Venus: Crash Course Astronomy #14
About | Information | History | Online | Facts | Discovery
Venus is a gorgeous naked-eye planet, hanging like a diamond in the twilight -- but it’s beauty is best looked at from afar. Even though Mercury is closer to the sun, Venus is the hottest planet in the solar system, due to a runaway greenhouse effect, and has the most volcanic activity in the solar system. Its north and south poles were flipped, causing it to rotate backwards and making for very strange days on this beautiful but inhospitable world. This episode is brought to you by Squarespace http://www.squarespace.com/crashcourse -- Table of Contents Venus’s Size and Atmosphere 3:09 Hottest Planet in the Solar System 4:04 Slow Clockwise Rotation 6:02 Tremendous Volcanic Activity 8:31 -- PBS Digital Studios: http://youtube.com/pbsdigitalstudios Follow Phil on Twitter: https://twitter.com/badastronomer Want to find Crash Course elsewhere on the internet? Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/YouTubeCrashCourse Twitter - http://www.twitter.com/TheCrashCourse Tumblr - http://thecrashcourse.tumblr.com Support CrashCourse on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/crashcourse -- PHOTOS/VIDEOS Naked-eye Venus photo taken by Phil Plait Phases of Venus http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Phases-of-Venus2.jpg [credit: Wikimedia Commons] 2012 Venus Transit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34mXua1n_FQ [credit: NASA] Black drop effect in 2004 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_drop_effect#mediaviewer/File:BlackDrop-Venus-Transit.jpg [credit: Vesta] Venus Transit http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/657111main_1-SOT_120606_venus_ca_nc_yellow_001_color_full.jpg [credit: JAXA/NASA/Lockheed Martin] Venus in real colors http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus#mediaviewer/File:Venus-real_color.jpg [credit: NASA] Earth http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=57723 [credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Image by Reto Stöckli] Venus http://www.msss.com/images/science/venus180hem_magellan_big.jpg [credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Magellan Project] Atmospheric Drag on Venus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRAonBSIBck [credit: NASA] Lakshmi Planum and Maxwell Montes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_snow#mediaviewer/File:Maxwell_Montes_of_planet_Venus.jpg [credit: NASA/JPL] Artist's impression of the surface of Venus http://sci.esa.int/science-e-media/img/59/VenusSurface.jpg [credit: ESA] Venera Images http://planetimages.blogspot.com/ [credit: Ted Stryk] Venus Globe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus#mediaviewer/File:Venus_globe.jpg [credit: NASA] Impact craters on the surface of Venus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus#mediaviewer/File:Mgn_p39146.png [credit: Wikimedia Commons] Idunn Mons http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/figures/PIA13001_fig1.jpg [credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA] Pancake Volcanoes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancake_dome#mediaviewer/File:PIA00084_Eistla_region_pancake_volcanoes.jpg [credit: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory]
Comments
-
I am born in 20015 so in 2117 it's still possible I'll be alive to watch this.
-
Really wonderful ,thanks .
-
Retrograde motion.
-
When u touch me i died just a litte inside
-
Centrifugal force is not a thing
-
You said 20 17 or did you mean 2017 next year
-
Another fun fact about Venus is that the surface is as flat as the great plains in the United States and the planet's clouds race around the planet in 4 days. Also, the craters are rare on Venus is because the biggest space rocks make it to the surface, the rest vaporize in the super-dense atmosphere. Michael Goldfarb refers to Venus' big craters as the pancakes in a barrel of syrup. If you took Venus and put any sort of water on its surface (while stripping its dense atmosphere that's 90 times as dense as ours), it would most likely resemble a water planet.
-
I hate to be the party pooper but in our model of the solar system if venus is between earth and sun it shouldn't be seen at night. before you troll just think about it.
-
Venus is Hell?
Venus = Hell
War = Hell
Venus = War
War = Mars
Venus = Mars
What does it mean? -
is Michael an awesome sound designer or what?!
-
My planet has a population of 6,987,058,355 Venusians.
-
What could repave a planet? A Vogon constructor fleet, in theory.
-
Venus is hell und earth is heaven
-
Why doesn't Venus has a magnetic field 4:56. I thought every thing that has mass, has a magnetic field (except for proton).
-
How you can see "Mercury,Venus," at night time ??They are inner orbit around sun, so could be vissible only at day time :)
-
Venus is Hell... No doubt about that... Its Hell...
-
He said "Centrifugal"! Don't tell him it doesn't exist!
-
because all the goddesses were hot.. so yeah.
-
VENUS IS A SUPER VOLCANO
-
youre much better looking than the animation makes you seem
10m 50sLenght
6017Rating