The Solar System Grand Tour

I couldn't find a Solar System Grand Tour video I liked, so I decided to make my own, in honor of the 40th anniversary of the First Lunar Landing July 20. All 9 (yes, NINE!) planets, major moons, and spacecraft of the past and present exploring the planets. Notes: All the bodies and craft depicted here are real. Ida & Dactyl are main belt asteroids. Deep Impact impacted comet Tempel 1 (3:09) on July 4, 2005. In the Huygens probe scene (6:22), Titan's cloud cover has been removed. As seen from Dione, Saturn's rings are edge-on and nearly invisible. Saturn's moons Pan (7:24) and Prometheus (7:50) are the stationary objects at screen center. Voyager 2 flew past Neptune on it's way out of the Solar System on August 25,1989 (8:44). If some of the planets look upside down or in a strange orientation, remember that up and down are only conventions, like putting North at the top of maps. Created with Celestia (http://www.shatters.net/celestia/) and edited with Nero Vision. Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com).

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• solar
• system
• voyager
• Galileo
• Cassini
• Saturn
• Jupiter
• Mars
• space
• planets
• moons
• grand
• tour

[choco963852741]

where is jupiter?

[zippywienerdog]

@choco963852741 Umm..... It''s that big striped ball right BEFORE Saturn. You know, the one that got almost 2 whole minutes of screen time. Guess ya fell asleep.

[leestephenj]

Great vid but you missed out Saturn after Jupiter.

[zippywienerdog]

What do you mean??? Saturn DOES come after Jupiter! If you mean there's no label- I don't know anybody that doesn't recognize Saturn when they see it.

[TearyEyesAnderson]

Wow, great work did you design each planet and moon as a program or is some of it Nasa images? Its the best fly-by through the solar system I've seen since the video "Voyage to the Outer Planets and Beyond", hosted by Isaac Asimov with Gustav Holst's 'The Planets', as its music, although in that one they only use NASA and other images so you don't get this feel as to where everything is and how far apart each body is. Thanks for uploading.

[zippywienerdog]

If you had read all of the info you might have learned.

[veranodrive]

Jupiter's red spot is in the bottom not in the top

[ejcalaska]

@brianay3000 I used to have it! Thanks for posting this because I forgot.

[brianay3000]

from saturn

[brianay3000]

Just one thing, wheres tethys?

[brianay3000]

nice, very nice! I have this too! It's called Celestia!

[KarbineKyle]

Nice! Thanks a lot! I love astronomy! I always have!

[ViktorDieZiege]

cupier belt, oort cloud

beautiful

[lenhumbird]

That - was - great!

By the way, was Jupiter rendered upside down for artistic purposes?