Why The Moon's Geography Is DEAD

It's incredible to me that people actually walked on the moon. Imagine looking up at the moon and remembering the time you were there. Insane

This channel is like a gold mine for those into geography

ive never really thought about it but its kind of incredible how the moon is basically a time capsule showing us every single crater that's ever hit it during its entire existence, unlike earth where the changing surface eventually erases the craters. Its also impressive just how big some of the objects that impacted the moon are.

Gotta love the optimism of the mid-20th century documentaries..

As Buzz Aldrin said of the Moon’s surface, “Magnificent desolation.”

I can’t believe you didn’t even talk about the rabbit on the moon. Thanks for the video and Merry Christmas.🎅

These old clips that you have added in these videos are really amazing. It makes the video more interesting

The moons geography may be dead but man am I glad that this series is not:) Merry Christmas Atlas Pro and all who watch this videos!

Has anyone thought the complexity of trying to move humans into another planet. It's hard to plan and move to another country, or another continent. It was hard to go to orbit. It was hard to go to the moon. It was hard to go and actually land on the moon. The complexity of trying to move some humans to the moon and the plan for the future to hold and create live there is huge. Really looking forward to this, even if I'm dead by then.

You missed a bit when talking about why Io and Europa are highly geologically active, they're active in large part because the Jovian moons constrain each other in eccentric orbits, which is where the constantly shifting tidal forces that heat them up come from. If you then extrapolate that on your subsequent idea of more mass being torn from the Earth and into the Moon, you could instead imagine just a small amount of mass going into a second moon instead, and the two of them influencing each other in a way comparable to the Jovian moons.

I'm at work and will watch this later, just have to say: Atlas Pro, I discovered your channel January 2020 and in the two years since have learned so much from your content and look forward to your videos about as much as any content on the web. Keep up the good work, brother.

I love the short clips from old documentaries interspersed throughout! My only real suggestion would be to cut back (or out) the very long intro clip which kicked off this video and the last several you've uploaded. I found it hard to stay invested until the end of the clip and I'm already a big fan of your channel! I would expect a lot of potential viewers to bounce after a minute or so. Otherwise, I think you presented a wonderful wealth of information in a really engaging way! Count me as someone enthusiastic for using the moon to further human exploration: it's already dead, and it's ours anyway, haha

As a very amateur armchair writer I kinda already figured out that if the moon’s surface is stable enough, it’d be needed as a larger/more permanent station that’d basically become a port and staging point for future missions. Aside from how long it takes to reach the outer edges of the solar system with our current technology (which probably won’t be made that much faster, even with using celestial bodies to slingshot astronauts), the biggest obstacle to more hands-on exploration has to do with how much fuel, rations, and other supplies a shuttle can carry and still reach escape velocity. BUT—move a good deal of these supplies to the Moon gradually to pick up later, and suddenly it (theoretically) becomes far more feasible. (There’s also no biology to hurt on the moon with repeat launches, unlike Earth.) So, for just being able to explore, say, Mars and Mercury and various Asteroid Belt objects and other celestial bodies like nearby moons and maybe even comets? Yeah we’d need the moon as a port. The moon is also a conveniently located place to try and test things to set up actual colonies for astronauts (NOT YOU, BILLIONAIRE TOURISTS) to have longer extended stays outside Earth’s atmosphere than what we can currently do with the ISS (radiation shielding, artificial gravity, actual agriculture with hydroponics and poop-fertilized soil verses testing with a few plants). Because forget a Mars Station/Colony—we gotta figure this out before sending anyone further than Earth’s orbit and the moon. - …THAT, and who cares how “practical” it is. If we cared about practicality beyond the logistics to plan to study things outside Earth’s gravity…let’s be honest. I don’t think space exploration would even exist. (And, well. I just think the moon is Neat)

The fact that we went to places on the moon like this is amazing. I feel like people only think about the first time, but we kept exploring.

My mother walked by and normally she is not really interested in what I watched, yet she sat down for a good chunk of this video. Finding it interesting.

You produced an excellent video. It is compares favorably to the best science shows on the PBS network. You have successfully explained and explored both the terrestrial geography and the extraterrestrial geographies on the same YouTube channel. My one constructive criticism would be to have introductory music and video for no longer than 30 seconds before the actual unique content of your production begins. The brief attention grabing opening to the PBS Nova series is a good example of an introduction that draws the audience in rather than having them click away.

The moon failed the dexterity saving throw to dodge the meteors that hit it

Have to say I love the retro science videos you use so often, they add a certain flare that can't be beat. Excellent work as always. And happy holidays all.

No way it said I got to this upload 27 seconds after it dropped, watch out atlas pro, for much like the continents I get ever closer

i could listen to your voice forever and never get bored