The Sackler Lecture in Astronomy: A Decade at Saturn
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A glistening spaceship, with seven lonely years and billions of miles behind it, glides into orbit around a softly-hued, ringed 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 in the summer of 2004, the mythic landing of Huygens on the cold, dark equatorial plains of Titan, and Cassini’s subsequent decade-long exploration of the Saturnian environment have become the stuff of legends. What they have shown us, and the images they have collected, are being closely examined in the pursuit of invaluable scientific insights on the nature of this very remote planetary system.
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Educate yourself, read the "ring makers of Saturn".
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finely somone with no weird accent :)
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The lovely miss Saturn! ♥
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This is the only video that I could see the laser pointer. Very nice. Thank you.
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Awesome lecture! Carolyn Porco has done a spectacular job with the Cassini mission! She's extremely passionate about science and exploration, and that is what I really like about her! I want to know more! I want to know more about the Saturnian system, and astronomy in general, and she does too! Let's go back, and also beyond! We really need to explore far more often!
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"Earth summer 2009" - wonder what she means by that
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Great!! I've been following Cassini-Huygens from the start but still found Carolyn's talk really worthwhile - full of passion, understandable but not over dumbed down. I'd have to agree that Enceladus is go-to place to send a spacecraft to test for life. Hugh
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Magnificent!
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Enceladus a micro Europa in the Saturn system, that's so cool!
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used to say i 'had a thing' for Carolyn... seems I was wrong.. it should say 'I HAVE a thing'.
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Stupendously good
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Amazing lecture, thanks. Watching for the 3rd time now.
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