National Geographic: Journey to the Edge of the Universe

446 00:32:31,128 --> 00:32:35,218 Unless Jupiter gravity is creating friction deep inside, 447 00:32:35,411 --> 00:32:37,746 preventing Europe from freezing, 448 00:32:39,228 --> 00:32:44,008 allowing life to develop in the downstream of the frozen crust. 449 00:32:45,572 --> 00:32:49,025 We may be a few meters from aliens, 450 00:32:49,729 --> 00:32:52,251 a full microsystem of microbes, 451 00:32:52,387 --> 00:32:55,133 crustaceans, even squid. 452 00:32:55,756 --> 00:32:59,657 The only thing between us and the possibility of extraterrestrial life, 453 00:33:00,080 --> 00:33:02,353 This ice layer. 454 00:33:03,395 --> 00:33:06,694 But until we send a ship space drill the ice, 455 00:33:06,824 --> 00:33:12,815 Europe will remain one of the greatest mysteries of the solar system. 456 00:33:28,563 --> 00:33:31,370 It has captivated our imagination, 457 00:33:31,786 --> 00:33:34,355 haunted our dreams, 458 00:33:35,388 --> 00:33:37,006 and here it is, 459 00:33:37,490 --> 00:33:40,353 turning before our eyes, 460 00:33:41,258 --> 00:33:42,455 Saturn, 461 00:33:43,070 --> 00:33:46,810 the jewel in the crown of the solar system. 462 00:33:48,302 --> 00:33:51,163 There is something magical about Saturn, 463 00:33:52,966 --> 00:33:54,703 a giant ball of gas, 464 00:33:54,829 --> 00:33:55,884 so light 465 00:33:56,212 --> 00:33:58,265 that float in water. 466 00:33:59,694 --> 00:34:04,972 Your spectacular, rings extended arrive almost from Earth to the moon. 467 00:34:05,578 --> 00:34:08,523 But they have only a few hundred centimeters thick. 468 00:34:10,423 --> 00:34:12,378 A Cassini 469 00:34:12,643 --> 00:34:15,027 It is to catch emissions spectral radio, 470 00:34:15,137 --> 00:34:19,377 probably generated by auroras around Saturn's poles. 471 00:34:19,803 --> 00:34:22,326 This is the real music of the spheres. 472 00:34:26,587 --> 00:34:27,911 And you're telling us that 473 00:34:27,936 --> 00:34:30,543 these rings are almost certainly the remains of a 474 00:34:30,568 --> 00:34:33,783 moon shattered by the force of Saturn gravity. 475 00:34:35,853 --> 00:34:37,917 incomparable beauty 476 00:34:38,270 --> 00:34:40,901 from complete destruction. 477 00:34:49,553 --> 00:34:51,938 Billions of ice pieces, 478 00:34:52,035 --> 00:34:54,402 some smaller than ice cubes, 479 00:34:54,508 --> 00:34:57,165 other houses in size. 480 00:34:57,734 --> 00:35:02,311 They collide, break off, join again, 481 00:35:04,069 --> 00:35:07,997 It is like a photograph of our young solar system, 482 00:35:08,439 --> 00:35:12,157 with dust and gas orbiting the newborn sun, 483 00:35:12,610 --> 00:35:17,101 and gravity to do its magic, picking up the pieces, 484 00:35:19,034 --> 00:35:21,716 until waste like these, 485 00:35:22,349 --> 00:35:24,874 our planet arose. 486 00:35:38,513 --> 00:35:40,946 All objects orbiting Saturn, 487 00:35:41,041 --> 00:35:43,073 They are technically moons, 488 00:35:43,268 --> 00:35:46,314 from the smallest chunk of ice to it, 489 00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:49,233 greater than our moon, 490 00:35:49,848 --> 00:35:51,162 Titan. 491 00:35:53,247 --> 00:35:56,682 Is shrouded by clouds thick orange, 492 00:36:10,166 --> 00:36:11,384 But underneath them, 493 00:36:11,468 --> 00:36:14,445 there seems to be an atmosphere here. 494 00:36:14,683 --> 00:36:16,896 There is wind, rain, 495 00:36:17,112 --> 00:36:19,030 even stations. 496 00:36:22,210 --> 00:36:23,336 And rivers, 497 00:36:23,447 --> 00:36:24,478 lagos, 498 00:36:24,563 --> 00:36:25,743 and oceans. 499 00:36:29,985 --> 00:36:33,965 It is the place more like the Earth that we have seen so far, 500 00:36:35,670 --> 00:36:36,677 except 501 00:36:36,702 --> 00:36:38,153 is not water, 502 00:36:39,601 --> 00:36:41,842 is liquid natural gas. 503 00:36:44,090 --> 00:36:46,560 There must be hundreds of times more natural gas here 504 00:36:46,585 --> 00:36:49,978 than in all the reserves of oil and gas on Earth. 505 00:36:50,293 --> 00:36:51,957 If we took home, 506 00:36:52,090 --> 00:36:54,925 he could feed our cities, fuel our cars 507 00:36:54,950 --> 00:36:57,561 for thousands of years, 508 00:36:57,975 --> 00:37:00,190 or perhaps one day, 509 00:37:00,362 --> 00:37:01,915 we can use it here ... 510 00:37:02,081 --> 00:37:04,013 ... to supply a colony, 511 00:37:04,268 --> 00:37:07,579 assuming that not there is life on Titan. 512 00:37:08,618 --> 00:37:10,533 A space probe Huygens, 513 00:37:10,713 --> 00:37:13,043 dropped on the surface of Titan by Cassini, 514 00:37:13,159 --> 00:37:14,819 You are here to find out. 515 00:37:16,201 --> 00:37:20,086 You are telling us that there are organic materials in the soil, 516 00:37:20,465 --> 00:37:21,631 but it's so cold, 517 00:37:21,814 --> 00:37:24,093 180 degrees Celsius, 518 00:37:24,295 --> 00:37:27,633 there is no way to join to give life. 519 00:37:27,968 --> 00:37:29,028 Unless, 520 00:37:29,180 --> 00:37:31,250 Titan heat. 521 00:37:33,065 --> 00:37:35,647 It is anticipated tha