The First 1000 Days: Cassini Explores The Saturn System

Video Title :	The First 1000 Days: Cassini Explores The Saturn System
Description :	Google Tech Talks May 23, 2007 ABSTRACT A glistening spaceship, with seven lonely years and billions of miles behind it, glides into orbit around a ringed, softly-hued 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 a thousand days ago, the mythic landing of Huygens on the cold, dark equatorial plains of Titan, and Cassini's subsequent explorations of the...
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Ha! Heated toilet seats, actually sounds comfortable. Anyway, this video is great. Other than youtube I have no way of seeing these kind of things. No TV channels where I'm from show anything even remotely like this. Unless it's directly related to "aliens" or UFOs. That picture at the end, of the eclipse with Saturn, that's beautiful. One of the best things of this video.

Carolyn Porco is probably one of the coolest people on the planet, quite honestly. One of the key figures in the exploration of the outer planets, and one of the brightest sparks it has ever been my fortune to learn from... albeit remotely.

Mmmmm. Pork.

This vid rocks saw it on Pbs I loved it.