The Largest Waterfall in the Solar System | The Planets | Earth Science
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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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.
However the water (CLOUD) would rise even higher since the gravity is much less and the atmosphere is less dense.
Fantasy can sure be fun.
It sure would.
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)
@@mrsoisauce9017 wow thank mister soisauce u great
A waterfall almost half the height of Mt. Everest. That would’ve been some sight.
And if that existed here on Earth some daredevil would probably try to jump off and survive like they do at Niagara 😅
@@flanagamer it probably did in earths earlier life span..
@@BeanOnTheFlipside but dumbass people weren’t around then 😅
@@flanagamer I’m Johnny Knoxville, welcome to jackass
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.
Incredible to see that mars once looked like a more extreme version of earth. Massive props to the CG team that created these visuals.
@JJerem 👀 wut u on
@JJerem Lol 😭
Y’all acting like the camera man isn’t the one responsible
@JJerem the moons a hologram and the earth is flat as well no doubt.
Show me the vid u got this from, and get a grip. "Use a little bit of energy"
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.
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
Ur genetic memory may be getting triggered 👍🏿
Its literally the music. People are conditioned to feel emotional when this sort of music plays
Animated? Are you stupid or what! Everyone knows cameraman travelled to past to get these visuals, trivial matter for almighty cameraman
Imagine all kinds of amazing and beautiful landscapes in the universe waiting for us to explore.
It'd be interesting to see how differently water flows and falls at Mars's lower gravity.
it's the same just slower
@@vomm no kidding....... it'd still be interesting.
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.
@@walley2637 so almost like laminar flow?
@@alextrabal6500 like tampax
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.
So definitely a slow death
epic comment
Nah.... given that Mars's gravity is only 1/3 of the Earth, you may reverse the fall if you row really hard.
@@-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)
@@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.
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.
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.
@@cybisz2883 Wasnt it that multiple large asteroids killed venus and mars?
@@justsomerandombirdwithinte5896 no lol?
@@justsomerandombirdwithinte5896 Yes
It may be easy for basic organisms to develop. It takes a lot more luck for resource-hogging species like us to evolve.
sad to think we were born too early to explore other planets
or too late to see this amazing waterfall....
Right?!
More like too late
"Those aren't mountains. They're waves."
Talking as if you saw it from your room window 🤣
Great movie
Interstellar
@@iplaywithshibainu2344 🤣🤣🤣
I get that reference
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.
True, but be thankful that we have Earth.
@@summerrr1 Earth is amazing, but I'm more interested about exploring other worlds, can't help it.
Same about Venus. seeing venus before its catastrophic atmosphere change would be just amazing.
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.
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.
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.
Like us we wont exist and be whipped out
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
@@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.
@@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
That’s why glory be to God 🙏
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. 🙂😁
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....🤦......🧴🪒 🛏 📰 🚽 🛋 🪑
@@olympiaskye2324 Come down snowflake. 🤦😂
@@olympiaskye2324 you sound like a child
@@olympiaskye2324 shutup poindexter
Mars would be an mesmerizing place to visit
They failed to say why the water disappeared. Mars magnetic field shutdown then high charged partials from the sun slowly stripped away the atmosphere.
So theres a possibility earth will go through the same thing, maybe
@@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.
They have another video that covers the exact topic. Worth a watch kzhead.info/sun/aKZxnNFuaH2ljKc/bejne.html
@@redacted7104 the ozone layer is unrelated to loss of atmosphere from solar wind
@@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.
Seeing that waterfall from a distance would be truly mindblowing
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.
I hope they would name it other than Niagara and grand canyon lmao
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.
That might be our future.
@@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
Axis *
Or this was our past
@@studiousboy644 a future we'll never see in our lifetime
Respect to the cameraman for travelling to space, Mars and giving us the footage we have now! 🗿
The cameraman is just simply amazing.
And back in time! 😂
@@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.
@@shaunv3673 Yoooooo 🤣🤣🤣
For how long are the world idiots going to laugh at this "joke" that has been repeated a million times?
The background score with those stunning CGi showing the epicness of Mars, gave me goosebumps 🤯, Great Work BBC 👍
Do u knw where we can get the music?
@@GauravRupani Here it is kzhead.info/sun/aKyEc6tueICZq2g/bejne.html
Big black cok
What a beautiful dramatic presentation. I got goosebumps!
If only space engine was like this
I got a stiffy.
Earth has always been flat. keep dreaming nasa lickers
@@marshalsoult3860 you are a sheep for those fake priest who sell you those fake bibles 🐑🐑🐑
We know it's fake
My only regret is being born too late to explore the seas, and too early to explore the stars.
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.
If time travel is ever a thing, I'm going back 3.7 Billion years and you'll find me at Echus Chasma.
Bless.
Can you imagine what a sight that must have been? The Niagara Falls of mars pouring into the Grand Canyon of mars?
Mars is a fascinating world already, but this video makes me wish it remained covered in water like how it was in the past.
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
Looking back at our history, I think there’s a much bigger chance of the two planets waging interplanetary wars than shaking hands.
@@aconite72 sounds fun
Who's to say it wasn't billions of years ago, the solar system didn't start when apes put on shoes
@@aconite72 most definitely! I was thinking the exct same thing
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...
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
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.
Once again props to the cameraman who went back 3.7 billions years to capture these moments 👏
So mars has the biggest volcano and had the largest waterfall. Wow. The wonders this planet holds. And it's relatively smaller to us-
biggest canyon too
And biggest mountain
Imagine archaeologists digging at the basin. Imagine the fossils that could be found under the surface.
The fossils could be crazy, I doubt we'll see anything too developed but at least some early bacteria
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.
it also still has the largest mountain in the solar system even reaching space.
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.
Meds
I can't believe the BBC would risk the lives of its camera men like this.
Sweet. 🤣🌌
This was one of the best 6 minutes I've ever spent. Thank you 😊
The graphics are so realistic and beautiful
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.
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.
@@KaraokeDuov2 Are you saying that only those with common sense understand when they are looking at a rendering? Please elaborate.
@@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.
Yes I'm sure people are going to think somebody billions of years ago has footage of ancient Mars.
@@norfangl3480 You miss the point. There were parts of the video showing the NRO from above, orbiting Mars. Who was holding the camera?
I love this! Beautiful! Life is unimaginable fragile. 🔆
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.
no
That's CGI
Billion years from now, some life form will also do this kind of observation and monitoring to our planet.
If they haven’t already…
True
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 😮😅
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!
I knew I recognized that voice - one of my favorite actors.
What are you on, man !? 🤪🌌🥸
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
and spread our wokeness to the stars, one mutilated genital at a time. I prefer we are destroyed before wakanda spreads to others
Film series of the year 2022. Excellent. Thank you.
Big shoutout to the cameraman orbiting with the MRO. You're the real hero
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.
Makes me wish I could remote view. I'd visit these planets and space as much as possible.
Wow the ambient mode mixed with rgb lights make this video absolutely mesmerising
This is where I want my tv license money. Amazing stuff.
How much warmer was Mars during the time it could have harboured life?
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.
@@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.
@@aniksamiurrahman6365 mars is only 1.5 astronomical unit away from the sun. Clearly not almost 2x the distance of earth to the sun
@@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.
@@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.
There used to be water in the Sahara Desert, too. It's more interesting visiting places where liquid water or surface liquids still exists.
I'm excited, thanks for this wonderful video!!
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.
Thanks to the cameraman, this legend went 3.4 billion ago N captured those beautiful scene. Also capturing the satellite revolving around mars
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@@baconmemories5416 🤣🤣
Im always amazed with space documentaries..
Looks like Arizona when they showed a rendition of mars with water! Stunning 😍
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.
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
@@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.
@PawSmalls
@PawSmalls
Meanwhile, aliens on another planet are doing a documentary with their spacecraft orbiting planet Earth.
What if UFOs really are just advanced drones aliens use to make videos to post on their version of ticktok? 😂😂😂
Wonderful , could be !? 👍💥🥸🤣💥🌌
I never thought I would love Zachary Quinto's voice but I very much do after the series.
Wow now BBC EARTH covering outside earth. Thankyou for this information
Beautiful
Who narrated this and why does it sound like Robot from Invincible?
Zachary Quinto
Impressed by the visualisation or artists’ impression video sequence at the end.
Such a wonderful video, thanks
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.
That thumbnail is Fontaine
Genshin reference yay
😭😭
Damn, just imagining it gives me goosebumps, imagine if we could actually somehow see it... spectacular!
It’s one of those things where it never seems possible till you see it in person
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.
Awesome. I must read some of the human kzinti war books. Love me some known space!
it would be so beautiful just to see how water flowed on mars
this video is really well made
It's nice being able to sit back n learn so much from real people doing real things that are actually cool
0:25 kudos to the BBC camera man who orbited along MRO to film it as it orbits Mars 🤣
😅
I feel sad watching this guessing what could have been
Strange flowers and animals than we could ever imagine 😍
It could be the way the earth is heading long after humans have ruined the planet
@@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
@@hajjdawood If anything, we are potentially making Earth more like Venus. Who knows what happened there?
@@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 :/
*So good from bbc great quality and oration 👍🏻*
Bloody interesting stuff, shame the whole episode is not shown
4:33 Anyone else see the face of a space cat in the ice formation on Mars???
Yup
If it still had lots of standing water, I assume it's features wouldn't be as grand through sea-level gravity fed erosion and rain fall.
That sure would have been a sight to see.
Jaw-Droppingly Beautiful ~
Oh , We shifted from Mars to Earth now we are planning back To Home.
Zachery's voice matches the lush images perfectly.
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?
@@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.
5:08 The combination of the music with the visuals is beautiful :)
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.
Imagine swimming on Mars when that was there and you have no clue what's possibly below you.
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"?
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
This waterfall flowed into the northern lowlands to form the Deuteronilus ocean. Interestingly, around the time it formed, life on Earth began to span out from it's hydrothermal cradle into the surrounding environment. It's also around this time that life began to carry out photosynthesis and respiration so this ocean could have had a thriving biosphere. And by photosynthesis and respiration, I mean of a kind that used other elements besides oxygen as the electron donor/acceptor.
That was absolutely fantastic and a little scary too. Why did the atmosphere around Mars vanish along with its water supply? Did it have a double iron-core like Earth has that's slowly stopped spinning and could that happened here
It could be an apocalyptic earth? So many questions we will probably never answer
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.
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.
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…
@@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.
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
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.
I always watch these videos high it’s great
This could be the most spectacular thing ever existed.
Whoever does the music and sound design for these BBC videos are masters at work!
You're kidding. The music's almost why I stopped watching, it's LOUD and AWFUL.
I’m happy I wasn’t the only person to notice. It’s amazing!
@@rocketassistedgoat1079 LOL. I guess it depends on the audience. For me it was more like a cinematic experience, but I can see how it may be annoying to those who just want to know the hard facts and information.
@@MiRaje8086 It's aesthetically atrocious mate. Here's the best song I've heard: Echoes by Pink Floyd. This, aesthetically; belongs in the bin...
@@rocketassistedgoat1079 Pink Floyd is sucks
Imagine seeing the waterfall during sunsets
Cool effects, citation needed on the facts presented
ay yes i remember seeing this waterfall as a small child in canada. didn't know canda was on mars
Respect for the cameraman going back in time to Record this majestic waterfall
Mars might've had microbes.
Maybe 'have'
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 ;)
And microwaves.
@@anjou6497 , what do you mean?
I love how ICELAND 🇮🇸 is "featured" well in this video.. The mighty Dettifoss
Imagine standing on Mars when it had water and seeing this it would be incredible
I don't know why but seeing that waterfall and how it might have been and knowing that now its just a scar on the planet made me really,really sad. It makes me think almost of a painful transformation with only death at the end, since Mars obviously isn't the same as it was back then. It also made me think about how huge canyons on earth carved by water are often referred to as scars on the face of the planet and all those years of time carving out that work but in the end, it's worth it because of their beauty and what they bring to the Earth as far as resources and fresh water. Then I contrast that with Mars and how it had these incredible waterfalls and how great the scar must have been, only for it to all go silent and dead for absolutely nothing. No rebirth, no return. Not even the hope of another ecosystem like how so many places on Earth which are now deserts were once great seas. Many places in the American Southwest were once oceans. They had life that died and they changed and gave birth to new forms of life and beauty. This great chasm on Mars has nothing in it now and that is just a profound sadness I was not ready to think about or face. What a terrible sorrow. Like a mother going through a terrible birth that kills her only for the child to be born dead as well. If a planet could feel or have emotions, I wonder if this is what it would have felt when it realized it was doomed. Really makes you think.
*Let's appreciate the cameraman who recorded this millions of years ago*
That is some mad skills.
Damn goosebumps!!!! Can't wait for Earth 2.0 !!!!!
Could anyone explain to me how do they imagined tectonics worked to make this scale of canyon and how the water just desappeared? How could this model work?