Jupiter and Saturn up close

This remarkable video was made using NASA video footage taken during flybys by the Voyager and Cassini space missions. The video was produced by Sander van den Berg. It includes a simple but affecting  music track.

Jupiter

Saturn

Jupiter is the fifih planet from the Sun. It's distance from Earth varies between 392 and 576 million miles.   Saturn is the sixth planet, and is hundreds of millions of miles beyond Jupiter.

Here is a link to van den Berg's remarkable video...

http://vimeo.com/40234826

NASA Cassini spacecraft

NASA Voyager Spacecraft

When you look at van den Berg's video of Jupiter and Saturn, and think about the technology it took to go there and deliver this amazing video imagery, it is truly jaw dropping.  You have to wonder, when humans prove capable of such stupendous technical feats, why can't  we find the committment and the means to take better care of the Earth, the one little planet we all depend on for life.