1 00:00:14,920 --> 00:00:18,070 liftoff 2 00:00:21,830 --> 00:00:19,670 and since the earth is part of the solar 3 00:00:24,070 --> 00:00:21,840 system by studying the solar system 4 00:00:25,349 --> 00:00:24,080 we hope that we will learn more about 5 00:00:28,550 --> 00:00:25,359 where the earth how the earth got to 6 00:00:31,189 --> 00:00:28,560 where it is today and where it's going 7 00:00:42,830 --> 00:00:31,199 well we're not disappointed this mission 8 00:00:42,840 --> 00:00:49,750 exciting 9 00:00:53,110 --> 00:00:51,830 when you watch the behavior of these 10 00:00:55,189 --> 00:00:53,120 clouds the way they 11 00:00:57,510 --> 00:00:55,199 interact with one another it's as though 12 00:01:02,310 --> 00:00:57,520 you were seeing two swirling 13 00:01:06,550 --> 00:01:04,869 this is the most dynamic and active 14 00:01:07,030 --> 00:01:06,560 geologic surface in the entire solar 15 00:01:10,149 --> 00:01:07,040 system 16 00:01:11,429 --> 00:01:10,159 volcanic lava flows each of these 17 00:01:16,870 --> 00:01:11,439 satellites 18 00:01:29,030 --> 00:01:20,310 you can fit approximately 760 earths 19 00:01:33,270 --> 00:01:31,670 well the rings are made up of individual 20 00:01:34,950 --> 00:01:33,280 individual small particles perhaps 21 00:01:38,830 --> 00:01:34,960 something the size of a basketball and 22 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:45,990 satellite 23 00:01:49,190 --> 00:01:47,990 so you have to catch it just right when 24 00:01:51,990 --> 00:01:49,200 the outside freezes 25 00:01:53,190 --> 00:01:52,000 and the inside is still liquid saturn's 26 00:01:55,030 --> 00:01:53,200 large moon titan 27 00:01:56,789 --> 00:01:55,040 has an atmosphere probably two to three 28 00:01:57,749 --> 00:01:56,799 times as dense as the atmosphere here on 29 00:01:59,830 --> 00:01:57,759 earth an atmosphere 30 00:02:06,310 --> 00:01:59,840 predominantly nitrogen but with a trace 31 00:02:09,430 --> 00:02:08,389 late last night we had these frames come 32 00:02:14,550 --> 00:02:09,440 back from 33 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:20,150 very very unusual difficult to explain 34 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:27,350 very sensitive to any dust in the rings 35 00:02:30,630 --> 00:02:29,110 miranda surpassed our wildest 36 00:02:33,830 --> 00:02:30,640 expectations 37 00:02:35,190 --> 00:02:33,840 here we see a cliff 16 miles high on 38 00:02:36,710 --> 00:02:35,200 this fault 39 00:02:38,470 --> 00:02:36,720 if you were standing here you could flip 40 00:02:42,150 --> 00:02:38,480 a rock off it would take it nine minutes 41 00:02:45,589 --> 00:02:43,830 how do you generate a magnetic field of 42 00:02:47,750 --> 00:02:45,599 a planet briefly 43 00:02:55,750 --> 00:02:47,760 you do it by having an electrical 44 00:02:59,030 --> 00:02:57,350 negative five decimal three eight 45 00:03:06,790 --> 00:02:59,040 microseconds 46 00:03:11,110 --> 00:03:08,869 i guess the surprise to me was that 47 00:03:12,790 --> 00:03:11,120 there was anything to see at all 48 00:03:16,830 --> 00:03:12,800 that's motion that's how you study 49 00:03:21,030 --> 00:03:19,190 meteorology 50 00:03:23,110 --> 00:03:21,040 it looks like we got pounded with about 51 00:03:24,390 --> 00:03:23,120 300 hits per second of tiny little dust 52 00:03:26,550 --> 00:03:24,400 particles 53 00:03:27,670 --> 00:03:26,560 and the science is pushed in in an 54 00:03:30,830 --> 00:03:27,680 amazing fashion 55 00:03:34,949 --> 00:03:30,840 it's like fitting a jigsaw puzzle 56 00:03:38,390 --> 00:03:36,789 one of the interesting thing that's kind 57 00:03:48,710 --> 00:03:38,400 of that's kind of bizarre