Wonders of the Solar System — S01E02 — Order Out of Chaos

00:00:06 We live on a world of wonders...

00:02:07 is changing our ideas

00:04:41 we can see how the southern and then northern hemispheres

00:07:08 since it was discovered in 1846.

00:09:37 and it's almost exactly aligned with the Earth's spin axis,

00:11:50 in fact on the constellations of the Zodiac.

00:13:36 why is the solar system so ordered,

00:15:55 He's going to help me try to get close to a tornado.

00:17:59 Just pull off anywhere here.

00:19:53 It's beginning to come - the end of the world!

00:22:21 are still in action today...

00:25:02 and their interaction with the small moons

00:28:13 There are two things the boat driver told me about these icebergs.

00:30:36 Imagine sitting on one!

00:33:27 Oh!

00:35:44 And Hyperion is a moon unlike any other.

00:38:41 Carolyn Porco, head of the Cassini imaging team,

00:40:58 Just a few miles away from the continental divide

00:43:43 out of round, and as it encircles Saturn in its orbit,

00:46:40 The Sahara desert may seem an unlikely place to come to explain Saturn's rings,

00:49:24 and the first thing you notice when you look at the rings is a huge gap called the Cassini division.

00:51:54 entered a resonance and that unleashed forces that could move entire planets,

00:54:41 far in excess of the object that made this crater,

00:57:54 and that is one of the wonders of the solar system.