1 00:00:00,070 --> 00:00:02,120 The Portuguese explorer Magellan 2 00:00:02,120 --> 00:00:04,160 left his legacy in the 3 00:00:04,160 --> 00:00:06,190 first circumnavigation of planet Earth. 4 00:00:06,190 --> 00:00:08,240 Our first orbital experience on 5 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:10,290 our home planet. And today 6 00:00:10,290 --> 00:00:12,370 looking forward 500 years from that 7 00:00:12,370 --> 00:00:14,450 first voyage, we see the 8 00:00:14,450 --> 00:00:16,550 expansive space, the cosmic ocean 9 00:00:16,550 --> 00:00:18,650 that we've since conquered. And today 10 00:00:18,650 --> 00:00:20,740 as we look forward beyond the legacy 11 00:00:20,740 --> 00:00:22,860 of Magellan, we can see where we'll go 12 00:00:22,860 --> 00:00:24,990 in the next 500 years 13 00:00:24,990 --> 00:00:28,020 into that forever frontier. 14 00:00:28,020 --> 00:00:31,200 Earth. 15 00:00:31,200 --> 00:00:33,390 The ocean planet. 16 00:00:33,390 --> 00:00:35,570 The Portuguese explorer Magellan 17 00:00:35,570 --> 00:00:37,600 gave us the first orbit of our 18 00:00:37,600 --> 00:00:39,630 home planet 500 years ago. 19 00:00:39,630 --> 00:00:41,700 Today we see Earth through new eyes 20 00:00:41,700 --> 00:00:43,720 satellite views that show us 21 00:00:43,720 --> 00:00:45,750 the Earth's oceans that Magellan 22 00:00:45,750 --> 00:00:47,820 experienced himself from space. 23 00:00:47,820 --> 00:00:49,880 Little did he know. 24 00:00:49,880 --> 00:00:51,940 As he sailed the oceans, we can 25 00:00:51,940 --> 00:00:54,040 look forward 500 years to the cosmic 26 00:00:54,040 --> 00:00:56,080 oceans that today we sail. 27 00:00:56,080 --> 00:00:58,210 Magellan's ships carried him around 28 00:00:58,210 --> 00:01:00,350 our Earth in a time 29 00:01:00,350 --> 00:01:02,520 when it was unimaginable. 30 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:04,670 Now his legacy lives on in space 31 00:01:04,670 --> 00:01:06,730 through spacecraft named for Magellan. 32 00:01:06,730 --> 00:01:08,770 Who set sail from the space shuttle 33 00:01:08,770 --> 00:01:10,960 30 years ago to map our 34 00:01:10,960 --> 00:01:13,070 sister planet Venus 35 00:01:13,070 --> 00:01:15,110 in all of its glory. Perhaps a former 36 00:01:15,110 --> 00:01:17,180 ocean world, as was Earth. 37 00:01:17,180 --> 00:01:19,220 The cosmic ocean calls us 38 00:01:19,220 --> 00:01:21,300 every night across the 39 00:01:21,300 --> 00:01:23,380 Milkyway into the space we now 40 00:01:23,380 --> 00:01:25,470 experience through the eyes of 41 00:01:25,470 --> 00:01:27,590 the Hubble Space Telescope and beyond. 42 00:01:27,590 --> 00:01:29,700 This cosmic ocean is a 43 00:01:29,700 --> 00:01:31,830 forever frontier for humanity 44 00:01:31,830 --> 00:01:33,960 and it lives on in the record 45 00:01:33,960 --> 00:01:36,100 of space exploration. 46 00:01:36,100 --> 00:01:38,180 50 years ago we explored space 47 00:01:38,180 --> 00:01:40,270 from beyond Earth at the moon 48 00:01:40,270 --> 00:01:42,360 as the voyages of project Apollo gave us 49 00:01:42,360 --> 00:01:44,430 Earth rise. You see our ocean 50 00:01:44,430 --> 00:01:46,450 world from the landscapes 51 00:01:46,450 --> 00:01:48,500 and the barren landscapes of our 52 00:01:48,500 --> 00:01:50,580 nearest neighbor, the moon. 53 00:01:50,580 --> 00:01:52,680 Where its seas are frozen in rock. 54 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:54,800 Today, through spacecraft 55 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:56,850 known as the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, 56 00:01:56,850 --> 00:01:58,930 we can see the moon up close 57 00:01:58,930 --> 00:02:01,020 as if we were there, 58 00:02:01,020 --> 00:02:03,030 flying over its surface. 59 00:02:03,030 --> 00:02:05,150 We can also imagine 60 00:02:05,150 --> 00:02:07,280 living with a star 61 00:02:07,280 --> 00:02:09,430 our planet's sun. 62 00:02:09,430 --> 00:02:11,450 This sun drives the energy of our 63 00:02:11,450 --> 00:02:13,630 solar system and it shows us what 64 00:02:13,630 --> 00:02:15,840 other stars are like. 65 00:02:15,840 --> 00:02:17,880 Today we set sail to get to know the sun 66 00:02:17,880 --> 00:02:19,910 even better, through a mission known as the 67 00:02:19,910 --> 00:02:21,950 Parker Solar Probe, because the sun's 68 00:02:21,950 --> 00:02:24,010 energy drives the circulation 69 00:02:24,010 --> 00:02:26,050 our oceans and our planet. 70 00:02:26,050 --> 00:02:28,090 We move on to Venus, our sister world. 71 00:02:28,090 --> 00:02:30,160 Where the spacecraft Magellan gave 72 00:02:30,160 --> 00:02:32,250 us the views that carry our 73 00:02:32,250 --> 00:02:34,320 imagination to the cosmic oceans 74 00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:36,400 of this world where we believe it's 75 00:02:36,400 --> 00:02:38,490 oceans were lost in time 76 00:02:38,490 --> 00:02:40,590 billions of years ago. 77 00:02:40,590 --> 00:02:42,730 From Venus on to planet 78 00:02:42,730 --> 00:02:44,900 Mars where we ask the tough questions. 79 00:02:44,900 --> 00:02:46,930 Are we alone? Is this a place we're going? 80 00:02:46,930 --> 00:02:49,110 On Mars we know 81 00:02:49,110 --> 00:02:51,300 the record of water is lurking in the rocks 82 00:02:51,300 --> 00:02:53,330 in its climate history and we looked 83 00:02:53,330 --> 00:02:55,390 beneath its landscapes into 84 00:02:55,390 --> 00:02:57,430 story of those rocks from 85 00:02:57,430 --> 00:02:59,430 the voyages of spacecraft know 86 00:02:59,430 --> 00:03:01,450 as Curiosity. 87 00:03:01,450 --> 00:03:03,510 The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. 88 00:03:03,510 --> 00:03:05,550 These spacecrafts show us the rockscapes. 89 00:03:05,550 --> 00:03:07,620 Where the record of the oceans and 90 00:03:07,620 --> 00:03:09,700 seas and the lakes of Mars is written 91 00:03:09,700 --> 00:03:11,780 in the stones of time. 92 00:03:11,780 --> 00:03:13,860 So from Mars we can see 93 00:03:13,860 --> 00:03:15,950 the record of water 94 00:03:15,950 --> 00:03:18,060 in planets like Jupiter, where its 95 00:03:18,060 --> 00:03:20,170 beautiful systems 96 00:03:20,170 --> 00:03:22,290 of clouds and circulation 97 00:03:22,290 --> 00:03:24,460 can be captured with spacecraft through the 98 00:03:24,460 --> 00:03:26,660 minds eyes of humanity. 99 00:03:26,660 --> 00:03:28,830 100 00:03:28,830 --> 00:03:30,870 We move on to the beautiful planet 101 00:03:30,870 --> 00:03:32,970 known as Saturn. Where when we see 102 00:03:32,970 --> 00:03:35,000 Earth at the scale of Saturn 103 00:03:35,000 --> 00:03:37,060 we imagine how small we are 104 00:03:37,060 --> 00:03:39,140 in that cosmic ocean. 105 00:03:39,140 --> 00:03:41,170 From Saturn we can looks at its largest 106 00:03:41,170 --> 00:03:43,230 moon, Titan. 107 00:03:43,230 --> 00:03:45,290 Where oceans exist but now of water. 108 00:03:45,290 --> 00:03:47,340 Little did Magellan know that 109 00:03:47,340 --> 00:03:49,390 these other ocean worlds 110 00:03:49,390 --> 00:03:51,550 would harbor different kinds of fluids. 111 00:03:51,550 --> 00:03:53,580 Today the ocean 112 00:03:53,580 --> 00:03:55,700 universe is dramatic, we see 113 00:03:55,700 --> 00:03:57,730 even at the planet known as Pluto. 114 00:03:57,730 --> 00:03:59,890 Now a dwarf world but 115 00:03:59,890 --> 00:04:02,070 still in its landscapes 116 00:04:02,070 --> 00:04:04,250 the magic of what an ocean world might 117 00:04:04,250 --> 00:04:06,290 have looked like beyond Earth. 118 00:04:06,290 --> 00:04:08,340 It gives us the views we can expect 119 00:04:08,340 --> 00:04:10,370 of oceanic around other 120 00:04:10,370 --> 00:04:12,430 stars, light years away, 121 00:04:12,430 --> 00:04:14,510 unseen by humanity, 122 00:04:14,510 --> 00:04:16,600 but our visioneering of them 123 00:04:16,600 --> 00:04:18,710 carried by the grand telescopes 124 00:04:18,710 --> 00:04:20,810 in space, takes us there, 125 00:04:20,810 --> 00:04:22,950 extends our presents: Hubble 126 00:04:22,950 --> 00:04:24,990 Next up is the James Webb Space Telescope. 127 00:04:24,990 --> 00:04:27,110 A cosmic voyager like 128 00:04:27,110 --> 00:04:29,160 Magellan, launching in 2021. 129 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:31,310 It will extend our imagination 130 00:04:31,310 --> 00:04:33,450 to those worlds 131 00:04:33,450 --> 00:04:35,480 and the bigger cosmic ocean landscapes 132 00:04:35,480 --> 00:04:37,650 that we can only see in our minds eye. 133 00:04:37,650 --> 00:04:39,740 Back home to Earth. 134 00:04:39,740 --> 00:04:41,780 The Earth that Magellan experienced 135 00:04:41,780 --> 00:04:43,810 can be now experienced from space 136 00:04:43,810 --> 00:04:45,850 in the same way that Magellan 137 00:04:45,850 --> 00:04:47,860 experienced sailing it. 138 00:04:47,860 --> 00:04:49,910 From the record of biology on Earth 139 00:04:49,910 --> 00:04:51,990 and circulation and energy 140 00:04:51,990 --> 00:04:54,060 we can come home to the Iberian Peninsula 141 00:04:54,060 --> 00:04:56,140 were Magellan set sail 142 00:04:56,140 --> 00:04:58,280 500 years ago 143 00:04:58,280 --> 00:05:00,440 and today thanks to Jose Marquez and his team 144 00:05:00,440 --> 00:05:02,600 we commemorate the 500th 145 00:05:02,600 --> 00:05:04,770 anniversary of our oceanic 146 00:05:04,770 --> 00:05:06,800 exploration that carries us forward today 147 00:05:06,800 --> 00:05:08,980 to the exploration of deep space. 148 00:05:08,980 --> 00:05:11,160 The forever frontier. 149 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:13,190 Thanks to you Magellan 150 00:05:13,190 --> 00:05:15,240 we're there. 151 00:05:15,240 --> 00:05:17,260 152 00:05:17,260 --> 00:05:19,310 153 00:05:19,310 --> 00:05:21,330 154 00:05:21,330 --> 00:05:23,390 155 00:05:23,390 --> 00:05:25,400 156 00:05:25,400 --> 00:05:26,826