PBS Nova - Voyage to the Mystery Moon (2006.720p.HDTV.AC3-SoS)

Originally aired: 2006.04.04 -- replaces the earlier TVRip release.



"Chronicling a bold voyage of discovery - the Cassini/Huygens mission to Saturn and its enigmatic moon Titan - "Voyage to the Mystery Moon" delivers striking images of these fascinating planetary bodies nearly a billion miles from Earth. Saturn's broad rings hold myriad mysteries, and Titan, whose soupy atmosphere is similar to the one that enshrouded our planet billions of years ago, may hold clues to the origins of life. In hopes of answering some long-standing astrophysical questions, teams from NASA and the European Space Agency gamble years of effort to both ease the Cassini spacecraft into a workable orbit around Saturn and land the Huygens probe on Titan's never-before-seen surface.



A story of curiosity and imagination, this program highlights how many big questions remain unanswered about our own solar system and just how much we have yet to explore. Saturn, with its unique and beautifully constructed rings and diverse set of moons, holds mysteries that have tantalized researchers ever since the Voyager probes sent back breathtaking pictures of this wondrous planet. We do know that the moon Titan is one of only four bodies in the solar system to have a substantial atmosphere, and the only one whose present-day chemical composition resembles that of the primitive Earth four billion years ago. This environment, dominated by nitrogen and methane, appears to have all the ingredients needed to produce complex molecules such as amino acids, one of the key building blocks of life. For biologists, chemists, and astronomers alike, it is a giant laboratory promising an inside view of how life began on our own planet.



"Voyage to the Mystery Moon" follows the story of NASA and the European Space Agency's Cassini-Huygens mission, designed for multiple flybys past Saturn and Titan as well as an actual landing on the mysterious orange moon. It is an audacious undertaking, engaging scientists in the U.S. and Europe since 1990. These experts share with NOVA the inspiration, creativity, ambition, and near-obsessive dedication required of such a long-term venture. They have, after all, put all their eggs in one spaceship."



more info: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/titan/
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Runtime: 52:27

Source: OTA High Definition 1080i

Video Encoding: xvid.1280x720.4116kbps

Audio Encoding: ac3.384kbps-5.1chan

File Size: 1.65GB



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