liftoff
and since the earth is part of the solar
system by studying the solar system
we hope that we will learn more about
where the earth how the earth got to
where it is today and where it's going
well we're not disappointed this mission
is
exciting
when you watch the behavior of these
clouds the way they
interact with one another it's as though
you were seeing two swirling
immiscible liquids
this is the most dynamic and active
geologic surface in the entire solar
system
volcanic lava flows each of these
satellites
unique
you can fit approximately 760 earths
inside of saturn
well the rings are made up of individual
individual small particles perhaps
something the size of a basketball and
each one of those is like a tiny
satellite
so you have to catch it just right when
the outside freezes
and the inside is still liquid saturn's
large moon titan
has an atmosphere probably two to three
times as dense as the atmosphere here on
earth an atmosphere
predominantly nitrogen but with a trace
of methane
late last night we had these frames come
back from
two billion miles away
very very unusual difficult to explain
very sensitive to any dust in the rings
miranda surpassed our wildest
expectations
here we see a cliff 16 miles high on
this fault
if you were standing here you could flip
a rock off it would take it nine minutes
to fall to the bottom
how do you generate a magnetic field of
a planet briefly
you do it by having an electrical
current flow inside the planet
negative five decimal three eight
microseconds
plus or minus one microsecond
i guess the surprise to me was that
there was anything to see at all
that's motion that's how you study
motion and motion is the key to
meteorology
it looks like we got pounded with about
300 hits per second of tiny little dust
particles
and the science is pushed in in an
amazing fashion
it's like fitting a jigsaw puzzle
together
one of the interesting thing that's kind
of that's kind of bizarre
is the terminator region of triton
to you
you