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🗓️ 17 January 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Our planet is just one part of an infinite universe. But, unless you’re an astronaut or best buds with Elon Musk, your chances of ever leaving Earth are negligible. That didn’t stop scientists from imagining what life would be like on other planets though. Let's explore what living on other planets would look, and sound like.
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0:00.0 | Our planet is just part of an infinite universe. |
0:03.3 | But unless you're an astronaut or best buds with Elon Musk, your chances of ever leaving Earth are negligible. |
0:09.7 | That didn't stop scientists from imagining what life would be like on other planets, though. |
0:14.0 | Join us as we explore what living on other planets would look and sound like. |
0:19.6 | You're listening. |
0:20.8 | You're listening. You're listening. |
0:21.9 | You're listening to be amazed. |
0:28.2 | Number 10. Mercury. |
0:31.1 | Mercury isn't only the closest planet to the sun. |
0:33.9 | It's also the smallest one in our solar system. With temperatures ranging from negative |
0:38.2 | 195 to 800 degrees Fahrenheit and nearly constant meteorite impacts, it'd be a hard place to live. |
0:45.5 | Since the sun is 250% larger than Mercury's sky than on Earth, looking up for Mercury's surface |
0:51.9 | would require some heavy-duty sunglasses. However, as there's |
0:55.5 | no atmosphere, there's nothing to bring color into that brightly lit night sky, which means that most |
1:00.5 | of the sky is an unobstructed view of space. As is the case in most of space, nobody can hear you |
1:06.4 | scream, and that's doubly true on a planet like Mercury. But if you could hear electromagnetic waves, our galaxy would be a very noisy place. |
1:14.6 | And good old NASA developed a probe to help us do just that. |
1:17.6 | By converting electromagnetic vibrations from celestial bodies into sound waves, |
1:21.6 | they made the chatter of space into something audible. |
1:24.6 | The tone, volume, and pitch of these sounds are affected by a planet's size, |
1:28.8 | speed, and composition. When pointed at Mercury, the probe sent back this. |
1:43.3 | Number 9. |
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