The First 1000 Days: Cassini Explores The Saturn System

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...

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[mrnitro30103]

should be mandatory to have talks like this on main tv, every day... she should be young ppl reference...not some ++ckdup rapper / britney.

...make science not war:P

[Psygnal]

Carolyn Porco is probably one of the coolest people on the planet, quite honestly.

One of the key figures in the exploration of the outer planets, and one of the brightest sparks it has ever been my fortune to learn from... albeit remotely.

[pegasus98able]

come hai fatto a caricare un video così lungo?? O.O

[zapfanzapfan]

I love you Dr Porco! I´m sorry I missed you when you were in Stockholm Sweden to pick up your photography-award. I´ll see you when you come back to pick up a Nobel-prize :-)

[GMSpreez]

26:20 looks like an alien face :)

[sbergman27]

@mrnitro30103 : Indeed. What a different world this would be if people cared about timeless things which really matter rather than transitory trivialities and which celebrity is shacked up with which this week! Abolishing "People" magazine would be a good start.

[francoboy100]

:  D

[Foronaga]

Ha! Heated toilet seats, actually sounds comfortable. Anyway, this video is great. Other than youtube I have no way of seeing these kind of things. No TV channels where I'm from show anything even remotely like this. Unless it's directly related to "aliens" or UFOs. That picture at the end, of the eclipse with Saturn, that's beautiful. One of the best things of this video.

[FatherWarhol]

Mmmmm. Pork.

[mickeysnelly]

This vid rocks saw it on Pbs I loved it.