Mars - The Red Planet 360 VR Documentary

[Music] planet Mars is visible in the sky with the naked eye as a bright orange scar thus the planet was known since antiquity due to its color the planet was named after Mars the God of War the observations of the strange paths of Mars among the stars made by the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe's led Kepler to discover the laws of planetary motion [Music] with the telescope some bright and dark marks can be observed on its surface by the end of the 19th century the astronomers Schiaparelli and Lowell made visual observations of many straight lines on its surface these lines were named channels they believed that there was once an advanced civilization living on Mars that had struggled to survive by transporting water from the planet ice caps to the arid equatorial area through these channels the first astronomer to dispute these beliefs was Eugene antoniadis by observing the 1909 apparition of the planet with the then enormous Madonn great refractor Antonia proved that the channels were an illusion and under perfect seeing conditions they were fractured geological formation [Music] you [Music] after the Second World War telescopic observations provided much information about the atmosphere and the morphology of the surface of Mars [Music] the real exploration of the planet begun in the 1970s with the use of unmanned spacecraft since then numerous missions have revealed many details of Mars we have also managed to land remote-controlled small vehicles equipped with special instruments to study the soil of the planet and search for elementary forms of life [Music] unfortunately these searches show no evidence of life until now it seems that the planet is dead but the search continues [Music] we now know that Mars orbits the Sun at the mean distance of 228 million kilometers we also know that the planet rotates around its tilted axis in 24 hours and 37 minutes its diameter is six thousand seven hundred and ninety-four kilometres and its mass only one tenth of Earth this small mass is the reason that the Red Planet cannot retain a significant atmosphere today Mars is an arid and inhospitable place with a mean temperature of about minus 23 degrees centigrade yet in the hemisphere that is illuminated by the Sun the temperatures can rise to 35 degrees centigrade its thin atmosphere has strong winds and dust storms and consists mostly of carbon dioxide and nitrogen with only traces of oxygen at the poles huge amounts of ice can be observed the polar ice changes in appearance along with the seasons of the planet most of this ice is frozen carbon dioxide but it seems that there is also some water ice on its surface many mountains valleys Highlands deserts and empty riverbeds were observed [Music] [Applause] in the past the planet had water in huge quantities this water either escapes from the planets of space or was trapped in reservoirs inside the planets crust there are also numerous small and big craters and some huge inactive volcanoes the biggest volcano on Mars is Mount Olympus and is 25 kilometres high its base covers 600 kilometers this volcano is the biggest in the solar system [Music] the large cannon Valles Marineris has a length of four thousand kilometers and a depth of up to seven kilometers the length of Valles Marineris is equivalent to the length of Europe and extend across one-fifth the circumference of Mars right [Music] in 1877 two tiny irregular-shaped satellites were discovered orbiting the planet [Music] the largest satellite named bubbles is 27 by 22 by 18 kilometers and the smaller demos only 15 by 12 by 10 kilometers these objects were probably asteroid captured by Mars gravitational field and thus became its satellites in the near future we could build scientific colonies on the planet in order to explore and reveal all the red planet's secrets we have already designed instruments and vehicles to be used by astronauts in future exploration [Music] it seems that the time is growing near when human will step for the first time on the surface of another planet of our solar system [Music] [Music] [Music]

Channel: Astronomy Greece

Views: 393,015

Keywords: 360, VR, Virtual Reality, 4K, Documentary, Mars, Planet, Lowell, Schiaparelli, Telescopes, Curiocity rover, NASA, JPL, Red Planet, MOLA, Olympus Mons, Mars exploration, Martian crater, Astronomy, Solar system, Universe, oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, Immersive, best VR video, HTC Vive, education, Space

Id: pgEfZvJjbZg

Length: 11min 30sec (690 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 02 2017

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[u/BatmanReddits]

They sent a VR cam to Mars?