A Unique 3D Journey to All the Planets

this nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma is your first destination to get there you have to travel almost 93 million miles or one astronomical unit that's 400 times more than the distance to the moon the closer you get the more confused you become the sun's surface looks like scorched earth or caramelized popcorn and then it just clicks this pattern is created by the boiling gas surrounding the star each individual cell you see is actually the size of texas this gas is moving in a rolling motion at incredible speeds this process creates so-called solar granules some spots looks brighter that's where scorching hot solar material has risen closer to the surface when it cools down and sinks you can see dark lanes in these dark areas there are bright specks those are magnetic field markers you don't dare have a closer look because the sun's surface temperature is 10 000 degrees fahrenheit but this number pales in comparison with how hot the star's core is 27 million degrees it's getting too hot time to move further the closest planet to the sun is mercury once you see it you think something's gone wrong and your spacecraft has followed the wrong route the place looks eerily similar to the good old moon a few moments later though you realize it's just an illusion mercury is one of the four rocky planets of the solar system as why you can actually step on its surface all around you see craters created by space rocks it would take your rover about eight days to travel all the way around the planet but driving on mercury wouldn't be a simple task its surface is littered with gigantic hills with steep slopes some of them reach a height of two miles and stretch for hundreds of miles that's good you're wearing a special spacesuit mercury doesn't have an atmosphere and the temperatures on the planet are extreme 800 degrees during the day and minus 290 degrees at night now venus turns out to be very different from the bluish planet you saw in pictures before landing you have to get through a super dense atmosphere that's made up of carbon dioxide while your spacecraft's descending you watch thick clouds of sulfuric acid passed by soon you realize the planet's surface is actually reddish brown it's a dry and hot place with a pressure 90 times greater than that on earth you've landed in the middle of a flat smooth plane such planes cover two-thirds of the planet's surface but several miles away you see a large mountain that's a volcano and it might be a still active one you also spot long winding canals those are old lava flows and some of them reach 3 000 miles in length it's longer than on any other planet the planet's dense atmosphere creates a greenhouse effect similar to that on earth it traps heat and temperatures on venus rise up to 880 degrees that's hot enough to melt lead that's why it's unwise to stay on the planet for too long your spacecraft won't survive it your first impression about mars it's freezing cold the temperatures here drop down to minus 80 degrees even from afar the planet looks reddish once you make your first step on the martian surface you understand why the ground is covered with rusty colored dust the same fine dust is floating around you wherever you look you see golden brown tan and even greenish hues they depend on the minerals that make up the soil the size of the dust layer varies from area to area but in most places it's seven feet thick the planet's surface is rocky it's covered with dry lake beds craters volcanoes and canyons the tallest planetary mountain in the solar system olympus mons is on mars it's two and a half times higher than mount everest and about the size of arizona across martian atmosphere is much thinner than earth's and contains 95 percent carbon dioxide and a mere one percent of oxygen dust storms sometimes cover the entire planet and the largest ones can even be seen from earth you're approaching the largest planet in the solar system more than 89 000 miles wide at the equator jupiter is so large it could fit 1300 earths inside of it it's also terrifyingly hot about 43 000 degrees at the core unfortunately you can't really land on the planet jupiter is a gas giant with an atmosphere made up of hydrogen and helium gas during your descent you admire thick brown yellow red and white clouds they make the planet look colorful and beautifully striped if you kept going deeper toward the center of the planet you'd see hydrogen turn liquid but such a dive isn't on your agenda you've come to see the great red spot that's an enormous spinning storm the size of our home planet it's been raging for the last 360 years the hurricane's color varies from pale salmon in white to dark brick red like jupiter saturn doesn't have any solid surface this planet is made up of mostly hydrogen and helium and its temperature and density change the deeper you go if you decided to leave your spacecraft and step on saturn's surface you just fall into the planet from above though it looks as if the gas giant does have a surface the seemingly solid yellowish brown sphere is surrounded by layers of clouds the outer visible layer is ammonia clouds under them there are hydrosulfide clouds and the innermost layer is made up of clouds of water while admiring the planet from above you notice its most famous feature awesome gray beige and tan rings these groups of tiny ringlets are made of chunks of rock and ice you also spot several of the 53 moons of saturn titan an icy world bigger than our moon and even mercury is the largest of them saturn check the next planet on your way is a blue green ball of ice and gas ice giant uranus has this beautiful hue thanks to the light from the sun which gets reflected off the planet's surface the planet isn't solid if your spacecraft didn't manage to stop in time it would fly through the upper atmosphere and sink into the liquid icy center uranus is orbiting the sun on its side it's the only planet with its axis pointing almost directly at our star it might be because of a collision with a large space body soon after formation you're lucky it's summer on the planet that's why you can observe an extreme storm such hurricanes occur only when uranus is heated to its most the hurricane spreads over more than 6 000 miles which is almost the distance between japan and the us you also managed to gape at the planet's two sets of rings the inner ring system consists of narrow dark circles while the two outer rings are bright one blue and one red the furthest planet from the sun neptune is four times the size of earth but 17 times as heavy the blue surface you see when coming closer is actually a layer of swirling gas and permanent clouds the planet's mantle made up of water ammonia and methane ices is the closest thing neptune has to a surface and still there isn't solid ground for you to walk on let's say you made a decision to get down to the very core of the planet then you'd feel great temperature changes from -340 degrees at the surface to more than 12 000 degrees at the core such mind-boggling temperature differences create powerful wind storms their speed reaches 1200 miles per hour okay here's your arm and leg back it's time to go home

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Length: 8min 13sec (493 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 14 2020