How Saturn Got Its Rings | The Planets | Earth Science

[@dannyarcher6370]

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]

@@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]

@@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]

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]

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

[@dannyarcher6370]

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

[@l0nele_]

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]

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

[@Prod_D]

:)))

[@humanbrainphyscholgyeffect3706]

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[@ballotbro7623]

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

[@--bountyhunter--]

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

[@CalderaXII]

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

[@kenzo_1172]

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

[@abxy_real_official_since2020]

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

[@krashd]

@@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]

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

[@idehenebenezer]

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[@gamingmoth4542]

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

[@tylerhartley5031]

Yeah kinda like how Uranus was formed

[@EnshourT_]

You somehow blew my mind with this information...

[@Dan2yefa]

@@tylerhartley5031 hehehehegehehehe uranus

[@-108-]

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]

Maybe ringless...

[@anttam117]

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]

those arent renderings, those are actual images!

[@bipinrana7116]

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

[@theamorphousflatsch2699]

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

[@SolarChip]

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

[@csharpminorflat5]

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

[@EraldBuneci]

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

[@markhollander1201]

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]

​@@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]

@@markhollander1201 Go touch grass.

[@astroevada]

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

[@skateboardingjesus4006]

@@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.

[@deomni6578]

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-]

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]

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

[@nuru666]

@@-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-]

@@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]

@@-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!

[@voidvalkyrie]

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]

Please pursue a career in writing! 😀

[@idehenebenezer]

TO EVERYONE IN THIS CHAT: *THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD IS DRAWING NIGH.* REPENT TODAY AND GIVE YOUR LIFE TO JESUS TO ESCAPE ETERNAL DAMNATION!,

[@110452ND]

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

[@idehenebenezer]

TO EVERYONE IN THIS CHAT: *THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD IS DRAWING NIGH.* REPENT TODAY AND GIVE YOUR LIFE TO JESUS TO ESCAPE ETERNAL DAMNATION!,

[@captaindonkeyballs]

@@idehenebenezerbut I’m using my life, it’s not going to waste itself you know

[@javiertorres9114]

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

[@alexma1]

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

[@javiertorres9114]

@@alexma1 no argument here.

[@boom-d8034]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@hirokokueh3541]

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]

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

[@dannyraiden9722]

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

[@idehenebenezer]

TO EVERYONE IN THIS CHAT: *THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD IS DRAWING NIGH.* REPENT TODAY AND GIVE YOUR LIFE TO JESUS TO ESCAPE ETERNAL DAMNATION!,

[@PaulEli_GamingYT]

Saturn on Solarballs: I ki i i illed my MOONS 😭

[@thunderstormxxxtremelinkse1494]

I have about 27 moons I could force them to crash into me an-

[@AmanRaiAgrawal]

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]

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]

Lo l

[@leomartin1603]

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]

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

[@devonex]

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.

[@rumel02]

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]

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]

@@GotoHere climate change is real

[@mr.smellgood2794]

@@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]

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

[@nrw64]

@@Chuked he never said climate change is not real

[@luciaqiao]

When I saw the title, I knew it! Saturn got engaged multiple times and kept all her rings.

[@TJSaw]

The animation is just spell binding. Hypnotic.

[@idehenebenezer]

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[@idehenebenezer]

TO EVERYONE IN THIS CHAT: *THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD IS DRAWING NIGH.* REPENT TODAY AND GIVE YOUR LIFE TO JESUS TO ESCAPE ETERNAL DAMNATION!,

[@Tilnaor]

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]

Is it earth days or Saturn Days though???

[@JohnnyT0pside]

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

[@ryanbrink2755]

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

[@knightmarefuel4499]

@@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]

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

[@jasonmcconnell3503]

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

[@Baulder13]

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]

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]

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

[@faizansaleem9905]

@@mantesh1379 kzbin.info/www/bejne/rqOqcoR5pp51g7c

[@dreeemer]

@@mantesh1379 @faizi99 shared the emotional preview and this is the documentary: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jGaroGZmerKFo5Y

[@SomeGuy-mt4hq]

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]

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.

[@beastsurfer616]

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

[@idehenebenezer]

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[@prismix0870]

@@idehenebenezeryou guys said that 200 years ago

[@HaggardPillockHD]

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

[@TactileCoder]

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

[@daniboiyy]

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

[@chrisrobinson803]

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

[@graydonsharp5165]

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

[@Paula_Mancilla]

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

[@Bootrosgali]

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]

😯😯

[@fatitankeris6327]

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]

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

[@humanbrainphyscholgyeffect3706]

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[@yuvireal]

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

[@studioambience8340]

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

[@idehenebenezer]

TO EVERYONE IN THIS CHAT: *THE JUDGEMENT OF GOD IS DRAWING NIGH.* REPENT TODAY AND GIVE YOUR LIFE TO JESUS TO ESCAPE ETERNAL DAMNATION!,

[@arshpreetkaur9]

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

[@RanjithPlays]

The happiness in her face shows how determined she was and is.

[@BroAnarchy]

I love astronomy... I wish i had that job

[@planterpot4627]

Time stamp?

[@humanbrainphyscholgyeffect3706]

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[@dragoonsunite]

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]

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

[@israelgomez6988]

Marvels did it

[@imajulianuel]

The oldest creatures in universe is the cameraman.

[@Mrunknown-btf]

So true man

[@Shivraj-Saroj]

😂😂

[@mikeskadi]

nah he traveled back in time to film this

[@senorpepper3405]

I thought it was grand ma

[@petterlarsson7257]

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

[@bnd7911]

Saturn's roche limit gonna kill Mercury bro💀

[@ben1449]

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

[@nathancommissariat3518]

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

[@ala0284]

Well you can tbh. Just get a telescope

[@nathancommissariat3518]

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

[@nick_0]

@@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]

@@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]

@@hazardeur it’s an adventure 🤷‍♂️

[@Bakedcakeyyy]

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

[@mikehunt1528]

Nike.

[@RektemRectums]

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

[@dmanc85]

Thoughts and prayers to this person's noble sacrifice.

[@TwowheelJD]

Thank You, Mr. CGI

[@nomenestomen3452]

He definitely has a deep breath

[@ArchBattle]

@@nomenestomen3452 😂

[@MyThoughts19902X]

Jeez man, find something original.

[@CloudsGirl7]

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]

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]

@@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]

@@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.

[@electrum310]

"They should put that in a movie" Done. Alien Romulus.

[@Sve3t]

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.

[@onehappypepper8732]

That’s a serious table flip. Gotta be

[@solojammer9500]

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

[@geckoo7770]

He even succeeded to reach and hold on Cassini!

[@bod910]

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]

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

[@astop94]

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]

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

[@vanessajazp6341]

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]

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

[@humanbrainphyscholgyeffect3706]

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[@paulgibbon5991]

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.

[@in_the_building1]

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

[@hamzamahmood9565]

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]

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

[@abdulaleem9207]

true.

[@hamzamahmood9565]

@@Rendydany It's free shipping

[@MarsFKA]

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

[@davidwuhrer6704]

​@@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.

[@DeathJustice]

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

[@edwardclancey8260]

I thought that was Zachary’s voice.

[@HC-cb4yp]

I thought it was Kier Dullea from 2001...

[@agquad]

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

[@uxjared]

I had to scroll too far for this…

[@James.576]

The camera man did an awesome job capturing the destruction.

[@Smokie1523]

Robot?! Is that you?!

[@melissapyle7879]

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

[@kysike666]

Ur pretty

[@jumalajivee653]

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

[@GComas-jn2yc]

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]

That's not a real pic. Simulated.

[@brucea3103]

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]

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

[@GComas-jn2yc]

@@brucea3103 Hmmm 🤔 Could be.

[@Hackanhacker]

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

[@condor5912]

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

[@chrisrobinson803]

😭🤣🤣😭😭😂😂

[@davidlieu486]

Looks like Carolyn Porco got her wish. The rings did end up in movies, specifically the recently new Alien Romulus movie. It was spectacular.

[@litfill54]

2:06 imagine you were living there, amazing

[@LordSalazarsRevenge]

I'd shit my pants

[@shayanchamas60]

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]

You only like her because she is a female

[@phsal5182]

Great visuals in this very informative video. Thank you!

[@lf3322]

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

[@tellydianadayondon6534]

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]

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]

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

[@maanmallak8953]

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[@mskimyu]

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

[@nobodyishere]

@@sheldonginsberg5382 damn me too

[@HiiImChris]

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

[@pigpig252]

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!

[@AsadKhan-lm6yr]

The narration of Brian Cox is really good with this

[@bidensucks2922]

try again Champ

[@AsadKhan-lm6yr]

@@bidensucks2922 no worries champ. In the UK it was

[@bidensucks2922]

@@AsadKhan-lm6yr surprised it wasn't Markle

[@Demons972]

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.

[@Knappa22]

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

[@richcast66]

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]

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]

@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]

Yes, Aliens are just humans from the future.

[@jancarlosanluis8279]

@@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]

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

[@Gr84you]

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

[@MadScientyst]

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

[@rens1074]

Yepp, I heard it too 🙂

[@ogpimpin5059]

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

[@chasehicks7465]

Mind-boggling the scale of the universe

[@Winter_Sand]

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

[@DustinPlatt]

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.

[@pratikkatkar7885]

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

[@markhollander1201]

And you think this is real ??? lmao

[@geckoo7770]

@@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.

[@kevinslater4126]

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]

@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]

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

[@daddyrammus]

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

[@lliamjurdom9505]

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

[@DavidBrocekArt]

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

[@matthewtadel]

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

[@weirdface3838]

steven universe?

[@Spudtron98]

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

[@mysticdragonwolf89]

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]

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.

[@charzard6774]

I love that Saturn is the jewel of our solar system and not the only planet to create life

[@Pers0n97]

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

[@lewasil]

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!

[@shiroyt4185]

Props to the camera man for the awesome footage

[@xXxH_E_R_OxXx]

GOd, that would be terrifying if earth got caught in a gas giants gravity like that.

[@immortanjoe9362]

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]

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

[@Scottingham]

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.

[@MrShahrozzz]

Saturn: I need some accessories, hey you there! Moon: Me? Uhh.. hey! What are you doii... ahhhh!!! Saturn: Now I look magnificent 😎

[@gasser5001]

Imagine when we can 3d imagine the ring in its entirety and make a record from it and listen to the sound of saturn.

[@danielwhyatt3278]

Ooooh that sounds like an absolutely wonderful idea. I mean, it will probably still burn our ears out but would still be amazing to record.

[@hanklestank]

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

[@KHN.RVA.28]

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 🪐🪐🪐🪐🪐

[@monkyrblx2313]

FunFact: Saturn has a big brother named J1407B/Super saturn. Its considered as a planet and this planet is the biggest ring plant

[@Michigan1985]

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

[@christophergreening1075]

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]

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]

17000 million tons of ice

[@GhostRydr1172]

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]

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

[@tyler-qr5jn]

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

[@musaritrashid7534]

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

[@Anicius_]

Ever since religion not just nowadays

[@kewlbeans9905]

​@@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]

@@kewlbeans9905 cool 😎

[@kewlbeans9905]

@@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

[@AYAHWYWBEJGS]

Props to the camera man for doing this and living

[@7249xxl]

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.

[@myrandomlife8881]

5:13 I'm surprised too

[@trick-o-treat414]

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.

[@jakerose1362]

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

[@wizzzer1337]

Dinosaurs roamed the earth before Saturn got the ring

[@eozoon]

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

[@rolfs2165]

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

[@legal040]

lmao nice catch

[@Pandamasque]

It's but a flesh wound.

[@nickbisson8243]

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

[@Belov3ed_Angel]

Rip

[@therunningpiranha8763]

Really quite awesome and fascinating to realise that if most of the dinosaurs would have looked through a telescope, they could have seen Saturn without rings! 🦕🪐

[@dr.cheeze5382]

They could have literaly seen the moon get torn appart!

[@thatmikatho8136]

@@dr.cheeze5382 How long does a process like this take? Years, months, days?

[@fallenwolf3368]

What's even more awesome alien's visited us a long time ago and the dinosaurs ate them the ones that escaped nuked our planet. That's why they only hover over us when they come to visit.

[@fallenwolf3368]

@@thatmikatho8136 Light-year is the distance light travels in one year. Light zips through interstellar space at 186,000 miles (300,000 kilometers) per second and 5.88 trillion miles (9.46 trillion kilometers) per year. Do the math on how many light years there are from us to Saturn and then divide the time of the Moon being destroyed

[@lionking_7597]

🤣

[@sophiajas3643]

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

[@milkismurder]

“They should put it in a movie” Fast and Furious producer: “Say no more fam”

[@CodyRay787]

Alien Romulus did a great job showing this detail.

[@desoL8d]

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]

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

[@desoL8d]

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

[@jkorshak]

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

[@desoL8d]

@@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.

[@TheAngryAstronomer]

Is that the voice of Zachary Quinto cos it really sounds like the voice of Zachary Quinto.

[@sufy96]

It is

[@Neoentrophy]

I just want to thank the BBC for providing this content for free, especially since I cancelled my license fee over a year ago

[@ebolarnator1794]

Having Spok narrate this makes it all the better!