Journey to the Edge of the Solar System part 2

The second part of the three-episode voyage through our solar system. Visit the giant Jovians - Jupiter with moons bigger than Mercury and Saturn with its large company of moons and spectacular rings.

Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=325ISNSno3g
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf3E3TbiqoM

This is my biggest project to date. It took me more than 3 months to do it all. All sizes and distances of planets and their moons are correct.

All visuals done in Blender v2.49.
Planet textures from: celestiamotherlode.net and planetpixelemporium.com

Free music from: Music4YourVids.co.uk
Composed by rickvanman.

Huge thanks to Josh Lawrence/moviemaker933 for narrating.

Enjoy, comments and criticism are welcome.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• journey
• through
• the
• solar
• system
• planets
• jupiter
• saturn
• io
• europa
• titan
• space
• blender
• animation

[missingcandy1994]

What language is the subtitles?

[Ylts92]

@missingcandy1994

Estonian

[1RadicalOne]

"Considering its mass, Jupiter has a huge rate of spin".

Larger things often rotate even faster.

Take Vega, or Altair. Both rotate at similar speed to Jupiter.

Or take a pulsar, the ultimate in rotatonal velocity.

[Ylts92]

"Larger" is a bit incorrect. It's the object's density that matters most.

Earth's mass is more compacted than Jupiter's because it's made of heavier elements than hydrogen.

Pulsars may have more than the mass of the Sun compressed into a few dozen kilometers, causing huge rotational velocities.

[1RadicalOne]

Your original statement implied that Jupiter's rate of speed was exceptionally large for something of its mass. My examples, Vega, Altair, and Pulsars, are all hundreds or thousands of times more massive yet.

[Ylts92]

Well, yeah, I have to take blame for that. I did sacrifice some punctilious science for the sake of simplicity.

[NestoriusAlpha]

@Krakolio It's OK--I understand about being tired and all and communication is already tricky.

[Krakolio]

@NestoriusAlpha That's it! I'm removing my comment. I already knew that, but I was very tired when I wrote that comment so I wasn't thinking properly. You're not the first person to correct me. Thanks anyway.

[NestoriusAlpha]

@Krakolio An object can be larger in size than another object but be denser--containing more mass. For example, a beach-ball is larger in size than a softball yet a softball contains more mass--wieghs more. We are talking about the difference in density. The gas giants and many of their moons are less in mass, density, than the terrestrial planets.

[Krakolio]

@alienfast I already knew that. I was very tired when I wrote that comment so I wasn't thinking properly. You're not the first person to correct me. I should remove that comment...

[alienfast]

@Krakolio volume and mass are two very different things. Just because one object takes up less space than another doesn't mean it's lighter than the bigger object, vice versa.

[mikeytheaznking]

I think this needs better narration, the voice is too mumbly and the music and is often overpowered by the music and difficult to hear.

[Krakolio]

@TheSteveandtess Thanks, but I already knew that. At the time I was really tired.

[TheSteveandtess]

@Krakolio when they say its not as massive they mean mercury is heavier the ganymead is bigger in size but mercury weighs more

[Krakolio]

@Ylts92 And I wasn't listening properly. Sorry, I was tired.

[Ylts92]

@Krakolio

Ganymede has larger volume than Mercury but is also less massive than Mercury.

I don't get the question?