The First 1000 Days: Cassini Explores The Saturn System

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Google Tech Talks
May 23, 2007

ABSTRACT

A glistening spaceship, with seven lonely years and billions of miles behind it, glides into orbit around a ringed, softly-hued planet. A flying-saucer shaped machine descends through a hazy atmosphere and lands on the surface of an alien moon, ten times farther from the Sun than the Earth.

Fantastic though they seem, these visions are not a dream. For seven years, the Cassini spacecraft and its Huygens probe traveled invisible interplanetary roads to the place we call Saturn. Their successful entry into orbit a thousand days ago, the mythic landing of Huygens on the cold, dark equatorial plains of Titan, and Cassini's subsequent explorations of the...

Channel: Howto & Style
Uploaded: July 25, 2007 at 10:24 am
Author: Google

Length: 01:14:17
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Video Comments:
sedna69a (January 3, 2009 at 4:19 am)
saturn is the best. love it.
drunkngamr (September 27, 2008 at 7:07 am)
Astronomy is amazing.I LOVE IT!
dynamiz77 (September 19, 2008 at 9:56 am)
instead of pouring money into this stupid war, why not science and technology.
tkurtis20111 (September 25, 2008 at 5:40 pm)
totaly agree
Sjoerd2212 (September 19, 2008 at 7:26 am)
if you don't understand this I guess your not a rocket scientist
statusmaximus (September 7, 2008 at 5:57 am)
Exellent job.I love living in these times..So many more discoveries to be made..thank you Carolyn for her knowledge and insight.
meewsic (May 1, 2008 at 7:05 pm)
Good job!
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aihoschema (April 4, 2008 at 3:27 pm)
Beautiful! Saturn moons crashing through the rings, causing ripple-like waves and the entire system still remains stable. Awesome. Sure these missions cost a lot of money that would be better spent feeding the ones in need. Yet this is a peaceful mission based upon the knowledge that we know (almost) nothing about what there is to know about where we are, what's around us and why.
Starter61 (December 26, 2007 at 2:36 pm)
Very interesting video and very good presentation. Thank you !
cefrio (December 15, 2007 at 6:28 am)
nice presentation, though i have the feeling a lot of info is let out for some reason...