!

  • @Zeithri
    @Zeithri Před rokem +2

    Jaw-Droppingly Beautiful ~

  • @arthurcooperman3106
    @arthurcooperman3106 Před rokem +5

    It's crazy that we can view Mars weather phenomena from our planet, yet no one is actually on the planet to witness it with their own eyes.

    • @truthmatters758
      @truthmatters758 Před rokem

      clearly cgi images like with everything nasa puts out

    • @arthurcooperman3106
      @arthurcooperman3106 Před rokem

      @@truthmatters758 I wasn’t saying the thumbnail was real but just the fact that we can observe features of other celestial bodies and make hypothesis for what it looked like but there’s nothing alive there to experience it.

    • @theenjeneer2792
      @theenjeneer2792 Před 11 měsíci

      For now at least give it a few mor years

  • @Life_42
    @Life_42 Před 2 lety +11

    Beautiful

  • @jamallabarge2665
    @jamallabarge2665 Před 26 dny +2

    The satellite would need a polar orbit in order to cover 99 percent of the surface of Mars.

  • @scottpoerschke8807
    @scottpoerschke8807 Před měsícem +2

    Mars was too small - the core dynamo stopped - van allen belts stopped and the sun wore down the atmosphere

  • @MrFossil367ab45gfyth
    @MrFossil367ab45gfyth Před 2 lety +18

    Mars might've had microbes.

    • @kashutosh9132
      @kashutosh9132 Před 2 lety +3

      Maybe 'have'

    • @TohaBgood2
      @TohaBgood2 Před 2 lety +4

      Might still have. Some of those little buggers are pretty hard to kill. We won't know for sure until we go there and check for ourselves ;)

    • @anjou6497
      @anjou6497 Před 2 lety +1

      And microwaves.

    • @MrFossil367ab45gfyth
      @MrFossil367ab45gfyth Před 2 lety

      @@anjou6497 , what do you mean?

  • @NUSORCA
    @NUSORCA Před 21 dnem +3

    We know more about Mars than our ocean

    • @xaveriusyerryuntan9862
      @xaveriusyerryuntan9862 Před dnem

      "we" are mapping sea floors of seven seas and even try to open a mine on it.
      Try again, defeatist

  • @Se7en1995y
    @Se7en1995y Před 23 dny +1

    What's frightening is that the same fate of Mars could happen also to Earth.

  • @anthonymcarthur6504
    @anthonymcarthur6504 Před 8 měsíci +2

    Great music selection

  • @daveswinfield
    @daveswinfield Před 2 lety +18

    A question, if I may...
    On earth, that size of waterfall would produce a thunderous noise. With the lack of gravity, would the same volume of water make "less noise"?

    • @AmanDeep-yc4iz
      @AmanDeep-yc4iz Před 2 lety +18

      there isn't the lack of gravity there ,the gravity of Mars however is lower than earth , is still great enough to produce thundering noises. what you hear ,the sound basically depends on medium i.e the nature of "the thing" btw your ear and the source of sound production , during the time of waterfall shown here there would still be enough gases (water vapour and etc.) that in an astronaut's space suit with just a oxygen tank for life support , you can enjoy this beauty will all its glory

  • @keitha.9922
    @keitha.9922 Před 2 lety +28

    0:25 kudos to the BBC camera man who orbited along MRO to film it as it orbits Mars 🤣

  • @myrandomlife8881
    @myrandomlife8881 Před rokem

    Wow now BBC EARTH covering outside earth. Thankyou for this information

  • @outlawmusic23
    @outlawmusic23 Před 9 měsíci +1

    It's nice being able to sit back n learn so much from real people doing real things that are actually cool

  • @Edhilues
    @Edhilues Před rokem +4

    Imagine seeing the waterfall during sunsets

  • @silkyrider6916
    @silkyrider6916 Před 2 lety +19

    It could be an apocalyptic earth? So many questions we will probably never answer

  • @Doc-ys6sq
    @Doc-ys6sq Před 12 dny

    Man! The BGM always hits different every time I watch a space docs

  • @AngelRivera-fp9md
    @AngelRivera-fp9md Před 2 lety +2

    Someone who knows math please correct me: If Niagara falls is 51 meters high, that means this thing is 78 times taller...so, if the Empire State building is 381 meters tall, something 78 times shorter would measure 4.8 meters tall, which is like the length of a Mini Cooper...So, Niagara Falls is to this martian falls what a Mini Cooper's length is to the Empire State building height..

  • @seanbigay1042
    @seanbigay1042 Před 2 lety +26

    Seeing this video about the greatest waterfall in our Solar System reminded me of one of the worlds in Larry Niven's Known Space stories.
    In the backstory to Known Space, humans once attacked a Mars-like planet held by the catlike Kzinti with an almost Death Star-level weapon that, in destroying all the Kzinti's bases, carved a twelve-mile-deep trench the length and breadth of the Baja peninsula along the planet's equator. All of the planet's atmosphere fell into this enormous canyon, giving the planet both an Earthlike environment there and its human name of Canyon.
    What it might have looked like as the atmosphere fell into Canyon's equatorial trench beggars the imagination.

    • @legitbeans9078
      @legitbeans9078 Před 9 měsíci

      Awesome. I must read some of the human kzinti war books. Love me some known space!

  • @Mr.Ramirez95
    @Mr.Ramirez95 Před 2 lety +9

    The amount of craters on Mars is scary.

    • @potaton8702
      @potaton8702 Před rokem +2

      If earth didn't have water I think it will look the same

    • @Moodboard39
      @Moodboard39 Před rokem +1

      @@potaton8702 that's make the flood story true.

  • @tasteapiana
    @tasteapiana Před rokem +1

    ''Sent to look for conditions where life could have begun''. The universe IS life. These people who think of life as something that exists apart from yet within the universe unnerve me.

    • @wspencerwatkins
      @wspencerwatkins Před rokem

      Okay but they mean biological life, you’re speaking philosophically which is fine but different

  • @tasnimrafid7057
    @tasnimrafid7057 Před rokem +2

    this video is really well made

  • @mumumumey
    @mumumumey Před 2 lety +3

    it would be so beautiful just to see how water flowed on mars

  • @chrisduggan2848
    @chrisduggan2848 Před 2 lety +19

    You know ancient cultures believe planet earth a living being, with lava as it's blood, trees as it's lungs and the oceans as it's fluids. So that would place its core as it's heart and the spinning of that as it's heartbeat. If we think in those terms, then perhaps we should think of how to jumpstart that core.

    • @aniksamiurrahman6365
      @aniksamiurrahman6365 Před 2 lety +5

      Well, we may place a fusion reactor at its core. Only neither we have any idea of Mars' geology nor can we make a fusion reactor that can make any net energy.

    • @ilijabosnjak76
      @ilijabosnjak76 Před 2 lety +5

      That’s interesting concept but we just drilled about 11 KM here on earth and gave up.If we can’t drill here how would we drill on Mars?Fix this Planet or at least stop destroying it.l am feed up with humanity behaviour…

    • @djmace9029
      @djmace9029 Před 2 lety +2

      @@ilijabosnjak76 Mars does not have much of an atmosphere to pollute and quite frankly it doesn’t matter as there is no known Martian ecosystem at risk there.
      Besides drilling to Mars’ core would be easier than Earth’s. This is because the planet is only just over half the size of Earth, so less drilling needed. And with the lower gravity drilling will be even easier. With a large enough and sophisticated enough drill reaching Mars’s core could be done. The real question is what you use as the defibrillator to restart the heart of Mars.

    • @peterherrington3300
      @peterherrington3300 Před 2 lety +3

      Astonishingly even modern cultures still believe a sky man built everything we see today , in 24 hours .
      It's not just ancient people that are cerebrally limited

    • @joelmulder
      @joelmulder Před 2 lety

      Sadly, it’s all but impossible to restart Mars’ dynamo. To accomplish such a feat you’d need some 3x10^29 Joules of energy, which if it was even possible to deliver such amounts of energy (like crashing a moon into mars), would thoroughly ruin the surface. Of course re-liquifying the core and getting it to also spin are two very different problems (the latter of which is also basically impossible).
      No. The only way to restore Mars’ magnetic field is to either use the remaining core heat to power magnetic field generators on the surface, or use solar powered satellites to generate a magnetic field.

  • @robertdeckard2136
    @robertdeckard2136 Před 25 dny +1

    I clicked on this thinking they would just show a picture of a waterfall somewhere on Earth.

  • @HolldollMcG
    @HolldollMcG Před 20 hodinami +1

    I'll bet there was life on Mars. We just missed it by a few billion years. Kinda makes me sad.

  • @billneo
    @billneo Před 2 lety +3

    Zachery's voice matches the lush images perfectly.

    • @Keyecomposer
      @Keyecomposer Před 2 lety +1

      I just think its so odd that its BBCs Planets with Brian Cox dubbed over. Do Americans not like it when an astronomer does the narration?

    • @billneo
      @billneo Před 2 lety +1

      @@Keyecomposer We US viewers don't get a choice in the matter. Normally i prefer the original voice but in this case i thoroughly enjoyed Zachary. I would however have been very upset not to have heard Brian do his "Wonders" series. And technically a voice over actor isn't dubbed, they're replaced--just saying.

  • @chriser3753
    @chriser3753 Před 9 měsíci +3

    at 1:03 what are those bizarre patterns? How does something like that naturally form? especially the one on the left

  • @detectivepatchouli8266
    @detectivepatchouli8266 Před rokem +1

    shout out to the cameraman that is literally floating in space shooting the video of the MRO, dude so chad

  • @Paul-qk6sy
    @Paul-qk6sy Před 13 dny

    wow, ive watched this so many times, i hope life did exist on Mars at the time, its sad to think that such a magical event took place and no life existed to see it