Saturn Is Not Behaving How It Should, and Scientists Are Stumped | NASA's CASSINI

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  • @warpdriveby
    @warpdriveby Рік тому +327

    This doesn't resonate with everyone, but I hope it will with the intended audience. Seeing Saturn with my own eye through a telescope was one of those moments that stays with you, clear and vivid for a lifetime. If you haven't yet done so, I strongly urge you to do it.

    • @blucat4
      @blucat4 11 місяців тому +21

      Seeing anything through an analogue telescope is an 'Oh wow!' experience for most people. 🙂

    • @mattwarbuckle
      @mattwarbuckle 11 місяців тому +18

      I was taking in this video while reminiscing about seeing Saturn through my cousin’s telescope 40 years ago. I can still feel the awe and excitement that came over me! Well said.

    • @blucat4
      @blucat4 11 місяців тому +5

      @@mattwarbuckle "It's really there!!" 🙂

    • @irenamaria8859
      @irenamaria8859 11 місяців тому +17

      I've seen it too- it wasn't a very high quality telescope, so we could only see it as a white silhouette. Still, you could clearly make out the ring around it. It really does make these faraway space objects seem so real, like suddenly you're seeing them with your own eyes rather than just in a picture.

    • @JaneNX01
      @JaneNX01 11 місяців тому +8

      YES! I’ll never forget that moment either - it still gives me a thrill.

  • @SyncJr
    @SyncJr Рік тому +724

    My favourite fun fact about Saturn is that it was owned by the Japanese company Sega in the 90’s

  • @QUIRK1019
    @QUIRK1019 Рік тому +369

    Knowing that such beautiful rings only last a short while, I've always wondered if Jupiter ever sported an even more impressive set

    • @samanvayasrivastava559
      @samanvayasrivastava559 Рік тому +29

      I was thinking the exact thought 😊 we may have missed a wonder of our solar system

    • @GuardianOfRlyeh
      @GuardianOfRlyeh Рік тому +64

      considering that planets form out of a disc of dust I would say that every planet had a ring for some time - even Earth in it's early millions ;)

    • @joestitz239
      @joestitz239 Рік тому +2

      Last a short while to who or what ? Our life times or geological or cosmic ?

    • @brianbartolomeo107
      @brianbartolomeo107 Рік тому +2

      A source while meaning 100s of millions of years

    • @brianbartolomeo107
      @brianbartolomeo107 Рік тому +19

      Uranus has rings as does neptune..Also many recently discovered planets in other solar systems

  • @thomasfholland
    @thomasfholland Рік тому +102

    Cassini was an enormously popular mission for all of the engineers working at NASA/JPL Caltech. It was the last mission in which my dad was part of the team.

    • @Irene-im8xi
      @Irene-im8xi Рік тому +4

      😊

    • @luvslogistics1725
      @luvslogistics1725 Рік тому +3

      Kobie Boykins was my hockey coach when I was teenager and was working on the Mars mission nearly 30 years ago- featured in Good Night Oppy documentary

    • @badcornflakes6374
      @badcornflakes6374 11 місяців тому

      My dad help create one of the first modern electric cars

    • @hardrock6r
      @hardrock6r 11 місяців тому +4

      my dad drank and did drugs🤣

    • @jestermoon
      @jestermoon 11 місяців тому +1

      A man on those shoulders of giants 🎉 Thank you for your post
      Great stuff
      Stay Safe and Stay Free 🎉

  • @lockiecresswell4629
    @lockiecresswell4629 Рік тому +33

    years ago a planetary EM model I was working on produced a hexagon at the rotation poles. I thought this was unusual so I checked the internet for information pertaining to planetary hexagons. All I could find was a Voyager photo of the North pole of Saturn showing an indistinct hexagonal shape. I was excited by this discovery and I soon learned that the Cassini mission to saturn had just passed Jupiter and would reach Saturn in early 2004. When Cassini arrived at Saturn, the north pole was in constant shade due to the planets tilt and so the first imaging to show the hexagon was in infrared. I was elated to see such a clear image of the hexagon.
    As the years passsed and the north pole came into sunshine, there were a large number of images taken in visible wavelengths, showing a true wonder of our solar system. I recently checked images of Jupiters poles and found that with the timelapse video imaging it is also possible to make out a hexagon on Jupiter, although not as spectacular as that of Saturn.

    • @grawss
      @grawss 11 місяців тому +4

      Great comment! Just FYI, every planet has a hexagon. It's just smoothed out by the difference between the planet's magnetic center and its rotational axis. Saturn is near perfect.

  • @gala6695
    @gala6695 11 місяців тому +27

    I love that you make it sound so poetic. It's wrong to say that science and art does not go hand in hand, because our urge to seek beauty is almost as strong as our urge to seek knowledge, and I think its a good way to keep fueling people's curiosity. If school had made science so beautiful, I bet we would have so many more scientists to this day.

  • @genuineBenFan
    @genuineBenFan Рік тому +161

    I like the idea that Saturn’s metallic core is far more dense than its outer layer hydrogen (in a non-ideal liquid state), causing it to drift in circles somewhat irregularly as it’s effectively floating around in less dense material. A bit like Pluto if it was submerged in its moon, and the elliptical shape of Saturn being a result of this.

    • @joestitz239
      @joestitz239 Рік тому +4

      Saturns not like Pluto

    • @drey4529
      @drey4529 Рік тому +22

      @@joestitz239that’s not what they said at all

    • @DonnieGoodman-ex9xk
      @DonnieGoodman-ex9xk Рік тому +8

      It's good Saturn has all that metal. Seeing as how they make all those cars there.

    • @StayFractalesque
      @StayFractalesque Рік тому +2

      if pluto was submerged in its moon? that sounds fascinating.. what do you mean?

    • @DonnieGoodman-ex9xk
      @DonnieGoodman-ex9xk Рік тому +2

      @@StayFractalesque I think he means. If Pluto was one of its own moon. And it was inside of the planet. Makes sense.

  • @kalen1702
    @kalen1702 Рік тому +88

    The visuals that you include in every video are really next level. I could 100% see this on a mainstream cable channel as a series, it's that good. Your voice is perfect for narrating this topic and I know every single time when you release a video it will be wonderful to watch. Great job building this channel and your resume, because I think you have huge things in store if you seek them out!

    • @mguarin912
      @mguarin912 Рік тому +1

      He is off the charts. Those visuals are fire. I’d love to have one.

    • @Involent
      @Involent Рік тому +1

      Most of the images are taken from public-domain sources, primarily the websites of NASA and similar agencies. Few, if any, of the visuals on this channel are original.

    • @kalen1702
      @kalen1702 Рік тому +5

      @@Involent Well, yeah I know and I’ve seen many of them before in my own browsing. He just puts them together very fluidly and professionally along with his narration is the point I’m making

    • @emptyshirt
      @emptyshirt Рік тому +2

      I think the pacing is much better than most cable series. Cable shows are so constrained by predetermined episode length that they make a habit of slow, boring pacing. Astrum doesn't waste time or skip over small but interesting details. If confined to a 22 minute format these episodes would be much less enjoyable. Occasionally one ends up about 22 minutes, but not having commercial breaks to consider Astrum can weave a 22 minute yarn without distracting you with thoughts of laundry detergent and automotive fantasies.

    • @kalen1702
      @kalen1702 Рік тому

      @@emptyshirt very true

  • @tjalvehund82
    @tjalvehund82 Рік тому +8

    Alex.
    I really feel that i need to thank you.
    In late 2019, at the age of 38, out of nowhere, i got the first ever panic attack of my life.
    This was the start of the worst 2 years of my life.
    It threw me into a deep depression, mared by frequent panic attacks and visits to various psychologists and other medical institutions.
    I was not able to work, interact socialy with anyone outside of my family, and at its worst, not even able to leave my home.
    Few things at this time could give me any comfort whatsoever.
    But you, through your chanel could.
    Everytime i fell really deep in darkness.
    Astrum was what i turned to in order to calm myself.
    Your interesting content, the way you present it.
    And your voice, calm, yet clearly passionate and excited about what you are talking of.
    Was nothing short of a life saver for me.
    Thank you!

  • @thetej1098
    @thetej1098 Рік тому +151

    The tale of Cassini's mission, it's findings and of it's end is one of the most fascinating ones of all of humanity's missions to other worlds.

    • @AWLor0
      @AWLor0 Рік тому +2

      Two apostrophes right, two wrong. A score draw ?

    • @StayFractalesque
      @StayFractalesque Рік тому

      ​@@AWLor0 really? which ones are wrong? they all appear possessive pronouns to me..

    • @varana
      @varana Рік тому +5

      @@StayFractalesque But "its", the possessive pronoun, is written without an apostrophe. Meanwhile, "it's" is the spelling of the contraction of "it is".

    • @mafinalmessagechangedaworl7131
      @mafinalmessagechangedaworl7131 Рік тому

      @@varana ooogaagggaaooga

    • @dangermouse00
      @dangermouse00 Рік тому

      Lol utter shyte

  • @davidtatro7457
    @davidtatro7457 Рік тому +55

    It's just mind blowing how much power, violence, and complexity lie beneath the serene looking outer surfaces of the gas giants.

    • @Trancymind
      @Trancymind 11 місяців тому +1

      Especially Uranus, such a mysterious dark place.

    • @AS-fu1kd
      @AS-fu1kd 11 місяців тому +1

      Kinda like people

    • @davidtatro7457
      @davidtatro7457 11 місяців тому

      @@AS-fu1kd indeed.

    • @annother3350
      @annother3350 11 місяців тому

      They dont call it Saturn (Satan) by accident

    • @davidtatro7457
      @davidtatro7457 11 місяців тому +1

      @annother3350 Saturn and Satan have nothing to do with each other, mythologically speaking.

  • @Beryllahawk
    @Beryllahawk Рік тому +48

    I remember when Cassini launched, and I was joking about it finding a mysterious artifact among the moons there. (Based on an old sci fi novel by John Varley)
    But of course, reality is MUCH, much weirder than any science fiction! And how wonderfully weird Saturn is!

    • @A_Slayer_Named_Buffy
      @A_Slayer_Named_Buffy Рік тому +6

      Excellent! I was wondering if someone would mention Varley’s series.

    • @GypsySun-mi7wi
      @GypsySun-mi7wi 10 місяців тому +1

      The Titan series!

    • @Beryllahawk
      @Beryllahawk 10 місяців тому

      @@GypsySun-mi7wi Woo! Someone else who knows! It was a great story, though it maybe hasn't aged too well, heh

    • @GypsySun-mi7wi
      @GypsySun-mi7wi 10 місяців тому +1

      @@Beryllahawk
      I read the whole series and then every other book of his I could find and he is still my fave author.
      Did he pass away, or just stopped writing?

    • @Beryllahawk
      @Beryllahawk 10 місяців тому +1

      @@GypsySun-mi7wi He's still around! Put out a novel in 2018, in fact, "Irontown Blues," part of a different series.

  • @igavinwood
    @igavinwood Рік тому +392

    I've always thought that Saturn was the most fascinating planet of our solar system, aside from Earth of course. The Cassini mission has been amazing, providing answers, clues and many questions to test our scientific theories. These missions help Astonomy, one of few sciences that look outwards at a level that can amaze and give hope for all. It's only going to get more wonderous as we continue to send probes across our solor system.

    • @joestitz239
      @joestitz239 Рік тому +9

      Yeah. Yet given enough time-which sucks Pluto will get bigger too ! Need an orbiter craft there..

    • @Max_Chooch
      @Max_Chooch Рік тому

      Saturn is cool, but Jupiter is a failed sun and has many more substantially interesting moons, some which may actually harbor primitive life forms.

    • @graxo3752
      @graxo3752 Рік тому +16

      Saturn, Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune defy reality in my mind. The unimaginable states of matter blow my mind

    • @sat7755
      @sat7755 Рік тому +7

      Have you thought that perhaps the Holy Bible will shed light in many universe unsolved mysteries? Since as of today we are unable to create from nothing a single blade of grass, let alone a whole ecological system as on Earth. According to our known knowledge, could it be that God the creator with infinite power over us and the whole universe after all exists, and he is very much involved in our destiny, opening up some of his Mysteries to us but keep some others out of our grasp.

    • @rcschmidt668
      @rcschmidt668 Рік тому +8

      If what we think is “impossible” but still observing it to be so, then we need to change our understanding… including theories that may have outlived their usefulness. The James Webb telescope revealed information that brought the Big Bang under review. All theories should be reviewed as our knowledge grows.

  • @robertbloch1063
    @robertbloch1063 Рік тому +10

    9:20 hydrogen compressed so densly it becomes diamond? Last time I checked diamonds where pure carbon...

    • @aq_ua
      @aq_ua Рік тому

      Or crystals. Who knows, hydrogen diamonds could be possible, ain't no way we can recreate those conditions on Earth to actually make it

    • @c.ladimore1237
      @c.ladimore1237 Рік тому +2

      ​@@aq_ua no it literally is impossible. hydrogen crystals are almost impossible themselves, but diamonds are carbon. we can easily create artificial diamonds on earth but to make them (starting) from hydrogen you need a supernova

    • @milo6046
      @milo6046 Рік тому +1

      It is not impossible for hydrogen to form crystals under some circumstances and high pressure, we just don't know how yet. Maybe a poor choice of words ?

    • @c.ladimore1237
      @c.ladimore1237 Рік тому

      @@milo6046 i said almost impossible

    • @milo6046
      @milo6046 Рік тому

      @@c.ladimore1237 I wasn't answering to you in particular

  • @goldminer1772
    @goldminer1772 Рік тому +17

    Cassini was a probe that i loved, i basically grew up following the news lol

  • @starchaser2489
    @starchaser2489 Рік тому +4

    The people who chose Saturn's name were spot-on.
    It really has a ring to it.

    • @Trancymind
      @Trancymind 11 місяців тому +2

      It sounds like my every second of my life called tinnitus. I wonder if I was adopted by an earthlian.

    • @grawss
      @grawss 11 місяців тому +1

      Chronos, God of Time

  • @andrefagerlid5352
    @andrefagerlid5352 Рік тому +10

    @9:28, Hydrogen compressed to diamond?! I thought diamonds are carbon-based. What am I missing?

    • @shanent5793
      @shanent5793 Рік тому +1

      Hydrogen is theorized to have a crystal structure at high pressure. Diamond cubic could be one of those structures

    • @lawyerpanda1856
      @lawyerpanda1856 Рік тому

      Crystalization = diamonds. Maybe they have done this every elements on the periodic table known to us and they will able to just know the pressurization point of hydrogen. 😅 to actually formulate this. Carbon is nothing 🤣🤣🤣🤣. I believe diamonds from hydrogen will be much more valuable. 😆😄

    • @Arbyfilmaren
      @Arbyfilmaren Рік тому +1

      You are absolutely correct, the presenter made a mistake on this one. Compressed hydrogen does not become diamond, compressed carbon does. He maybe got it mixed up with hydrocarbons, which can be compressed into diamond, shedding its hydrogen atoms. Alternatively, he refers to solid crystalline metallic hydrogen. But that is not diamond.

  • @MrPooPooJohn
    @MrPooPooJohn Рік тому +13

    You really make such great videos, man.

  • @Karikimia
    @Karikimia Рік тому +5

    This channel has helped me so much to learn more about all that I never could have imagined understanding. But also just being able to relax and get to sleep at night. So thank you Astrum ❤️ never stop what you're doing.

  • @justamanofculture12
    @justamanofculture12 Рік тому +1

    Bro dropped the best Saturn video essay,
    And thought we wouldn't notice. Liked.

  • @ReadTheShrill
    @ReadTheShrill Рік тому +4

    All of this is easily explainable: Saturn is about to hatch.

  • @Philfluffer
    @Philfluffer Рік тому +34

    I believe the consensus is that the rings of Saturn are moons that wandered too close and the tidal stresses shredded the moon(s). Saturn also has the most known moons, upwards of 125. Yes, even more than Jupiter, the behemoth gas giant in our system.

    • @ralph-vk4ql
      @ralph-vk4ql Рік тому

      One moon of Saturn has liquid water eruptions that reach very high.

    • @orbitalvelocity357
      @orbitalvelocity357 Рік тому

      Saturn has 145+ moons now as they discovered 62 new ones in may

  • @Sebastianmaz615
    @Sebastianmaz615 Рік тому +33

    It's always freakin' amazed me how if there's enough of them the rings around a planet look precisely like a vinyl record. 😳🤯😊 0:21
    Hard to believe, sometimes, that this is all real meaning it's something we can see/touch; just waiting on technology to catch up with our minds. 🌟🌠🚀🛸

    • @GuardianOfRlyeh
      @GuardianOfRlyeh Рік тому +2

      We should built a space grammophon and try to play its rings!

  • @samanvayasrivastava559
    @samanvayasrivastava559 Рік тому +3

    This was such a journey… I can’t get enough of your otherworldly works

  • @peteengard9966
    @peteengard9966 Рік тому +10

    Cassini crashes into Saturn. Some giant guy yells. Owe my eye!!!! Who threw that?

  • @Knight_of_NI
    @Knight_of_NI Рік тому +4

    Love this channel, it's definitely my space go to source!

  • @thomasdillon7761
    @thomasdillon7761 11 місяців тому +1

    I too am grateful to live in such a time as this. It is the beginning of a new age of exploration that could lead to the stars.

  • @stevezturner7052
    @stevezturner7052 11 місяців тому

    I didn't know of this latest trip to Saturn. Your amazing walk through of the data and the trip, was interesting. Well laid out and presented. Bravo Sir!

  • @goncalovazpinto6261
    @goncalovazpinto6261 Рік тому +5

    Does the concept of a "day" make sense for a planet like Saturn though?
    Mostly a big ball of gas with different layers moving at different speeds... To whom would this "gravitational day" be useful?

    • @fluentpiffle
      @fluentpiffle Рік тому

      We do enjoy trying to force the entire universe to conform to our standards! It helps to keep up the pretence of 'sapience'..

  • @monicacole4547
    @monicacole4547 Рік тому +5

    So interesting. I saw Saturn and it’s rings through a very high powered telescope in the Egyptian Desert. A wonderful experience.

  • @infeedel7706
    @infeedel7706 Рік тому +3

    Another great video from Astrum! I was working on the dishes at Canberra's Deep Space Communications Centre(?) when Cassini/Huygens entered it's orbit, the other guys on our mechanical crew had no idea of the significance sadly. My interest came from BBC's planets interview discussing the planning of this mission and the Europa mission...

    • @blucat4
      @blucat4 11 місяців тому

      Is that the old 'The Planets' or the new one with Brian Cox as the narrator?

  • @dawnadriana1764
    @dawnadriana1764 Рік тому

    Your channel is so awesome it gives me vertigo... I feel like I could fall off my chair and float into space while watching. Also your narration is flawless. XOXO

  • @Ar1AnX1x
    @Ar1AnX1x Рік тому +13

    I find Saturn terrifying for some reason

  • @_adeniyi_
    @_adeniyi_ Рік тому +4

    The sacrifice of Cassini by Neil De Grasse Tyson (Cosmos show) mad me more interested in the mission itself. The lord of the rings has so many secrets we need to uncover.

    • @section7173
      @section7173 Рік тому

      Seems like the more advanced we become in knowledge and technology, the worse we get with with morals and truths. Maybe we should forget space and fix our own failing societies or by the time we do discover any secrets all the scientists will be too busy cataloging 10 billion genders to notice.

  • @gregplanchuelo
    @gregplanchuelo Рік тому +1

    Thank you so much for this high quality content, always!

  • @timmo971
    @timmo971 Рік тому +3

    I was going to suggest sending a probe full of food colouring to check the rotation but yeah the magnetic field idea is ok. I guess

  • @Khevor
    @Khevor Рік тому +57

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't Titan's current environment very similar to Earth's environment some 2 billion years ago or so before the lifeforms in the oceans started producing oxygen as a waste product? If so, it's no wonder interest in that moon has seriously spiked in the last decade or so.

    • @OwnedEpicStyle
      @OwnedEpicStyle Рік тому +23

      no thats gay

    • @iceboi5983
      @iceboi5983 Рік тому +34

      Not particularly. Titan has cryogenic temperatures and its crust is made of water ice, also its atmosphere is much thicker than it ever was on Earth. Not to mention the low gravity. But in terms of it having a methane cycle (analogous to the water cycle on Earth), lakes and rivers, it is pretty similar to early Earth. More similar than anything in the solar system at least.

    • @juanmanumanudice8848
      @juanmanumanudice8848 Рік тому +8

      Where did you think they filmed avatar???

    • @MountainFisher
      @MountainFisher Рік тому

      No, nothing even close. Number one element on Earth is Oxygen, mostly in the crust as oxides because its so aggressively reactive and is not just in the atmosphere. Also don't forget the mantle is half silicates as well and then there is carbonate/calcite with Oxygen in their makeup, think Limestone. The so called reducing atmosphere of the Miller-Urey experiment that produced some racemic non-chiral amino acids in low amounts never existed on Earth. Oxygen has always been here coming in from silicon oxide in the form of chondrites and achondrites meteoroids, not to mention H2O thus preventing a reducing atmosphere. Geophysicists have determined that much of the Solar System's planets were all obviously made from the same elements, but temperature and position from the Sun was what had a lot to do in a planet's composition and formation. Earth was perfectly placed for Life to be engineered here.

    • @aserta
      @aserta Рік тому +1

      No purple, more radiation. So no.

  • @soldaatjhu
    @soldaatjhu Рік тому

    @1:45 I've seen these pictures so many times, but they still strike me with awe.

  • @blucat4
    @blucat4 11 місяців тому +1

    Thanks Alex, that was great. Like most people I love Saturn and the Cassini mission. 🙂

  • @paulflute
    @paulflute Рік тому +3

    'hydrogen compressed so densely that it becomes DIAMOND'..? So diamond is not a crytsal of Carbon..?

  • @lawyerpanda1856
    @lawyerpanda1856 Рік тому +15

    Saturn is visible from India from 3am to 5am our time. GMT+5:30. And also since it summers in India venus is visible almost every night. 😊

  • @blacknwhite5451
    @blacknwhite5451 Рік тому

    Great video. Loved the animations. This will definitely help me sleep tonight.

  • @richardwinzor2961
    @richardwinzor2961 11 місяців тому +1

    The Roman festival of Saturnalia was all about turning social convention upside down. Love that our study of the planet is doing the same with scientific understanding.

  • @Richardj410
    @Richardj410 Рік тому +4

    Thank you for your work.

  • @MIck-M
    @MIck-M Рік тому +4

    When we talk about 'winds' and their speed it maybe helps to consider the atmospheric pressure as well. 1700 kph winds sounds devastatingly fast, but if there are few enough molecules per cubic metre, it may not be enough to even knock me over. Not something I'd like to try.

    • @ifluro
      @ifluro Рік тому

      Or if the surface speed is 1750khr the wind would be 50khr

    • @ifluro
      @ifluro Рік тому +2

      If we ignore the earths rotation speed and just look at wind speed, we would get roughly 1600khr wind speed.

  • @9Achaemenid
    @9Achaemenid Рік тому

    Great video! Thanks Astrum!

  • @Sailor376also
    @Sailor376also Рік тому +1

    The hexagonal storm on Saturn's north pole has a corollary here on Earth. The eyewall of some hurricanes is not round. Some much more pronounced than others. The eyewall of an Earth hurricane is often pentagonal. Look for sat photos, look downs,, and near the time of an eyewall replacement cycle.

  • @AlmostEthical
    @AlmostEthical Рік тому +27

    Might the remaining mysteries be caused if Saturn's core was not spherical but instead tends a bit towards the ogival, tapering to the north and south poles?
    I always thought Saturn was overrated. It had rings, Enceladus and Titan, and a few minor subtleties. You have made it more interesting to me than a nondescript brown ovoid, only rated for its bling. Most of the interesting processes are happening deep down, far out of sight.

    • @jimb1580
      @jimb1580 Рік тому +9

      Extra points for using the word ogival... 📖 🔍 and for describing Saturn's moons as bling... 💍 😄

    • @TehPwnerer
      @TehPwnerer Рік тому

      Sounds like you've never seen Saturn through a telescope

    • @AlmostEthical
      @AlmostEthical Рік тому +1

      @@TehPwnerer Actually, I saw Saturn (and the Moon) at the Sydney Observatory some obscene number of years ago. Yes, it was awesome.
      It's still just a dull, baby poo brown ovoid in fancy clothes ;)

    • @blucat4
      @blucat4 11 місяців тому

      @@AlmostEthical So let me guess, you got married in that time? 😁

    • @AlmostEthical
      @AlmostEthical 11 місяців тому

      ​@@blucat4 Don't geddit. Is it to do with rings?

  • @ky1ebetts
    @ky1ebetts Рік тому +2

    Next we're going to find out that the Great Red Spot is actually caused by a captured moon orbiting under Jupiter's cloudtops. Being ripped apart by jetstreams tainting Jupe's equatorial bands red.

  • @arnepianocanada
    @arnepianocanada Рік тому

    I echo @kalen about your splendid visuals, and express once more my great admiration for your splendid voice and manner of speaking.

  • @Deafgreekboy
    @Deafgreekboy 5 місяців тому +1

    I do a bit of woodworking. I’ve seen that same hexagon pattern before when drilling a counter-sink hole to make room for a screw head below the surface of a panel.
    It happens when you spin the drill too fast and the counter sink bit skips and bounces on the surface of the panel because you aren’t holding the bit with enough force to the panel.
    It’s a pretty cool thing to see. I assume it has to do with the geometry of the bit and the speed of the rotation finding a kind of resonance, but someone would have to work out the math and physics.

  • @robertwoods5169
    @robertwoods5169 Рік тому +5

    This is just more of a reason why no matter how much we believe our science may be correct, it never is. There will always be something to prove us wrong

    • @danodamano2581
      @danodamano2581 Рік тому +2

      Sshhhh! Some egos don't like to be questioned.
      It may also jeopardize someone's research grant money!

    • @assininecomment1630
      @assininecomment1630 Рік тому +1

      "No matter how much we believe our science may be correct, it never is."
      Righto.
      Our science is never correct. 😐
      FWIW, on what form of communication device - developed and produced with countless scientifically deduced discoveries, theories, details, facts, etc - are you accessing this video and comments section?

    • @assininecomment1630
      @assininecomment1630 Рік тому

      Whilst you're wheeling out that trusty, tired old accusation about corrupt funding for science, ​@@danodamano2581, why don't you yell at the clouds about your hard-earned tax dollars going to expensive and pointless space agency projects?

  • @neddreadmaynard
    @neddreadmaynard Рік тому +8

    I have to say I was so startled by this data. Even mildly shocked.

    • @grawss
      @grawss 11 місяців тому +1

      I was gobsmacked.

  • @josefinematildehansenvonki2384

    Thank you, Axel for yet another great video❤

  • @Frankotronify
    @Frankotronify Рік тому +20

    What if the axis of rotation of the planet is tilted but the winds on the surface of the planet aligned with the magnetic field? Do they know the actual orientation of the planet's rotation or are they basing themselves on the orientation of the winds? Maybe the magnetic field is having an effect on the gas, forcing it to rotate in the same direction as the magnetic field instead of the planet's rotation.

  • @katgettingblckdinayellowthong
    @katgettingblckdinayellowthong Рік тому +4

    Quality as always! 🤩👍

    • @cabanford
      @cabanford Рік тому +1

      Matterhorn!

    • @katgettingblckdinayellowthong
      @katgettingblckdinayellowthong Рік тому

      @@cabanford The inside is made of nougat.

    • @cabanford
      @cabanford Рік тому +2

      @@katgettingblckdinayellowthong and 1000.- franc notes 🤣 (I've lived here in Zermatt for 42 years, so I know where the Central Bank hides its dosh)

    • @katgettingblckdinayellowthong
      @katgettingblckdinayellowthong Рік тому +1

      @@cabanford Don't tell anyone - we will split it.

    • @cabanford
      @cabanford Рік тому

      @@katgettingblckdinayellowthong 🤪

  • @davenoyes3438
    @davenoyes3438 10 місяців тому

    I always enjoy listening to your channel great content

  • @robertoseveno
    @robertoseveno Рік тому

    Brilliantly interesting video, watched twice. Thank you

  • @MrTamshin
    @MrTamshin Рік тому +3

    could the hexagon be formed by sound frequencies?

    • @fluentpiffle
      @fluentpiffle Рік тому +1

      Certainly vibrational frequencies..
      spaceandmotion
      wave structure of matter

  • @aserta
    @aserta Рік тому +2

    Technically "the largest rings" in the solar system, but if you look from afar, Sol has bigger rings.

    • @grawss
      @grawss 11 місяців тому

      What's Sol, your mom's name?

  • @he_lost_get_over_it
    @he_lost_get_over_it Рік тому

    I just love💕 the sound and accent of this guy's voice. It draws you in. 😊

  • @anonymousannoyingmouse
    @anonymousannoyingmouse Рік тому

    BIG FOOD FOR THOUGHT
    thank you Astrum For always tickling my brain cells with your videos

  • @Galbex21
    @Galbex21 Рік тому +4

    I normally don't like your videos but honestly I think they are improving. You sound more humble and explain things with simpler words and that helps a lot. Before your videos where too technical for me at least.

    • @squirlmy
      @squirlmy Рік тому +5

      if you don't know the difference between "were" and "where", it may not be the videos that need improving. I'm also not really sure you understand the meaning of "humble", or maybe you have a interesting perspective; that if a video is more accessible and less technical it is automatically better. There is plenty of room for very learned, technical videos on UA-cam. PBS Spacetime is often far beyond my understanding, but why would that not be okay?

    • @morbidmanmusic
      @morbidmanmusic 8 місяців тому

      @squirlmy
      I hope you've calmed down a little...

  • @namesnotrick3196
    @namesnotrick3196 Рік тому +5

    Where can I find the pics you use for the thumbnails??

  • @CC-ns2ds
    @CC-ns2ds Рік тому +1

    Can I correct one thing. It would not be hydrogen that is compressed and rains deeper but it would be liquid helium as helium is denser than liquid hydrogen. So it would be the in-falling helium droplets against the liquid hydrogen that causes the frictional Heating. I would love to see how two different density superfluids interact.

  • @THomasHH
    @THomasHH Рік тому

    That is the beauty of science. You look for answers and get new questions in addition. That's how projects never end.

  • @m.r.cerney3608
    @m.r.cerney3608 Рік тому +4

    Perhaps a stupid question, but could it be possible that the axis of rotation of the atmosphere is not aligned with axis the core and is instead aligned with the magnetic field?
    I've no idea how this could happen, just the first thought that came to me.

    • @GuardianOfRlyeh
      @GuardianOfRlyeh Рік тому +2

      considering the wind speeds of the clouds and that they move at some points in opposing directions there should be gigantic electric potentials. That thought is not that far off I'd say.

  • @novy1198
    @novy1198 Рік тому +13

    our whole solar system is pretty much very rare and strange so i think thats not that bad

  • @2serveand2protect
    @2serveand2protect Рік тому

    You do make great videos - no doubts about it.

  • @thetej1098
    @thetej1098 Рік тому +7

    Hey Alex I commented on another video of yours - can you please post the links to sources as well, like papers or journal articles? Countless other good channels do it, like Kurzgesagt, Destiny, even Veritasum etc
    Just adds that much more to the credibility than just "hey its in the video so its gotta be true"

    • @sr4087
      @sr4087 Рік тому

      Wikipedia

    • @thetej1098
      @thetej1098 Рік тому +1

      ​@@sr4087 not even close to being a genuine source.
      Those other channels don't mention wikipedia links under their videos for a reason

    • @Julia-uh4li
      @Julia-uh4li Рік тому

      ​@ErectileReptile109 Yes, Wikipedia is absolutely laughable. I'm not trying to knock the person commenting about Wiki, but I've seen just how skewed Wikipedia biases are. I would never trust Wiki-anything.

  • @seditt5146
    @seditt5146 Рік тому +3

    Is there not some Moons that are tidelly locked on Saturn? Wouldn't this tell the speed of rotation?

    • @MNbenMN
      @MNbenMN Рік тому +1

      I'm trying to figure you what you meant by this. I can't think of how a tidally locked satellite relates to the rotational speed of it's planet. At first I thought maybe you were implying a connection between synchronous orbits and tidal locking, but we'd need to already know the planetary rotation to know if the orbit was synchronous to begin with... so I'm not sure if you are on to something or not.

    • @seditt5146
      @seditt5146 Рік тому +2

      @@MNbenMN Yeah Brain fart sorry. I just wasn't thinking right but the second I reread what I said it clicked in my head that wouldn't work my fault sorry.

  • @Attila_Meszaros
    @Attila_Meszaros Рік тому

    Watching a video about Saturn. Going immediately to "Cassini's Grand Finale" short. Crying.

  • @tgbedini
    @tgbedini Рік тому +2

    My cousin has been involved with the Dragonfly project, I think from the start. Fascinating stuff.

  • @Siamect
    @Siamect Рік тому +29

    If a planet does not behave according to traditional models, one cannot simply assume, without considering some evidence, that there is something wrong with our traditional models. It could simply be that there is something seriously wrong with the planet.😆

    • @harryhanz1690
      @harryhanz1690 Рік тому

      I bet it's autistic.

    • @goncalovazpinto6261
      @goncalovazpinto6261 Рік тому +11

      It's not us, it's Saturn!

    • @rowill2968
      @rowill2968 Рік тому +11

      Maybe that planet is from another planet 😂

    • @GuardianOfRlyeh
      @GuardianOfRlyeh Рік тому +3

      @@rowill2968 It is a space ship! With a nice looking cloak and some ring bumpers. Shiny Saturn shouldn't get a scratch when bumping some asteroids or planets away.

    • @grawss
      @grawss 11 місяців тому

      If your standard modus operandi isn't to assume we're always wrong about everything, then I hate to break it to you but you're in a religious cult!

  • @stephenorton2944
    @stephenorton2944 Рік тому +5

    The hexagonals at the poles are caused by Birkland Currents (electrical) which is confirmed by the fact that the rings move in alternate clockwise and anticlockwise directions.

    • @krikeydial3430
      @krikeydial3430 Рік тому +5

      The hexagon on the top is a nut so you can take the top off and remove the rings for cleaning.

    • @grawss
      @grawss 11 місяців тому +1

      Hey, someone got the correct answer. Nice.
      And the magnetic field of a given planet works the same as a simple magnet motor. Energy through the top, spin following the right hand rule, alternating each field line.

    • @grawss
      @grawss 11 місяців тому

      @@krikeydial3430 By "correct answer" I was referring to this, not that nonsense from stephenorton.

  • @mickcompagnoni1114
    @mickcompagnoni1114 6 місяців тому

    Thank you for this wonderful presentation. Cassini was brilliant. I shed a few tears watching live as Cassini dived & died in Saturn's atmosphere.

  • @mikebikekite1
    @mikebikekite1 Рік тому +2

    When they say 1800kph winds does that mean relative to a still point in space? Earth rotates at approx 1600kph - does that mean that the perceived "wind" would be 1600kph, even on a still day? Just curious really.

  • @iamchillydogg
    @iamchillydogg Рік тому +3

    What did Saturn say to Jupiter?
    I can see Uranus.

  • @kirbymarchbarcena
    @kirbymarchbarcena Рік тому +7

    We'll gonna miss Cassini

    • @joestitz239
      @joestitz239 Рік тому +1

      Use a favorite online cassini photo. Blow into poster, frame it :)

  • @differous01
    @differous01 Рік тому

    As with Jupiter's, the eyes of Saturn's storms emit Infra-red light: the storms' surfaces are somewhere between sun spots (which eject shorter wavelengths : X & Gamma rays) and plumes in Earth's Mantle (visible red when erupting). The working model holds true (E=MC2): a model expecting to find "Clouds" under our crust was bound to break.

  • @FlynTie
    @FlynTie Рік тому +3

    I am hugely disappointed that they called the mission to Titan Dragonfly instead of Firefly!
    Nonetheless stellar video, like always :)

  • @benjaminstevens4468
    @benjaminstevens4468 Рік тому +8

    LPB is very proud that he had something so profound to share, before anyone else could.

    • @joshuadowdle9691
      @joshuadowdle9691 Рік тому +3

      LPB?

    • @dabu3
      @dabu3 Рік тому

      Who the fck is LPB

    • @OwnedEpicStyle
      @OwnedEpicStyle Рік тому +1

      LPB these nuts

    • @dabu3
      @dabu3 Рік тому +1

      @@OwnedEpicStyle lesbian peanut butter?

    • @dabu3
      @dabu3 Рік тому +1

      @@OwnedEpicStyle dude, you’re not giving any information for what LPB actually stands for

  • @AceSpadeThePikachu
    @AceSpadeThePikachu Рік тому +2

    Planetary magnetic fields are something that intuitively we think we SHOULD have a handle on, but clearly we don't. World's that shouldn't have them but do, like Mercury and Ganymede, world's that should have them but don't, like Venus and Mars, and worlds with really wonky, lopsided magnetic fields like those of the Ice Giants.

    • @fluentpiffle
      @fluentpiffle Рік тому

      The fundamentals of 'mainstream' science are incorrect..
      spaceandmotion
      wave structure of matter

  • @kevinburt44
    @kevinburt44 10 місяців тому

    Excellent video as always, the universe is such an awesome place, how can people not be awed by it? I love looking up at the stars, gives you a sense of perspective.

  • @sharongillesp
    @sharongillesp Рік тому +1

    Beings on Saturn have been watching Earth since its formation.
    It’s atmosphere was created to be illusive and its surface is inhospitable to earthing, which is why it was chosen.
    We are being watched.
    We can’t outmatch them.

    • @LadyVandMrT
      @LadyVandMrT 11 місяців тому

      It is infinitely more likely that Saturn is conscious, and planets can be alive, than there is alien life on the planet.

  • @JohnStopman
    @JohnStopman Рік тому +6

    Cassini's "Shocking" Data? 🤔
    I haven't seen any 😌
    A few mysteries does not equal "shocking".

  • @SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands
    @SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands Рік тому +15

    Hydrogen cannot become diamond...lol. Carbon can become diamond.

    • @emmacavalier
      @emmacavalier Рік тому +7

      He probably meant that the high pressure from the hydrogen gas in the atmosphere turns carbon compounds into diamond lattices.

    • @kamion53
      @kamion53 Рік тому +2

      could it not be understood that under extreme pressure hydrogen get arranged in cristallic shapes? I would not know how, but nevertheless, is the a solid state of hydrogen or is a liquid state the ultimate.

    • @aq_ua
      @aq_ua Рік тому +2

      To be fair we don't know that yet lol

    • @GlensRetroShow
      @GlensRetroShow Рік тому

      Best compressed hydrogen can be is liquid metal but no diamond 💎

    • @lawyerpanda1856
      @lawyerpanda1856 Рік тому

      Thats the beauty of exploring planets we may not be able to make any contact with "alien life" but or see any habitable planets in the present form however we are able to see science that was restricted on earth. Like on earth hydrogen is only present naturally in a gas form. But thanks to Saturn we were able to uderstand and grow that it can be in liquid form too! Further it can also prove in near time.that under right pressure hydrogen can even turn into some coloured diamonds. (Who knows).

  • @douglasstrother6584
    @douglasstrother6584 9 місяців тому

    James Clerk Maxwell's demonstration that Saturn's rings must consist of particles was the first example of his physical & mathematical prowess.
    I'd bet he could explain the hexagonal pattern.

  • @otozu6387
    @otozu6387 Рік тому

    I love your voice and accent, I don’t know why but it’s so relaxing

  • @Stroopwaffe1
    @Stroopwaffe1 Рік тому +3

    Saturn is an electric system!!!! Does the narrator not know the whole universe including ourselves and every living being is in an electrical system.

  • @bubulunaidoo
    @bubulunaidoo Рік тому +3

    :O

  • @jackmcmillan8854
    @jackmcmillan8854 Рік тому +1

    Saturn's magnetic field seemingly violates Cowling's Theorem. Fascinating! But the theorem states axisymmetric magnetic fields cannot be maintained by axisymmetric fluid motions. Asymmetric fluid convection could conceivably generate a nearly axisymmetric magnetic field, but the geometry would be extremely complicated. Certainly more studies are needed. I find this interesting because my doctoral dissertation was on dynamo theory.

  • @JD-pr1et
    @JD-pr1et 10 місяців тому

    Arrival of the galactic current sheet and the material with that.

  • @lesserpolandball4227
    @lesserpolandball4227 Рік тому +3

    First

  • @float32
    @float32 Рік тому +7

    Tired of clickbait titles. I’m out.

  • @davidk6264
    @davidk6264 Рік тому +1

    another great video, would you be able to caption in the video showing real photos from the artist's impressions? Saturn is a beautiful planet. Sometimes you cant tell.

  • @mobiuslife8
    @mobiuslife8 Рік тому +2

    It has been called another sun. In ancient writings. This video brought new life to that idea for me. Very interesting!

    • @grawss
      @grawss 11 місяців тому

      Yeah it totally was. Try reading the old testament and matching the ages of people in the bible to the ratio between Saturn and the Sun.
      This message was posted the day after Saturday. 🤣😂

  • @invin7215
    @invin7215 Рік тому +1

    13:58 ah, another gem for my collection of weird Nord VPN ad segues

  • @JerseyLynne
    @JerseyLynne 11 місяців тому

    I watched it twice in a row. TU! I love your content! Iapetos looks like the death star. it has gemetric sha

  • @katehack1677
    @katehack1677 11 місяців тому

    Saturn is so iconic that when kids draw planets and stars, the rings of Saturn often feature, although multiple planets with rings might be drawn.