Real Footage of Enceladus Erupting into Space! New Timelapse!

#shorts Few worlds in our solar system are as compelling as Saturn’s icy ocean moon Enceladus. NASA's Cassini Spacecraft revealed the dramatic truth, Enceladus is an active moon that hides a global ocean of liquid salty water beneath its crust. Only a handful of worlds are thought to have liquid water oceans beneath their frozen shell, but Enceladus sprays its ocean out into space. With its global ocean, unique chemistry and internal heat, Enceladus has become a promising lead in our search for worlds where life could exist. This video reveals some of the images captured by Cassini during its incredible time exploring the Saturn system. Watch and enjoy this newly put together timelapse footage.
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[@Dark_Richician84]

Love Enceladus. I'd love to see its ocean.

[@MrJayson204]

Love Enceladus, great moon never meddem

[@jasonbrody8957]

You can in a few years

[@NindTheMagnificent]

I didn’t actually realize how small Enceladus actually was; I just thought it was roughly the size of our moon.

[@JM-cu6ex]

Wow, this just made me Google it, it’s tiny, only the size of Scotland, the images you see comparing it to earth still make it look bigger than it actually is Edit: oh wait no I dropped a 10 when I worked it out, it’s more the size of turkey, I’m going off surface area

[@NindTheMagnificent]

@@JM-cu6ex Damn, that's still tiny as hell though

[@Andre-vt4np]

@@NindTheMagnificent im sure it has a great personality

[@tarheelpro87]

Nah, I first learned when I found a website a long time ago that tested how high you can jump on different places in the Solar System, and if you jumped on Enceladus I think you’d almost leave the Moon entirely. You also got to see if a Kangaroo jumped in these places, and I think the kangaroo would literally jump straight off the moon and get spaced. But I can’t find the site now cause I forgot it’s name, and it’s deep within the internet so I can’t remember for sure if that’s true, but I do know they’d jump really high.

[@Bruhza5870]

@@JM-cu6exI don’t think Enceladus has a diameter of Scotland. Enceladus’ surface area is comparable to Pakistan

[@Monarq-q]

An article I found says we’ll start exploring Enceladus in the 2050s. So far away but it’s understandable.

[@molybdaen11]

9 jears are enough to reach it without new technology. So all holding is back is money, as usuall.

[@Monarq-q]

@@molybdaen11 like always sadly

[@saltygamer5161]

Space golf ball… change my mind😂

[@BuriedFlame]

It's a Gusher!

[@davejones9469]

No dimples. Crucial to golf ball performance, has been done since the game was invented, no joke.

[@linkin543210]

I can’t.. I just can’t.,

[@somnuswaltz5586]

Dumb joke

[@raptorwhite6468]

Alan Shepard hit that golf ball a little too hard

[@haeuptlingaberja4927]

If that ice is the most reflective surface in the solar system, then virtually no light whatsoever can reach the ocean underneath, which means that if there is life down there, it is very, very different from life as we understand it because it cannot be based on photosynthesis.

[@MikinessAnalog]

Possibly chemosynthesis like lifeforms found living near thermal vents on Earth's ocean floor.

[@haeuptlingaberja4927]

@@MikinessAnalog Yeah, that's one of the possiblities I was envisioning, but those weird thermal vent lifeforms are not exactly Earth-standard biology, are they?

[@MikinessAnalog]

@@haeuptlingaberja4927 To me, depends on how long said species existed and maybe if they could adapt like other long existing species.

[@mywifesboyfriend5558]

Who knows? We'll see.

[@marcusclarkson2657]

​@@haeuptlingaberja4927sure they are! Just not the part of earth we live on. They have thermal energy source, nutrients, oxygen, and the means to extract the what they need from the environment....it is almost otherworldly but remember... there is far more deep sea than land on this earth...where we are is as alien to thar part of earth as the deep sea is to us, but...its all earth.

[@leemday5731]

Love the name Enceladus it sounds like should be the name of a thrash metal band!!

[@user-cq8fk8ej4h]

First thing I thought. Great name!

[@leemday5731]

@@user-cq8fk8ej4h head lining with Metallica at the o2 arena ..ENCELEDADUS ! Those guys had better give us free tickets s ..lol !

[@TahaSays]

Love your content! I think it'd be even better if you add on screen subtitles rather than CC for your shorts.

[@elleni-41]

Enceladus is one of my favorite moons.. thanx v101 for a wonderful video..👍👌💞💞💞

[@arnoldjanikowski7122]

feel like a child again just using the imagination to think whats under the ice shell! its a toss up for me enceladus and titan my favs

[@ellisonhamilton3322]

Imagine Enceladus being moved closer to the sun. ???????? Fascinating speculation to be sure.

[@noelramirez1551]

I remember that considering that the government tried to shoot like a nuke at Jupiter so it would ignite and all the moons around it would be liveable

[@abelis644]

​@@noelramirez1551 Humans really are stupid.

[@abelis644]

Why? If it has Life on it, that stupid idea would kill it. Why bother it in the 1st place???

[@marcusclarkson2657]

​@@noelramirez1551ignite Jupiter? Shoemaker - Levy 9 couldn't do that. We damn sure couldn't. An interesting premise though, destroy Jupiter. Would throw the entire solar system into disarray. Would cause lots of errant celestial bodies to fly to places they wouldn't have before, like earth for one. Jupiter is the " great protector " as it attracts lots of asteroids and such. Just one effect.

[@pavel9652]

There is no oxygen on Jupiter, so how one would ignite it? People hear it is made of hydrogen and think it could be set on fire with a matchstick ;) Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet strike was so potent, but left only few black spots in the atmosphere.

[@alex47775]

Enceladus truly is beautiful .

[@DeltaHydrixian]

Wait then that means that I can drive from one side to the other side in a few hours then…. Interesting

[@Gemini353]

Yeah, you could go around it in a few hours with a car 🚗 Crazy!

[@Solotocius]

Assuming it has a sufficient gravitational pull, yes

[@notgreg123]

This is the key to colonizing the saturnian system some day

[@danesha4705]

Cool to know these things today but serious missions to Enceladus are like 200 years away

[@pavel9652]

Hard to predict exactly, could be 100 years away. The missions could be driven entirely by sufficiently advanced AI.

[@samanthabusch750]

Wow thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!!! Truly appreciated!!

[@BlackFlagHeathen]

I honestly think we focus on planets a little too much for the potential of habitation and life. All the moons we know of seem to be rocky, and rocky is probably the best best for human habitation.

[@preppertrucker5736]

Can you imagine what type of life might exist in that ocean deep under the ice…. Could make for a great sci-fi horror like Europa Report 👍

[@lucamckenn5932]

Hate to burst the bubble but we already have a very... very good idea of what a no light ocean ecosystem would look like. Would be interesting to see what those hot springs are like though, whole areas are probably feeding frenzies.

[@pavel9652]

Most likely microbial life, maybe some tiny worm-like or coral-like creatures. There isn't just enough energy flux to support more complex life.

[@MOSMASTERING]

​@@pavel9652Or.. maybe something evolved that uses energy in a completely different way to the way life on earth exists.

[@pavel9652]

@@MOSMASTERING True, but they would be still limited by laws of physics, chemistry, thermodynamics, entropy, etc. On Earth we have seen life forms utilizing almost all kinds of energy including some fungi in the wreckage of reactor in Chernobyl living off or despite off ionizing radiation.

[@MOSMASTERING]

@@pavel9652 Maybe they are super slow. Digesting huge amounts of smaller organisms and storing the energy for one big reproduction or movement. Or powered by heat gradient next to a thermal vent. Or storing energy from hundreds of years of photosynthesis from the few photos that might penetrate the ice. I'm wildly speculating at this point. But I guess when the options are severely limited, evolution could have gone off in some really obscure directions. Or maybe just one HUGE object like fungus or algae that is thousands of meters square but acts like one organism. All very exciting to think about though. I would be terribly disappointed if we didn't find anything. As all the ingredients are there. It would imply that earth is UNBELIEVABLY rare to have life on it and that we are a complete freak accident.

[@mywifesboyfriend5558]

Amazing. Space is awesome. Too bad none of us will live to explore it. 😔

[@DaDaDo661]

The craziest thing is that those oceans have never seen sunlight. Pitch black forever

[@matgeezer2094]

There really could be life down there, even complex ecosystems

[@Silenced23]

That's where hypothetically Aquaman could live

[@donconry7894]

Awesome

[@Bonny-d5u]

Enceladus is my favorite moon though its so small it made the E ring of saturn

[@PhoenixFires]

Imagine being the first lifeform on Enceladus and you get blasted off into space.

[@thatisamazing912]

To land on earth billions of years ago?

[@ProximaCentauri55]

*Life form 1 is not an impostor*

[@duncangreen2483]

Love space. Absolutely love it 😀

[@TransitionedToAShark]

What’s to love? No one knows anything about it. How could they

[@duncangreen2483]

@@TransitionedToAShark I shall afford your reply the appropriate response. Which is to ignore it. Space is ace. End of.

[@TransitionedToAShark]

@@duncangreen2483 I’m just saying. We don’t know anything. To me it looks black and has stars. That’s it. Anything beyond that is speculation

[@duncangreen2483]

@I identify as a shark we have seen many things. The Juno and Galileo missions. The new Horizons mission. We have now seen Ceres and Pluto and Charon. We have visited Mars and Luna. The astronomers of old times discovered the planets and Galileo observed Jupiter's 4 large moons, proving the Earth isn't the centre of our Solar System. We have seen more but there is infinitely more to discover.

[@johnnycripplestar5167]

@@TransitionedToAShark looks, people like looks.

[@Faride377]

Ty your like my teacher

[@huskerbluejay9621]

There is almost surely life there.

[@travismoore4410]

WOW

[@DanielWatson-vv7cd]

I just hope N.A.S.A don't bring back any oceanic lifeforms from a different Moon/Planet. Introducing non-native species can be dangerous.

[@claytonrogers8681]

That's probably where Aquaman lives....or RipJaws homeworld from Ben 10

[@5thBeatle]

That's a significant amount of material being ejected. How long can this happen before it runs out and has nothing left? Can this moon be very old and still have water to expel?

[@_apsis]

it actually isn’t that much, although it looks as such

[@pavel9652]

Whole a lot of nothing, just like comet tails.

[@knekia75]

Are you referring to the planet, is as wide as Arizona? Our the Ocean 🌊 being as wide as Arizona?????

[@michaeldubuc4474]

The planet

[@abelis644]

Same thing really... But he said the planet.

[@darreldarrenman3334]

My personal theory is that if this is true there must be plenty of planets and moons capable of sustaining life and some already do. Could be wrong but maybe…

[@jenniecosio3654]

Wow that's awesome 😎👍

[@Jameswebbtelescope7484]

Beautiful moon

[@MRHARLEYWOLF]

I like this moon enchilada

[@Prince_Charmless]

My favorite moon in the solar system.

[@RainbowFlowerCrow]

Astounding! What a beautiful world!

[@ruthiecastro9519]

Hope so this is interesting👍🏻🌟

[@Damn_it.]

maybe one day we will say hi

[@Plushieworld2014]

Enceladus sprays water and it looks like its glowing

[@ubertroopertv1557]

I wonder what would happen if you were able to move Enceladus and send it crashing into Mars, would all that what form oceans in time?

[@nunyabitnezz2802]

If it’s spraying water into space, what is replacing it?

[@SmokeyTheCPMGuy_YT]

I love the way titan photo bombs it from behind

[@Jah_Rastafari_ORIG]

If it's the size of Arizona, I predict frozen rattlesnakes...

[@mafinalmessagechangedaworl7131]

Aliens

[@TheLuminousOne]

Enceladus is very new, only formed very recently just look at its surface.

[@romanrevenge58]

It’s 1 billion years old lol

[@Strider_JM]

Can’t we just sample Saturn’s E Ring and see if there is any organic material with signatures of life?

[@teresavale2517]

Always call this moon ENCHILADA.

[@JayDeePLUS-BEATZ]

Alot of pressures being applied to the moon from Saturn

[@markadams2907]

What causes the geyser and why so high?

[@ambassador8524]

Here’s a radical idea on KZbin: *the earth is round* because every other celestial words are also round!

[@mywifesboyfriend5558]

REEEEEEEEEE

[@franciscopagan3255]

An impressive satellite of Saturn 🪐 . When can we finally know if there is life in its ocean depths? I hope that the new nuclear engine for future space travel can answer that question.

[@iliketurtles50000]

"about as wide as Arizona" Americans really will use anything but the metric system

[@mywifesboyfriend5558]

Metrics are for commies.

[@iliketurtles50000]

@@mywifesboyfriend5558 aka the rest of the world lol

[@marcusclarkson2657]

It makes no sense but by the time we understand its kinda difficult to switch as we have a solid concept of our dumb system. I try all the time to get the " feels " but all I end up doing is a conversion. It is what it is, people aren't equations

[@pavel9652]

Pretty much useless information. I suppose it is several hundred km in diameter, but instead of checking how wide is Arizona I can go to the wiki page about Enceladus.

[@covaciumarius]

Nice golf ball

[@astat1]

If it keeps losing water... it will disappear one day.

[@InvasionAnimation]

Imagine spending billions to et there and mine it only to find the moon was simply farting gAs.

[@thetruthchannel349]

That is REALLY cool

[@JayBlazingProphecy]

How many elements are found in spaxe that are not on earth?

[@mywifesboyfriend5558]

Too many to name.

[@CatCmdr]

They mean Life as WE know it. ❤

[@kadenlankford7596]

Be a life form swimming then gets yeeted into space

[@StarChild75]

Fun fact: I named my daughter after the planet it orbits and named my grandson Enceladus 😊

[@christophermatos8120]

It was sold at a space storage wars lol

[@radradmar]

i want water from this planet

[@AlexMartinez-cc3ic]

Trabajito escolar 😍 lindo te quedó

[@readytopay1488]

One question, does it have a cycle of water? Or will it end up loosing all of it's water?

[@k1j2f30]

Looks like a lovely place to live....what's not to like, it's got everything you ever wanted except.....

[@davejones9469]

Except what? Speak for yourself there bud, it's planet Canada eh!

[@mywifesboyfriend5558]

No Outback Steakhouse? 2/10 would not bang.

[@gordonmitchell729]

If space is a vacuum, would not all of the water rush to space? Is the ‘vacuum’ filled with water and matter, or where does everything that is in ‘space’ in a matter filled galaxy exist?

[@mywifesboyfriend5558]

Not exactly. Ask NASA

[@gordonmitchell729]

@@mywifesboyfriend5558 lol now that's a great response lol

[@HaagseDannyKalf]

Ever heard or this neat thing called gravity?

[@gordonmitchell729]

@@HaagseDannyKalf lol

[@marcusclarkson2657]

If its enough mass to have enough gravity to be spherical, it has enough to hold water. Probably not enough gravity for any atmosphere though.

[@LouBuckzz]

Enceladus is gonna be the new earth when ours expires, and civilization will start there the same way it did here. Nah imagine tho

[@Grim2]

Nothing. There's nothing there. As far as life goes. There's literally ZERO reasons to assume life can form in super low gravity.

[@ouroboris]

It's aliens again.

[@omega09]

Bro everyone is talking about enceladus 👁👄👁

[@derek7633]

how long has it been doing that for and still doing it ?

[@captaindaddy8645]

i love celestial names

[@solterra3989]

Why do assume its water. Cud b nitrogen.

[@iorifori91]

the answer is aquatic sentient alien

[@mywifesboyfriend5558]

Mermaid Planet.

[@bigneiltoo]

Life exists anywhere on Earth where there is water, from the hottest geysers to the coldest poles. Does life such as bacteria rain down from space? We don't know where they came from. There are no prebacteria.

[@asillygooseth1432]

so basically its a male cat

[@silentwhisper742]

Only if u cud survive the eruptions😂

[@Vartholomeos.]

What's lurking under the ice...........99.999999999 percent, probably nothing, lol.

[@VeritasVortex]

Why aren't we funding missions to explore this moon?

[@dimensio_italian_magician]

Well, it would cost A LOT to buy all the fuel for a new Saturn spacecraft and it takes a lot of years to reach Saturn.

[@marcusclarkson2657]

Well, its 800 million miles away for one...

[@davesetown1763]

Very colder then hot to cold sorry can't halt

[@PatThePerson]

We find giant monsters there and call them tulkin

[@dismo021]

Now... hear me out... but if we found out how to slam enceladus into mars to have a jumpstart in teraforming mars.

[@mywifesboyfriend5558]

That would wreck Mars. It's not quite that simple.

[@dismo021]

@@mywifesboyfriend5558 aaaand how do you know?.... you math it out...let alone...anyone? So quick to shoot it down with no data....wow lmao

[@marcusclarkson2657]

​​@@dismo021e can barely move an asteroid that is caught in earths gravitational pull off course. You're talking about moving a moon under JUPITER'S gravitational pull, which is over twice of earth, over 800 million miles. The very idea is stillborn.

[@Zithorius]

Now just slowly lower it towards earth but only enough to give us some much needed freshwater. Wouldn't want a repeat of 40 days and 40 nights

[@mywifesboyfriend5558]

Maybe we need a repeat.

[@Zithorius]

@@mywifesboyfriend5558 That's. Also kinda true

[@HaagseDannyKalf]

​@@mywifesboyfriend5558 How can you repeat something if it never happened in the first place?

[@davidvandyken5762]

Enceladus orbits Jupiter, not Saturn. Neat video though.

[@ryannance9673]

As wide as Arizona? Really?

[@samialmasry6038]

🌏

[@butchcassidy9625]

It's like a egg waiting to hatch.

[@coletanner5193]

These planets and moons were not meant to be landed on and messed with there is order in this universe and we need to respect this order and quit landing on things and create a nuclear bombs and throwing things out of orbit

[@RIUUI007]

Yakutsk, Russia is colder than Enceladus.

[@davesetown1763]

I'm speaking with my hands so u can't take them

[@Ugly_ahh_l30]

Camera man:🗿

[@benw9949]

The name is so funny. It sounds like someone tossed a salad and an enchilada plate together.

[@GrambertMoore]

Let’s invade inceladus

[@saturdaynighto74261]

Incelanus.

[@mistayg2788]

Ts shit look cold af 🤣

[@mj77777]

Behold the moon IceSaladus

[@abelis644]

You don't grasp that it could be warm beneath the ice???

[@mj77777]

@@abelis644 usually I get Lol as a reply when I make a joke

[@HaagseDannyKalf]

​@@mj77777 Lol

[@bihan7967]

Hoth lol

[@Vikanuck]

So, in a nutshell, we may all just be the product of a giant moongasm… 🤔 …neat 🙂

[@bearnuggs]

god i love space

[@thedon1570]

Run there then, LEAVE

[@mywifesboyfriend5558]

​@@thedon1570 Relax, spasmo.

[@justinbeechey232]

Wouldn't it run out of water

[@mywifesboyfriend5558]

Not necessarily.