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Over half the time Venus is not the nearest planet to Earth; Mercury is. In fact, the scientists have crunched the numbers and found that on average, Mercury is the closest planet not only to Earth but to every other planet in the solar system as well.
It shouldn't matter that Mars is only closer than Mercury every 26 months. That's still its closest point to us, as that's how you're measuring Mercury. So Mars is actually second closest to earth.
True. Venus is closest..... at its closest. Mars is 2nd. On average Mercury is closer than either . So not even 2nd according to that. On average its closer than Mars or Venus. But at its closest.....it's 3rd.
They got their numbers wrong. The closest approaches for Mercury, Venus and Mars in respect to the Earth are 27 million miles, 25 million miles, and 34 million miles respectively. For some reason they used Mercury's average distance from the Earth instead of its closest approach distance. While there are times when Mars is closer to Earth then Mercury, so long as you use the same metrics for all three planets, then they are correct by accident. During closest approach, Mercury is closer to Earth than Mars. During maximum separation, Mercury is closer to Earth than Mars. On average, Mercury is closer to Earth than Mars. At times, however, Mars is closer to Earth than Mercury since each planet has its own orbit and are independent of each other.
I have never been to either Mercury or the Sun, yet my brain is still probably fried from listening to these scientific explanations. Although, i AM impressed ! 🌎
I've seen all the pictures and videos, but it took the VR experience of standing next to and exploring around the Saturn V to get me to the realization that in the 1960s we flew skyscrapers into outer space. Awesome.
Mercury is actually the closest planet to Earth. This is a well known fact: Physics Today: "Venus is not Earth’s closest neighbor" (12 March 2019) Popular Mechanics: "What’s the Closest Planet to Earth? Surprise, It’s Mercury" (20 January 2023)
Main problem with mars is ... there is no ready technology to stay outside magnetosphere of earth... wd still dont know how they did it in apollo missions becase technical logs s lost nd kubick doesn talk sbout it 😅
Basically to travel to Mars we really need better engines to travel around space. Something like an ion engine or something like this that can be upscaled to a much larger ship and then you need a magnetosphere to surround your ship so you don’t die in trip if you’re hit by a mass coronal ejection from the sun comes your way.
I wonder if it would be possible to use cosmic Kite to block part of sunlight on Venus and Mercury, to provide more earth like temperatures on these planets and help us to terraform them. 🤔
You would need to figure out how to remove a lot of co2 and other gases from venus atmosphere. And mercury has such little atmosphere that blocking the sun would cause freezing Temps like the night side.
Build some of those systems they are proposing to go to Alpha Centauri and try it to go to Mars much quicker and cheaper. Also, building a massive base in space or on the moon could help with future missions to take off from there.
@@Maggot97105 no, there are reflectors placed on the moon. Anyone with a telescope and a laser, and takes 35sec to Google where to aim can see the reflection.
Mercury is the closest planet to Earth MOST of the time, Venus becomes the closest very rarely and only for a brief time. Why? Because Earth and Venus are on opposite sides of the sun making Mercury the closest planet to Earth MOST of the time
When you get to the ISS space station in LEO orbit, will the department of redundancy department require you to type your PIN number into an ATM machine?
i think if a person went to mars and returned, we would age alot faster then what we would if we went to the moon or stayed on the space station for 6 months
One because it’s far away and it is in orbit. Planning for an interception considering gravity speed and the possibility of several course changes you would have to really do a lot of math and have the ability to provide fuel for acceleration deceleration and orbit then return. Yup just those few are quite profound!
0:50 Well done. You really need to check your numbers. The closest approach for Earth and Venus is 25 million miles. You got this one correct. The average distance is 62 million miles. The closest approach for Earth and Mercury is 27 million miles, not 48 million. 48 million miles is the average distance. The closest approach between Earth and Mars is 34 million miles. The 55 million figure is for kilometers. The average distance is 140 million miles. Perihelion has nothing to do with the distance from one planet to another. Perihelion is the point at which a body is closest to the sun and that distance is about 128 million miles. The term to describe the closest approach between two planets or other astronomical bodies is the unusually pragmatic "closest approach". I guess "perihelion" sounded more scientific or something.
Actually the closest planet to earth is mercury ( it spends more time closer to earth than anyonther planet ) all the other planets are on the other side of the sun much farther away than mercury
No. Your wrong. Yes on average mercury is the closest, but Venus and mars get closer than mercury ever does to earth. So please stop pretending your smart just because you’ve seen a cgp grey video
@@justins2024 the planet mercury spends more time closer to earth than any other planet mars and Venus are on the other side of the sun most of the time mercury is closer
No. Your wrong. Yes on average mercury is the closest, but Venus and mars get closer than mercury ever does to earth. So please stop pretending your smart just because you’ve seen a cgp grey video.
Actually the closest planet to earth is mercury (counsidering the average distance to travel between the two mercury is closer to the earth than both Venus and Mars.
SCHWAAYYYYYY!!! I thought the solar winds would play a factor in Mercury being hard to reach. That also, perhaps that its gravitational pull would be hard for craft to latch on to its orbit
It takes alot of fuel to get out of orbit.. why dont they just launch an extra rocket with just fuel only, so they can use that to refill when they get into space..
I stopped watching after a few seconds. Mercury is the closest planet to earth, not the second closest. Because of a rapid orbit, on average, it's the closest planet to earth most often. Bonus fun fact Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, earth, Venus, and Mars more often than any other planet.
Humans are far to fragile to travel those distances. No way we could survive for years cut off from the earth. The men of Apollo 13 had it easy compared to anything going to other planets. It only takes 3 days to get to the moon. It takes years to go to planet. You would have to take everything you need to last that long and the extra fuel . The ship would have to be huge. No one would want to pay for a mission like that.
Men and women inside prison live in similar situations with confinement and stressful situation. So if we can get through that going to mars should be fine it's not like that there going to be away for 20 30 40 years in a tin can aluminum foil can.😅
It is a shame bc I like their space content but I avoid this channel. Every time I give them a chance it is disappointing, I don't think they don't know what they're talking about
What BL🤯WS MY MIND!!! Is the math of the distance between us and Mars. Earth and the moon... in that distance, you can fit ALL THE PLANETS of the solar system side by side in that space!! So multiplying that and receiving a number as to the distance between us and our neighbor!!! Absolutely insane!! To achieve this, we would have to send multiple craft with the materials the crew would need for supplies and fuel to return. Land those there and have them waiting for them to give and do al the scientific studies and observations. Wow!!!! What it would be like to stand on another planet and just SEE THE SUN!!! 1st time I saw the sun from Mars... I ended up writing a song. To see the sun and to see the earth as well!!!! Absolutely amazing is what it would be! Can you IMAGINE WHATBIT WOULD BE LUKE FLYING BACK TI THE EARTH!?!? After all the time away! To get back and be able to just breathe and see the blue skies and be able to get inactive warm pool of water! The future holds great things for space exploration!!! It sucks im already 38! I'm sooo excited to see the future of what we do and see our there!
Why would anyone from Earth (the planet we all evolved on) want to go to another planets that are ---- ? --- Too far away, -- Too inhospitable, -- Too expensive to travel to, -- And may habor lifeforms that are too dangerous to live with or next to. ????
For the same reason we got on ships and sailed across the Atlantic Ocean. That was also far away, inhospitable, expensive and could harbor dangerous life. Same reason Lewis and Clark traveled across the US. Many pioneers in our own country encountered "life forms" too dangerous: grizzlies, hostile native Indians, disease.
@@LisaMedeiros-tr2lz Okay. But you're referring to planet Earth. The place we all evolved to live on. People are not made for life in outer space and not able to cope with the environments of other planets, even bears or whales can't handle what's out there. So I suggest -- folks need to stay where they belong!!! -- Traveling to other planets is just a pip dream!
@@DanielWatson-vv7cd BTW, I don't disagree with you in principle. I was just responding to your original post of why would we want to do it. It is part of the human experience to explore. There is another reason. Because we are systematically destroying the only planet we live on. Going to Mars for example, can help us potentially learn about the evolution of that planet to educate ourselves on our own (like what happened to the magnetic field and the atmosphere and water). We should be paying attention to the effects man has on his own environment in order to get smarter about how to preserve it. There are those in power now who don't want us to put Earth observing instruments in space to better understand our climate, how its changing, and the effect man is having on it. These people are being fed misinformation by egregious polluters of own own planet who don't seem to understand that all the money in the world now will not help their future progeny to survive in a world that will no longer support life.
Even if we sent you, flat earther, to the moon to see it first hand, you still wouldn't believe it because you live in your own little world, and that little world is not Earth.
What a laughable title. I clicked in it to not bother watching the video but seriously. Any human being educated to grade 8 in the public school system, can figure out why it is we haven’t been back to the moon for shits and giggles. It’s far too costly, quite simply.
Sorry mate, this could have been a really interesting video, but you just go on and on and on... getting to Mercury would be easier than for you to get to the point. Five minutes in, and I'm outta here.
Cool video! Thank you! Have a blessed year 😊 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” (John 3:16)
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I've been to every planet except earth
Over half the time Venus is not the nearest planet to Earth; Mercury is. In fact, the scientists have crunched the numbers and found that on average, Mercury is the closest planet not only to Earth but to every other planet in the solar system as well.
Makes sense. It’s like saying, on average, the sun is closer to every planet than any other planet
& Pluto, surprisingly
It shouldn't matter that Mars is only closer than Mercury every 26 months. That's still its closest point to us, as that's how you're measuring Mercury. So Mars is actually second closest to earth.
True. Venus is closest..... at its closest. Mars is 2nd. On average Mercury is closer than either . So not even 2nd according to that. On average its closer than Mars or Venus. But at its closest.....it's 3rd.
They got their numbers wrong. The closest approaches for Mercury, Venus and Mars in respect to the Earth are 27 million miles, 25 million miles, and 34 million miles respectively. For some reason they used Mercury's average distance from the Earth instead of its closest approach distance. While there are times when Mars is closer to Earth then Mercury, so long as you use the same metrics for all three planets, then they are correct by accident.
During closest approach, Mercury is closer to Earth than Mars.
During maximum separation, Mercury is closer to Earth than Mars.
On average, Mercury is closer to Earth than Mars.
At times, however, Mars is closer to Earth than Mercury since each planet has its own orbit and are independent of each other.
I have never been to either Mercury or the Sun, yet my brain is still probably fried from listening to these scientific explanations. Although, i AM impressed ! 🌎
That’s okay. You can visit Mercury if you’re careful and the sun if you go at night.
Why is it so difficult to visit Mercury?
- Why is it so difficult to swin up a waterfall?
Using your logic… Mercury is the closest planet to Earth as it spends more time closer to Earth than Earth does to Venus. 🤷🏻♂️
I'm just confused as to why you were talking about the Mariner probe at 2:15 while showing an image of the Voyager probe.
I've seen all the pictures and videos, but it took the VR experience of standing next to and exploring around the Saturn V to get me to the realization that in the 1960s we flew skyscrapers into outer space. Awesome.
Distance. Distance is the issue. It takes time to travel distances, and they are pretty far away.
The Mars mission would be a one way trip
I wonder if Jupiter wasn't around if the Moons in orbit now would've become planets on there own orbit around the Sun?
We probably wouldn't be here. Jupiter is a great protector.
Great video and information !
Amazing video👍
Mercury is actually the closest planet to Earth. This is a well known fact:
Physics Today: "Venus is not Earth’s closest neighbor" (12 March 2019)
Popular Mechanics: "What’s the Closest Planet to Earth? Surprise, It’s Mercury" (20 January 2023)
Lovely! Great vid.
Hats off to the ladies of 18th century who sew with the unbelievable skill. My respects to all the inventors.
Godspeed!💫🕉️
Main problem with mars is ... there is no ready technology to stay outside magnetosphere of earth... wd still dont know how they did it in apollo missions becase technical logs s lost nd kubick doesn talk sbout it 😅
Basically to travel to Mars we really need better engines to travel around space. Something like an ion engine or something like this that can be upscaled to a much larger ship and then you need a magnetosphere to surround your ship so you don’t die in trip if you’re hit by a mass coronal ejection from the sun comes your way.
I wonder if it would be possible to use cosmic Kite to block part of sunlight on Venus and Mercury, to provide more earth like temperatures on these planets and help us to terraform them. 🤔
You would need to figure out how to remove a lot of co2 and other gases from venus atmosphere. And mercury has such little atmosphere that blocking the sun would cause freezing Temps like the night side.
If we had the technology to do that then we wouldn't need to terraform any other planets, We would have everything we need already.
I really hope some day in my life we send a satellite to study mercury and when it's done fly it into the sun and livestream it
One word; "Radiation". The more you stay out there the more you get it.
Build some of those systems they are proposing to go to Alpha Centauri and try it to go to Mars much quicker and cheaper. Also, building a massive base in space or on the moon could help with future missions to take off from there.
It’s actually Mercury which is the closest planet to Earth by average distance.
I give this video some real thought. I will watch the next most recent video and try to keep up. KUDOS. and if course, shared on my social media.
Let's get to the moon first then go from there😮
We've already been in the moon conspiracy theorist
@wildlifewarrior and you know this how??? Because you seen it on a television 😂 wake up chief
@@Maggot97105 no, there are reflectors placed on the moon. Anyone with a telescope and a laser, and takes 35sec to Google where to aim can see the reflection.
@@Maggot97105 Everything you know you seen on television . The rest is just made up nonsense from people that have little actual knowledge of science.
Mercury is the closest planet to Earth MOST of the time, Venus becomes the closest very rarely and only for a brief time. Why? Because Earth and Venus are on opposite sides of the sun making Mercury the closest planet to Earth MOST of the time
at 23:09 after talking at length about travelling to Mars you asked "do you think we will be able to get humans to the moon very soon ?"
Venus is more habitable than Mars for one simple reason: Venus has a magnetosphere and Mars does not.
28:01 - wrong ino here . alisto isn't covered by active volcanos, but impact cratters . Io is the satelite covered by active volcanoes.
When you get to the ISS space station in LEO orbit, will the department of redundancy department require you to type your PIN number into an ATM machine?
why were you using closest points for mercury and venus but then average distance to mars?
i think if a person went to mars and returned, we would age alot faster then what we would if we went to the moon or stayed on the space station for 6 months
Nope
@@ZmannR2 are u sure = u might not look it but what will ur body say
@@kananaskiscountry8191 I race motocross. My body can handle a lot
@@ZmannR2 how come u haven't made it into space yet then = u might be on motocross but ur still not an astronaut
Tldr: planets are light-years away, rockets cost alot of money and humans need alot to stay alive.
I clicked and then realised - Wait! This is not a Starfield video.
Notice that Uranus didn't make the difficult list.
It's soooo easy
One because it’s far away and it is in orbit. Planning for an interception considering gravity speed and the possibility of several course changes you would have to really do a lot of math and have the ability to provide fuel for acceleration deceleration and orbit then return. Yup just those few are quite profound!
0:50 Well done. You really need to check your numbers.
The closest approach for Earth and Venus is 25 million miles. You got this one correct. The average distance is 62 million miles.
The closest approach for Earth and Mercury is 27 million miles, not 48 million. 48 million miles is the average distance.
The closest approach between Earth and Mars is 34 million miles. The 55 million figure is for kilometers. The average distance is 140 million miles.
Perihelion has nothing to do with the distance from one planet to another. Perihelion is the point at which a body is closest to the sun and that distance is about 128 million miles. The term to describe the closest approach between two planets or other astronomical bodies is the unusually pragmatic "closest approach". I guess "perihelion" sounded more scientific or something.
Save yourself a lot of time, it's because it's too freaking hot 🤣
Never mentioned SpaceX. Funny.
10:58
Because we're spinning fast, they're spinning fast, and they are far.
I've been to every planet except earth
Not missing much. The planet is inhabited a bunch of crazy apelike creatures .
this video would have been a lot shorter if the speaker didn't repeat things is over and over
Probably Mercury wants to be respected. I believe Mercury is rarely sociable
They are not that difficult to reach. However, since it would take so long for human to get there, there's no much point to try .
Curious why no mention of Space X and Starship....
It is interesting that, today, we couldn't land on the Moon, even if we wanted to.
So, did we ever land on the Moon?
Actually the closest planet to earth is mercury ( it spends more time closer to earth than anyonther planet ) all the other planets are on the other side of the sun much farther away than mercury
No. Your wrong. Yes on average mercury is the closest, but Venus and mars get closer than mercury ever does to earth. So please stop pretending your smart just because you’ve seen a cgp grey video
@@justins2024There’s no need to be rude. He was saying on AVERAGE it’s Mercury.
@@bigdawggkev still doesn’t mean mercury is closest. Because it isn’t
@@justins2024 on average it is. Venus makes the closest approach to Earth but Mercury is the closest planet ON AVERAGE
@@justins2024 the planet mercury spends more time closer to earth than any other planet mars and Venus are on the other side of the sun most of the time mercury is closer
Anyone else see the face at 31:18?
Interrupting my video with an ad, only makes me hate the product being advertised.
Wrong mercury is the closest planet to earth not venus
No. Your wrong. Yes on average mercury is the closest, but Venus and mars get closer than mercury ever does to earth. So please stop pretending your smart just because you’ve seen a cgp grey video.
You never went to school did you
Why no Nuclear powered Space crafts?
Narrator:as recent as 2007
My almost 30 year old ass:🥹
What was that?
Then I fell asleep, I need to watch Again
the concept is literally a jet firing a missile
Actually the closest planet to earth is mercury (counsidering the average distance to travel between the two mercury is closer to the earth than both Venus and Mars.
Venus must be dead easy to reach!😂
Gee. 'Why Is It So Hard To Get To Mercury, Mars And Jupiter?'
Hmm? MAYBE BECAUSE WE'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO, HUH?
I think my answer would go like this....
... cause it's in space. 😁
Why ignore StarShip??
What is this "mile you speak of?
A: Because space is huge and gravity is strong.
SCHWAAYYYYYY!!! I thought the solar winds would play a factor in Mercury being hard to reach. That also, perhaps that its gravitational pull would be hard for craft to latch on to its orbit
Gotta get to the moon first... 😉
We've already been there
WE DONT DO THINGS BECAUSE THEY ARE EASY BUT BECAUSE THEY ARE HARD
Its interesting you call jupiter's moons "satellites" that kinda threw me off. excellent video none the less
Our moon is a satellite. If it orbits around a body it is a satellite of the body.
I volunteered to go to Mars 13 times
Its not hard humanity just will not focus on space
Yes but why is it so hard to get to Uranus???
It takes alot of fuel to get out of orbit.. why dont they just launch an extra rocket with just fuel only, so they can use that to refill when they get into space..
um, just a guess, be cause they are far away
Humans need a new fuel! It’s out there, we just need to discover it!
I stopped watching after a few seconds. Mercury is the closest planet to earth, not the second closest. Because of a rapid orbit, on average, it's the closest planet to earth most often. Bonus fun fact Mercury is the closest planet to the sun, earth, Venus, and Mars more often than any other planet.
The only realistic way to get to Mars is to produce the fuel on the Moon and launch from there.
We never got to the moon how we expect to get any further 😂
We got there. Why must there be such a negative attitude about everything?
Great video, but why use American voices and then use metric measurements? I'm sorry, but I don't know kilometers from miles.
Of course ou cant go there, i mean we haven't even been able to go to the moon
I thought Uranis would be the hardest plant to reach.
Not worried about it
Please use metric when addressing a international audience.
??? He literally put the metric units in every measurement graphic in the video.
No
Humans are far to fragile to travel those distances. No way we could survive for years cut off from the earth. The men of Apollo 13 had it easy compared to anything going to other planets. It only takes 3 days to get to the moon. It takes years to go to planet. You would have to take everything you need to last that long and the extra fuel . The ship would have to be huge. No one would want to pay for a mission like that.
Men and women inside prison live in similar situations with confinement and stressful situation. So if we can get through that going to mars should be fine it's not like that there going to be away for 20 30 40 years in a tin can aluminum foil can.😅
It is a shame bc I like their space content but I avoid this channel. Every time I give them a chance it is disappointing, I don't think they don't know what they're talking about
What BL🤯WS MY MIND!!! Is the math of the distance between us and Mars.
Earth and the moon... in that distance, you can fit ALL THE PLANETS of the solar system side by side in that space!!
So multiplying that and receiving a number as to the distance between us and our neighbor!!!
Absolutely insane!!
To achieve this, we would have to send multiple craft with the materials the crew would need for supplies and fuel to return. Land those there and have them waiting for them to give and do al the scientific studies and observations.
Wow!!!!
What it would be like to stand on another planet and just SEE THE SUN!!!
1st time I saw the sun from Mars... I ended up writing a song.
To see the sun and to see the earth as well!!!!
Absolutely amazing is what it would be!
Can you IMAGINE WHATBIT WOULD BE LUKE FLYING BACK TI THE EARTH!?!?
After all the time away!
To get back and be able to just breathe and see the blue skies and be able to get inactive warm pool of water!
The future holds great things for space exploration!!!
It sucks im already 38!
I'm sooo excited to see the future of what we do and see our there!
Then, IF they make it back, they die of cancer from all the radiation.
Why would anyone from Earth (the planet we all evolved on) want to go to another planets that are ---- ?
--- Too far away,
-- Too inhospitable,
-- Too expensive to travel to,
-- And may habor lifeforms that are too dangerous to live with or next to. ????
For the same reason we got on ships and sailed across the Atlantic Ocean. That was also far away, inhospitable, expensive and could harbor dangerous life. Same reason Lewis and Clark traveled across the US. Many pioneers in our own country encountered "life forms" too dangerous: grizzlies, hostile native Indians, disease.
@@LisaMedeiros-tr2lz Okay. But you're referring to planet Earth.
The place we all evolved to live on.
People are not made for life in outer space and not able to cope with the environments of other planets, even bears or whales can't handle what's out there.
So I suggest -- folks need to stay where they belong!!!
-- Traveling to other planets is just a pip dream!
@@DanielWatson-vv7cd BTW, I don't disagree with you in principle. I was just responding to your original post of why would we want to do it. It is part of the human experience to explore. There is another reason. Because we are systematically destroying the only planet we live on. Going to Mars for example, can help us potentially learn about the evolution of that planet to educate ourselves on our own (like what happened to the magnetic field and the atmosphere and water). We should be paying attention to the effects man has on his own environment in order to get smarter about how to preserve it. There are those in power now who don't want us to put Earth observing instruments in space to better understand our climate, how its changing, and the effect man is having on it. These people are being fed misinformation by egregious polluters of own own planet who don't seem to understand that all the money in the world now will not help their future progeny to survive in a world that will no longer support life.
cant even get to the moon...
🤔maybe because they are so damn far away
Its not hard to get there. we just dont have the tech to do it. think of an ant trying to get above the clouds, just cant do it.
The answer is money!
The closest planet to Earth is Mercury. Do the math.
Far away.
These are AI generated content there are many channels similar to this block every thing
16:00 say what?
It's hard to get there because we don't know how to leave earth, and probably can't
It's so hard to get there because we have not even been to the moon yet
Because we've never left the firmament 😂😂😂 NASA is a bunch of liars
Even if we sent you, flat earther, to the moon to see it first hand, you still wouldn't believe it because you live in your own little world, and that little world is not Earth.
Should have paid closer attention in school and taken more than finger painting and basket weaving, eyes shut, head-in-sand.
ZERO proof of anything being said
What a laughable title. I clicked in it to not bother watching the video but seriously. Any human being educated to grade 8 in the public school system, can figure out why it is we haven’t been back to the moon for shits and giggles. It’s far too costly, quite simply.
👎👎👎 this is a very bad explanation.
Which part do you dispute?
Sorry mate, this could have been a really interesting video, but you just go on and on and on... getting to Mercury would be easier than for you to get to the point. Five minutes in, and I'm outta here.
Cool video! Thank you! Have a blessed year 😊 “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.” (John 3:16)
joe biden is what ?