Journey to the Gas Giants [4K]

Far beyond the reaches of the four rocky planets, we find our Solar System's showpiece worlds- the two gas giants, Jupiter and Saturn. As the two largest planets, both are tantalising targets for probes exploring the planetary neighbourhood. But both lie significantly farther from the sun than the Earth and its terrestrial neighbours. But in the early 1970s, the technology for deep space voyages was primed, and missions to both Jupiter and Saturn ensued. Those missions make up the topic of our video today, in this second episode of our trilogy of Probes that Studied the Solar System.

PROBES Episode 2: Journey to the Gas Giants

The next video will be the last of 2023, and it should be out around Christmas.

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SOUNDTRACK:
- Way Up There (Michael Vignola)
- Desolate Planet (Enzo Orefice)
- Comfort (Amber Waldron)
- When it Takes (Humans Win)
- Zodiac (Raighes Factory)
- Moments (Enzo Orefice)
- Celestial (Amber Waldron)
- Inner Peace (Amber Waldron)
- Mindful Journey (Amber Waldron)
- Harmony (Gushito)
- Platinum Stars (Amber Waldron)
- Wake (Humans Win)

All tracks were provided by Storyblocks Media, from their respected artists

FOOTAGE:
The images and some visual sequences in this video were provided by NASA, from their mission image galleries and their scientific visualisations.

Stock footage graphic sequences were provided by Storyblocks Media

Other footage:
- Pioneer 10 Launch, San Diego Space Museum Archives:

SOURCES OF INFORMATION:

CHAPTERS:
0:00 Welcome Back
1:52 The Gas Giants
4:11 When Planets Align
8:15 Pioneer 10's Journey to Jupiter
12:46 Pioneer 11's Jupiter Journey
15:10 Pioneer 11's Saturn Encounter
16:59 A Postcard from Humanity
18:46 The Galileo Spacecraft
24:27 Cassini-Huygens Spacecraft
29:11 Landing on Titan
32:14 Enceladus' Underground Ocean
33:55 Other Studies: Rings & Storms
36:52 Cassini's Grand Finale
38:38 Future Missions to the Gas Giants
42:33 To be Continued...

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[AuntyProton]

Thank you so much for the detailed accounts of the Pioneers! I've seen so many "documentaries" that never mentioned them at all, and they were the first to the Giants and the first to leave the solar system!

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Orbiting Uranus and Neptune like Cassini did around Saturn would be a massive technologic achievement.

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