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SAGAN: Imagine that we are travelers
from the stars...
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...bound for the sun.
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We would discover it surrounded by
four giant, cloudy, gas worlds:
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Blue Neptune and its
frozen moon, Triton.
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And then farther in, Uranus
and its dark rings...
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...made perhaps of organic matter.
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Saturn, the jewel
of the solar system...
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...set within concentric rings...
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...composed of a billion icy moons.
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And finally, flanked by massive
satellites...
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...the largest planet, Jupiter.
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Its multicolored clouds...
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...studded with flashes of lightning.
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Still farther in...
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...closer to the sun...
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...there are no more
giant planets...
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...only a host of lesser worlds...
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...made of rock and metal...
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...some with a thin envelope of air.
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They huddle about the sun...
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...with almost no internal heat of
their own...
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...tiny places with solid surfaces...
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...one of which is a blue
and pretty world...
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...called Earth.
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Half-covered with clouds...
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...it is the home planet
of travelers...
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...who have just learned to sail
the sea of space...
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...to investigate close-up...
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...Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and
Neptune...
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...its brothers and sisters
in the family of the sun.
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Human voyages of exploration
to the outer solar system...
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...are controlled, so far, from a
single place on the planet Earth...
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...the Jet Propulsion Laboratory...
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...of the National Aeronautics and
Space Administration...
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...in Pasadena, California.
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Here on Sunday, July 8th, 1979...
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...the Voyager 2 spacecraft...
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...began its close passage
by Jupiter and its moons.
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General science systems...
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JPL MAN:
...are you ready with status check?
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Yes, I am.
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SAGAN:
The spacecraft had been instructed...
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...how to explore
the Jupiter system...
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...by a sequence of commands
radioed earlier...
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...to its onboard computers.
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Power, 450 watts.
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Power is go at this time.
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DSE systems.
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LACP mode is far and counter.
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We are at take 21 0.
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Direction last recorded was reversed,
and the track is track one.
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Here we check how faithful
an emissary Voyager is.
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Does it understand the commands?
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How is its health, its temperature...
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...its brains...
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...its heart?
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Yes, detailed science is coming up...
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"A" systems...
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...completed the status check...
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...and the spacecraft is go.
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Roger. Thank you.
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SAGAN: The modern ships that sail to
the planets are unmanned.
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They are beautifully constructed...
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...semi-intelligent robots.
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Voyager's eyes are
two television cameras...
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...designed to take many thousands
of pictures in the solar system.
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Along with other instruments, they are
mounted on a scan platform...
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...which points at passing planets.
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Voyager's brains are three integrated
computers set amidships.
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It communicates with Earth
through a radio antenna...
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...mounted like a sail.
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Voyager bears a message
for any alien civilization...
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...it may one day encounter
in interstellar space.
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Its louvers open and shut to help
control the onboard temperature.
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But Voyager cruises
so far from the sun...
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...that it cannot depend
on solar power.
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Instead, it has a small
nuclear power plant...
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...quarantined from the rest
of the ship.
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Many things can go wrong
in such pioneering missions.
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So people are a little uneasy...
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...at Voyager mission control.
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Jupiter is surrounded by a shell of
invisible but extremely dangerous...
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...high-energy charged particles.
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If Voyager flies too close...
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...its delicate electronics
will be fried.
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A collision with a small boulder
in the rings of Jupiter...
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...could send the spacecraft tumbling
wildly out of control...
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...its antenna unable to find
the Earth, its data lost forever.
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Voyager 1 and Voyager 2...
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...were launched a month apart
in late summer of 1977.
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After many alarms and close calls...
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...they successfully arrived months
apart at the Jupiter system...
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...where they worked brilliantly...
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...providing the first close-up views
of mighty Jupiter...
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...and its four large
and mysterious moons:
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Io, the innermost of the four...
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...Europa...
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...and moving away from Jupiter...
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...Ganymede...
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...and the outermost big moon...
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...Callisto.
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In a mission that costs
a penny a world...
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...for every human
on the planet Earth.
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Voyager's passage by Jupiter...
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...accelerated it towards
the planet Saturn.
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Saturn's gravity will
propel it on to Uranus...
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...and in this game of cosmic
billiards, after Uranus...
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...it will plunge on past Neptune,
leaving the solar system...
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...and becoming
an interstellar spacecraft...
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...destined to wander forever...
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...the great ocean between the stars.
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And if Voyager should,
sometime in its distant future...
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...encounter beings from
some other civilization in space...
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...it bears a message.
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A phonograph record.
Golden, delicate...
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...with instruction for use.
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And on this record are a sampling of
pictures, sounds, greetings...
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...and an hour and a half
of exquisite music...
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...the Earth's greatest hits.
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A gift across the cosmic ocean...
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...from one island of civilization
to another.
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The record bears in English...
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...an additional handwritten
greeting that says:
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"To the makers of music,
all worlds, all times."
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These voyages of exploration
and discovery...
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...are the latest in a long series
which have characterized...
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...and distinguished
the human species.
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In the 1 5th and 16th centuries...
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...you could travel from Spain
to the Azores in a few days.
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The same time it takes now
to cross that little channel...
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...from the Earth to the moon.
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It took, then, a few months
to traverse the Atlantic Ocean...
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...and reach what was called
the "New World"...
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...the Americas.
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Today it takes a few months
to cross the inner solar system...
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...and reach Mars and Venus,
truly and literally...
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...new worlds awaiting us.
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In the 1 7th and 18th centuries...
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...you could travel from Holland
to China, say, in a year or two...
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...the same time
it takes now for Voyager...
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...to travel from the Earth
to Jupiter.
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And in comparison to the resources
of the society...
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...it cost more then to send
sailing ships to the Far East...
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...than it does now
to send spaceships to the planets.
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The passion to explore...
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...is at the heart of being human.
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This impulse to go,
to see, to know...
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...has found expression
in every culture.
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Africa was circumnavigated
by Phoenician sailors...
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...in the employ
of an Egyptian pharaoh...
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...in the 7th century B.C.
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The islands of the Pacific
were settled...
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...by skilled and heroic navigators
from Indonesia.
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Great fleets of ocean-going junks...
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...left the ports
of Ming Dynasty China...
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...to explore India and Africa.
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A century later,
three ships left Spain...
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...under the command
of an Italian navigator...
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...to discover the Americas.
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And then a Portuguese
expedition succeeded...
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...in sailing all the way
around this blue globe.
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These voyagers of many cultures...
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...were the first planetary explorers.
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They have bound the Earth up
into one world.
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In our exploration
of other worlds...
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...we follow in their footsteps.
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Our present spaceships
are the harbingers...
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...the vanguard of future human
expeditions to the planets.
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We have traveled this way before...
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...and there is much to be learned...
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...by studying those great voyages of
a few centuries ago.
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In the 1 7th century...
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...the citizens of the new Dutch
Republic...
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...pursued a course of vigorous
planetary exploration.
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Holland was then
a revolutionary society.
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It had just declared its
independence from the powerful...
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...but stagnant Spanish empire...
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...and with a newfound
self-confidence...
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...Holland embraced, more fully than
any other nation of its time...
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...the spirit of the European
Enlightenment.
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It was a rational, orderly
and creative society.
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But because Spanish ports and vessels
were closed to the Dutch...
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...the economic survival
of the tiny republic...
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...depended on its ability to
construct, man and operate...
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...a great fleet of commercial
sailing vessels.
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The Dutch East India Company...
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...was a combined governmental
and commercial enterprise...
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...which sent shipping
to the far corners of the world...
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...to acquire rare commodities and
resell them at a profit in Europe.
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Such voyages were the life's blood
of the republic.
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Navigational charts and maps
were classified as state secrets.
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Ships sometimes left
with sealed sailing orders...
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...the crews embarking
for an unknown destination...
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...more than a year away
on the far side of the planet.
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These expeditions were not only
commercial exploitations...
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...although there was certainly
plenty of that.
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Beside the usual appeals
of ambition, greed...
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...national pride
and the thirst for adventure...
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...the Dutch were also motivated
by a powerful scientific curiosity...
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...and a fascination with
all things new.
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New lands, new peoples...
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...new plants and animals.
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This building,
then the Amsterdam town hall...
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...still attests
to the hardy self-assurance...
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...of its 1 7th-century architects.
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Its lavish crystal adornments
still reflect...
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...the glittering pride they felt
in their accomplishments...
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...and their prosperity.
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It took shiploads of marble
to build this place.
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Constantin Huygens, a poet
and diplomat of the time...
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...said that this town hall
dispelled what he called...
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..."the Gothic squint and squalor."
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The Middle Ages had ended,
the Enlightenment had begun.
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Up there, do you see...
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...is Atlas supporting the heavens
on his shoulders.
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And beneath...
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...is Justice with a golden sword...
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...and golden scales flanked...
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...by Death and Punishment.
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And who is it that Justice
is trampling underfoot?
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Why, it's Avarice and Envy...
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...the gods of the merchants.
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The Dutch knew that the unrestrained
pursuit of profit...
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...posed serious threats
to the soul of the nation.
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A less allegorical symbol...
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...is down here, on the floor.
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It is a great inlaid map...
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...stretching from West Africa
to the Pacific Ocean.
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The whole world was then
Holland's arena.
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In a typical year, many sailing
vessels...
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...set out halfway around the world
for the Far East...
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...on voyages of exploration
and discovery, of trade...
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...journeys taking years
to accomplish.
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Down the west coast of Africa, through
what they called the Ethiopian sea...
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...skirting the southern coast
of Africa...
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...through the Straits
of Madagascar...
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...and on past the southern tip
of India...
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...to the Spice Islands
and present-day Indonesia.
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Another set of voyages went south
then east, to New Holland...
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...later renamed Australia.
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And still other journeys ventured
through the Straits of Malacca...
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...to the Empire of China.
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But Holland was a small country
forced to live by its wits.
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There was a strong pacifist element
in its foreign policy.
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Never before or since
has Holland boasted such a galaxy...
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...of scientists, mathematicians,
philosophers and artists.
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This was the time of the great
painters, Rembrandt...
248
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...and Vermeer.
249
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Because Holland was tolerant
of unorthodox opinions...
250
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...it was a refuge
for intellectuals...
251
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...fleeing the thought control and
censorship of other parts of Europe...
252
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...much as the United States benefited
enormously in the 1 930s...
253
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...from the exodus of intellectuals...
254
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...from Nazi-dominated Europe.
255
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And so it was that
17th-century Holland...
256
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...was the home of the great
Jewish philosopher Spinoza...
257
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...who Einstein admired so much...
258
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...of Ren? Descartes,
a pivotal figure...
259
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...in the history of philosophy
and of mathematics...
260
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...and the home of a political
scientist named John Locke...
261
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...who was to have a powerful...
262
00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:37,265
...and profound influence...
263
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...on a group of philosophically
inclined revolutionaries...
264
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...named Paine, Hamilton, Adams...
265
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...Franklin and Jefferson.
266
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The Dutch University of Leyden...
267
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...offered a professorship to an
Italian scientist named Galileo...
268
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...who had been forced
by the Catholic Church...
269
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...under threat of torture...
270
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...to recant the heretical position...
271
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...that the Earth went around the sun
and not vice versa.
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Galileo had close ties
with Holland.
273
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His first astronomical telescope
was based...
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...on a spyglass
of Dutch manufacture.
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And with it, he discovered
the craters of the moon...
276
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...the phases of Venus and the
four large moons of Jupiter.
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Becoming an exploratory power...
278
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...made Holland a vital intellectual
and cultural center as well.
279
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The improvement of sailing technology
spurred technology in general.
280
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A key problem in navigation was
the determination of longitude.
281
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Latitude could be determined
easily...
282
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...the farther south, the more
southern constellations you could see.
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But longitude required precise
timekeeping.
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An accurate shipboard clock...
285
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...would continue to keep time
in your home port.
286
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The rising and setting of stars
would give you the local time...
287
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...and the difference
between the two...
288
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...would tell you how far
east or west you had gone.
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Technological advance
required the freest...
290
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...possible pursuit of knowledge.
291
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So Holland became the leading
publisher and bookseller in Europe...
292
00:19:23,475 --> 00:19:25,534
...translating works written
in other languages...
293
00:19:25,744 --> 00:19:28,941
...and printing books
that had been censored elsewhere.
294
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Adventures into exotic lands...
295
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...and encounters
with strange societies...
296
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...shook complacency.
297
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They challenged
the prevailing wisdom...
298
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...and showed that ideas accepted
for thousands of years...
299
00:19:45,764 --> 00:19:47,959
...might be fundamentally in error.
300
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In a time when kings and emperors
ruled much of the planet...
301
00:20:04,482 --> 00:20:07,940
...the Dutch Republic was governed,
more than any other world power...
302
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...by the people.
303
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They enjoyed a certain
material well-being.
304
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But the interiors of their houses...
305
00:20:21,833 --> 00:20:24,563
...celebrated by a generation
of Dutch painters...
306
00:20:24,769 --> 00:20:28,796
...suggest restraint and discretion.
307
00:20:35,447 --> 00:20:38,814
The officers of these ships
of exploration and trade...
308
00:20:39,017 --> 00:20:41,315
...would return from their long
voyages...
309
00:20:41,519 --> 00:20:43,817
...share in the goods
they had acquired...
310
00:20:44,255 --> 00:20:48,419
...and discuss the wonders
they had encountered.
311
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Holland prospered
in its freedom of thought.
312
00:21:11,783 --> 00:21:15,241
In Italy, Galileo
had announced other worlds.
313
00:21:15,453 --> 00:21:19,412
Giordano Bruno had speculated
on intelligent life elsewhere.
314
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For this they were
made to suffer brutally.
315
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But in Holland, the astronomer
Christiaan Huygens...
316
00:21:27,999 --> 00:21:32,527
...who strongly supported both ideas,
was showered with honors.
317
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Christiaan was the son
of Constantin Huygens.
318
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The elder Huygens
distinguished himself...
319
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...as a master diplomat of the age,
a man of letters...
320
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...a close friend and translator
of the English poet, John Donne.
321
00:21:52,724 --> 00:21:57,661
Constantin was also an accomplished
composer and musician.
322
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It was Constantin who had discovered
a young painter...
323
00:22:13,077 --> 00:22:15,068
...named Rembrandt van Rijn...
324
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...in several of whose works
he subsequently appears.
325
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He opened the doors of his house...
326
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...to artists, musicians, writers...
327
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...statesmen and scientists.
328
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A feast of goods and ideas...
329
00:22:29,260 --> 00:22:32,093
...from all over the world
awaited them.
330
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The philosopher Descartes,
who visited him here...
331
00:22:37,468 --> 00:22:39,163
...said of Constantin Huygens...
332
00:22:39,370 --> 00:22:42,032
..."I could not believe
that a single mind...
333
00:22:42,240 --> 00:22:44,970
...could occupy itself
with so many things...
334
00:22:45,176 --> 00:22:48,475
...and acquit itself so well
in all of them."
335
00:22:49,514 --> 00:22:51,948
He even excelled
at the art of parenthood.
336
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He was a tender and loving father.
337
00:22:54,619 --> 00:22:58,111
His son, Christiaan, flourished
in this rich environment...
338
00:22:58,323 --> 00:23:01,724
...demonstrating extraordinary talents
for languages, drawing...
339
00:23:01,926 --> 00:23:05,726
...law, science, engineering
mathematics and music.
340
00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:12,528
"The world is my country," he said...
341
00:23:12,737 --> 00:23:15,763
..."science my religion."
342
00:23:20,879 --> 00:23:24,110
Light was the motif of the age...
343
00:23:24,315 --> 00:23:28,479
...the symbolic enlightenment of
freedom of thought and religion...
344
00:23:28,686 --> 00:23:31,951
...the light that suffused
the paintings of the time...
345
00:23:32,156 --> 00:23:35,421
...and light as an object
of scientific study.
346
00:23:35,727 --> 00:23:38,662
The microscope was invented in Holland
at this time...
347
00:23:38,863 --> 00:23:42,697
...and became
a drawing-room curiosity.
348
00:23:43,701 --> 00:23:45,896
Its inventor was a friend
of Christiaan Huygens...
349
00:23:46,104 --> 00:23:48,197
...a man named Anton Leeuwenhoek.
350
00:23:57,782 --> 00:24:00,512
The first microscopes
were developed from...
351
00:24:00,718 --> 00:24:02,845
...magnifying glasses
used by drapers...
352
00:24:03,054 --> 00:24:06,285
...to examine the quality of cloth.
353
00:24:12,931 --> 00:24:14,421
Leeuwenhoek and Huygens...
354
00:24:14,632 --> 00:24:17,362
...are the grandfathers of much of
modern medicine.
355
00:24:18,836 --> 00:24:21,828
Because, to his amazement...
356
00:24:22,040 --> 00:24:24,668
...Leeuwenhoek discovered a
universe...
357
00:24:24,876 --> 00:24:26,366
...in a drop of water:
358
00:24:26,577 --> 00:24:30,445
The microbes, which he described
as "animalcules"...
359
00:24:30,648 --> 00:24:33,208
...and thought "cute."
360
00:24:41,359 --> 00:24:43,054
Leeuwenhoek and Huygens...
361
00:24:43,261 --> 00:24:46,025
...were among the first people to see
human sperm cells...
362
00:24:46,230 --> 00:24:50,132
...a hitherto hidden microcosm
of the human life cycle.
363
00:24:51,202 --> 00:24:54,330
Leeuwenhoek had discovered
the microbial world.
364
00:24:54,906 --> 00:24:58,364
Huygens had argued
from his telescopic observations...
365
00:24:58,576 --> 00:25:00,601
...that Mars was another world...
366
00:25:00,812 --> 00:25:03,804
...and probably, an inhabited one.
367
00:25:10,054 --> 00:25:12,545
What a waste of a planet,
he thought...
368
00:25:12,757 --> 00:25:15,191
...if Mars were barren.
369
00:25:17,929 --> 00:25:21,296
So the Viking search
for microbes on Mars...
370
00:25:21,499 --> 00:25:25,458
...can be traced directly back
to Huygens and Leeuwenhoek...
371
00:25:25,670 --> 00:25:28,138
...in 1 7th-century Holland.
372
00:25:32,677 --> 00:25:36,135
The telescope and the microscope
developed here...
373
00:25:36,347 --> 00:25:39,111
...represent an extension
of human vision...
374
00:25:39,317 --> 00:25:41,717
...to the realms of the very small...
375
00:25:41,919 --> 00:25:43,944
...and the very large.
376
00:25:47,191 --> 00:25:51,025
Our observations of atoms
and galaxies...
377
00:25:51,229 --> 00:25:54,130
...were launched
in this time and place.
378
00:25:57,769 --> 00:26:00,237
From the bending of light
through a lens...
379
00:26:00,438 --> 00:26:02,235
...Huygens advanced the idea...
380
00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:04,931
...that light was a kind of wave.
381
00:26:05,143 --> 00:26:07,111
He ground and polished lenses...
382
00:26:07,311 --> 00:26:10,712
...for the successively larger
telescopes he constructed...
383
00:26:10,915 --> 00:26:14,248
...although it did take him
a time to figure out...
384
00:26:14,452 --> 00:26:16,443
...how to use them properly.
385
00:26:25,863 --> 00:26:28,354
Huygens was the first person
to see a surface feature...
386
00:26:28,566 --> 00:26:30,124
...on the planet Mars.
387
00:26:30,601 --> 00:26:32,364
He was the first person
to speculate...
388
00:26:33,071 --> 00:26:35,369
...that Venus is completely
covered with clouds.
389
00:26:36,174 --> 00:26:40,076
He was the first person to understand
the nature of the rings of Saturn.
390
00:26:40,278 --> 00:26:42,371
"Saturn is surrounded," he wrote...
391
00:26:42,580 --> 00:26:44,207
..."by a thin, flat ring...
392
00:26:44,415 --> 00:26:47,907
...which nowhere touches
the body of the planet."
393
00:26:59,197 --> 00:27:01,028
His discoveries with the telescope...
394
00:27:01,232 --> 00:27:03,996
...who by themselves
have ensured his place...
395
00:27:04,202 --> 00:27:06,796
...in the history
of human accomplishment.
396
00:27:15,513 --> 00:27:19,108
Huygens was the discoverer of Titan...
397
00:27:19,317 --> 00:27:21,581
...the largest moon of Saturn.
398
00:27:28,526 --> 00:27:32,587
The immense size and changing clouds
of Jupiter entranced him.
399
00:27:35,967 --> 00:27:38,231
Astronomers, as well as navigators...
400
00:27:38,436 --> 00:27:42,338
...need accurate clocks to time
the movement of the heavens.
401
00:27:42,540 --> 00:27:45,907
Huygens was the inventor
of many precision timepieces...
402
00:27:46,110 --> 00:27:48,510
...including the pendulum clock.
403
00:27:56,654 --> 00:28:00,750
To illustrate the sun-centered
universe of Copernicus...
404
00:28:00,958 --> 00:28:04,587
...he built computers that reproduced
the clockwork of the heavens...
405
00:28:05,363 --> 00:28:07,524
...from Mercury to Saturn.
406
00:28:12,870 --> 00:28:15,532
The machines he designed, he signed...
407
00:28:15,740 --> 00:28:18,732
..."Christiaan Huygens, inventor."
408
00:28:21,345 --> 00:28:23,313
He was delighted that
the Copernican system...
409
00:28:23,514 --> 00:28:26,005
...was widely accepted
in everyday life in Holland...
410
00:28:26,250 --> 00:28:30,118
...and acknowledged by astronomers,
except those, he wrote...
411
00:28:30,321 --> 00:28:33,119
...who "were a bit slow-witted or
under the superstitions...
412
00:28:33,324 --> 00:28:37,021
...imposed by merely human authority.
413
00:28:39,597 --> 00:28:43,624
Across the sea of space...
414
00:28:44,068 --> 00:28:46,059
...the stars...
415
00:28:46,671 --> 00:28:48,605
...are other suns."
416
00:28:48,806 --> 00:28:52,367
A point which Huygens appreciated
perfectly well.
417
00:28:53,344 --> 00:28:58,281
He reasoned that if
our planetary system...
418
00:28:58,583 --> 00:29:01,780
...involved the sun
and planets going around it...
419
00:29:01,986 --> 00:29:05,444
...that those other suns should
likewise have a retinue...
420
00:29:05,656 --> 00:29:07,385
...of planets going around them...
421
00:29:07,592 --> 00:29:11,528
...and also that many of the other
planets were inhabited.
422
00:29:11,796 --> 00:29:13,764
He set forth these conclusions...
423
00:29:13,965 --> 00:29:16,957
...in a remarkable book...
424
00:29:17,168 --> 00:29:19,830
...bearing the triumphant title...
425
00:29:20,037 --> 00:29:23,473
...The Celestial Worlds Discovered.
426
00:29:23,674 --> 00:29:25,141
The subtitle is...
427
00:29:25,343 --> 00:29:27,402
..."Conjectures Concerning...
428
00:29:27,612 --> 00:29:32,447
...the Inhabitants, Plants
and Productions...
429
00:29:32,650 --> 00:29:35,915
...of the Worlds in the Planets."
430
00:29:36,921 --> 00:29:40,755
He wrote this book sometime shortly
before his death...
431
00:29:40,958 --> 00:29:44,724
...in the year 1 690, in this study.
432
00:29:51,836 --> 00:29:52,996
By and large...
433
00:29:53,571 --> 00:29:56,631
...he imagined that the environments
of the other planets...
434
00:29:56,841 --> 00:29:59,639
...and also the inhabitants
of the other planets...
435
00:29:59,844 --> 00:30:04,304
...were pretty much like those
of 17th-century Europe.
436
00:30:04,715 --> 00:30:06,910
I wonder if he imagined...
437
00:30:07,118 --> 00:30:09,848
...traveling to those other worlds
which he had been...
438
00:30:10,054 --> 00:30:12,352
...the first to examine close-up...
439
00:30:12,556 --> 00:30:14,490
...through the telescope.
440
00:30:15,126 --> 00:30:18,892
Perhaps he dreamt that voyages
of discovery to the planets...
441
00:30:19,096 --> 00:30:22,793
...would one day be like the
voyages of geographical discovery...
442
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:25,434
...in his time and place.
443
00:30:27,905 --> 00:30:31,033
He did imagine of
extraterrestrial beings...
444
00:30:32,243 --> 00:30:35,144
..."that their whole bodies,
and every part of them...
445
00:30:35,346 --> 00:30:38,907
...may be quite distinct
and different from ours.
446
00:30:39,116 --> 00:30:42,108
'Its a very ridiculous opinion,"
he says...
447
00:30:42,320 --> 00:30:44,447
..."that it is impossible
a rational soul...
448
00:30:44,655 --> 00:30:48,113
...should dwell in any other shape
than ours."
449
00:30:48,859 --> 00:30:51,157
You could be smart,
Huygens was saying...
450
00:30:51,362 --> 00:30:53,091
...even if you looked funny.
451
00:30:53,397 --> 00:30:55,262
But he then went on to argue...
452
00:30:55,466 --> 00:30:57,832
...that they didn't look
all that funny...
453
00:30:58,035 --> 00:31:00,503
...that extraterrestrial beings
must have...
454
00:31:00,705 --> 00:31:03,105
...hands and feet and stand upright...
455
00:31:03,307 --> 00:31:05,172
...and have writing and geometry.
456
00:31:05,376 --> 00:31:07,844
Even that the four
moons of Jupiter...
457
00:31:08,045 --> 00:31:12,175
...the Galilean satellites,
were there in order to provide...
458
00:31:12,383 --> 00:31:15,045
...a navigational aid,
a convenience...
459
00:31:15,252 --> 00:31:17,812
...for the sailors
in the Jovian oceans.
460
00:31:18,155 --> 00:31:20,749
Well, maybe.
461
00:31:20,958 --> 00:31:22,892
(WOOD CREAKS)
462
00:31:27,832 --> 00:31:31,962
That bit of speculation
is probably wrong, but...
463
00:31:32,169 --> 00:31:34,603
...think of a citizen
of the 1 7th century...
464
00:31:34,805 --> 00:31:37,273
...with the courage and insight...
465
00:31:37,475 --> 00:31:41,138
...to imagine other landscapes
and other intelligences.
466
00:31:41,345 --> 00:31:44,075
Might there really be mariners...
467
00:31:44,281 --> 00:31:46,442
...on a million other worlds?
468
00:31:49,487 --> 00:31:51,387
In his book, Huygens wrote:
469
00:31:51,589 --> 00:31:55,548
"What a wonderful and amazing scheme
have we here...
470
00:31:55,760 --> 00:31:59,059
...of the magnificent vastness
of the universe.
471
00:31:59,263 --> 00:32:02,926
So many suns. So many earths.
472
00:32:03,134 --> 00:32:07,332
And every one of them
stocked with so many animals.
473
00:32:07,605 --> 00:32:10,005
Adorned with so many seas.
474
00:32:10,207 --> 00:32:12,801
How must our wonder and admiration
be increased...
475
00:32:13,310 --> 00:32:17,610
...when we consider the prodigious
distance and multitude...
476
00:32:17,815 --> 00:32:19,112
...of the stars?"
477
00:32:25,956 --> 00:32:29,722
The Dutch called their ships
"flying boats"...
478
00:32:29,927 --> 00:32:32,828
...and the Voyager spacecraft
are their descendants...
479
00:32:33,030 --> 00:32:35,328
...true flying boats...
480
00:32:35,533 --> 00:32:38,263
...bound for the stars,
and on the way...
481
00:32:38,469 --> 00:32:41,768
...exploring some of those worlds
which Christiaan Huygens...
482
00:32:41,972 --> 00:32:43,405
...a man from Earth...
483
00:32:43,607 --> 00:32:46,474
...knew and loved so well.
484
00:32:48,345 --> 00:32:50,210
Travelers' tales:
485
00:32:50,414 --> 00:32:51,813
A main commodity...
486
00:32:52,016 --> 00:32:56,214
...returned by those sailing ship
voyages of centuries ago...
487
00:32:56,420 --> 00:32:58,820
...were stories.
488
00:32:59,156 --> 00:33:03,490
Stories of alien lands
and exotic creatures.
489
00:33:06,931 --> 00:33:10,594
They evoked a sense of wonder
and stimulated further exploration.
490
00:33:10,801 --> 00:33:13,395
Those tales of strange worlds...
491
00:33:13,604 --> 00:33:16,835
...enabled some Europeans
to see themselves anew.
492
00:33:17,274 --> 00:33:20,710
There had been accounts
of headless people, foot people...
493
00:33:20,911 --> 00:33:22,344
...cyclops people.
494
00:33:23,380 --> 00:33:26,281
Now the Dutch brought back
fantastic stories...
495
00:33:26,517 --> 00:33:28,280
...of giant hunters...
496
00:33:29,220 --> 00:33:30,847
...dodoes...
497
00:33:31,355 --> 00:33:33,414
...rhinos...
498
00:33:33,924 --> 00:33:35,448
...leopards...
499
00:33:35,659 --> 00:33:38,924
...and other creatures.
500
00:33:41,732 --> 00:33:46,328
Modern voyagers
also return travelers' tales:
501
00:33:46,670 --> 00:33:51,607
Tales of a world shattered
like a crystal sphere.
502
00:33:52,376 --> 00:33:54,867
A place where the ground is covered...
503
00:33:55,079 --> 00:33:59,641
...with what looks like
a network of giant cobwebs.
504
00:34:03,020 --> 00:34:06,080
A world with an underground ocean.
505
00:34:07,424 --> 00:34:10,359
Tiny moons shaped like potatoes.
506
00:34:11,762 --> 00:34:14,458
A yellow and red pockmarked land...
507
00:34:14,665 --> 00:34:16,496
...with lakes of molten sulfur...
508
00:34:16,700 --> 00:34:20,693
...and volcanic eruptions
300 kilometers high.
509
00:34:24,475 --> 00:34:26,102
And a place called Jupiter...
510
00:34:26,310 --> 00:34:29,643
...so large that a thousand Earths
would fit inside.
511
00:34:29,847 --> 00:34:33,078
There are no mountains, valleys,
volcanoes or rivers there.
512
00:34:33,284 --> 00:34:36,014
Just a vast ocean of gas and clouds.
513
00:34:36,220 --> 00:34:39,883
Everything we see on Jupiter
is floating in the sky.
514
00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:46,293
But there's much that is fascinating
about Jupiter.
515
00:34:46,630 --> 00:34:50,066
As the solar system condensed
out of interstellar gas and dust...
516
00:34:50,267 --> 00:34:54,704
...Jupiter acquired most of the matter
not ejected into interstellar space...
517
00:34:54,905 --> 00:34:58,204
...and which didn't fall inwards
to form the sun.
518
00:34:58,409 --> 00:35:03,312
Jupiter is made mostly of hydrogen
and helium, just like the sun...
519
00:35:03,514 --> 00:35:08,110
...and had Jupiter been a few dozen
times more massive...
520
00:35:08,319 --> 00:35:09,786
...the matter in it...
521
00:35:09,987 --> 00:35:14,424
...might have undergone thermonuclear
reactions in the interior...
522
00:35:14,625 --> 00:35:18,857
...and Jupiter would have begun
to shine by its own light.
523
00:35:19,063 --> 00:35:23,056
Jupiter is a star that failed.
524
00:35:23,400 --> 00:35:24,799
Had it become a star...
525
00:35:25,002 --> 00:35:27,562
...we would be living
in a double-star system...
526
00:35:27,771 --> 00:35:29,864
...with two suns in our sky...
527
00:35:30,074 --> 00:35:33,737
...and the nights
would come more rarely.
528
00:35:33,944 --> 00:35:38,040
Deep below the clouds of Jupiter, the
weights of the layers of atmosphere...
529
00:35:38,248 --> 00:35:41,115
...produce pressures
which are much greater...
530
00:35:41,318 --> 00:35:44,116
...than any that are found
anywhere on the Earth.
531
00:35:44,355 --> 00:35:46,255
The clouds are this layer here.
532
00:35:46,457 --> 00:35:49,517
The deep interior
is this high-pressure place.
533
00:35:49,727 --> 00:35:51,354
The pressure is so large...
534
00:35:51,562 --> 00:35:56,090
...that electrons are squeezed off
hydrogen atoms, producing...
535
00:35:57,101 --> 00:36:01,162
...liquid metallic hydrogen.
536
00:36:01,472 --> 00:36:06,171
But at the very core of Jupiter,
there may be a lump...
537
00:36:06,377 --> 00:36:07,435
...of rock and iron...
538
00:36:07,645 --> 00:36:12,082
...a giant Earth-like world
under astonishing pressures...
539
00:36:12,282 --> 00:36:16,912
...hidden forever at the center
of the largest planet.
540
00:36:19,223 --> 00:36:20,690
Just before Voyager...
541
00:36:20,891 --> 00:36:25,658
...encountered Jupiter, you could see
that giant planet at night...
542
00:36:25,863 --> 00:36:30,800
...shining in the sky as our ancestors
have for the last million years.
543
00:36:31,101 --> 00:36:33,831
And on my way to study
the Voyager data...
544
00:36:34,038 --> 00:36:36,506
...arriving at the
Jet Propulsion Laboratory...
545
00:36:36,707 --> 00:36:39,801
...I thought that Jupiter
would never be the same again.
546
00:36:40,010 --> 00:36:43,969
Never again just a point of light
in the night sky...
547
00:36:44,181 --> 00:36:48,515
...but forever after, a place
to be explored and known.
548
00:36:51,655 --> 00:36:56,183
To see the first close-up images
of a world never before known...
549
00:36:56,393 --> 00:37:00,591
...is a great joy in the life
of a planetary scientist.
550
00:37:02,833 --> 00:37:07,236
In the early morning hours of
July 9th, 1979, on the real-time...
551
00:37:07,438 --> 00:37:10,407
...television monitors at the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory...
552
00:37:10,607 --> 00:37:13,735
...we began to learn
about a world called Europa.
553
00:37:13,977 --> 00:37:16,036
These are the modern explorers.
554
00:37:16,246 --> 00:37:17,975
Men and women trained...
555
00:37:18,182 --> 00:37:21,117
...in astronomy, physics,
geology or engineering.
556
00:37:21,318 --> 00:37:24,287
Many devoting five to eight years
to this single mission.
557
00:37:24,488 --> 00:37:28,049
JPL MAN: Cassen's model for Europa
says if you start with a liquid...
558
00:37:28,258 --> 00:37:31,022
...you can put in enough energy
to keep it liquid.
559
00:37:32,429 --> 00:37:36,490
But Cassen said in order for there
to be enough heating going on...
560
00:37:36,700 --> 00:37:40,932
...you had to start the heating
before Europa basically cooled off.
561
00:37:42,339 --> 00:37:44,671
But what about relief
from the cracks?
562
00:37:47,845 --> 00:37:51,679
...and Europa there's a twin,
a pair there...
563
00:37:52,683 --> 00:37:56,016
You can't look at a world
so different from ours...
564
00:37:56,220 --> 00:37:58,279
...without wondering
how both were made.
565
00:37:58,489 --> 00:38:00,514
Just rotate it out a little bit.
566
00:38:01,959 --> 00:38:05,827
Voyager presented us with six new
worlds in the Jupiter system alone.
567
00:38:06,797 --> 00:38:10,858
The more you learn about other worlds,
the better you understand our own.
568
00:38:11,068 --> 00:38:16,005
We speculate, criticize, argue,
calculate, reflect and wonder.
569
00:38:16,340 --> 00:38:20,106
We return again to the astonishing
data, and slowly...
570
00:38:20,310 --> 00:38:22,676
...we begin to understand.
571
00:38:33,757 --> 00:38:37,124
The Dutch sailing ships brought back
rare and valuable commodities...
572
00:38:37,327 --> 00:38:39,318
...from the new worlds they visited.
573
00:38:39,530 --> 00:38:41,464
Our Voyager spaceships...
574
00:38:41,665 --> 00:38:44,327
...return rare and valuable
information...
575
00:38:44,535 --> 00:38:48,266
...to computerized wharves on this
shore of the sea of space.
576
00:38:49,039 --> 00:38:53,942
Here the data are stored,
enhanced, processed and treasured.
577
00:38:54,645 --> 00:38:58,240
Maps of alien lands will be generated
from this information.
578
00:38:58,448 --> 00:39:02,544
In this electric warehouse
are tens of thousands of images...
579
00:39:02,753 --> 00:39:05,586
...of previously unknown worlds.
580
00:39:07,758 --> 00:39:11,159
How does a picture from
the outer solar system get to us?
581
00:39:11,361 --> 00:39:14,728
Sunlight shines on Europa,
and is reflected back to space...
582
00:39:14,932 --> 00:39:16,763
...where some strikes the phosphors...
583
00:39:16,967 --> 00:39:20,232
...of the Voyager television cameras,
generating an image.
584
00:39:20,437 --> 00:39:23,668
The image is radioed back
across the immense distance...
585
00:39:23,874 --> 00:39:26,035
...of half a billion kilometers...
586
00:39:26,243 --> 00:39:29,440
...to a radio telescope on Earth.
One in Australia, say.
587
00:39:29,646 --> 00:39:32,410
The telescope then passes
the information...
588
00:39:32,616 --> 00:39:35,608
...via communications satellite
in Earth orbit...
589
00:39:35,819 --> 00:39:37,514
...to Southern California.
590
00:39:37,721 --> 00:39:41,680
There, it's transmitted
by a set of microwave relay towers...
591
00:39:41,892 --> 00:39:45,259
...to a computer
at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory...
592
00:39:46,096 --> 00:39:48,997
...and there it is processed.
593
00:39:56,273 --> 00:39:58,867
The picture is like
a newspaper wire photo...
594
00:39:59,076 --> 00:40:02,978
...made of a million individual dots
of differing shades of gray...
595
00:40:03,180 --> 00:40:05,910
...so fine and close together
that at a distance...
596
00:40:06,116 --> 00:40:08,949
...the constituent dots
are invisible.
597
00:40:09,152 --> 00:40:11,780
We see only
their cumulative effect.
598
00:40:13,023 --> 00:40:16,083
The information specifies
how bright or dark...
599
00:40:16,293 --> 00:40:17,920
...each dot is to be.
600
00:40:18,128 --> 00:40:21,188
After processing, the dots
are stored on a magnetic disk...
601
00:40:21,398 --> 00:40:23,832
...something like a phonograph record.
602
00:40:24,067 --> 00:40:27,901
By this day, there were already 1 1,000
pictures from Voyager 2 in our...
603
00:40:28,105 --> 00:40:29,766
...electronic library.
604
00:40:30,774 --> 00:40:34,505
Finally, the end product
of this remarkable set...
605
00:40:34,711 --> 00:40:36,941
...of links and relays...
606
00:40:38,048 --> 00:40:41,643
...is a hard copy which comes
out of this machine showing...
607
00:40:42,052 --> 00:40:44,987
...in this case,
the wonders of Europa...
608
00:40:45,188 --> 00:40:49,420
...which were recorded for the first
time in human history, today.
609
00:40:49,960 --> 00:40:52,986
It is absolutely astonishing.
610
00:40:53,964 --> 00:40:58,526
Voyager 1 got very good pictures
of the other three big moons...
611
00:40:58,735 --> 00:41:02,102
...Galilean satellites of Jupiter,
but not of Europa.
612
00:41:02,306 --> 00:41:05,241
It was left to Voyager 2 today...
613
00:41:05,442 --> 00:41:08,536
...to get the first
close-up pictures of Europa...
614
00:41:08,745 --> 00:41:12,272
...where we see things that are only
a few kilometers across.
615
00:41:12,482 --> 00:41:15,645
At first glance, it looks like
nothing so much as...
616
00:41:15,852 --> 00:41:20,789
...the canal network of Mars that
Lowell imagined existed on that planet.
617
00:41:21,258 --> 00:41:26,195
We see an amazing, intricate network
of crisscrossing...
618
00:41:26,463 --> 00:41:28,761
...straight and curved lines.
619
00:41:28,966 --> 00:41:31,025
Are these straight lines ridges?
620
00:41:31,234 --> 00:41:32,326
Are they troughs?
621
00:41:32,536 --> 00:41:35,562
Is it connected with plate tectonics
on the Earth?
622
00:41:35,772 --> 00:41:40,072
How does it illuminate the other
satellites of the Jovian system?
623
00:41:40,377 --> 00:41:43,676
At this moment,
the vaunted technology...
624
00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:46,178
...has produced something
astonishing.
625
00:41:46,383 --> 00:41:48,681
But it remains for...
626
00:41:49,186 --> 00:41:53,555
...the limitations and cleverness
of another device...
627
00:41:53,757 --> 00:41:56,692
...the human brain, to figure it out.
628
00:41:58,862 --> 00:42:02,923
Fortunately, we have plenty
of pictures to help us.
629
00:42:03,900 --> 00:42:07,927
What about Gene's idea of geysers
down the troughs?
630
00:42:08,138 --> 00:42:10,265
Geysers down the troughs?
631
00:42:11,475 --> 00:42:13,534
LARR Y SODERBLOM:
You need a mechanism to drive it.
632
00:42:13,744 --> 00:42:17,043
SAGAN:
Larry Soderblom, Voyager imaging team.
633
00:42:17,247 --> 00:42:22,150
LARR Y: An idea was proposed a while
ago that we might have a sort of...
634
00:42:22,352 --> 00:42:24,547
...champagne-bottle model.
And that's...
635
00:42:24,755 --> 00:42:28,088
You seal the crust and have liquid
underneath that solid crust.
636
00:42:28,592 --> 00:42:32,028
Do you have then a condition which
is an explosive effervescence?
637
00:42:32,362 --> 00:42:34,523
SAGAN:
Lonnie Lane, deputy project scientist.
638
00:42:35,799 --> 00:42:39,530
You have enough resolution
in some of these pictures that...
639
00:42:39,736 --> 00:42:42,170
...you don't see anything
spread laterally.
640
00:42:42,372 --> 00:42:45,000
Do we have the high-resolution piece?
641
00:42:45,275 --> 00:42:47,869
-It was right here.
-There it is.
642
00:42:48,078 --> 00:42:51,013
We'll pick out the relief,
and if we're going to see...
643
00:42:51,214 --> 00:42:52,511
...the things we recognize...
644
00:42:52,716 --> 00:42:55,412
SAGAN: Weeks after the pictures
from Europa were received...
645
00:42:55,619 --> 00:42:57,712
...we were still debating
what was in them.
646
00:42:57,921 --> 00:43:00,890
It's as if we almost got to the...
647
00:43:01,725 --> 00:43:03,158
Look at the mesas here.
648
00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:06,923
We almost got the resolution
needed to see the craters.
649
00:43:07,130 --> 00:43:10,566
The craters which would last
indefinitely on a crust this thin.
650
00:43:10,767 --> 00:43:12,291
Apart from the r?seaus...
651
00:43:12,502 --> 00:43:17,337
...there's a set of very fine
small dots, markings...
652
00:43:17,541 --> 00:43:19,736
...mostly in the mottled terrain.
653
00:43:19,943 --> 00:43:23,538
Like those guys. Do you think
those are...
654
00:43:23,747 --> 00:43:27,205
...sites of outgassing, calderas,
fumaroles, solfataras?
655
00:43:27,417 --> 00:43:30,545
I don't know, but I'll tell you
one thing I just found...
656
00:43:32,789 --> 00:43:34,188
Look right here.
657
00:43:35,759 --> 00:43:37,124
It disappeared.
658
00:43:38,228 --> 00:43:40,389
See the central peak?
659
00:43:40,597 --> 00:43:42,497
See the little hole?
660
00:43:45,168 --> 00:43:47,636
I think it's an impact crater.
Look at the central peak.
661
00:43:47,838 --> 00:43:49,931
SAGAN:
There are almost no impact craters.
662
00:43:50,140 --> 00:43:51,767
Wait, we just found one.
663
00:43:51,975 --> 00:43:53,203
Almost none.
664
00:43:54,311 --> 00:43:58,441
Therefore, finding one which is
alleged to be the exception...
665
00:43:58,648 --> 00:44:01,640
...maybe it's not the exception,
but something else.
666
00:44:01,852 --> 00:44:06,016
Perhaps, but you asked about those
little holes that we can't make out.
667
00:44:08,158 --> 00:44:11,525
The big craters go away by some
rheological deformation...
668
00:44:11,728 --> 00:44:14,561
...and the little ones stay
but are out of our resolution.
669
00:44:14,764 --> 00:44:18,666
That's because they're one-tenth
the depth of the rigid crust.
670
00:44:18,869 --> 00:44:20,063
Well, maybe.
671
00:44:21,304 --> 00:44:24,000
SAGAN: Computer processing of
the pictures has revealed...
672
00:44:24,207 --> 00:44:27,438
...a few features on Europa
which seem to be impact craters.
673
00:44:27,644 --> 00:44:28,702
But something...
674
00:44:28,912 --> 00:44:31,210
...has wiped out the big craters.
675
00:44:31,414 --> 00:44:33,746
Computer processing
also played a major role...
676
00:44:33,950 --> 00:44:37,977
...in an amazing Voyager discovery
made on the moon next to Europa...
677
00:44:38,188 --> 00:44:40,952
...a world called lo.
678
00:44:42,492 --> 00:44:45,791
Even from Earth we could tell
that lo had a strange color.
679
00:44:45,996 --> 00:44:49,363
We knew that somehow sulfur
had been removed from its surface...
680
00:44:49,566 --> 00:44:53,229
...and ejected into a great
doughnut of gas orbiting Jupiter.
681
00:44:53,436 --> 00:44:57,304
Then Voyager 1 sailed close to lo.
682
00:44:59,709 --> 00:45:03,941
There were a few places on lo which
looked like the mouths of volcanoes...
683
00:45:04,147 --> 00:45:05,842
...but it was hard to be sure.
684
00:45:06,716 --> 00:45:10,208
Then, Linda Morabito, a member
of the Voyager navigation team...
685
00:45:10,420 --> 00:45:13,287
...used a computer
to enhance the edge of lo...
686
00:45:13,490 --> 00:45:16,015
...in order to bring out
the stars behind.
687
00:45:16,226 --> 00:45:20,128
Four days after the Voyager 1
encounter with Jupiter...
688
00:45:20,330 --> 00:45:24,130
...I was looking at an
optical navigation frame.
689
00:45:24,334 --> 00:45:28,464
In enhancing this particular quadrant,
what became very evident to me...
690
00:45:28,672 --> 00:45:30,731
...was an anomalous crescent...
691
00:45:30,941 --> 00:45:34,308
...in the upper left-hand corner,
just off the limb of lo.
692
00:45:34,511 --> 00:45:35,705
SAGAN:
What was it?
693
00:45:35,912 --> 00:45:38,312
The plume was in exactly
the position...
694
00:45:38,515 --> 00:45:40,540
...of one of the suspected volcanoes.
695
00:45:40,951 --> 00:45:44,352
We realized then that
what we were observing...
696
00:45:44,554 --> 00:45:48,615
...was a volcanic plume and,
in fact, a volcanic eruption.
697
00:45:50,694 --> 00:45:55,393
SAGAN: Voyager had discovered the
first active volcano beyond the Earth.
698
00:45:57,767 --> 00:46:00,201
We then found that lo
has many volcanoes.
699
00:46:00,403 --> 00:46:03,497
There are at least nine
intermittently active plumes...
700
00:46:03,707 --> 00:46:06,335
...and hundreds, maybe thousands,
of extinct ones.
701
00:46:06,543 --> 00:46:10,536
The plumes can eject sulfur
and other atoms off lo altogether...
702
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:14,441
...and account for the sulfur clouds
surrounding Jupiter.
703
00:46:15,185 --> 00:46:19,952
Rivers of molten sulfur flow down
the sides of the volcanic mountains...
704
00:46:20,156 --> 00:46:23,216
...and are the probable source
of Io's distinctive colors.
705
00:46:23,426 --> 00:46:28,159
The volcanoes may be tapping some vast
underground ocean of liquid sulfur...
706
00:46:28,365 --> 00:46:32,734
...beneath a surface
that is only a few thousand years old.
707
00:46:36,640 --> 00:46:40,098
So far, in our voyages
to the outer solar system...
708
00:46:40,343 --> 00:46:42,811
...we humans have stayed home...
709
00:46:43,013 --> 00:46:46,244
...and sent robots and computers
to explore in our stead.
710
00:46:46,449 --> 00:46:49,509
Someday, perhaps, we'll go ourselves.
711
00:46:50,620 --> 00:46:51,814
But suppose...
712
00:46:52,422 --> 00:46:55,357
...like those Dutch sea captains
of the 1 7th century...
713
00:46:55,558 --> 00:46:58,994
...the computers aboard Voyager
could keep a ship's log.
714
00:46:59,195 --> 00:47:03,291
That log, a combination of the events
of Voyagers 1 and 2...
715
00:47:03,500 --> 00:47:06,367
...might read something like this:
716
00:47:08,805 --> 00:47:13,504
Day 1: After much concern
about provisions and instruments...
717
00:47:13,710 --> 00:47:17,942
...we successfully lift off from
Cape Canaveral on our long journey...
718
00:47:18,148 --> 00:47:20,742
...to the planets and the stars.
719
00:47:29,159 --> 00:47:33,357
Day 13: We have taken the first
photograph of the Earth and moon...
720
00:47:33,563 --> 00:47:37,090
...as worlds together in space.
A pretty pair.
721
00:47:41,104 --> 00:47:44,631
Day 1 70: A problem
in the deployment of the boom...
722
00:47:44,841 --> 00:47:47,139
...that supports
the science scan platform.
723
00:47:47,344 --> 00:47:49,141
If the problem is not solved...
724
00:47:49,346 --> 00:47:51,940
...we will be unable to take
most of our pictures.
725
00:47:56,186 --> 00:48:01,123
Day 207: Boom problem solved, but
failure of main radio transmitter.
726
00:48:01,658 --> 00:48:03,751
If the backup transmitter
also fails...
727
00:48:03,960 --> 00:48:07,225
...no one on Earth
will ever hear from us again.
728
00:48:08,264 --> 00:48:09,458
Day 21 5:
729
00:48:09,666 --> 00:48:11,964
We cross the orbit of Mars...
730
00:48:12,168 --> 00:48:14,295
...and enter the main asteroid belt.
731
00:48:15,905 --> 00:48:20,171
Day 570: We can now make out
finer detail on Jupiter...
732
00:48:20,377 --> 00:48:24,040
...than the largest telescopes
on Earth have ever obtained.
733
00:48:29,052 --> 00:48:30,679
Day 640:
734
00:48:30,887 --> 00:48:34,618
The cloud patterns are distinctive
and gorgeous.
735
00:48:34,824 --> 00:48:36,451
No painter trapped on Earth...
736
00:48:36,659 --> 00:48:39,457
...ever imagined a world
so strange and lovely.
737
00:48:42,699 --> 00:48:46,226
The white clouds are ammonia
crystals, high and cold.
738
00:48:46,436 --> 00:48:49,166
We do not know the nature
of the red-brown clouds.
739
00:48:49,372 --> 00:48:51,966
Maybe phosphorous or sulfur
as a stain.
740
00:48:52,175 --> 00:48:56,612
Perhaps organic molecules of the sort
that led, four billion years ago...
741
00:48:56,813 --> 00:48:59,680
...back on Earth,
to the origin of life.
742
00:48:59,883 --> 00:49:02,579
And what is the great red spot?
743
00:49:03,086 --> 00:49:04,075
(COMPUTER HUMS)
744
00:49:05,355 --> 00:49:08,449
It is an immense swirling column
of gas...
745
00:49:08,658 --> 00:49:10,853
...reaching high above adjacent
clouds.
746
00:49:11,060 --> 00:49:13,893
So large that it could hold
half a dozen Earths.
747
00:49:14,097 --> 00:49:17,533
Its motion hypnotizes us.
748
00:49:21,304 --> 00:49:25,104
Some think that the red spot
is a great spinning storm...
749
00:49:25,308 --> 00:49:27,674
...a million years old.
750
00:49:30,914 --> 00:49:35,851
Day 650: Encounter.
A day of wonders.
751
00:49:39,055 --> 00:49:41,148
The ship maneuvers
so we can take pictures...
752
00:49:41,357 --> 00:49:43,985
...of the multi-ringed basin
on Callisto.
753
00:49:48,965 --> 00:49:53,493
Images of the astonishing
lined surface of Ganymede.
754
00:49:58,074 --> 00:50:00,804
A close passage by Europa.
755
00:50:03,179 --> 00:50:05,647
And, a view of volcanic lo.
756
00:50:09,419 --> 00:50:12,855
We successfully negotiate
the treacherous radiation belts...
757
00:50:13,056 --> 00:50:16,492
...and accomplish
the ring plane crossing.
758
00:50:17,627 --> 00:50:20,095
Looking back, we marvel
at the rings...
759
00:50:20,296 --> 00:50:25,063
...and see the sun emerge
from behind the giant planet.
760
00:50:30,039 --> 00:50:34,976
We are outward bound on our mission
to explore the outer solar system.
761
00:50:35,879 --> 00:50:37,870
Ten thousand years from now...
762
00:50:38,081 --> 00:50:41,608
...Voyager will plunge onward
to the stars.
763
00:50:42,752 --> 00:50:47,382
We have made the ships
that sail the sea of space.
764
00:50:51,261 --> 00:50:52,888
We travel past Jupiter...
765
00:50:53,096 --> 00:50:56,395
...three quarters of a billion
kilometers from the sun...
766
00:50:56,933 --> 00:50:59,959
...Saturn, one and a half billion,
Uranus, three billion...
767
00:51:00,169 --> 00:51:04,799
...and Neptune, four and a half
billion kilometers away.
768
00:51:07,877 --> 00:51:09,276
In our ship of the mind...
769
00:51:09,479 --> 00:51:13,745
...we retrace the itinerary
of the two Voyager spacecraft...
770
00:51:13,950 --> 00:51:17,647
...on their journeys to Saturn
and beyond.
771
00:51:19,722 --> 00:51:22,987
Saturn was first glimpsed
through the telescope by Galileo.
772
00:51:23,192 --> 00:51:26,127
Its rings first understood by Huygens.
773
00:51:26,329 --> 00:51:30,698
But only now do we begin to penetrate
its deeper mysteries.
774
00:51:36,673 --> 00:51:40,575
Saturn is the second largest planet
in the solar system.
775
00:51:41,444 --> 00:51:45,676
Like Jupiter, it is cloud-covered,
and rotates once every 10 hours.
776
00:51:45,882 --> 00:51:49,215
It has a weaker magnetic field,
a weaker radiation belt...
777
00:51:49,419 --> 00:51:51,683
...and a grand, magnificent...
778
00:51:51,888 --> 00:51:55,085
...exquisite system of rings.
779
00:51:56,793 --> 00:51:59,557
The rings are composed of billions
of tiny moons...
780
00:51:59,762 --> 00:52:02,560
...each circling Saturn
in its own orbit.
781
00:52:03,266 --> 00:52:07,498
The biggest gap in the rings
is called the Cassini Division...
782
00:52:07,704 --> 00:52:10,798
...after the colleague of Huygens
who first discovered it.
783
00:52:11,741 --> 00:52:13,299
There are many other gaps...
784
00:52:13,509 --> 00:52:16,535
...each produced by the periodic
gravitational tugs...
785
00:52:16,746 --> 00:52:18,737
...of one of the larger outer moons.
786
00:52:35,865 --> 00:52:38,356
From just beneath the ring plane...
787
00:52:38,568 --> 00:52:42,231
...we see a sky full of moons.
788
00:53:02,058 --> 00:53:06,654
Within the rings,
the individual moons become visible.
789
00:53:08,531 --> 00:53:12,092
They are orbiting chunks
of snow and ice...
790
00:53:13,436 --> 00:53:15,802
...each perhaps a meter across.
791
00:53:21,344 --> 00:53:24,939
In young parts of the ring system,
there hasn't been enough time...
792
00:53:25,148 --> 00:53:29,517
...for collisions to round the edges
of these fragments...
793
00:53:29,719 --> 00:53:32,210
...the snowballs of Saturn.
794
00:54:18,234 --> 00:54:23,001
Far from the rings,
bathed in its red light...
795
00:54:24,307 --> 00:54:28,073
...we encounter Saturn's immense
cloud-covered moon...
796
00:54:28,277 --> 00:54:29,505
...Titan.
797
00:54:42,458 --> 00:54:44,892
It has an atmosphere
denser than that of Mars...
798
00:54:45,695 --> 00:54:47,526
...and a thick layer of red clouds...
799
00:54:47,730 --> 00:54:51,291
...which are probably composed
of complex organic molecules...
800
00:54:51,501 --> 00:54:55,164
...produced by solar ultraviolet light
and other energy sources...
801
00:54:55,371 --> 00:54:57,066
...from the methane-rich air.
802
00:55:04,413 --> 00:55:07,678
No ship from Earth
has ever penetrated those clouds...
803
00:55:07,884 --> 00:55:12,446
...and viewed, close-up,
the surface of this tantalizing world.
804
00:55:18,795 --> 00:55:22,162
It seems likely that the ground
is covered, encrusted...
805
00:55:22,365 --> 00:55:26,426
...with organic molecules
raining from the sky.
806
00:55:32,408 --> 00:55:36,708
There may be volcanoes
and valleys of ice...
807
00:55:36,913 --> 00:55:39,711
...and, just perhaps...
808
00:55:39,916 --> 00:55:44,785
...hiding in the warm places,
some very different kind of life.
809
00:55:52,862 --> 00:55:54,921
Near an ice cliff of Titan...
810
00:55:55,131 --> 00:55:58,498
...through a rare break
in the clouds of organic molecules...
811
00:55:58,701 --> 00:56:03,536
...we can see, looming and lovely,
the ringed planet, Saturn.
812
00:56:05,007 --> 00:56:09,341
It is a view that will still be
appreciated centuries from now...
813
00:56:09,579 --> 00:56:11,740
...by our descendants,
who will know it well.
814
00:56:11,948 --> 00:56:14,348
As well as we have come to know...
815
00:56:14,550 --> 00:56:17,883
...Hudson's Bay and the Barents Sea...
816
00:56:18,087 --> 00:56:22,080
...Indonesia, and Australia
and New York.
817
00:56:22,925 --> 00:56:27,521
They will look back to when Titan was
first seen by Voyager spaceships...
818
00:56:27,730 --> 00:56:30,893
...on their epic journeys
past the giant planets...
819
00:56:31,100 --> 00:56:32,795
...out of the solar system...
820
00:56:33,002 --> 00:56:36,802
...to the great dark
between the stars.
821
00:56:54,257 --> 00:56:56,282
Since Cosmos was first shown...
822
00:56:56,492 --> 00:57:00,394
...Voyager spacecraft have explored
the systems of the planets...
823
00:57:00,596 --> 00:57:03,360
...Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune...
824
00:57:03,566 --> 00:57:08,435
...and have now passed the outermost
planets on their way to the stars.
825
00:57:08,871 --> 00:57:12,568
We inserted the flavor of those
encounters in our captain's log.
826
00:57:13,342 --> 00:57:15,367
But with image processing...
827
00:57:15,578 --> 00:57:19,810
...we've been able to reconstruct
astonishing movies...
828
00:57:20,082 --> 00:57:21,743
...of some of these worlds.
829
00:57:21,951 --> 00:57:25,352
Here, for example, is Jupiter,
with its great red spot.
830
00:57:26,923 --> 00:57:30,188
And volcanic lo, spinning before us.
831
00:57:31,193 --> 00:57:36,130
Icy Enceladus, a tiny moon of Saturn,
on much of which, somehow...
832
00:57:36,599 --> 00:57:38,533
...the craters have melted.
833
00:57:39,735 --> 00:57:42,101
And Miranda, of Uranus.
834
00:57:43,639 --> 00:57:46,369
Austere, blue Neptune.
835
00:57:48,711 --> 00:57:52,112
Or consider Titan,
the giant moon of Saturn.
836
00:57:52,315 --> 00:57:55,682
We've taken the nitrogen and methane
in its atmosphere...
837
00:57:55,885 --> 00:57:59,377
...irradiated it in the lab with
electrons of the sort that are...
838
00:57:59,588 --> 00:58:02,250
...beamed at Titan from
Saturn's magnetic field...
839
00:58:02,458 --> 00:58:05,154
...and we made this stuff...
840
00:58:05,761 --> 00:58:10,198
...which matches, almost perfectly, the
observed properties of the Titan haze.
841
00:58:10,399 --> 00:58:11,491
What is it?
842
00:58:11,701 --> 00:58:14,135
It's a mixture of
complex organic molecules.
843
00:58:14,337 --> 00:58:17,534
You drop some into water and,
among other things, you make...
844
00:58:17,740 --> 00:58:20,334
...amino acids,
the building blocks of proteins.
845
00:58:20,543 --> 00:58:23,478
So the starting materials of life...
846
00:58:23,679 --> 00:58:27,877
...are raining from the skies
of Titan, like manna from heaven.
847
00:58:28,084 --> 00:58:30,746
I can't wait
until the Cassini mission...
848
00:58:30,953 --> 00:58:35,219
...sends an entry probe
through the organic haze of Titan...
849
00:58:35,424 --> 00:58:37,551
...to its enigmatic surface.
850
00:58:37,960 --> 00:58:42,897
The Voyager spacecraft rush on
past the planets and to the stars...
851
00:58:43,132 --> 00:58:45,259
...still returning data.
852
00:58:45,801 --> 00:58:48,463
As it left the planetary part
of the solar system...
853
00:58:48,671 --> 00:58:50,935
...Voyager 1 turned back...
854
00:58:51,140 --> 00:58:55,008
...to take one last portrait
of the planets of the solar system.
855
00:58:55,678 --> 00:58:58,613
...and one of those pictures
was of the Earth.
856
00:58:58,814 --> 00:59:03,251
A tiny blue dot, set in a sunbeam.
857
00:59:03,886 --> 00:59:05,217
Here it is.
858
00:59:05,421 --> 00:59:07,946
That's where we live. That's home.
859
00:59:08,157 --> 00:59:12,025
We humans are one species,
and this is our world.
860
00:59:12,528 --> 00:59:14,860
It is our responsibility
to cherish it.
861
00:59:15,064 --> 00:59:19,023
Of all the worlds in our solar system,
the only one, so far as we know...
862
00:59:19,235 --> 00:59:21,135
...graced by life.
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