Don't be so pompous as to presume you KNOW that which is merely theoretical. I don't believe Carolyn treats the idea as anything more than theory, either.
Shout out to the mic operator. That sound of that moon getting ripped apart by tidal forces couldn't have been easy to record, and with such crystal clarity.
Con el enorme talento que tenéis disponible ¿Podrían subtitularlo en español?Hay trescientos millones de hispanohablantes que se pierden el gran trabajo que hacéis! Gracias! BCN
Thank you. The last words "its mission is far from over" are indeed misleading in 2021. Cassini-Huygens mission had a tremendous impact on our understanding of Saturn and its moons, and we will definitely discover many things from the data it provided, but its mission is over.
4:47 Carolyn Porco is truly the successor to Carl Sagan as our greatest science communicator for stirring the imagination. It's a shame she's not more widely known. If you've got 18 minutes to spare, treat yourself to her TED talk: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xxXa9pxwzoY.html
@@rocketshipsandrobotsinterg2184 ????? I'm very confused at what you're saying here. Nobody said gravity was a solid, but it's not a gas either. It's a distortion of space - a force that exists between masses.
@@LincolnDWard but somebody said space uses matter to block gravity from big planets and clusters of galaxies to bend light around a star . So if gravity can just float in space it has to be like a gas . Not is a gas .
I have a question, If the gravity of Saturn was strong enough to pull its moon and break it, then why wasn't the shattered moon, then, due to the force of the same gravity be consumed by Saturn? How does it maintain the gap if now it is dust? Shouldn't it be affected more by its gravity now and be pulled towards Saturn completely?
It's hard to believe Jupiter's moon "existed" and "crashed one day". It would be more logical if it was some traveling planet of ice, got too close to Jupiter and then crashed to pieces because of powerful gravity, making rings...
If Saturn had the gravitation force to tear the ice moon apart why didn't it pull the ice moon into itself like meteoroids and meteorites that crash into earth?
I love hearing someone passionate about a subject speak on it. “I mean is that cool or what!” I smiled right along with her ☺️ Saturn has always been my favorite planet. Space is so terrifyingly fascinating
5:09 is a real image, you can see the shadows cast by the mountain like structures on the rings. I've never seen anything quite like it until just now, it's amazing
@@kenzo_1172 Only if you were at the equator of said moon, in which case you likely wouldn't even see the rings (them being just meters deep), but anywhere else on the surface of the moon you would be looking at a shimmering wall.
100 million years ago is really not that long. That surprised me. I always assumed that Saturn's rings had been there since its formation and consisted of material that simply failed to accrete into, like a planetary asteroid belt. I learnt something today.
@@sandhyarani3576 We're talking about astronomical time scales here. 100 million years is brief. Planetary rings are transitional and many of our Planets may have had stunning rings at one stage. If the "Thea hypothesis" is correct, our own Planet Earth had spectacular rings at one time.
@@markhollander1201 Always when we learn something new about nature, we are more surprised than last time. In this case, we learned about the even more complex behavior of rings with Saturn moons. You can see the real photo of the spaceship.
@@markhollander1201 You poor thing, still blaming the world for your failed education and abysmally poor grasp of science I see? Run along child, you're way out of your depth here. Perhaps sit in the corner and keep being a non-contributor.
imagine 100 years later, the offspring of our generation are doing nightmarishly dangerous slavery-like job on space bases serving the rich space tourists.
Yeah; It's too bad the artist doing the "representation" is usually someone with little understanding of physics and the laws of motion. This one looked really cool, but it made little sense from a physics standpoint.
@@-108- Yea but what's more important? That it's insanely accurate for us adult nerds to gawk over, or that it's REALLY cool looking to whip up our kids imaginations and get them into these fields? I'm a backyard Astronomer because of seeing shit like this as a kid.
@@nuru666 i was a backyard astronomer as a kid - subscribed to Astronomy Magazine when I was in 3rd grade - and I always hated "artist representations" of anything. They did nothing to inspire me, and everything to annoy me. To each their own, I guess.
@@-108- More than fair enough, I found it inspiring that there were incredible wonders beyond my imagination and I wanted to see them for real, and now I have!
The idea of the SIGHT of travelling across the rings in some space craft then......BOOM! A mountain of Saturn's ringlets shooting up and forming mountains miles high has to be just as intense as seeing those MASSIVE geysers shooting out from ENCELADUS.
Idk man, is it even possible for humans to travel that far. Even with whatever futuristic technology invented in the future, are humans really capable of travelling at such speed or such long time. Humans do not live that long.
I love how she thinks of the movie scene potential for it. A nice window into how she thinks about it. Also promising that they think that way because its what we all want to see, ues of course she is just human too but how many of us are in that position so it is good to know. Good to know because besides the scientific finds, the public have above all else a hunger for the spectacle of what it out there.
I'd say that movie producers often think the viewers would be bored by reality and such phenomenon, but many things in reality are much more phenomenal than a lot of science-fiction.
When I was a kid I wondered how those rings looked up close. I would've never guessed they were just 10 meters high. We are lucky to live in a time of exploring and discovery of the solar system!! Can't wait for the next few decades (if we're still around 😅).
I stood on the edge of it’s broken frozen shores. In the face of such a majesty I wept. There was no such a sight I have witness with my own eyes as beautiful as the stardust rings of Saturn.
For but a fleeting moment, the canvass of endless space relinquished its darkness; pierced by the brilliant beacon of a solitary star, it gave life to Saturn's ardent aspirations. Dazzling, spectacular, its beauty blazoned the skies of it's tiny moons with radiant hues. Perhaps those who might have witnessed it would have paused briefly, in awe.
Never thought formation of the rings was that fast. Days... I thought it needed way more much time to differentiate from the original positions. And the mountains on the rim just incredible. The universe is amazing
@@ryanbrink2755 The fact people hear this stuff and actually believe it JUST because some people with "college degrees" said it lol and those same people will try to discredit the bible by saying it was written by man.... Well EVERYTHING YOU READ was written by man and they believe it like evolution... sheep will be sheep brother
There are only 2 things I wish in my life.. 1st. To have a ultimate healing ability 2nd. To be a celestial ghost to travel the universe forever eternity.
My wish is to know All the secrets of the universe. Im always curious about the big bang and how something came from nothingness, or probably this universe came from a big crunch from the past universe before this universe existed, but where did the past universe come from? Another big crunch maybe but where did the first universe come from too. Also curious about the edge of the universe and whats beyond it. Like what happens if you get past it?
@@MarsFKAI'm not sure if "floating" is the correct word. There is no buoyancy, technically you would be falling alongside the ice. But yes, not enough gravity to stand, and the view must be breathtaking.
The image of the moon coming apart from the surface is the sort of stuff I LOVE to see from CGI of these phenomena. Straight out of some of my "dream/nightmares" (Weird because I never wake up during these nightmares, always so awe inspiring, I think if I die, I might rather like to have it be while on the surface of a world torn to shreds XD).
Carolyn Porco is awesome. I got to hear her speak at an astronomy festival just before Cassini concluded and she was so proud of what Cassini accomplished. It was really moving to hear her speak about it.
If you teared up at just that, you may want to prepare a box of tissues if you haven't already seen Cassini's Grand Finale documentary. I was crying buckets just from the preview alone!
I love watching these vids and seeing just how excited scientists still get with new discovered material. It is amazing looking up at the night sky and seeing these objects through a telescope. It never ceases to amaze me.
Dr. Carolyn Porco is an amazing woman! Love her enthusiasm. I've often imagined the same. Thanks for all your hard work in bringing us the crown jewel of our Solar System up close and personal.
They say that the moon entered Saturn's Roche limit, but based on the footage of the moon exploding I am gonna say that clearly Saitama did it. Saturn is just lucky he didn't sneeze.
Great theory and brilliant animation but I have a question; just how big was the ice moon? Are the rings made up only from the body of that moon? I would imagine that it would have been quite a sizeable moon to be responsible for what we see today
They do tell you its estimated size in the video, almost 400km across. They even mention how many metric tons of ice that would be. I assume this was just a backwards calculation.
I absolutely love this series - I never watch broadcast TV anymore, but I kept going back to watch the premiere of each new episode. The scene of the destruction of Saturn's ancient moon is one that will remain with me for a long time. The CGI and cinematography are *amazing* ... And the music! I'm dying to get my hands on a soundtrack...
I watched it on TV as it came out. Only complaint I have is that the original BBC UK broadcast was narrated by an actual scientist, but for the US broadcast (the one we hear in this video), they re-recorded basically everything with a celebrity Zachary Quinto (Spock in the new Star Trek movies). I really wish we could have gotten the unedited version.
@@chairmanofthebored8684 I don’t really care who they got to record for it. I’m just annoyed they felt the need to change it at all for the American release.
@@legitpancake4276 Huh, I did not know that. Zachary seemed to have done a decent job, at the very least - I had no complaints - but as a scientifically-inclined American, I resent the thought that I would prefer some celebrity over a scientist.
The fact that this happened is nothing special. Moons get within the Roche Limit of their parent planets all the time in the universe. The fact that this happened during a time we're alive to witness it, now that's something spectacular.
@TheRealLoganYT His point is that we're alive in the time the rings exist. On a cosmological scale, rings are short-lived and Saturn's rings will disappear. To see then really is amazing
I may have missed this but - we are watching this many times faster This process took billions of years - it’s still going on Soon Saturn may have a moon reformed from the ice eventually - much like our moon
It already has some - the so called "shepherd moons". Those moons orbit inside of the rings, helping them staying in place. The most accepted theory of how they formed is exactly that, chunks and particles of ice and rock fusing into one another.
From the graphics, it looks like they are not solid 'mountains', but a jumbled-up pieces of ice. Think of a rug when it wrinkles on the edge when you push against it.
I'm so jealous of aliens advanced enough to fly around in space to see everything like this first hand. But then again, would they have the capability of things like appreciation? Are they capable of being moved by such spectacles?
Heres a thought I found interesting: Due to light moving so slowly, Aliens could watch earth forming through a telescope. And we could watch their planet forming. And both of our species could exist at the same time, go extinct and we'd never know of each other. Or, for a more happy ending - at least one of either species could develop FTL/Instant travel technology and we could visit to each others homeworld and watch our own homeworld take shape. Kind of a intergalactic cinema.
@richcast66, if they do exist, I believe what stops them from creating chaos and from trying to change the planets or rule other species is their fascination withwith the universe. @richcast66, You must be admiring an art piece so much to preserve it in its natural state, to not try and change its colors.
@@nelsonwelser116 or a scenario wherein an alien species loved the beauty and uniqueness of the earth so much, they eradicated humanity which they percieve to be destructive viral organisms in order to preserve it.
@@Anicius_ Science gave us ability to construct weapons that will destroy humanity. Carl Sagan and other scientists have mentioned that the reason we haven't seen advanced civilization is because they become so advance, they kill themselves. Russia, China and USA and others have doomed humanity. Who did it...I can assure you, it was not a Rabbi, an Imam, a Priest or a religious reading out of some holy books but educated and secularly inclined scientists who doomed us. As much as religion can easily be used as a scapegoat, it can also be argued religion kept humanity safe by keep us away from deadly scientific knowledge to kill ourselves. From biological warfare, to weapons of mass destruction, to planetary systems hijacking such as weather, no stone is unturned during scientific research to satisfy our hate for each other. Science is leading the way to humanity's destruction. I rather have science dead than humanity dead. It's harms out weigh the benefits it offers.
@@zhg4485 Hello dood. I am an electrical engineer by education and software engineer by profession. In my faith, we are taught that science is twin sister of religion. I am not against scientific research and development. It is only in the West that we noticed, religion and science are opponents. It is an alien idea to us. Church hasn't helped the matters either. We are taught that creation has been made subservient to humanity. And that we should question, research, discover, and invent not to dismiss God but to understand how Powerful He is. In the West, it is the opposite. Somehow new discoveries disapprove God. That baffles our minds. Did some scientist create atom? Did some scientist create black hole? Did some scientist create human beings? Did some man create Mars or cosmos or ordered Big Bang? No, we only discover what is already is there. In our faith, science helps validate our religion and brings us closer to God. In our view, there is no irony as God is not bounded by what we know such as scientific and mathematical models of reality, physics, matter, gravity, time, etc. but it is us who are bounded and limited by all measures. We also have to realize the irony of you typing on a device, internet technology, etc. that was made possible by the intellect planted in us to begin with, so we may discover and invent. The first instruction or commandment in our faith is, "Read! Read in the name of thy Lord who created; He created the human being from blood clot. Read! in the name of thy Lord who taught by the pen and taught the human being what he knew not!" I am not forcing my religion on you but sharing how we perceive things. Kind regards
My favorite part is the accuracy of the time frame 10-100 million years ago. Goes to show as far as we have come we are so far from knowing so many things
@@markhollander1201 Ok then show us your proof of why Saturn is actually just a big holographic water bug slipping on the firmament's surface then. Should be easier than looking into a telescope since you know about everything and are waaay smarter than every scientist who has worked in the entire History.
There's a good chance that Earth did have rings at one point in its past, during the time the moon was still forming. I doubt they would've been as spectacular as Saturn's rings, but still cool to think about.
@@dennysantoso4792 Rings are mostely debris tinier enough to burn up in the atmosphere, and most of them stay up there, so no worries for us down here.
Really quite awesome and fascinating to realise that if most of the dinosaurs would have looked through a telescope, they could have seen Saturn without rings! 🦕🪐
What's even more awesome alien's visited us a long time ago and the dinosaurs ate them the ones that escaped nuked our planet. That's why they only hover over us when they come to visit.
@@thatmikatho8136 Light-year is the distance light travels in one year. Light zips through interstellar space at 186,000 miles (300,000 kilometers) per second and 5.88 trillion miles (9.46 trillion kilometers) per year. Do the math on how many light years there are from us to Saturn and then divide the time of the Moon being destroyed
That would surely be a sight to see, but it would definitely change life as we know it. First, we have the annoyance of some chunks falling back into Earth, then we have the gravity force that the ring would put on the planet's equator, along with the moon (that would be equivalent of having two moons, since the ring itself is a moon turned to dust), along with other things. Earth could probably survive, but life wouldn't be the same.
@@haylicewatters41 A nice guess, but I think your prediction is flawed. First, isn't the debri that orbits Saturn mainly ice? It would all melt during re-entry into Earth's atmosphere. Also, the ring doesn't have a gravity force. The gravity well was destroyed when Saturn's own gravity overtook the ice moon. Saturn's ring is primarily ice particles, some tiny particles up to particles the size of buses. However, if the Earth formed the ring the same way Saturn did, we would indeed have to contend with the gravity of the object BEFORE it gets destroyed by Earth's gravity well. After that, we'd be pretty safe. It's why we don't have to exactly worry about the Moon colliding with the Earth thank's to the Earth's roche limit, unless the Moon somehow got thrust into us at the speed of a comet.
@@nathancommissariat3518 With Starship we have the potential to travel to the moons of saturn, which mean doing a flyby of the rings of Saturn. Can't wait for that day.
