How Saturn Got Its Rings | The Planets | Earth Science
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День томуThere's evidence to suggest Saturn didn't have its rings when the dinosaurs inhabited Earth, so how did they form?
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The Planets (2019)
This stunningly ambitious series brings to life the most memorable events in the history of the solar system, by using ground-breaking visual effects to tell the thrilling story of all eight planets. Transporting you to the surface of these dynamic worlds to witness the moments of high drama that shaped each one, The Planets reveals how the latest science allows us to unlock their past lives. It pieces together clues of magnificent lost waterfalls on Mars, the mass planetary migrations as they jostled for position early in their history, and even the distant fate of Saturn as one of its moons awakens to form a beautiful water world.
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@SamuelEMPowell131 2 роки тому
Just want to take a moment to thank the BBC camera man who got these shots of Saturn's old moon. He must of woken up really early to get there 100 million years ago.
@Straight90s 2 роки тому
You can tell him yourself! He’s still alive (because the camera man never dies)
@Phagnabotwashere 2 роки тому
All hail the cameraman
@8-gamingnight288 2 роки тому
The cameraman sees all, he is everywhere
@johnkane3240 2 роки тому
He's union. Wait till he cashes the overtime check.
@mrartdeco 2 роки тому
@@johnkane3240 they did.. they’re the British Royalty now
@dannyarcher6370 2 роки тому
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.
@dannyarcher6370 2 роки тому
@@sandhyarani3576 The Sun is 46 times older than the maximum estimated age of those rings. The Milky Way is 135 times older. So, yeah. Yesterday.
@skateboardingjesus4006 2 роки тому
@@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.
@rickymiller8539 2 роки тому
Also the rings are vanishing at a fast rate too by being pulled into Saturn from Saturn’s gravity so won’t be there for a very long time either.
@bingbong9844 2 роки тому
@@skateboardingjesus4006 and one hypothesis is those rings turned into our current moon.
@dannyarcher6370 2 роки тому
@@bingbong9844 Well, that's part of the Theia hypothesis.
@gamingmoth4542 Рік тому
It’s interesting to know that while dinosaurs were here on earth, Saturn was still ringless.
@tylerhartley5031 Рік тому
Yeah kinda like how Uranus was formed
@EnshourT_ Рік тому
You somehow blew my mind with this information...
@Dan2yefa Рік тому
@@tylerhartley5031 hehehehegehehehe uranus
@-108- Рік тому
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.
@seccosec Рік тому
Maybe ringless...
@CalderaXII 7 місяців тому
Man, can you imagine how cool the sky must look from one of those mini moons inside the rings?
@kenzo_1172 Місяць тому
it would be just a tiny line, as they orbit in the dame plane as the ring and the ring has a small thickness, it would be a line on the sky
@abxyabxy281 16 днів тому
Half of the whole f467ing sky would be S A T U R N
@l0nele_ 2 роки тому
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
@bigmac3373 2 роки тому
@just another human why do you need to type in the fancy letters though 🗿
@Prod_D 2 роки тому
:)))
@humanbrainphyscholgyeffect3706 2 роки тому
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@ballotbro7623 2 роки тому
@just another human tf you mean illusion? Where do you think you live?
@--bountyhunter-- 2 роки тому
@just another human so you're a flat earther?
@anttam117 2 роки тому
Those mountains by the edge of the ring are incredible. I know it’s a rendered image, but just the idea of it. What a sight those things may do!
@LucasGomes-vh9ei 2 роки тому
those arent renderings, those are actual images!
@bipinrana7116 2 роки тому
Dear friends . Cassini is moving, orbiting Seturn with high speed. And on thair camara images those Image are elaborated. All are real
@theamorphousflatsch2699 2 роки тому
@@LucasGomes-vh9ei he meant the cgi close ups, those aren't real.
@SolarChip 2 роки тому
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
@asyaryraihan 2 роки тому
The images are actually real! The video part however is rendered.
@deomni6578 Рік тому
God I love those incredibly realistic renders of space and some processes that are going on, it’s just incredible to see it like that
@-108- Рік тому
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.
@deomni6578 Рік тому
@@-108- yeh, that is also true.
@nuru666 11 місяців тому
@@-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.
@-108- 11 місяців тому
@@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.
@nuru666 11 місяців тому
@@-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!
@SomeGuy-mt4hq Рік тому
Big props to the drone operator getting those sick shots on the ice moon mid explosion. We really don't hear enough about these legends
@davidwuhrer6704 6 місяців тому
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.
@110452ND 2 роки тому
Seeing scientists geek out and be super passionate about their findings always warms my heart.
@javiertorres9114 2 роки тому
I feel envy for the next generations to come when traveling the stars becomes viable.
@alexma1 2 роки тому
Assuming our greed won't doom ourselves, of course.
@javiertorres9114 2 роки тому
@@alexma1 no argument here.
@boom-d8034 2 роки тому
🤣🤣🤣🤣
@hirokokueh3541 2 роки тому
imagine 100 years later, the offspring of our generation are doing nightmarishly dangerous slavery-like job on space bases serving the rich space tourists.
@LetsPlayGamesRandom 2 роки тому
Yeah dude you should look up the distance from earth to saturn. Its not going to be viable for a very long time.
@voidvalkyrie Рік тому
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.
@Lornoor 2 місяці тому
Please pursue a career in writing! 😀
@dannyraiden9722 Рік тому
The fact that we had a better understanding of the rings is amazing. Knowing it’s vertical makes them even more impressive.
@EraldBuneci 2 роки тому
No matter what wonders we know about nature, it manages to impress us even more, always.
@markhollander1201 2 роки тому
Do you mean that better computer software programs are giving you more clarity on the imagination of fake space by these 33rd freemason liars ???
@EraldBuneci 2 роки тому
@@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.
@Getman0001 2 роки тому
@@markhollander1201 Go touch grass.
@astroevada 2 роки тому
@@markhollander1201 "BUT DA FWEEMASUNS AND CEEGEEEYE" Bitch go outside and stop repeating what papa dubay tells you, flattard.
@skateboardingjesus4006 2 роки тому
@@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.
@HaggardPillockHD 2 роки тому
Wow wait, I never realised the rings had vertical structures. I always assumed it was just a sea of small ice/dust particles
@TactileCoder 2 роки тому
It's caused by gravitational perturbations by one of the shepherd moons as it orbits by.
@daniboiyy 2 роки тому
@@TactileCoder is the moon on the same plane as the ring? Or does it perpendicularly cross the rings at a certain angle?
@chrisrobinson803 2 роки тому
Wait what you still believe in space you believe that that's CGI no such thing as space 😭😭😂🤣🤣😂
@graydonsharp5165 2 роки тому
@@chrisrobinson803 you believe in CGI? No such thing, its the atomized LSD they pump into the air.
@Paula_Mancilla 2 роки тому
☝📷🗽🌹⏰🙏🐎🌉♎♎♎⚡💥🔥👓🎺🌔🌠🌈👷🐉🌄Amén Amén y Amén.
@TJSaw Рік тому
The animation is just spell binding. Hypnotic.
@beastsurfer616 Рік тому
6:15 , this scene really gets me . It makes me realise that how infinite is our universe....
@AmanRaiAgrawal 2 роки тому
What has surprised me is the thickness of the ring.... It's just 10 meters, I always thought it to be a cople of hundred or a thousand km thick.
@leomartin1603 2 роки тому
Aman. I thought the same thing years ago, and I thought they were more ASTEROIDIAL. Not water ice and I thought it was thicker.
@kevstaa7121 2 роки тому
Lo l
@leomartin1603 2 роки тому
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.
@chillyhead611 2 роки тому
Hahahahh. I have some swamp land for sale. Lol.
@devonex 2 роки тому
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.
@rumel02 2 роки тому
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 😅).
@GotoHere 2 роки тому
According to the dumb democrats in USA, you only have 8 years left to live because of the made up disaster called climate change.
@Chuked 2 роки тому
@@GotoHere climate change is real
@mr.smellgood2794 2 роки тому
@@GotoHere 8yrs left isn't true. But climate change is real. You can see it happening with you're own eye's. Look what's going on around us.
@legendaryzodiac574 2 роки тому
@@GotoHere there's lots of research supporting that it exists
@nrw64 2 роки тому
@@Chuked he never said climate change is not real
@chasehicks7465 2 роки тому
Mind-boggling the scale of the universe
@studioambience8340 Рік тому
One day space tourists will see the ring with their naked eye from a tour operator's space vehicle.
@jasonmcconnell3503 2 роки тому
when she's talking about the vertical structures on the rings honestly i teared up
@Baulder13 2 роки тому
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.
@dreeemer 2 роки тому
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!
@mantesh1379 2 роки тому
@@dreeemer bro can u share me the link. I would love to see it. 🙏
@faizansaleem9905 2 роки тому
@@mantesh1379 ukposts.info/have/v-deo/sKJ4dYd6qG9zrok.html
@dreeemer 2 роки тому
@@mantesh1379 @faizi99 shared the emotional preview and this is the documentary: ukposts.info/have/v-deo/jmV5o2lnfIODzmg.html
@Tilnaor 2 роки тому
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
@akshaydalvi1534 2 роки тому
Is it earth days or Saturn Days though???
@JohnnyT0pside 2 роки тому
@@akshaydalvi1534 Probably Earth days. One day on Saturn is less than half a day on Earth hehe
@ryanbrink2755 2 роки тому
I mean it’s all just theories, and it’s highly favored so you can’t challenge it
@knightmarefuel4499 2 роки тому
@@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
@AlehGea 2 роки тому
@@knightmarefuel4499 You sound like a earthplanner who don't understand science. The only one believing in any bullshit on internet is you.
@imajulianuel 2 роки тому
The oldest creatures in universe is the cameraman.
@user-cp7ug2qs3f Місяць тому
So true man
@TheYimeFlakes 3 місяці тому
I love when I wake up in the middle of the night to watch a video of Saturn getting engaged
@Bootrosgali 2 роки тому
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.
@AmidaNyorai48 2 роки тому
😯😯
@fatitankeris6327 2 роки тому
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.
@anzaca1 2 роки тому
CoD Infinite Warfare kinda did that with its first level, where you're on one of Jupiter's moons.
@humanbrainphyscholgyeffect3706 2 роки тому
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@RektemRectums 2 роки тому
Mad respekt to the cameraman who filmed Cassini as it filmed Saturn.
@dmanc85 2 роки тому
Thoughts and prayers to this person's noble sacrifice.
@TwowheelJD 2 роки тому
Thank You, Mr. CGI
@nomenestomen3452 2 роки тому
He definitely has a deep breath
@JM-sx1yy 2 роки тому
@@nomenestomen3452 😂
@MyThoughts19902X Рік тому
Jeez man, find something original.
@jakerose1362 2 роки тому
Rip 🪦 to the cameraman. His work won’t be forgotten.
@nathancommissariat3518 Рік тому
Would love to see it in person one day. Saturn is incredible.
@ala0284 Рік тому
Well you can tbh. Just get a telescope
@nathancommissariat3518 Рік тому
@@ala0284 I have a telescope. I meant up close.
@nick_0 Рік тому
@@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.
@hazardeur Рік тому
@@nick_0 yeah sure, 3.5years in a tiny spacecraft and then again 3.5years to go back. sounds like a good deal.
@nick_0 Рік тому
@@hazardeur it’s an adventure 🤷♂️
@hamzamahmood9565 2 роки тому
Imagine you're an astronaut standing on one of the mountain peaks of Saturn's ring. For a brief moment, Earth's existence may not seem to matter much.
@Rendydany 2 роки тому
Damn bro. I don't remember ordering another existential crisis
@abdulaleem9207 2 роки тому
true.
@hamzamahmood9565 2 роки тому
@@Rendydany It's free shipping
@MarsFKA Рік тому
Um...you wouldn't be "standing", but floating. The view, though, would be monumental.
@davidwuhrer6704 6 місяців тому
@@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.
@Sve3t Рік тому
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.
@onehappypepper8732 Рік тому
That’s a serious table flip. Gotta be
@richcast66 Рік тому
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?
@jxg1652 Рік тому
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.
@nelsonwelser116 Рік тому
@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.
@CommanderZavala Рік тому
Yes, Aliens are just humans from the future.
@jancarlosanluis8279 Рік тому
@@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.
@frankarce-gw2hr Рік тому
Beings of Planet earth:::*--•%%[*=,/We Are Watching You 👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽
@arshpreetkaur9 2 роки тому
I love the excitement and happiness in the lady on finding out and explaining the vertical structures in the rings. 😍
@RanjithPlays 2 роки тому
The happiness in her face shows how determined she was and is.
@BroAnarchy 2 роки тому
I love astronomy... I wish i had that job
@planterpot4627 2 роки тому
Time stamp?
@humanbrainphyscholgyeffect3706 2 роки тому
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@melissapyle7879 2 роки тому
Wow!! The animation of the moon breaking apart.. i could watch that all day.. its fascinating and terrifying at the same time..
@kysike666 2 роки тому
Ur pretty
@jumalajivee653 Рік тому
@@kysike666 but u are not...😅 Joking don't take it seriously
@petterlarsson7257 Рік тому
anyone gonna talk about the fact that they used the mercury texture for the moon at 0:16
@bnd7911 Рік тому
Saturn's roche limit gonna kill Mercury bro💀
@in_the_building1 Рік тому
I would love to see that in a movie! So magnificent! I had no idea the rings were anything like this! Tremendous
@dragoonsunite 2 роки тому
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).
@_egghead 2 роки тому
You just need to film it to not die. Cameraman invincibility.
@israelgomez6988 2 роки тому
Marvels did it
@ben1449 2 роки тому
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
@lf3322 Рік тому
A warm congrats to the researchers and scientist who do this work. Also, this music put me in a trance. If at all possible, please link
@Bakedcakeyyy Рік тому
I just LOVE how enthusiastic she is while talking about the rings. It’s contagious!
@mikehunt1528 5 місяців тому
Nike.
@astop94 2 роки тому
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.
@edwardanimsyujinamuka6203 2 роки тому
In a metaphoric way it's like a kid sees a treassure in front of him waiting to be opened
@vanessajazp6341 2 роки тому
To be a scientist is to be forever a child. The mud we play in just gets a little more complex as we learn more.
@JessicaGarcia-xf9wr 2 роки тому
Yes it’s amazing seeing the planets 🪐 just being there while also having a historic history behind is amazing!
@humanbrainphyscholgyeffect3706 2 роки тому
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@CloudsGirl7 2 роки тому
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...
@legitpancake4276 2 роки тому
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.
@legitpancake4276 2 роки тому
@@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.
@CloudsGirl7 2 роки тому
@@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.
@phsal5182 Рік тому
Great visuals in this very informative video. Thank you!
@jamestl9301 2 роки тому
The camera man did an awesome job capturing the destruction.
@tellydianadayondon6534 2 роки тому
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.
@jonathan-zo9nh 2 роки тому
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?
@sheldonginsberg5382 2 роки тому
Wow! I thought I was the only one that wished for this!
@maanmallak8953 2 роки тому
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@mskimyu 2 роки тому
It's nice to know that somewhere in this planet we have soulmates! I'm also wishing for the second one!
@nobodyishere 2 роки тому
@@sheldonginsberg5382 damn me too
@DeathJustice 2 роки тому
Are we simply going to ignore the fact that *young Commander Spock himself* is explaining us stuff happening in space?
@edwardclancey8260 2 роки тому
I thought that was Zachary’s voice.
@HC-cb4yp 2 роки тому
I thought it was Kier Dullea from 2001...
@agquad 2 місяці тому
Spock got a little dramatic for his planetary history report at Starfleet Academy.
@uxjared 13 днів тому
I had to scroll too far for this…
@DustinPlatt 4 місяці тому
Us boomers remember Saturn without its rings. Those were the days when we had to walk 953 million miles in 5 feet of vaccum to Saturn.
@condor5912 Рік тому
Respect to the cameraman who went back in time to film that
@chrisrobinson803 Рік тому
😭🤣🤣😭😭😂😂
@pratikkatkar7885 2 роки тому
Jewel of solar system Most charmasic character of entire universe Thanks Cassini for this remarkable search
@markhollander1201 2 роки тому
And you think this is real ??? lmao
@geckoo7770 2 роки тому
@@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.
@shayanchamas60 2 роки тому
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.
@bono9814 Рік тому
You only like her because she is a female
@AsadKhan-lm6yr Рік тому
The narration of Brian Cox is really good with this
@bidensucks2922 Рік тому
try again Champ
@AsadKhan-lm6yr Рік тому
@@bidensucks2922 no worries champ. In the UK it was
@bidensucks2922 Рік тому
@@AsadKhan-lm6yr surprised it wasn't Markle
@DavidBrocekArt 7 місяців тому
I'm so glad that other planets in our solar system are not flat so we can watch this beauty.
@litfill54 2 роки тому
2:06 imagine you were living there, amazing
@LordSalazarsRevenge 3 місяці тому
I'd shit my pants
@kevinslater4126 2 роки тому
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.
@robertkoen5506 2 роки тому
@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
@judah-benmorales9759 2 роки тому
EVERYTHING about it is special. You've just lost the ability to be amazed. 😪
@daddyrammus 2 роки тому
but, on the other hand, makes you think about all the stuff that we have missed or will miss in the future
@madhavdua1246 5 місяців тому
Anyone after Solar Balls??
@Zariya134 2 місяці тому
me
@pigpig252 Рік тому
Adore how enthusiastic the woman at the end is. You can tell she gets emotional thinking about the wonders of space. Must love her job!
@GComas-jn2yc 2 роки тому
The views shown at 5:46 is something I’ve never seen before. Pretty stunning if there’re ice mountains on it’s ring.
@mindrover777 2 роки тому
That's not a real pic. Simulated.
@brucea3103 2 роки тому
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.
@GComas-jn2yc 2 роки тому
@@mindrover777 Lol 😆 I know that but if it’s true, I’ve never seen it before.
@GComas-jn2yc 2 роки тому
@@brucea3103 Hmmm 🤔 Could be.
@Hackanhacker 2 роки тому
gravity waves effects on matter orbiting a planet caused by one of its moon that find itself in that ring of matter ... basicly xD
@Scottingham 2 роки тому
RIP Cassini The amount of science that little craft did was beyond anybody's imagination. Carl Sagan wrote about Cassini as a hopeful dream of a mission back in 1994.
@shahad_alsayed 2 роки тому
Thank you BBC Earth Lab for wonderful & precious exploration.
@lliamjurdom9505 Рік тому
Zachary Quinto is the narrator .... perfect intonation ...
@solojammer9500 2 роки тому
Can we all take a moment and appreciate the brave camera man? Without him, we won't be able to see this. 😌😌
@geckoo7770 2 роки тому
He even succeeded to reach and hold on Cassini!
@bod910 2 роки тому
The unmanned spacecraft sent the pictures back lol, nobody was trying to get you to think people actually went there and took pictures dummy 😂😂
@geckoo7770 2 роки тому
@@bod910 Then how come the guy filmed Cassini from outside huh?
@MadScientyst 2 роки тому
Anybody else detect Zachary Quinto's voice over?...Homage to the late, great narrator Leonard Nimoy (Spock) no doubt...truly EPIC!...LOL
@rens1074 2 роки тому
Yepp, I heard it too 🙂
@ogpimpin5059 2 роки тому
I just think of Robot from Invincible when i hear his voice lol
@7249xxl 11 місяців тому
Been watching allot of this simulations and the thing that always stands out for me is how the whole event is so incomprehensibly short compared to everything else. Like with the Theia collision hypothesis. 13 hours in the billions of years and we have a moon. That's like running into your sibling absorbing it and gaining an extra limb in the less then the blink of your eye.
@Pers0n97 Рік тому
Today I learned that moons make thunder noise when breaking. Thank you BBC.
@Demons972 2 роки тому
I was today years old when i found out Saturn rings have vertical mountain-like structures and i been fascinated with astronomy ever since i have memory, space would never cease to amaze us.
@HiiImChris 2 роки тому
wow the animation team did an amazing job on this one. it's certainly nice to watch space content on newer videos xD
@MaanIsMe Рік тому
The beauty science has shown us. I could never replay for the knowledge it has given to me. There is no beauty beyond science.
@diontaedaughtry974 2 роки тому
Thank you this was very insightful and informative 👍👍
@lewasil 2 роки тому
That picture of Saturn was so perfect and pristine, it looked fake! It's so difficult to wrap my head around the fact that these planets exist, and why cant we go walk around on them lol. It's amazing!
@Knappa22 2 роки тому
I love how thrilled the scientist is. She’s still enthralled about the ice mountains on the rings.
@immortanjoe9362 5 місяців тому
These videos always fascinate me. They really put our lives into perspective. We're literally a blip in time compared to the life of the universe. I find that comforting. My life will come and go, and no matter what my decisions are or the impact I make, it will make little difference in the grand scheme.
@chrisblum2153 Рік тому
Wow!! Amazing video and superb commentary!! Thank you
@aerostake 2 роки тому
4:24 moment gives out Homeworld vibes so strong it’s sending chills down my spine
@weirdface3838 2 роки тому
steven universe?
@Spudtron98 2 роки тому
@@weirdface3838 Nah, a space strategy game known for its monochrome cutscenes that are super atmospheric in their rendering of the various environs of space.
@trick-o-treat414 2 роки тому
AMAZING!!! It's very fascinating and yet scary at the same time, to KNOW things existed, how it got created, or how it got destroyed overtime.
@Pauly421 2 роки тому
BBC Earth these are some of the most gorgeous and well made space videos in existence please please please keep making them! MORE SPACE! MORE SPACE! MORE SPACE! 😍😃
@paulgibbon5991 2 роки тому
The funny thing is, 10-100 million years ago is....not RECENT as such, but within a time when the Earth was life-bearing and a time from which we have archaeological relics. It's easy to assume the shape of the Solar System and the nature of each planet was basically set in stone way before any life emerged on Earth, but this goes to show how it's an ongoing and evolving place.
@KHN.RVA.28 2 роки тому
The cassini mission was so dope to follow. It was the first I had followed from the intro of it in 2006 to the launch to the final pass of it thru the rings and finally crashing on Saturn 🪐🪐🪐🪐🪐
@shiroyt4185 2 роки тому
Props to the camera man for the awesome footage
@space_audits Рік тому
Incredible story backed up fantastic imagery. That's all these people have, stories and imagery.
@BRO-xp8gx 8 місяців тому
seeing saturn on telescope for the first time was amazing
@mysticdragonwolf89 2 роки тому
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
@haylicewatters41 2 роки тому
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.
@hanklestank 2 роки тому
Well that's just about the coolest visualization I've ever seen!
@royaldesignpythonsorionjon720 2 роки тому
That’s SO amazingly and incredible I’m glad I learned this about the rings this morning!!!!
@luckymepyro9802 2 роки тому
Wow , I always wonder how they got their rings , now I know , I learn something new everyday - thanks 👍
@pinochet3317 2 роки тому
I have never seen images of the ring walls before - the things you learn! :)
@jackflanagan9499 2 роки тому
I'd kill for an opportunity to get a closer look at the wonders of our solar system. The things we discover in outer space never fail to fascinate me!
@Alfredul03 2 роки тому
A very short but substantial video, very short but U learn a lot. Thank U for make it!
@Sbeve_One Рік тому
Her enthusiasm is contagious
@christophergreening1075 2 роки тому
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
@RoguePC4U 2 роки тому
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.
@dryb3301 2 роки тому
17000 million tons of ice
@GhostRydr1172 2 роки тому
Still how do you get a body just 400 km across into a fine ring wider than Jupiter? I'm still trying to wrap my head around that.
@tyler-qr5jn 2 роки тому
@@GhostRydr1172 the collective mass of the rings compressed into an ice planet... it's not hard
@tyler-qr5jn 2 роки тому
@@GhostRydr1172 it's not "just" 400K across, you're thinking 2 dimensionally. It's a sphere. So yes, horizontally and vertically, it would be.
@sophiajas3643 2 роки тому
Saturn's ring is beautiful from afar and it's full of surprises up close. It's just the stuff you want in your UKposts suggestion everyday👌
@CrabShakMan 2 роки тому
Need some more of this
@gustavogomezcambron1261 2 роки тому
Mood is the most about how happy could been, some things many special has could go stay in thought
@myrandomlife8881 2 роки тому
5:13 I'm surprised too
@therunningpiranha8763 2 роки тому
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! 🦕🪐
@dr.cheeze5382 2 роки тому
They could have literaly seen the moon get torn appart!
@thatmikatho8136 2 роки тому
@@dr.cheeze5382 How long does a process like this take? Years, months, days?
@fallenwolf3368 2 роки тому
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.
@fallenwolf3368 2 роки тому
@@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
@lionking_7597 2 роки тому
🤣
@TheColdestWater 2 роки тому
It’s always so impressive and mind blowing watching videos about planets 🤯
@octaveachebelle795 Рік тому
Magnificent ! Thanks a lot.
@VipapkStudiosOfficial Рік тому
5:25 - This line alone reminds me of Star Trek: Voyager's Opening Theme!
@desoL8d 2 роки тому
Aside from vertical structures along Saturn's rings be put into a movie, escaping from a world being ripped apart by a larger celestial body should also be put into a concept. When awe, and tremble, mixes with the feeling of insignificance. That would be an experience seeing it in cinema.
@mersenne2486 2 роки тому
not exactly escaping but "the wandering earth" had similar concept. Earth was about to be disintegrated by Jupiter.
@desoL8d 2 роки тому
@@mersenne2486 That I did not finish watching it. 😅
@jkorshak 2 роки тому
It's been done. When Worlds Collide.(1951) A variation will be in theaters in 2022 called, "Moonfall."
@desoL8d 2 роки тому
@@jkorshak Yeah. So as the movie Melancholia. Planets collide at each other. But how Saturn got its rings is a spectacle. One of its ancient moon is being ripped to shreds due to Saturn's immense gravity without colliding with the gas giant itself.
@eozoon 2 роки тому
"Cassini's mission is far from over?" It crashed into Saturn in 2017. It's over.
@rolfs2165 2 роки тому
Funnily enough, The Planets aired in 2019. Guess they've been sitting on that script a bit longer.
@legal040 2 роки тому
lmao nice catch
@Pandamasque 2 роки тому
It's but a flesh wound.
@nickbisson8243 2 роки тому
Takes a few years to go through all the data from Cassini
@Belov3ed_Angel 2 роки тому
Rip
@thepurrfectcat Рік тому
Phenomenal, no words to describe.
@mihainiculae92 Рік тому
The animations are on point!
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