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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[dynamiz77]

instead of pouring money into this stupid war, why not science and technology.

[drunkngamr]

Astronomy is amazing.I LOVE IT!

[7ito1990]

check out david wilcock and nassim haramein people!

[TheGregoryPartridge]

@drunkngamr Pfft, I was genuinely amazed when i read that there was small pools of saltwater coming from the rock faces on mars.

[HigherEnergy011]

please video the saturn atmosphere,clouds and storms!

[nibjb]

35:00 is fascinating!

[rastariananani]

Did cassini pick up an alien signal around saturn? The link is on the NASA website, not sure what to think of it. Don Gurnett tuned it to a factor of 5 and revealed that the signal was a piece of music!?? is this for real? thoughts please

[hectorvonrotten]

THX FOR POSTING THIS!!!

[peppeddu]

Everyone in Japan has heated toilet seats

They have a bidet built right into it and they even open automatically as you approach it, not to mention a remote control, intelligent flush and even a fake flushing noise to help some people to evacuate better

[Nimbly]

The exploration of space is necessary for the evolution of the human race.

[dynamiz77]

@okturus I understand all the problems we have here on earth - but we shouldn't hold off space exploration to solve these problems and THEN fund it. We could very well find the solutions to the problems here on earth by exploring our solar system and i've mentioned one of them in my last post - job creation.