With the knowledge of cosmic events we already have, we open up infinite possibilities for interplanetary visits and colonizations, and we lose nothing by imagining an epic encounter with distant civilizations. After all, as Carl Sagan said, if there is no life outside Earth, then the universe is a huge waste of space. But what's scarier?
The idea of aliens on strange worlds or the idea that, in this entire immense universe, we are alone? Whatever the answer to these two questions, the conclusion will always be haunting. But we are sure of one thing.
There are certain worlds you won't want to set foot in, and we'll explain why. I'm Donato de Paula. Narrator of the Mysteries of the World.
And here are 10 planets you'll never want to visit. If you like the video, don't forget to like, subscribe to the Mistérios do Mundo channel and turn on notifications. Neptune Neptune doesn't seem that dangerous to us, but after knowing a little more about this planet located in the farthest reaches of the Solar System, you will certainly abort your mission to visit it.
Strong winds of a staggering 1,500 miles per hour push frozen clouds of natural gas past the northern edge of the planet's great dark spot, an Earth-sized hurricane . 2,400 kilometers per hour is roughly twice the speed needed to break the sound barrier, and such forces are clearly beyond what a human could withstand. In other words, a person standing on Neptune would likely be destroyed and lost forever in these violent, perpetual currents of wind.
Mars The red planet seems like the most viable destination for future colonization, but to do so we will have many challenges to overcome. One of them is dust storms, which can develop in a matter of hours and envelop the entire planet in dust within days. Mars has the largest and most violent dust storms in our solar system.
Martian dust vortices tower over their terrestrial counterparts, reaching the height of Mount Everest with winds exceeding 300 kilometers per hour. When a storm develops, it can take months for all the dust to settle and return to the way it was before. The Hellas Basin, for example, is the deepest impact crater in the Solar System.
Temperatures at the bottom of the crater can be 10 degrees higher than at the surface, and the crater is deeply filled with dust. It turns out that the temperature difference ends up fueling the action of the wind, which sucks in the dust and then the storm emerges from the basin in an endless cycle. Pluto The most famous dwarf planet seems harmless, but make no mistake, this is no winter wonderland.
Pluto is extremely cold, but its constitution is made up of frozen nitrogen, carbon monoxide and methane, which cover the surface like snow during most of its 248 Earth-year Plutonian year. The ice was transformed from white to pinkish brown due to interactions with gamma rays from deep space and the distant Sun. On Pluto, during an average day, the Sun provides as much heat and light as the full Moon on Earth, which means the surface temperature there is minus 228 to 238 degrees.
In other words, your body would freeze instantly, more than enough reason to never visit the dwarf planet, right? 51 Pegasi b This planet was nicknamed Bellerophon, in honor of the Greek hero who tames the winged horse Pegasus. This gas giant is 150 times more massive than Earth and is composed mainly of hydrogen and helium.
The problem is that Bellerophon is 100 times closer to its star than our planet is to the Sun, and this heat creates an atmosphere with a level of wind that is beyond bizarre. As warm air rises, cold air sinks to replace it, forming winds of a thousand kilometers per hour. The heat also ensures that there is no water vapor, But that doesn't mean that rain doesn't occur there on the planet.
The heat there is so intense that it allows the iron that makes up the planet to be vaporized. Then, as the vapor rises, iron clouds form, much like water vapor clouds here on Earth. The difference?
Well, you wouldn't want to take a rust bath in that place, would you? Jupiter The largest planet in the Solar System produces storms twice as large and more extensive than Earth itself. These storms generate winds of 400 kilometers per hour and titanic lightning 100 times brighter than those we see in our sky.
The largest planet in the Solar System produces storms twice as large and more extensive than Earth itself. These storms generate winds of 400 kilometers per hour and titanic lightning 100 times brighter than those we see in our sky. To make the scenario even more frightening, beneath this dark atmosphere, there is still a 40,000- kilometer-deep ocean of liquid metallic hydrogen.
Here on Earth, hydrogen is a colorless, transparent gas, but in Jupiter's core, hydrogen transforms into something never seen on our planet. In the outer layers of the gas giant, hydrogen is in the form of gas, just like on Earth. But as you progress, the atmospheric pressure becomes so great that it compresses the electrons in the hydrogen atoms.
Carbon Planet Planet Earth maintains a high proportion of oxygen and carbon, but incredible as it may seem, carbon represents only 0. 1% of the mass of our world. This is why we have a shortage of carbon-based materials like fossil fuels and diamonds.
But in the center of our galaxy, where the element is more abundant than oxygen, planet formation occurs very differently. And this is exactly where you find what cosmologists call carbon planets. In a world like this, the morning sky would be anything but crystal clear and blue like it is here on Earth.
Imagine something like a yellow fog with black clouds of soot. Upon entering the atmosphere, you would find black seas, composed of oil and tar. The planet's surface bubbles with pits of smelly methane.
The weather forecast doesn't look good either. Rains of gasoline and heat so intense that it would put Mordor to shame. But the good news is that at least wealth would be guaranteed.
After all, where carbon is abundant, you also find large amounts of diamond. Venus As beautiful, Venus only has its name and mythology. Despite being in a habitable zone and similar to Earth in many ways, there are some notable differences that make Venus the last place anyone would choose to travel.
The planet's atmosphere is very dense and hostile to life as we know it, and the temperature is so high that it is capable of melting lead. Venus is like hell, and although carbon dioxide is invisible, the planet's clouds are composed of sulfuric acid. We cannot see beyond these clouds, so what we know about the surface has been collected by spacecraft equipped with radar imaging instruments.
Able to see beyond the clouds and reveal a little of the world hidden beneath them. Korot Exo-3b This is the densest and most massive exoplanet known to date. It is the size of Jupiter, but has 20 times the mass of the gas giant.
This makes exo-3b core twice as dense as lead. The degree of pressure exerted on a human being walking on the surface of such a planet would be unbearable, and the person would weigh hundreds of times what they weigh here on Earth. In other words, that amount of pressure would crush your skeleton in moments, as if there were several elephants sitting on your chest.
WASP-12b This is the hottest planet ever discovered, with its temperature exceeding 2,200 degrees. Asp12b is the closest planet to its star, so close that it is distorting it into a egg, slowly consuming its scalding atmosphere. Astronomers estimate that, 10 million years from now, the planet will have been entirely swallowed by its star.
Well, this seems like a planet that not even summer lovers would want to visit, right? Korot 7b On the side facing the star it orbits, this planet's atmosphere is so hot that it can even vaporize rocks. Scientists have modeled this planet's atmosphere and determined that it probably does not contain volatile gases.
Instead, it is composed of vaporized rock. On the illuminated side, temperatures exceed 2300 degrees. Enough to evaporate rocks, which rise to the atmosphere in the form of vapor.
But, at night, a refreshing 200 degrees solidifies these rocks, causing them to fall back to the surface in the form of rain. Furthermore, theoretical models suggest that the planet may have rivers or oceans of lava on its surface. We can define it as a volcanic nightmare totally hostile to life as we know it.
Which of these planets did you most enjoy visiting? Tell us in the comments! Until next time!
