Cassini visits Saturn sending back fascinating pictures

Earlier this week NASA's Cassini spacecraft started sending some of the most detailed and fascinating pictures home of Saturn's sixth largest moon. Cassini recently began a two year extension of it's original tour of our solar system's ringed planet by taking a closer look at Enceladus. We know that Enceladus is almost entirely water ice, but many are hoping to find something more along the lines of the building blocks of life. Watch on to learn more about Cassini and see some great pics of Enceladus!

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[stephenetienne]

I thought it was spelled "Enceladus".

[spacevidcast]

LOL, it is... When the description was made we did so with the teleprompter script, which was spelled out for proper pronunciation and not designed to be used on the web. I'm correcting the error everywhere I see it, but that is in a lot of places. I'll fix it here too, it is spelled wrong but should have been pronounced correctly :)

[loco4vicodin1]

@r4wmaterial Yeah, but that's not realistic nothing can exceed the speed of light. Let's try to not be childish. Even if a scientist would need to travel that fast they'd wanna figure a way to bend time and space. Traveling the speed of light would probably desecrate you.

[loco4vicodin1]

@r4wmaterial Well not having gravity would probably make your bones and muscles start to deteriorate, muscle organs would start to fail, there wouldn't be enough food to get to Saturn. You'd probably get all around atrophy, heart failure, pieces of space debris could possibly hit the ship, lack of oxygen to get there, probably be to cold to get there. It's basically common sense stuff

[MacaroniEars]

This is where lady gaga came from

[shotgunguyy]

@r4wmaterial thats becasue we havent invented antimater ships or if a way to trap anti matter (with out exploding) so it can be sued to create fuel because antimatter can be created int his universe

[GaunletofDestruction]

Has NASA ever thought of sending bipedal robots to these distant planets to search for life, controlled using motion capture suits from earth?  Just imagine how much data we could bring back if ships were sent to all the planets all at once!

[shotgunguyy]

@r4wmaterial it also takes years to take humans to saturn unless we use anti-matter ships

[Quartrez]

@r4wmaterial Machines need much less supplies than humans. You bring someone, you need to take care of :

- Oxygen

- Food

- Hygiene

- Temperature

- Radiations

- Weightless

And there's probably even more.

[spacevidcast]

@r4wmaterial Radiation. Machines are easier to shield than humans are.

[pinkwrld]

Isnt that Telescope gone out yonder past everything? when was this video made?

thespaceman