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  • There's evidence to suggest Saturn didn't have its rings when the dinosaurs inhabited Earth, so how did they form?
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  • @SamuelEMPowell131
    @SamuelEMPowell131 2 года назад +7895

    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
      @Straight90s 2 года назад +484

      You can tell him yourself! He’s still alive (because the camera man never dies)

    • @Phagnabotwashere
      @Phagnabotwashere 2 года назад +254

      All hail the cameraman

    • @8-gamingnight288
      @8-gamingnight288 2 года назад +181

      The cameraman sees all, he is everywhere

    • @johnkane3240
      @johnkane3240 2 года назад +107

      He's union. Wait till he cashes the overtime check.

    • @mrartdeco
      @mrartdeco 2 года назад +37

      @@johnkane3240 they did.. they’re the British Royalty now

  • @dannyarcher6370
    @dannyarcher6370 2 года назад +1950

    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
      @dannyarcher6370 2 года назад +168

      @@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
      @skateboardingjesus4006 2 года назад +149

      @@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
      @rickymiller8539 2 года назад +72

      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
      @bingbong9844 2 года назад +27

      @@skateboardingjesus4006 and one hypothesis is those rings turned into our current moon.

    • @dannyarcher6370
      @dannyarcher6370 2 года назад +11

      @@bingbong9844 Well, that's part of the Theia hypothesis.

  • @gamingmoth4542
    @gamingmoth4542 Год назад +1401

    It’s interesting to know that while dinosaurs were here on earth, Saturn was still ringless.

    • @tylerhartley5031
      @tylerhartley5031 Год назад +84

      Yeah kinda like how Uranus was formed

    • @EnshourT_
      @EnshourT_ Год назад +81

      You somehow blew my mind with this information...

    • @Dan2yefa
      @Dan2yefa Год назад +33

      @@tylerhartley5031 hehehehegehehehe uranus

    • @-108-
      @-108- Год назад +16

      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
      @seccosec Год назад +3

      Maybe ringless...

  • @deomni6578
    @deomni6578 Год назад +367

    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-
      @-108- Год назад +10

      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
      @deomni6578 Год назад +1

      @@-108- yeh, that is also true.

    • @nuru666
      @nuru666 Год назад +1

      @@-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-
      @-108- Год назад

      @@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
      @nuru666 Год назад +1

      @@-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!

  • @l0nele_
    @l0nele_ 2 года назад +2038

    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
      @bigmac3373 2 года назад +12

      @just another human why do you need to type in the fancy letters though 🗿

    • @Prod_D
      @Prod_D 2 года назад +5

      :)))

    • @humanbrainphyscholgyeffect3706
      @humanbrainphyscholgyeffect3706 2 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/7NFX2OCGDOI/видео.html

    • @ballotbro7623
      @ballotbro7623 2 года назад +8

      @just another human tf you mean illusion? Where do you think you live?

    • @--bountyhunter--
      @--bountyhunter-- 2 года назад +5

      @just another human so you're a flat earther?

  • @anttam117
    @anttam117 2 года назад +2501

    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
      @LucasGomes-vh9ei 2 года назад +55

      those arent renderings, those are actual images!

    • @bipinrana7116
      @bipinrana7116 2 года назад +22

      Dear friends . Cassini is moving, orbiting Seturn with high speed.
      And on thair camara images those Image are elaborated.
      All are real

    • @theamorphousflatsch2699
      @theamorphousflatsch2699 2 года назад +167

      @@LucasGomes-vh9ei he meant the cgi close ups, those aren't real.

    • @SolarChip
      @SolarChip 2 года назад +51

      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
      @asyaryraihan 2 года назад +16

      The images are actually real! The video part however is rendered.

  • @CalderaXII
    @CalderaXII 7 месяцев назад +156

    Man, can you imagine how cool the sky must look from one of those mini moons inside the rings?

    • @kenzo_1172
      @kenzo_1172 2 месяца назад +7

      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
      @abxyabxy281 Месяц назад +6

      Half of the whole f467ing sky would be S A T U R N

    • @krashd
      @krashd 7 дней назад

      @@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.

    • @kenzo_1172
      @kenzo_1172 7 дней назад +1

      @@krashd my brother in earth, the rings are 1-4 km wide, you would only see a tiny part of them

  • @voidvalkyrie
    @voidvalkyrie Год назад +66

    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
      @Lornoor 2 месяца назад +4

      Please pursue a career in writing! 😀

  • @110452ND
    @110452ND 2 года назад +322

    Seeing scientists geek out and be super passionate about their findings always warms my heart.

  • @EraldBuneci
    @EraldBuneci 2 года назад +762

    No matter what wonders we know about nature, it manages to impress us even more, always.

    • @markhollander1201
      @markhollander1201 2 года назад +4

      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
      @EraldBuneci 2 года назад +38

      ​@@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
      @Getman0001 2 года назад +20

      @@markhollander1201 Go touch grass.

    • @astroevada
      @astroevada 2 года назад +23

      @@markhollander1201 "BUT DA FWEEMASUNS AND CEEGEEEYE"
      Bitch go outside and stop repeating what papa dubay tells you, flattard.

    • @skateboardingjesus4006
      @skateboardingjesus4006 2 года назад +18

      @@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.

  • @dannyraiden9722
    @dannyraiden9722 Год назад +29

    The fact that we had a better understanding of the rings is amazing. Knowing it’s vertical makes them even more impressive.

  • @imajulianuel
    @imajulianuel 2 года назад +25

    The oldest creatures in universe is the cameraman.

  • @javiertorres9114
    @javiertorres9114 2 года назад +529

    I feel envy for the next generations to come when traveling the stars becomes viable.

    • @alexma1
      @alexma1 2 года назад +154

      Assuming our greed won't doom ourselves, of course.

    • @javiertorres9114
      @javiertorres9114 2 года назад +30

      @@alexma1 no argument here.

    • @boom-d8034
      @boom-d8034 2 года назад +1

      🤣🤣🤣🤣

    • @hirokokueh3541
      @hirokokueh3541 2 года назад +47

      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
      @LetsPlayGamesRandom 2 года назад +16

      Yeah dude you should look up the distance from earth to saturn. Its not going to be viable for a very long time.

  • @AmanRaiAgrawal
    @AmanRaiAgrawal 2 года назад +159

    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
      @leomartin1603 2 года назад +13

      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
      @kevstaa7121 2 года назад

      Lo l

    • @leomartin1603
      @leomartin1603 2 года назад +3

      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
      @chillyhead611 2 года назад

      Hahahahh. I have some swamp land for sale. Lol.

    • @devonex
      @devonex 2 года назад

      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.

  • @TJSaw
    @TJSaw Год назад +23

    The animation is just spell binding. Hypnotic.

  • @beastsurfer616
    @beastsurfer616 Год назад +12

    6:15 , this scene really gets me . It makes me realise that how infinite is our universe....

  • @rumel02
    @rumel02 2 года назад +379

    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
      @GotoHere 2 года назад +7

      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
      @Chuked 2 года назад +20

      @@GotoHere climate change is real

    • @mr.smellgood2794
      @mr.smellgood2794 2 года назад +13

      @@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
      @legendaryzodiac574 2 года назад +7

      @@GotoHere there's lots of research supporting that it exists

    • @nrw64
      @nrw64 2 года назад +2

      @@Chuked he never said climate change is not real

  • @HaggardPillockHD
    @HaggardPillockHD 2 года назад +489

    Wow wait, I never realised the rings had vertical structures. I always assumed it was just a sea of small ice/dust particles

    • @TactileCoder
      @TactileCoder 2 года назад +65

      It's caused by gravitational perturbations by one of the shepherd moons as it orbits by.

    • @daniboiyy
      @daniboiyy 2 года назад +7

      @@TactileCoder is the moon on the same plane as the ring? Or does it perpendicularly cross the rings at a certain angle?

    • @chrisrobinson803
      @chrisrobinson803 2 года назад +3

      Wait what you still believe in space you believe that that's CGI no such thing as space 😭😭😂🤣🤣😂

    • @graydonsharp5165
      @graydonsharp5165 2 года назад +1

      @@chrisrobinson803 you believe in CGI? No such thing, its the atomized LSD they pump into the air.

    • @Paula_Mancilla
      @Paula_Mancilla 2 года назад

      ☝📷🗽🌹⏰🙏🐎🌉♎♎♎⚡💥🔥👓🎺🌔🌠🌈👷🐉🌄Amén Amén y Amén.

  • @chasehicks7465
    @chasehicks7465 2 года назад +17

    Mind-boggling the scale of the universe

  • @SomeGuy-mt4hq
    @SomeGuy-mt4hq Год назад +27

    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
      @davidwuhrer6704 6 месяцев назад +5

      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.

  • @Bootrosgali
    @Bootrosgali 2 года назад +279

    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
      @AmidaNyorai48 2 года назад +1

      😯😯

    • @fatitankeris6327
      @fatitankeris6327 2 года назад +8

      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
      @anzaca1 2 года назад +2

      CoD Infinite Warfare kinda did that with its first level, where you're on one of Jupiter's moons.

    • @humanbrainphyscholgyeffect3706
      @humanbrainphyscholgyeffect3706 2 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/7NFX2OCGDOI/видео.html

  • @Tilnaor
    @Tilnaor 2 года назад +204

    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
      @akshaydalvi1534 2 года назад +2

      Is it earth days or Saturn Days though???

    • @JohnnyT0pside
      @JohnnyT0pside 2 года назад +13

      @@akshaydalvi1534 Probably Earth days. One day on Saturn is less than half a day on Earth hehe

    • @ryanbrink2755
      @ryanbrink2755 2 года назад +8

      I mean it’s all just theories, and it’s highly favored so you can’t challenge it

    • @knightmarefuel4499
      @knightmarefuel4499 2 года назад +1

      @@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
      @AlehGea 2 года назад +16

      @@knightmarefuel4499 You sound like a earthplanner who don't understand science. The only one believing in any bullshit on internet is you.

  • @jakerose1362
    @jakerose1362 2 года назад +6

    Rip 🪦 to the cameraman. His work won’t be forgotten.

  • @studioambience8340
    @studioambience8340 Год назад +11

    One day space tourists will see the ring with their naked eye from a tour operator's space vehicle.

  • @arshpreetkaur9
    @arshpreetkaur9 2 года назад +104

    I love the excitement and happiness in the lady on finding out and explaining the vertical structures in the rings. 😍

  • @jasonmcconnell3503
    @jasonmcconnell3503 2 года назад +273

    when she's talking about the vertical structures on the rings honestly i teared up

    • @Baulder13
      @Baulder13 2 года назад +15

      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
      @dreeemer 2 года назад +8

      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
      @mantesh1379 2 года назад

      @@dreeemer bro can u share me the link. I would love to see it. 🙏

    • @faizansaleem9905
      @faizansaleem9905 2 года назад +3

      @@mantesh1379 ruclips.net/video/xrGAQCq9BMU/видео.html

    • @dreeemer
      @dreeemer 2 года назад +2

      @@mantesh1379 @faizi99 shared the emotional preview and this is the documentary: ruclips.net/video/V5Ho30EMRm4/видео.html

  • @nathancommissariat3518
    @nathancommissariat3518 Год назад +83

    Would love to see it in person one day. Saturn is incredible.

    • @ala0284
      @ala0284 Год назад +3

      Well you can tbh. Just get a telescope

    • @nathancommissariat3518
      @nathancommissariat3518 Год назад +4

      @@ala0284 I have a telescope. I meant up close.

    • @nick_0
      @nick_0 Год назад

      @@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
      @hazardeur Год назад

      @@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
      @nick_0 Год назад +1

      @@hazardeur it’s an adventure 🤷‍♂️

  • @Sve3t
    @Sve3t Год назад +28

    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.

  • @melissapyle7879
    @melissapyle7879 2 года назад +46

    Wow!! The animation of the moon breaking apart.. i could watch that all day.. its fascinating and terrifying at the same time..

    • @kysike666
      @kysike666 2 года назад

      Ur pretty

    • @jumalajivee653
      @jumalajivee653 Год назад

      @@kysike666 but u are not...😅
      Joking don't take it seriously

  • @dragoonsunite
    @dragoonsunite 2 года назад +62

    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
      @_egghead 2 года назад

      You just need to film it to not die. Cameraman invincibility.

    • @israelgomez6988
      @israelgomez6988 2 года назад

      Marvels did it

  • @TheYimeFlakes
    @TheYimeFlakes 4 месяца назад +7

    I love when I wake up in the middle of the night to watch a video of Saturn getting engaged

  • @paulgibbon5991
    @paulgibbon5991 2 года назад +1

    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.

  • @CloudsGirl7
    @CloudsGirl7 2 года назад +84

    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
      @legitpancake4276 2 года назад +2

      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
      @legitpancake4276 2 года назад +3

      @@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
      @CloudsGirl7 2 года назад +2

      @@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.

  • @petterlarsson7257
    @petterlarsson7257 Год назад +8

    anyone gonna talk about the fact that they used the mercury texture for the moon at 0:16

    • @bnd7911
      @bnd7911 Год назад +1

      Saturn's roche limit gonna kill Mercury bro💀

  • @lf3322
    @lf3322 Год назад +9

    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

  • @astop94
    @astop94 2 года назад +145

    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
      @edwardanimsyujinamuka6203 2 года назад +2

      In a metaphoric way it's like a kid sees a treassure in front of him waiting to be opened

    • @vanessajazp6341
      @vanessajazp6341 2 года назад +7

      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
      @JessicaGarcia-xf9wr 2 года назад +2

      Yes it’s amazing seeing the planets 🪐 just being there while also having a historic history behind is amazing!

    • @humanbrainphyscholgyeffect3706
      @humanbrainphyscholgyeffect3706 2 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/7NFX2OCGDOI/видео.html

  • @RektemRectums
    @RektemRectums 2 года назад +221

    Mad respekt to the cameraman who filmed Cassini as it filmed Saturn.

    • @dmanc85
      @dmanc85 2 года назад +15

      Thoughts and prayers to this person's noble sacrifice.

    • @TwowheelJD
      @TwowheelJD 2 года назад +8

      Thank You, Mr. CGI

    • @nomenestomen3452
      @nomenestomen3452 2 года назад +10

      He definitely has a deep breath

    • @JM-sx1yy
      @JM-sx1yy 2 года назад

      @@nomenestomen3452 😂

    • @MyThoughts19902X
      @MyThoughts19902X Год назад

      Jeez man, find something original.

  • @Bakedcakeyyy
    @Bakedcakeyyy Год назад +10

    I just LOVE how enthusiastic she is while talking about the rings. It’s contagious!

  • @richcast66
    @richcast66 Год назад +75

    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
      @jxg1652 Год назад +8

      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
      @nelsonwelser116 Год назад

      @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
      @CommanderZavala Год назад

      Yes, Aliens are just humans from the future.

    • @jancarlosanluis8279
      @jancarlosanluis8279 Год назад +1

      @@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
      @frankarce-gw2hr Год назад +1

      Beings of Planet earth:::*--•%%[*=,/We Are Watching You 👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽👽

  • @DeathJustice
    @DeathJustice 2 года назад +52

    Are we simply going to ignore the fact that *young Commander Spock himself* is explaining us stuff happening in space?

    • @edwardclancey8260
      @edwardclancey8260 2 года назад +1

      I thought that was Zachary’s voice.

    • @HC-cb4yp
      @HC-cb4yp 2 года назад

      I thought it was Kier Dullea from 2001...

    • @agquad
      @agquad 3 месяца назад +1

      Spock got a little dramatic for his planetary history report at Starfleet Academy.

    • @uxjared
      @uxjared Месяц назад

      I had to scroll too far for this…

  • @hamzamahmood9565
    @hamzamahmood9565 2 года назад +56

    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
      @Rendydany 2 года назад +12

      Damn bro. I don't remember ordering another existential crisis

    • @abdulaleem9207
      @abdulaleem9207 2 года назад +1

      true.

    • @hamzamahmood9565
      @hamzamahmood9565 2 года назад +3

      @@Rendydany It's free shipping

    • @MarsFKA
      @MarsFKA Год назад +2

      Um...you wouldn't be "standing", but floating.
      The view, though, would be monumental.

    • @davidwuhrer6704
      @davidwuhrer6704 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@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.

  • @jamestl9301
    @jamestl9301 2 года назад +4

    The camera man did an awesome job capturing the destruction.

  • @in_the_building1
    @in_the_building1 Год назад +11

    I would love to see that in a movie! So magnificent! I had no idea the rings were anything like this! Tremendous

  • @ben1449
    @ben1449 2 года назад +14

    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

  • @tellydianadayondon6534
    @tellydianadayondon6534 2 года назад +65

    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
      @jonathan-zo9nh 2 года назад +5

      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
      @sheldonginsberg5382 2 года назад +1

      Wow! I thought I was the only one that wished for this!

    • @maanmallak8953
      @maanmallak8953 2 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/SdZIiBLtWf4/видео.html

    • @mskimyu
      @mskimyu 2 года назад

      It's nice to know that somewhere in this planet we have soulmates! I'm also wishing for the second one!

    • @nobodyishere
      @nobodyishere 2 года назад

      @@sheldonginsberg5382 damn me too

  • @phsal5182
    @phsal5182 Год назад +12

    Great visuals in this very informative video. Thank you!

  • @pigpig252
    @pigpig252 Год назад +1

    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
    @GComas-jn2yc 2 года назад +19

    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
      @mindrover777 2 года назад +1

      That's not a real pic. Simulated.

    • @brucea3103
      @brucea3103 2 года назад +5

      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
      @GComas-jn2yc 2 года назад +1

      @@mindrover777
      Lol 😆 I know that but if it’s true, I’ve never seen it before.

    • @GComas-jn2yc
      @GComas-jn2yc 2 года назад

      @@brucea3103
      Hmmm 🤔 Could be.

    • @Hackanhacker
      @Hackanhacker 2 года назад

      gravity waves effects on matter orbiting a planet caused by one of its moon that find itself in that ring of matter
      ... basicly xD

  • @shayanchamas60
    @shayanchamas60 2 года назад +86

    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
      @bono9814 Год назад

      You only like her because she is a female

  • @AsadKhan-lm6yr
    @AsadKhan-lm6yr Год назад +4

    The narration of Brian Cox is really good with this

  • @condor5912
    @condor5912 Год назад +18

    Respect to the cameraman who went back in time to film that

  • @HiiImChris
    @HiiImChris 2 года назад +34

    wow the animation team did an amazing job on this one. it's certainly nice to watch space content on newer videos xD

  • @kevinslater4126
    @kevinslater4126 2 года назад +65

    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
      @robertkoen5506 2 года назад +15

      @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
      @judah-benmorales9759 2 года назад +3

      EVERYTHING about it is special. You've just lost the ability to be amazed. 😪

    • @daddyrammus
      @daddyrammus 2 года назад +2

      but, on the other hand, makes you think about all the stuff that we have missed or will miss in the future

  • @shahad_alsayed
    @shahad_alsayed 2 года назад

    Thank you BBC Earth Lab for wonderful & precious exploration.

  • @Gr84you
    @Gr84you Месяц назад +7

    This is very fitting, because Saturn (in Mythology) actually ate his own son.

  • @pratikkatkar7885
    @pratikkatkar7885 2 года назад +31

    Jewel of solar system
    Most charmasic character of entire universe
    Thanks Cassini for this remarkable search

    • @markhollander1201
      @markhollander1201 2 года назад

      And you think this is real ??? lmao

    • @geckoo7770
      @geckoo7770 2 года назад +3

      @@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.

  • @MadScientyst
    @MadScientyst 2 года назад +10

    Anybody else detect Zachary Quinto's voice over?...Homage to the late, great narrator Leonard Nimoy (Spock) no doubt...truly EPIC!...LOL

    • @rens1074
      @rens1074 2 года назад

      Yepp, I heard it too 🙂

    • @ogpimpin5059
      @ogpimpin5059 2 года назад +1

      I just think of Robot from Invincible when i hear his voice lol

  • @chrisblum2153
    @chrisblum2153 Год назад +5

    Wow!! Amazing video and superb commentary!! Thank you

  • @lliamjurdom9505
    @lliamjurdom9505 Год назад +1

    Zachary Quinto is the narrator .... perfect intonation ...

  • @litfill54
    @litfill54 2 года назад +6

    2:06 imagine you were living there, amazing

  • @solojammer9500
    @solojammer9500 2 года назад +26

    Can we all take a moment and appreciate the brave camera man? Without him, we won't be able to see this. 😌😌

    • @geckoo7770
      @geckoo7770 2 года назад +3

      He even succeeded to reach and hold on Cassini!

    • @bod910
      @bod910 2 года назад

      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
      @geckoo7770 2 года назад

      @@bod910 Then how come the guy filmed Cassini from outside huh?

  • @space_audits
    @space_audits Год назад

    Incredible story backed up fantastic imagery. That's all these people have, stories and imagery.

  • @immortanjoe9362
    @immortanjoe9362 6 месяцев назад +8

    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.

  • @pinochet3317
    @pinochet3317 2 года назад +52

    I have never seen images of the ring walls before - the things you learn! :)

  • @Scottingham
    @Scottingham 2 года назад +3

    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.

  • @7249xxl
    @7249xxl Год назад +1

    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.

  • @Pauly421
    @Pauly421 2 года назад

    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! 😍😃

  • @mysticdragonwolf89
    @mysticdragonwolf89 2 года назад +8

    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
      @haylicewatters41 2 года назад

      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.

  • @aerostake
    @aerostake 2 года назад +7

    4:24 moment gives out Homeworld vibes so strong it’s sending chills down my spine

    • @weirdface3838
      @weirdface3838 2 года назад

      steven universe?

    • @Spudtron98
      @Spudtron98 2 года назад

      @@weirdface3838 Nah, a space strategy game known for its monochrome cutscenes that are super atmospheric in their rendering of the various environs of space.

  • @DustinPlatt
    @DustinPlatt 5 месяцев назад +4

    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.

  • @diontaedaughtry974
    @diontaedaughtry974 2 года назад

    Thank you this was very insightful and informative 👍👍

  • @Demons972
    @Demons972 2 года назад +5

    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.

  • @lewasil
    @lewasil 2 года назад +6

    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!

  • @Sbeve_One
    @Sbeve_One Год назад

    Her enthusiasm is contagious

  • @DavidBrocekArt
    @DavidBrocekArt 8 месяцев назад +1

    I'm so glad that other planets in our solar system are not flat so we can watch this beauty.

  • @hanklestank
    @hanklestank 2 года назад +6

    Well that's just about the coolest visualization I've ever seen!

  • @shiroyt4185
    @shiroyt4185 2 года назад +5

    Props to the camera man for the awesome footage

  • @MaanIsMe
    @MaanIsMe Год назад +1

    The beauty science has shown us. I could never replay for the knowledge it has given to me.
    There is no beauty beyond science.

  • @thepurrfectcat
    @thepurrfectcat Год назад +1

    Phenomenal, no words to describe.

  • @Knappa22
    @Knappa22 2 года назад +6

    I love how thrilled the scientist is. She’s still enthralled about the ice mountains on the rings.

  • @myrandomlife8881
    @myrandomlife8881 2 года назад +4

    5:13 I'm surprised too

  • @RiturajSingh-ts7pe
    @RiturajSingh-ts7pe 2 дня назад

    Very informative and nice video🎥❤

  • @VipapkStudiosOfficial
    @VipapkStudiosOfficial Год назад +2

    5:25 - This line alone reminds me of Star Trek: Voyager's Opening Theme!

  • @sophiajas3643
    @sophiajas3643 2 года назад +21

    Saturn's ring is beautiful from afar and it's full of surprises up close. It's just the stuff you want in your RUclips suggestion everyday👌

  • @trick-o-treat414
    @trick-o-treat414 2 года назад +15

    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.

  • @Pers0n97
    @Pers0n97 Год назад +1

    Today I learned that moons make thunder noise when breaking.
    Thank you BBC.

  • @Michigan1985
    @Michigan1985 5 месяцев назад +1

    I'm surprised it was only 10-100 million years ago. I would have thought it happened closer to the solar systems birth.

  • @KHN.RVA.28
    @KHN.RVA.28 2 года назад +7

    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 🪐🪐🪐🪐🪐

  • @christophergreening1075
    @christophergreening1075 2 года назад +61

    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
      @RoguePC4U 2 года назад +19

      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
      @dryb3301 2 года назад +1

      17000 million tons of ice

    • @GhostRydr1172
      @GhostRydr1172 2 года назад +11

      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
      @tyler-qr5jn 2 года назад +8

      @@GhostRydr1172 the collective mass of the rings compressed into an ice planet... it's not hard

    • @tyler-qr5jn
      @tyler-qr5jn 2 года назад +7

      @@GhostRydr1172 it's not "just" 400K across, you're thinking 2 dimensionally. It's a sphere. So yes, horizontally and vertically, it would be.

  • @luckymepyro9802
    @luckymepyro9802 2 года назад +2

    Wow , I always wonder how they got their rings , now I know , I learn something new everyday - thanks 👍

  • @orangetopaz_
    @orangetopaz_ 12 дней назад

    I love how the channel called earth science is talking about Saturn’s rings. anyways, amazing video! great visuals and animations

  • @eozoon
    @eozoon 2 года назад +31

    "Cassini's mission is far from over?" It crashed into Saturn in 2017. It's over.

    • @rolfs2165
      @rolfs2165 2 года назад +6

      Funnily enough, The Planets aired in 2019. Guess they've been sitting on that script a bit longer.

    • @legal040
      @legal040 2 года назад +1

      lmao nice catch

    • @Pandamasque
      @Pandamasque 2 года назад +1

      It's but a flesh wound.

    • @nickbisson8243
      @nickbisson8243 2 года назад +6

      Takes a few years to go through all the data from Cassini

    • @Belov3ed_Angel
      @Belov3ed_Angel 2 года назад

      Rip

  • @musaritrashid7534
    @musaritrashid7534 2 года назад +60

    Now a day's the fiction has overwhelmed the reality.

    • @Anicius_
      @Anicius_ 2 года назад +5

      Ever since religion not just nowadays

    • @kewlbeans9905
      @kewlbeans9905 2 года назад +3

      ​@@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.

    • @neverwinta7702
      @neverwinta7702 2 года назад

      @@kewlbeans9905 cool 😎

    • @kewlbeans9905
      @kewlbeans9905 2 года назад

      @@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

  • @curvebuster
    @curvebuster 2 года назад

    Excellent painting of the CGI.
    I can actually smell it from here.

  • @Alfredul03
    @Alfredul03 2 года назад

    A very short but substantial video, very short but U learn a lot. Thank U for make it!

  • @mantesh1379
    @mantesh1379 2 года назад +12

    Brings tears to my eyes 🥺🥺
    I wish we humans could stop being stupid, end wars , stop making weapons and start using money to launch more space missions , discover more of the space 🌌 .

    • @Ray-ex8nz
      @Ray-ex8nz 2 года назад +2

      Omg yes!!!!

    • @LordSkella
      @LordSkella 2 года назад

      Me too

    • @roberteischen4170
      @roberteischen4170 2 года назад +1

      The only reason we bothered to invest into technology for space travel was to prepare for war.

  • @davemmar
    @davemmar 2 года назад +38

    This is an example of human resourcefulness. But it is not the end of Saturn’s ring’s story. At this time it is one of the leading explanations. To me, even more fascinating is our obsession with the beauty of these rings. Saturn is a humongous hit at star parties at DMNS.

  • @AYAHWYWBEJGS
    @AYAHWYWBEJGS Год назад +1

    Props to the camera man for doing this and living

  • @gustavogomezcambron1261
    @gustavogomezcambron1261 2 года назад +1

    Mood is the most about how happy could been, some things many special has could go stay in thought

  • @desoL8d
    @desoL8d 2 года назад +5

    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
      @mersenne2486 2 года назад +1

      not exactly escaping but "the wandering earth" had similar concept. Earth was about to be disintegrated by Jupiter.

    • @desoL8d
      @desoL8d 2 года назад

      @@mersenne2486 That I did not finish watching it. 😅

    • @jkorshak
      @jkorshak 2 года назад +1

      It's been done. When Worlds Collide.(1951) A variation will be in theaters in 2022 called, "Moonfall."

    • @desoL8d
      @desoL8d 2 года назад

      @@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.