All language subtitles for NASAs.Unexplained.Files.S05E02.Curse.of.the.Gas.Giant.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DD+2.0.H.264-BATMAN_track3_[eng]

Narrator: NASA'S MISSION
IS TO EXPLORE THE UNKNOWN.

Shira Teitel: WHAT WE KNOW
ABOUT THE UNIVERSE

IS A TINY FRACTION
OF WHAT'S ACTUALLY OUT THERE.

Narrator:
IN THE SEARCH FOR ANSWERS,

IT LAUNCHES ITS SCIENTISTS
INTO SPACE,

ITS CRAFT BEYOND THE LIMITS
OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM.

Lee: WE HAVE NO IDEA
WHAT'S OUT THERE.

THERE MIGHT BE DANGERS
LURKING IN THE DARKNESS.

WE RUN ACROSS MORE MYSTERIES
THAN DISCOVERIES.

WE DON'T KNOW WHAT IT'S
GONNA THROW AT US NEXT.

Narrator:
THE CURIOSITY ROVER PHOTOGRAPHS

A MYSTERIOUS OBJECT
ON THE SURFACE OF MARS.

IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S
A CRASHED SPACECRAFT ON MARS.

Narrator: STRANGE, COCOON-LIKE
OBJECTS APPEAR ON EARTH

AFTER ANOTHER-WORLDLY LIGHT
DISPLAY IN THE SKY.

Major: THERE'S A REAL PRESSURE
TO FIND OUT

WHAT THESE SPHERES ARE
AND WHERE THEY CAME FROM.

Narrator: AND SCIENTISTS DETECT
A MYSTERIOUS HEAT SOURCE

IN THE CLOUDS OF JUPITER.

MEASURING THE TEMPERATURES
IN JUPITER'S ATMOSPHERE,

SCIENTISTS ARE FINDING
SOMETHING'S WRONG.

Narrator: THESE ARE NASA'S
UNEXPLAINED FILES.

--Captions by VITAC--
www.vitac.com

Man:
APOLLO 11, THIS IS HOUSTON.

Narrator: APOLLO 11 SUFFERS
A CRITICAL SYSTEMS FAILURE

ON THE FINAL DESCENT
TO THE LUNAR SURFACE.

SUDDENLY, INSIDE THE CAPSULE,
AN ALARM GOES OFF.

OH, MY GOD.
WE GOT A SERIOUS PROBLEM.

Narrator: THE COMPUTER REPORTS
AN ERROR CODE

NO ONE IN MISSION
CONTROL RECOGNIZES.

1202, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?

Orwall:
THE MOST IMPORTANT MISSION

IN THE HISTORY
OF SPACE EXPLORATION

IS MERE SECONDS AWAY
FROM DISASTER.

WE'RE OFF TO A GOOD START.
LET'S PLAY IT COOL.

Narrator:
NASA IS ABOUT TO MAKE HISTORY.

HOUSTON, WE'RE GO
FOR UNDOCKING.

Narrator: NEIL ARMSTRONG
AND BUZZ ALDRIN

BEGIN THEIR POWERED DESCENT

TO THE MOON SURFACE
IN THE LUNAR MODULE.

Jurek: THE WHOLE WORLD
IS WATCHING,

600 MILLION PEOPLE COLLECTIVELY
HOLDING THEIR BREATH.

YOU GUYS ARE DOMINATING

ALL THE NEWS
BACK HERE ON EARTH.

Narrator:
THE JOURNEY IS JUST 10 MILES,

BUT IT'S THE MOST DANGEROUS PART
OF THE ENTIRE 8-DAY MISSION.

APOLLO 11, HOUSTON.

Narrator: CHARLES DUKE IS
THE ASTRONAUT ON THE GROUND

RESPONSIBLE FOR COMMUNICATING
WITH THE MODULE.

Duke:
YOUR GUIDANCE IS CONVERGED.

YOU'RE LOOKING GOOD.

THE ACTIVATION OF THE LUNAR
MODULE WENT ACCORDING TO PLAN,

RIGHT ON SCHEDULE.

WE HAD THEM TARGETED
INTO THE MARE TRANQUILLITATIS.

Narrator: FOUR MINUTES IN,

A HARSH NOISE
INTERRUPTS THE DESCENT.

[ ALARM BEEPING ]

SUDDENLY, INSIDE THE CAPSULE,
AN ALARM GOES OFF.

Narrator: THE ASTRONAUTS DON'T
RECOGNIZE THE ALARM CODE.

Astronaut: 1202.

1202,
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?

1202.

NEIL ARMSTRONG DOESN'T KNOW.
BUZZ ALDRIN DOESN'T KNOW.

THAT'S BAD.

AN ALARM ON A SPACECRAFT
IS GOING TO BE SCARY.

[ BEEPING CONTINUES ]

BUT IF YOU DON'T KNOW
WHAT IT MEANS,

THAT'S TERRIFYING.

Linenger: YOU HOPE THAT
IT'S NOT A SYSTEM FAILING

THAT IS GOING TO CAUSE
YOU TO ABORT THE MISSION

OR TO LOSE YOUR LIFE.

Narrator: ON THE GROUND,
CONFUSION SPREADS.

Oberg: THE FIRST RESPONSE
FROM EVERYBODY WAS,

"WHAT THE HECK IS THAT
AND HOW DANGEROUS IS THAT?"

Eyles: THERE'S A PERIOD
OF ABOUT 15 SECONDS

WHEN YOU CAN ALMOST
CALL IT STUNNED SILENCE.

Narrator: ARMSTRONG
AND ALDRIN NEED TO ACT,

BUT A WRONG MOVE
COULD BE DISASTROUS.

I THINK THE FIRST THOUGHT
IS, "FREEZE."

Linenger: IF I TURN THE WRONG
THRUSTER OFF, FOR EXAMPLE,

I CAN BE IN EVEN BIGGER
TROUBLE AND UNRECOVERABLE.

ARMSTRONG GETS IMPATIENT
AT ONE POINT.

Armstrong: GIVE US THE READING
ON THE 1202 PROGRAM ALARM.

THERE'S DEFINITELY
AN EDGE IN HIS VOICE.

Narrator: 20 SECONDS
AFTER THE ALARM SOUNDS,

THE LUNAR MODULE IS JUST 6,000
FEET ABOVE THE MOON SURFACE.

Oberg: THERE'S NO TIME
FOR LENGTHY DISCUSSIONS.

HOW SERIOUS IS IT?
IS THE CREW IN DANGER?

IS THE MISSION IN DANGER?

Narrator: MISSION CONTROL
HAS JUST SECONDS TO DECIDE

IF THEY MUST
ABORT THE LANDING.

YOU KNOW, ALL THE HOPES
AND EXPECTATION OF THE WORLD

ARE REALLY ON YOUR SHOULDERS.

Orwall: ONE OF THE POSSIBILITIES
THEY CONSIDERED

WAS A PROPELLANT LEAK.

THAT'S AN EXTREMELY
DANGEROUS SITUATION

WHEN YOU'RE THAT CLOSE
TO LANDING ON THE LUNAR SURFACE.

Narrator: NASA CHECKS
ALL OTHER INSTRUMENTS,

BUT NONE REGISTER A LEAK.

THE ALARM HAS TO BE
COMING FROM SOMETHING ELSE.

SOME AT MISSION CONTROL
BEGIN TO FEAR THE WORST --

SABOTAGE.

SABOTAGE SOUNDS LIKE SOMETHING

OUT OF
A HUMPHREY BOGART MOVIE,

BUT AT THIS CRITICAL TIME
IN THE COLD WAR HISTORY,

THERE ARE SOVIET SPIES
OPERATING IN THE U.S.

Narrator: WHILE THERE IS
EVIDENCE OF SOVIET ATTEMPTS

TO GAIN ACCESS
TO NASA'S SECRETS,

THE APOLLO PROGRAM
IS A HARD TARGET FOR SPIES.

IT'S NOT IMPOSSIBLE
THAT A SOVIET SPY

COULD INFILTRATE NASA,

BUT ACCESS TO
THE ACTUAL APOLLO SPACECRAFT

IS HIGHLY RESTRICTED,

AND SABOTAGE WOULD BE
VERY DIFFICULT TO PULL OFF.

Narrator: 3,000 FEET
ABOVE THE SURFACE,

THE LUNAR MODULE
IS 3 MINUTES FROM IMPACT.

ALDRIN'S COMPUTER CUTS OUT.

Aldrin: HOUSTON,
WE GOT DATA DROPOUT.

AND THE ALARM
GOES OFF AGAIN.

Orwall: THEY'RE MINUTES AWAY
FROM THE LUNAR SURFACE,

AND THEY STILL HAVEN'T
FIGURED OUT WHAT'S HAPPENING.

THIS IS VERY,
VERY CLOSE TO CATASTROPHE.

Worden: THE FEELING AMONGST
THE ASTRONAUT CORPS

WAS THAT THERE WAS A BIG CHANCE
THAT THEY MIGHT NOT MAKE IT.

Narrator: AS CONCERN GROWS
AT MISSION CONTROL,

THEY GET A CALL FROM A TECH GUY
ON THE MISSION SUPPORT TEAM.

JACK GARMAN HAD
SUPERVISED THE DESIGN

AND TESTING OF THE APOLLO
GUIDANCE COMPUTER.

JACK GARMAN IS WORKING
IN ONE OF THE BACK ROOMS

THAT SUPPORT MISSION CONTROL,

AND HE'S GOT A SHEET ON HIS DESK

THAT HE HAD CREATED
THAT HAD THE ERROR CODES

THAT HAD COME UP
DURING TRAINING.

Narrator: GARMAN
RECOGNIZES THE 1202 ERROR.

IT SHOWED UP A FEW DAYS EARLIER
IN HIS GROUND BASE SIMULATOR.

Orwall:
THE 1202 ALARM HAPPENED

BECAUSE THEY WERE SENDING OVER
12,000 SIGNALS PER SECOND.

THE COMPUTER, ESSENTIALLY,
GOT OVERLOADED.

Narrator: IF THE LUNAR MODULE
COMPUTER IS OVERLOADED,

IT COULD SHUT DOWN TOTALLY.

ARMSTRONG AND ALDRIN
WOULD PLUMMET TO THEIR DEATHS.

THEY WORKED OUT THE PROBLEM,

BUT THAT'S NOT
THE SAME AS FIXING IT.

Narrator: BUT GARMAN CALCULATES
THE COMPUTER WILL ONLY REBOOT

IF IT'S CONSISTENTLY
OVERLOADING.

SO FAR, THE ALARM
HAS TRIPPED JUST TWICE.

Orwall: JACK GARMAN PASSES
THE INFORMATION

TO THE GUIDANCE OFFICER,

THAT, AS LONG AS THE ALARM
IS INTERMITTENT,

THEY CAN CONTINUE TO LAND.

Narrator: FLIGHT GUIDANCE
OFFICER STEVE BALES

HAS TO MAKE
THE CRITICAL CALL --

CONTINUE WITH
THE LANDING OR ABORT.

Bales:
WE'RE GO ON THAT ALARM.

GO ON A 1202 ALARM WAS ADVICE
FROM MISSION CONTROL THAT,

"YOU CAN IGNORE THAT ALARM.
WE'RE WATCHING IT.

WE'VE GOT YOUR BACK.

YOU KEEP FLYING."

Duke: THAT WAS PROBABLY ONE
OF THE MOST CRITICAL DECISIONS

MADE IN THE ENTIRE PROGRAM,

WAS THAT THEY SAID, "OKAY."

Narrator: BUT THE ASTRONAUTS'
RELIEF IS SHORT-LIVED.

AS THE LANDING MODULE
NEARS THE LUNAR SURFACE,

THE ALARM SOUNDS AGAIN
AND THEN AGAIN.

Duke: THE TENSION IN MISSION
CONTROL WAS MEASURABLE.

IT WAS DEAD SILENCE.

I HEARD ENGINES STOP...

Armstrong: OKAY.
ENGINES STOPPED.

...AND IT WAS A PREGNANT PAUSE,

AND THEN NEIL COMES BACK,

"HOUSTON, TRANQUILITY
BASE HERE."

THE EAGLE HAS LANDED.

"THE EAGLE HAS LANDED."
YOU KNOW, YEAH!

I MEAN, THE WORLD
WAS JUMPING UP AND DOWN.

Duke: WELL, I WAS SO EXCITED,

I COULD NOT PRONOUNCE
TRANQUILITY.

IT CAME OUT TWANG.

ROCKET, TWANG --
TRANQUILITY.

WE COPY YOU ON THE GROUND.

YOU GOT A BUNCH OF GUYS
ABOUT TO TURN BLUE.

WE'RE BREATHING AGAIN.
THANKS A LOT.

Eyles: THAT SORT OF WAS
VERY CLOSE TO HOME

BECAUSE WE HAD SORT OF BEEN
HOLDING OUR BREATH

FOR THE LAST
10 MINUTES OR SO.

Narrator: NASA'S MISSION WAS
ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND,

MADE POSSIBLE BY THE QUICK
THINKING OF JACK GARMAN.

THAT COMPUTER FAULT
COULD HAVE NOT ONLY COST

THREE ASTRONAUTS THEIR LIVES,

BUT IT ALSO COULD HAVE ENDED
THE APOLLO LUNAR PROGRAM.

Narrator: COMING UP, A CIA
SATELLITE EXPOSES EVIDENCE

OF A DISASTER AT
A RUSSIAN ROCKET TEST FACILITY.

Jurek: A HEAVILY CHARRED LAUNCH
PAD WITH BLACKENED DEBRIS

THROWN IN ALL DIRECTIONS,

IT'S NOTHING SHORT
OF A CATASTROPHE.

Narrator: AND A NASA ROVER
DISCOVERS A MYSTERIOUS OBJECT

ON THE SURFACE OF MARS.

Shostak: NOW WE'VE FOUND
SOME REAL EVIDENCE

FOR ALIEN PRESENCE.

Narrator:
NASA'S MARS ROVER CAPTURES

AN IMAGE OF A SHADOWY SHAPE

ON THE RED PLANET'S SURFACE.

YOU LOOK AT THIS THING,
AND YOU DO A DOUBLE TAKE.

IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S
A CRASHED SPACECRAFT ON MARS.

Narrator: THE PHOTOGRAPH CAUSES
AN ONLINE FRENZY OF EXCITEMENT.

NOW WE'VE FOUND
SOME REAL EVIDENCE

FOR ALIEN PRESENCE.

Narrator: DAY 64 OF CURIOSITY
ROVER'S EXPLORATION OF MARS.

Bell: CURIOSITY ROVER IS
LOOKING FOR EVIDENCE

THAT MARS WAS ONCE HABITABLE.

AND, TO DO THAT,
WE HAVE ALL THESE

AMAZING SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS
ON THE ROVER,

INCLUDING THESE
INCREDIBLE COLOR CAMERAS.

Narrator: CURIOSITY SEARCHES
THE 96-MILE-WIDE GALE CRATER

FOR SIGNS OF THE WATER

THAT ONCE FLOWED
ACROSS THE RED PLANET.

AMONG THE ROCKS,

ONE OF CURIOSITY'S 17
ONBOARD CAMERAS CAPTURES

AN IMAGE OF SOMETHING STRANGE.

THE SHOT GRABS THE ATTENTION
OF UFO HUNTERS.

Lee:
THAT IMAGE GOES UP ON THE WEB,

AND THERE'S INSTANT FURY
ABOUT WHAT IT COULD POSSIBLY BE.

Narrator:
ANALYST MARC D'ANTONIO EXAMINES

THE IMAGE FOR CLUES.

AT FIRST GLANCE, THE IMAGE
LOOKS RELATIVELY NORMAL.

A BUNCH OF ROCKS, WE SEE THIS
ALL THE TIME ON MARS.

HOWEVER, DOWN HERE
IS A FAIRLY STRANGE OBJECT.

WHAT COULD IT BE?

Narrator: IN THE COURSE
OF EXPLORING MARS,

A NUMBER OF CRAFT
HAVE LANDED ON THE PLANET.

NASA ANALYSTS CONSIDER THE
THEORY THE UNEXPLAINED OBJECT

COULD BE THE REMAINS

OF A RIVAL SPACE
AGENCY'S DOOMED PROBE.

RUSSIA HAS LAUNCHED A TOTAL
OF 19 CRAFT TOWARDS MARS.

ONLY FIVE HAVE
REACHED THE PLANET.

BUT SIMPLE MATH RULES
OUT THE IDEA

THE MYSTERIOUS OBJECT
IS A SOVIET LANDER.

ALL OF THE SOVIET MARS SERIES
OF LANDERS FROM THE '70s,

ALL OF WHICH FAILED ON DESCENT,

ALL OF THOSE
CAN BE ACCOUNTED FOR.

Narrator: THE SOVIETS AREN'T
THE ONLY SPACE AGENCY

TO SEND SPACECRAFT TO MARS.

MAYBE IT'S THE REMAINS
OF ONE OF OUR OWN SPACECRAFT

THAT CRASH-LANDED
ON THE RED PLANET.

THE QUESTION IS, WHICH ONE?

THERE'S ONLY ONE LANDER
WHOSE EXACT LANDING LOCATION

IS NOT KNOWN AT ALL,
AND THAT'S THE BEAGLE 2.

Narrator: THE BEAGLE 2,

A COMPACT EUROPEAN
SPACE AGENCY LANDER

ONLY 3 FEET WIDE,

BEGAN ITS DESCENT THROUGH
THE MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE

ON CHRISTMAS EVE 2003.

BEAGLE 2 ENTERED
THE MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE

TO GO LOOK FOR LIFE
AT THE SURFACE OF MARS.

BUT THEN CONTACT
WITH IT WAS LOST.

Narrator: SOME SUGGEST
THE BEAGLE 2 MIGHT BE

THE UNIDENTIFIED OBJECT
IN CURIOSITY'S IMAGE.

ANALYST MARC D'ANTONIO COMPARES

EUROPEAN SPACE
AGENCY PHOTOGRAPHS

OF BEAGLE 2
WITH CURIOSITY'S IMAGE.

D'Antonio:
THIS IS FLAT ON TOP.

SO IS THIS.
IT'S ROUND ON THE BOTTOM.

THIS APPEARS TO BE ROUND
ON THE BOTTOM.

BUT THERE'S A PROBLEM.

THIS IS THE WRONG SHAPE.

THIS IS A LONGER CURVE.

THIS IS A SHORTER CURVE.

THIS CAN'T BE THAT.

Narrator: IN SPITE OF
THE INCONSISTENCIES,

THE BEAGLE 2 THEORY
CONTINUES TO PROVOKE DEBATE.

THEN, IN DECEMBER 2014,

NASA RECEIVES
CRUCIAL NEW DATA

FROM ITS AMBITIOUS MARS
RECONNAISSANCE ORBITER.

NASA'S MARS RECONNAISSANCE
ORBITER HAS A CAMERA CALLED

A HIRISE THAT TAKES PICTURES
WITH A FOOTPRINT

THAT'S COMPARABLE IN SIZE
TO THAT BEAGLE SPACECRAFT.

Narrator: THE MRO SPOTS
AN UNUSUAL GLINT OF LIGHT

FROM THE ISIDIS PLANITIA BASIN,

LIGHT THAT COULD BE REFLECTED

BY THE METALLIC SURFACE
OF A LOST CRAFT.

UPON CLOSE INSPECTION,

IT TURNS OUT THAT
THAT'S THE BEAGLE 2 LANDER.

Narrator: NASA'S MRO CONFIRMS
BEAGLE 2 RESTS

JUST 2 MILES
FROM ITS INTENDED TOUCHDOWN,

BUT IT'S 2,000 MILES AWAY

FROM THE MYSTERY OBJECT
DISCOVERED BY CURIOSITY.

THE BEAGLE HAS LANDED
BUT NOT ANYWHERE

NEAR WHERE CURIOSITY
IS SCOURING THE LANDSCAPE.

Narrator:
NASA'S MRO SOLVES THE MYSTERY

BEHIND THE DISAPPEARANCE
OF THE BEAGLE 2,

BUT THE SOLUTION SHEDS NO LIGHT
ON THE GREATER MYSTERY --

THE STRANGE OBJECT DISCOVERED
BY THE CURIOSITY ROVER.

COMING UP, WHEN A MURDER
CASE GOES COLD,

DETECTIVES TURN
TO NASA FOR HELP.

Shira Teitel:
IF ANYONE IS GOING TO HAVE

THE CUTTING-EDGE PHOTOGRAPHIC
ENHANCEMENT SOFTWARE,

IT'S GOING TO BE NASA.

Narrator: AND A NASA PROBE
DETECTS SOMETHING PRODUCING HEAT

IN THE CLOUDS OF OUR SOLAR
SYSTEM'S LARGEST WORLD.

WHAT STRANGE POWER SOURCE
COULD BE AT PLAY ON JUPITER?

Narrator:
PENNSYLVANIA, 1989.

A GRIZZLY MURDER GOES
UNSOLVED FOR MONTHS.

Sacavage: THE DIFFICULTY
IN THE CASE WAS THIS --

THIS WAS NOT YOUR AVERAGE
HOMICIDE CASE.

Narrator:
WITH A KILLER ON THE LOOSE,

DETECTIVES TURN
TO NASA FOR HELP.

THE WHOLE CASE HANGS
ON NASA TECHNOLOGY.

CAN THEIR TECHNIQUES HELP
BRING A KILLER TO JUSTICE?

Narrator: A JOGGER MAKES
A GRUESOME DISCOVERY --

THE DECAYING BODY
OF A YOUNG WOMAN.

THE DISTURBING FIND OFFERS

A FRESH LEAD
IN AN EXISTING CASE.

WHAT HAD BEEN A MISSING
PERSON'S INVESTIGATION

FOR THE PREVIOUS 21 DAYS

IMMEDIATELY BECAME
A HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION.

Narrator: AN AUTOPSY
REVEALS THE VICTIM,

19-YEAR-OLD LORI AUKER,

WAS KILLED IN
A FRENZIED KNIFE ATTACK.

Sacavage: THERE WERE
ABOUT 17 STAB WOUNDS.

AT LEAST SEVEN OF THEM
WERE IN THE AREAS OF THE BODY

WHERE THERE WERE VITAL ORGANS.

Narrator: DETECTIVES
INFORM DISTRICT ATTORNEY

ROBERT SACAVAGE
OF THEIR PRIME SUSPECT,

LORI'S ESTRANGED HUSBAND,
ROBERT AUKER.

THEY DISCOVER AUKER BOUGHT

A $10,000 LIFE-INSURANCE POLICY
ON HIS WIFE,

AND THEY UNEARTH AUKER'S HISTORY
OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.

Sacavage: WE SPOKE TO
THE RELATIVES, FRIENDS,

AND THE INFORMATION
WAS TOTALLY CONSISTENT,

THAT HE WAS CONTROLLING,

AND SHE WAS LIVING
IN STARK FEAR OF HIM.

Narrator: BUT THE EVIDENCE
AGAINST AUKER IS CIRCUMSTANTIAL.

THERE WAS NO CONFESSION.
THERE WAS NO MURDER WEAPON.

Narrator: SACAVAGE
AND HIS DETECTIVES

TRACE LORI'S LAST MOVEMENTS.

THEY DISCOVER THERE'S AN ATM
AT THE MALL WHERE SHE WORKED.

IT HAS SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS.

THEY WEREN'T A CONTINUOUS VIDEO.

WHAT THEY HAD WAS A STILL PHOTO
THAT WAS TAKEN EVERY 10 SECONDS.

Narrator: THE CAMERA POINTS
DIRECTLY INTO THE PARKING LOT.

WE CAN SEE LORI AUKER'S
CAR PARKED.

10 SECONDS LATER,
LORI IS OUT OF HER CAR,

MOVING TOWARD THE BANK.

10 SECONDS AFTER THAT,
THERE'S A CAR APPEARS,

AND THIS CAR CUTS HER OFF
AND SORT OF STOPPED HER.

AND WE SEE LORI IS
LEANING OVER INTO A CAR

WITH THE DOOR OPENED.

10 SECONDS LATER,
SHE'S NOWHERE.

SO THAT WAS AN ABDUCTION SCENE.

Narrator: SACAVAGE
BELIEVES THESE IMAGES

CAPTURE LORI'S KILLER
AND HIS CAR ON FILM.

A TIP-OFF REVEALS THAT,

AT THE TIME
OF THE DISAPPEARANCE,

THE PRIME SUSPECT WAS DRIVING
AN '84 CHEVY CELEBRITY.

IF SACAVAGE CAN CONNECT
THE VEHICLE TO AUKER,

HE WILL HAVE CONCRETE EVIDENCE

HIS SUSPECT CROSSED PATHS

WITH THE VICTIM THE DAY
SHE WAS KILLED.

BUT, IN 1989,

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT TECHNOLOGY

IS IN ITS INFANCY.

NEITHER THE STATE POLICE
NOR THE FBI CAN HELP.

SO SACAVAGE TURNS
TO AN ORGANIZATION

WITH THE WORLD'S
MOST ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY --

NASA.

I WAS READY TO USE WHATEVER
WAS AVAILABLE TO MAKE THE CASE.

IF ANYONE IS GOING TO HAVE
THE CUTTING-EDGE

PHOTOGRAPHIC ENHANCEMENT
SOFTWARE, IT'S GOING TO BE NASA.

Narrator: SACAVAGE TRAVELS

TO NASA'S BALLISTIC
MISSILE DEFENSE ORGANIZATION

AT THE KENNEDY SPACE CENTER.

IT WAS PART OF RONALD REAGAN'S
STRATEGIC DEFENSE INITIATIVE,

YOU KNOW,
HIS "STAR WARS" PROGRAM.

MET WITH SCIENTISTS
DOWN THERE

WHO HAD EXPERTISE
IN DIGITAL IMAGING.

Narrator:
THE LORI AUKER MURDER CASE

IS THE FIRST TIME NASA'S
IMAGE ENHANCEMENT TECHNIQUE

IS USED OUTSIDE OF ROCKET
ANALYSIS OR MISSILE DEFENSE.

THE NASA SCIENTISTS GET TO WORK,

AND THEY DIVIDE THE IMAGE UP

INTO THOUSANDS
AND THOUSANDS OF PIXELS.

EACH PIXEL IS CONVERTED
INTO A NUMBER.

THAT NUMBER REPRESENTS
A BRIGHTNESS

FROM PURE WHITE ALL THE WAY
THROUGH THE DARKEST BLACK.

THEY THEN USE SPECIAL
SOFTWARE ALGORITHMS

IN ORDER TO APPLY
DIFFERENT SETTINGS

TO EACH OF THOSE PIXELS.

THE IMAGES CAN BE ENHANCED,
USING THOSE NUMERIC VALUES,

TO WORK NOISE OUT
OF THE PHOTOGRAPH,

ULTIMATELY CLEANING IT UP
AND BRINGING OUT MORE DETAIL.

GRADUALLY, THE GRAININESS,
THE BLURRINESS DISAPPEARS,

AND SHARPER IMAGES EMERGE.

Narrator:
NASA'S ADVANCED SOFTWARE

MAKES THE IMAGES
CLEAR ENOUGH

FOR EXPERTS
TO IDENTIFY THE VEHICLE.

THEN THEY GAVE IT
TO GENERAL MOTORS,

AND ENGINEERS THERE HELP
THE POLICE IDENTIFY

THE MODEL OF CAR.

NOT ONLY WERE THEY RIGHT,

THAT IT WAS
A CHEVROLET CELEBRITY,

BUT THEY NARROW IT DOWN
TO JUST TWO YEARS,

1983 AND 1984.

THIS IS IT.

THIS IS THE PIECE OF EVIDENCE
THEY'VE BEEN WAITING FOR.

Narrator:
THE EVIDENCE PLAYS A VITAL PART

IN CONVICTING ROBERT AUKER
OF THE ABDUCTION

AND FIRST-DEGREE MURDER

OF HIS ESTRANGED WIFE, LORI.

IN PRESENTING EVIDENCE,
YOU CAN READ A JURY.

YOU CAN SEE AN IMPACT.

WHEN THEY HAD THE ABILITY

TO SEE THAT CAR,
THAT WAS OVERWHELMING,

AND THAT WAS CRUCIAL
TO THE OUTCOME OF THE CASE.

Narrator: ROBERT AUKER
IS SENTENCED TO DEATH,

LATER COMMUTED
TO LIFE BEHIND BARS.

Pope: IT'S AMAZING TO THINK
THAT THIS TECHNOLOGY,

DESIGNED AS PART
OF NASA'S SPACE PROGRAM,

HAS HELPED SOLVE A MURDER.

Narrator:
NASA'S CUTTING-EDGE TECHNIQUES

SECURED JUSTICE FOR LORI AUKER,

BUT THEY ALSO LAY THE FOUNDATION

FOR A FORENSICS REVOLUTION.

NASA TECHNOLOGY LIKE THIS IS
ROUTINELY USED IN OTHER CASES.

IT CHANGED THE LANDSCAPE
OF FORENSIC SCIENCE.

Narrator: COMING UP, AN
EXPLOSION ON A SOVIET LAUNCH PAD

LEAVES A SCENE OF HORROR.

Mueller: YOU SEE FLAMES
ON THE LAUNCH PAD.

THAT'S AN IMMEDIATE DANGER

TO THE ENTIRE LAUNCH VEHICLE
AND TO THE CREW.

Narrator:
AND TERROR GRIPS RURAL SPAIN

AS SINISTER DARK SPHERES
APPEAR FROM NOWHERE.

Pope:
WHERE DID THEY COME FROM?

IS THERE SOMETHING INSIDE
THAT COULD BE DANGEROUS?

Narrator:
A CIA SPY SATELLITE PHOTOGRAPHS

A HORRIFYING SCENE AT
A SOVIET ROCKET LAUNCH FACILITY.

Ferreira: THE EXPLOSION CREATED
A BLAZE SO MASSIVE,

IT TOOK 20 HOURS TO EXTINGUISH.

WHAT HAPPENED
ON THAT SOVIET LAUNCH PAD?

AS USUAL, THERE'S COMPLETE
SILENCE FROM THE KREMLIN.

Narrator: A CIA SPY SATELLITE
PASSES OVER KAZAKHSTAN.

FROM AN ALTITUDE OF 90 MILES,

IT TAKES PHOTOGRAPHS
OF THE TYURATAM LAUNCH FACILITY.

THIS CLOSELY GUARDED BASE
IS THE TEST SITE

FOR THE SOVIET UNION'S
MOST ADVANCED MISSILES

AND ROCKETS.

Ferreira:
IT'S COLD-WAR-ERA SOVIET RUSSIA.

THE RUSSIANS GO
TO EXTREME MEASURES

TO KEEP THEIR LAUNCHES
AS SECRETIVE AS POSSIBLE

IN CASE OF EMBARRASSMENTS
OR FAILURES.

Narrator: AT THE CIA'S
LANGLEY HEADQUARTERS,

ANALYSTS STUDY
THE SATELLITE IMAGES.

THE SHOTS REVEAL A ROCKET
PRIMED FOR LAUNCH.

THE ROCKET COULD CARRY
NUCLEAR WEAPONS,

BUT IT COULD ALSO BE
A HARMLESS TEST FLIGHT,

EVEN A SPACE MISSION.

A SINGLE SET OF IMAGES

DOESN'T YIELD
ENOUGH DATA FOR CIA ANALYSTS

TO BE CERTAIN.

ONE FRUSTRATION
FOR THE AMERICANS

IS THAT THE SATELLITE
WILL BE OUT OF POSITION

IN ORBIT
DURING THE ACTUAL LAUNCH DATE,

SO IT'LL MISS
THE ROCKET TAKING OFF.

Narrator:
THE CIA HAS TO WAIT TWO DAYS

FOR THE SATELLITE
TO COME INTO RANGE AGAIN.

Ferreira:
WHEN THE SATELLITE RETURNS,

THE CIA EXPECTS
TO SEE AN EMPTY LAUNCH PAD,

EVIDENCE OF A SUCCESSFUL
SOVIET MISSION,

BUT THAT'S NOT
WHAT THEY FIND AT ALL.

Narrator:
THE SPY SATELLITE'S IMAGE

CAPTURES EVIDENCE OF A DISASTER.

Jurek: A HEAVILY CHARRED LAUNCH
PAD WITH BLACKENED DEBRIS

THROWN IN ALL DIRECTIONS,

IT'S NOTHING SHORT
OF A CATASTROPHE.

Nichols: WHAT HAPPENED
ON THAT SOVIET LAUNCH PAD?

AS USUAL, THERE'S COMPLETE
SILENCE FROM THE KREMLIN.

Narrator: FOR TWO DECADES,
THE TERRIFYING EVENTS

AT TYURATAM REMAIN UNKNOWN
IN THE WEST.

THE TRUTH DOESN'T EMERGE UNTIL
AFTER THE END OF THE COLD WAR,

BUT, WHEN IT DOES,
IT LEAVES NASA STUNNED.

Narrator: DOCUMENTS DECLASSIFIED
UNDER GLASNOST REVEAL THAT,

ON SEPTEMBER 26, 1983,

THE ROCKET ON THE LAUNCH PAD
WAS A MANNED T-10 CAPSULE,

RIDING A POWERFUL
SOYUZ BOOSTER.

COSMONAUTS VLADIMIR TITOV AND
GENNADI STREKALOV ARE THE CREW.

THE LAUNCH SEQUENCE COMMENCES
AT 9:00 A.M.

Zak: THEY TAKE SEATS INSIDE

OF THE SOYUZ CAPSULE
ON THE LAUNCH PAD.

ALL THE PREPARATIONS
AND CALM-DOWN

FOR THE LIFTOFF OF THE ROCKET
WITH THE SOYUZ SPACECRAFT

ARE GOING ACCORDING
TO SCHEDULE.

Narrator: BUT
AT T MINUS 90 SECONDS,

OBSERVERS IN MISSION CONTROL
NOTICE SOMETHING DISTURBING.

Zak: LAUNCH CONTROLLERS,
FROM THEIR BUNKERS,

OBSERVING THE LAUNCH PAD,

SUDDENLY SEE THE FLAMES SHOOTING
FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE ROCKET.

THIS IS EXTREMELY
SERIOUS SITUATION

BECAUSE YOU SEE FLAMES
ON THE LAUNCH PAD.

THAT'S AN IMMEDIATE DANGER

TO THE ENTIRE LAUNCH VEHICLE
AND TO THE CREW.

Zak: FIRST,
THERE WAS A SMALL FIRE

AT THE BOTTOM OF THE ROCKET,

BUT IT VERY QUICKLY SPREAD.

SO, EVENTUALLY,

THE ENTIRE ROCKET
BECAME A TICKING BOMB.

Narrator: THE NIGHTMARE SCENARIO
IS THE FIRE WILL SPREAD

TO IGNITE THE 300 TONS
OF ROCKET FUEL

BENEATH THE COSMONAUTS'
LAUNCH VEHICLE.

ISOLATED IN THEIR CAPSULE,

TITOV AND STREKALOV
ARE UNAWARE OF THE DANGER.

FIRST, THEY FELT VIBRATION
INSIDE THE SPACECRAFT,

AND THEY FIRST ATTRIBUTED
TO THE STRONG WINDS.

BUT THEN THEY FELT
ANOTHER WAVE OF VIBRATION,

WHICH IS, OF COURSE,
WHEN THE FIRE WAS SPREADING,

AND THE ROCKET WAS
ABOUT TO EXPLODE.

Narrator:
THEIR ONLY CHANCE OF SURVIVAL

IS TO FIRE THE EMERGENCY
LAUNCH ESCAPE SYSTEM.

THE COSMONAUTS
ARE PERCHED AT THE TOP

OF THIS ENORMOUSLY
LARGE LAUNCH VEHICLE,

AND THAT UPPER STAGE
HAS ITS OWN THRUSTERS.

AND THEY'RE USING
THOSE THRUSTERS ON THAT STAGE

AS A LAUNCH ESCAPE SYSTEM.

Narrator: THE COSMONAUTS TRIGGER
THE ESCAPE MECHANISM,

BUT THE FIRE HAS BURNT
THROUGH THE CONTROL CABLE.

THEIR LAST HOPE
IS REMOTE ACTIVATION

OF THE SAME SYSTEM.

BUT THAT CAN ONLY BE
TRIGGERED BY GROUND CONTROL.

EMERGENCY ESCAPE SYSTEM
IS NOT VERY EASY

AND SIMPLE MECHANISM.

THIS REQUIRES
TWO LAUNCH PERSONNEL

IN A BUILDING
LOCATED 20 MILES

FROM THE LAUNCH PAD
TO PRESS TWO BUTTONS

WITHIN 5 SECONDS
OF EACH OTHER.

ONLY AFTER BEING
TOLD TO DO SO

WITH A CODE WORD
FROM SOMEBODY ELSE

THAT'S AT THE LAUNCH SITE.

THIS IS GOING TO BE
A VERY DIFFICULT PROCESS

TO DO IN A VERY SHORT
PERIOD OF TIME.

TO SEE THOSE
FLAMES GROWING,

TO KNOW THAT AN EXPLOSION
IS IMMINENT,

YOU MUST JUST FEEL LIKE
YOU COULDN'T GO FAST ENOUGH.

Narrator:
FLAMES ENGULF THE LAUNCH PAD,

OBSCURING THE COSMONAUTS'
SPACECRAFT...

...UNTIL THEIR CAPSULE EMERGES
FROM THE FIREBALL.

IT GETS THEM OUT OF THE WAY

BUT ONLY WITH TWO SECONDS
TO SPARE.

IT'S JUST LIKE IN THE MOVIES.

THEY ESCAPE AND THEN BOOM.

Narrator: TITOV
AND STREKALOV'S CAPSULE

TOUCHES DOWN A MILE
FROM THE TYURATAM LAUNCH SITE.

THEIR MISSION HAS FAILED
BEFORE IT HAS EVEN BEGUN.

BUT, AGAINST ALL ODDS,
THEY'RE ALIVE.

Jurek: BOTH CELEBRATE
THEIR NARROW ESCAPE

LIKE A SECOND BIRTHDAY,

NEVER FORGETTING
JUST HOW CLOSE THEY CAME

TO MEETING THEIR MAKER.

Narrator: THE ONLY EVIDENCE

VISIBLE TO THE CIA'S
SPY SATELLITE

IS THE CHARRED
TYURATAM LAUNCH PAD.

THESE COSMONAUTS
HAVE JUST PULLED OFF

ONE OF THE NARROWEST ESCAPES
IN SPACE EXPLORATION HISTORY.

Narrator: IN 2001,
TITOV AND STREKALOV ATTEND

A PRIVATE CEREMONY
IN HOUSTON, TEXAS,

TO THANK THE MAN
WHO SAVED THEIR LIVES,

NASA'S MAXIME FAGET,

DESIGNER OF THE MERCURY
LAUNCH ESCAPE SYSTEM,

BECAUSE THE MECHANISM
IN THEIR SOYUZ

WAS A CARBON COPY
OF HIS NASA DESIGN.

TODAY, SUCH
TECHNOLOGICAL ESPIONAGE

IS A RELIC OF THE COLD WAR.

NASA ASTRONAUTS ROUTINELY FLY

IN SOVIET SPACECRAFT,

MADE SAFER BY SHARED TECHNOLOGY.

COMING UP,
MYSTERIOUS DARK SPHERES

SEND SHOCK WAVES THROUGH
AN ISOLATED RURAL COMMUNITY.

Pope: THEY'RE THINKING, "IS THIS
NUCLEAR, CHEMICAL, BIOLOGICAL?

IS THERE A DANGER HERE
TO THE POPULATION?"

Narrator: MYSTERIOUS COCOONS
APPEAR FROM NOWHERE

IN THE COUNTRYSIDE NEAR
A REMOTE SPANISH VILLAGE.

THEY LOOK TRULY ALIEN.

Narrator:
THE OBJECTS SPARK PANIC

AND AN INTERNATIONAL
INVESTIGATION.

Pope:
WHERE DID THEY COME FROM?

IS THERE SOMETHING INSIDE
THAT COULD BE DANGEROUS?

Narrator:
SOUTHERN SPAIN,

OUTSIDE THE SMALL
TOWN OF MULA,

LOCALS REPORT STRANGE SOUNDS

AND FIERY OBJECTS
IN THE NIGHT SKY.

THE FOLLOWING DAY,
VILLAGERS DISCOVER A MYSTERIOUS,

COCOON-LIKE SPHERE
IN A FIELD.

IT'S A LARGE BLACK BALL.

IT'S COATED WITH SORT OF, LIKE,
BLACK, ALMOST FIBROUS WEBBING.

LOOKS ALMOST LIKE A WEIRD
TIGHTLY WOUND BALL

OF METALLIC TWINE.

NOBODY HAS ANY IDEA
WHAT IT COULD BE.

Narrator: THERE ARE NO
UNUSUAL MARKS OR TRACKS,

NO CLUES AS TO HOW
THE OBJECT GOT THERE.

THE VILLAGERS ARE PERPLEXED
BY THIS THING.

WHAT IS IT?
WHAT'S GOING ON?

Narrator: THREE DAYS LATER,

A FARMER DISCOVERS
A SECOND COCOON IN A FIELD.

ALMOST IMMEDIATELY,
A HUNTING PARTY FINDS A THIRD.

Pope:
EVERYONE'S IN A SENSE OF PANIC.

PEOPLE ARE DEMANDING ANSWERS.

Major: THERE'S A REAL PRESSURE
TO FIND OUT

WHAT THESE SPHERES ARE
AND WHERE THEY CAME FROM.

Narrator: LOCAL AUTHORITIES
HAVE NO IDEA

WHAT THEY'RE DEALING WITH.

SPAIN'S NATIONAL POLICE FORCE

DEPLOYS THE BOMB SQUAD
TO INVESTIGATE.

THEY INVESTIGATE,
ACTUALLY, IN HAZMAT SUITS.

THEY'RE THINKING
"IS THERE A DANGER HERE

TO THE POPULATION?"

Narrator: THE APPEARANCE
OF THE COCOONS

SOON AFTER THE LIGHTS AND SOUNDS
IN THE NIGHT SKY

INSPIRES A STARTLING THEORY
FOR THEIR ORIGIN.

IT'S PROPOSED THAT THIS COULD

HAVE SOME KIND
OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL ORIGIN.

COULD THESE BALLS
BE FALLEN SPACE JUNK?

Narrator: 20,000 PIECES
OF SPACE JUNK,

LARGER THAN A SOFTBALL,
ORBIT OUR PLANET.

BUT EVIDENCE AT THE SCENE

MAKES THE THEORY SEEM UNLIKELY.

Pope:
THESE SPHERES DON'T APPEAR TO BE

IN ANY IMPACT CRATERS
OF ANY SORT.

NOW, THAT'S WHAT YOU'D EXPECT

IF SOMETHING HAD COME HURTLING
OUT OF THE SKIES.

Narrator: RECENT EVENTS
IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD RAISE

ANOTHER MORE
DISTURBING POSSIBILITY

FOR THE DARK SPHERES' ORIGIN.

AT THAT TIME, NATO WERE DOING
EXERCISES IN THE LOCAL AREA.

Pope:
THIS RAISES THE QUESTION,

COULD THESE SPHERES BE LEFT OVER
FROM MILITARY TRAINING?

Narrator: AUTHORITIES
EXAMINE THE MULA COCOONS

FOR TRACES OF EXPLOSIVES.

THE PROBLEM IS, THE SPANISH
AUTHORITIES FIND NO EVIDENCE

OF ANY EXPLOSIVE COMPONENT
TO THESE SPHERES.

SOMETHING ELSE IS GOING ON HERE.

Narrator: WHEN EXPERTS
EXAMINE THE BALLS CLOSELY,

THEY DISCOVER THEY ARE HOLLOW
AND WEIGH JUST 40 POUNDS.

THE DISCOVERY LENDS CREDENCE
TO THE SPACE DEBRIS THEORY,

DESPITE THE LACK
OF AN IMPACT CRATER.

Cartwright: SOMETHING OF ABOUT
40 POUNDS IN WEIGHT

THAT HAS ORIGINATED
FROM AN ORBIT AROUND THE EARTH

MIGHT NOT ACTUALLY LEAVE
ANY SORT OF CRATER.

Narrator: FOR CLUES

TO WHAT THE EXTRATERRESTRIAL
OBJECTS COULD BE,

SPANISH INVESTIGATORS
TURN TO STRATCOM,

THE UNITED STATES
STRATEGIC COMMAND.

BUT THEIR SPACE DEBRIS
TRACKING SYSTEMS

ARE UNABLE TO IDENTIFY
ANY POSSIBLE SOURCE

FOR THE MYSTERY SPHERES.

Genge: THE PROBLEM IS THAT
STRATCOM HAVE NO RECORD

OF A RE-ENTRY OVER SPAIN
AT THIS TIME.

WHATEVER THESE SPACE BALLS ARE,

THEY'VE SLIPPED
THROUGH THE NET.

Narrator: THE MYSTERY
ATTRACTS THE ATTENTION

OF AMATEUR INVESTIGATORS
FROM SATOBS,

AN INTERNATIONAL NETWORK
OF ASTRONOMERS.

Pope: THEY THINK
THEY HAVE AN ANSWER.

THEY SAY THESE THINGS
LOOK LIKE PARTS

FROM A CENTAUR ROCKET,

SPECIFICALLY PRESSURE
VESSEL TANKS.

Narrator: THESE PRESSURE TANKS,
CALLED COPVS,

ATTACH TO THE BASE
OF THE CENTAUR STAGE

OF AN ATLAS V ROCKET.

Mueller: COPV IS A COMPOSITE
OVERWRAPPED PRESSURE VESSEL,

WHICH JUST MEANS
IT'S A FUEL TANK

MADE OF LIGHTWEIGHT
COMPOSITE MATERIALS.

Narrator: WHEN A ROCKET
REACHES EARTH ORBIT,

THE CENTAUR STAGE RELEASES

AND BURNS UP ON RE-ENTRY.

THE THEORY IS,

IS THAT THOSE ACTUALLY
HAPPEN TO RE-ENTER

THE ATMOSPHERE
WITHOUT BURNING UP,

WHICH IS POSSIBLE IF THEY ENTER
IN THE RIGHT WAY.

Narrator: COPVS COME IN
DIFFERENT SHAPES AND SIZES,

BUT SOME MEASURE
26 INCHES ACROSS AND,

WHEN EMPTY,
WEIGH AROUND 40 POUNDS.

THEY'RE THE EXACT SAME DIAMETER
AS THE SPHERES FOUND IN SPAIN.

THAT CAN'T BE A COINCIDENCE.

Mueller: IN THIS CASE,

WHAT SEEMS TO HAVE HAPPENED
ARE TWO BAD THINGS.

ONE, THOSE OBJECTS
WEREN'T TRACKED.

AND TWO, THEY RE-ENTERED
THE ATMOSPHERE

WITHOUT BURNING UP
AND POSED A DANGER

TO THE PEOPLE ON THE GROUND.

Genge:
WE KNOW WHAT THE BALLS ARE,

BUT WE STILL DON'T KNOW
WHY THEY WEREN'T DETECTED.

Pope: WHY ISN'T IT ON
THE SPACE-TRACK WEBSITE?

WHY IS IT THAT STRATEGIC COMMAND

DON'T HAVE A RECORD OF THIS?

Narrator:
THIS TIME, IT WAS SPAIN.

THE THREAT FROM SPACE IS REAL,

AND WE WILL NOT SEE IT COMING.

IF STRATCOM'S MISSED
A MASSIVE PIECE OF SPACE DEBRIS,

COULD MORE SPACE BALLS RE-ENTER
THE ATMOSPHERE UNDETECTED?

IF SO, THE DANGERS THEY PRESENT
TO US ARE REAL AND SEVERE.

WE JUST DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING
TO FALL FROM THE SKY AND WHEN.

Narrator: COMING UP,
400 MILLION MILES FROM THE SUN,

AN UNKNOWN POWER SOURCE
IS GENERATING TEMPERATURES

HOT ENOUGH TO MELT METAL.

Aguilar:
MEASURING THE TEMPERATURES

IN JUPITER'S ATMOSPHERE,

SCIENTISTS ARE FINDING
SOMETHING'S WRONG.

Narrator: A NASA PROBE

RECORDS TEMPERATURE
READINGS OF 1,300 DEGREES

FROM THE CLOUDS OF JUPITER.

IT'S 400 MILLION MILES AWAY
FROM THE WARMTH OF THE SUN.

SO HOW CAN IT BE SO HOT?

Narrator: THE DATA DEFIES
SCIENTIFIC EXPLANATION.

WHAT STRANGE POWER SOURCE
COULD BE AT PLAY ON JUPITER?

Narrator: 365 MILLION MILES
FROM EARTH,

NASA'S VOYAGER
SPACECRAFT HURTLES

TOWARD A MASSIVE
MYSTERIOUS WORLD.

JUPITER IS THE LARGEST PLANET
IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM.

BUT IT'S NOT A PLANET LIKE EARTH
THAT YOU COULD WALK ON.

IT'S A GAS GIANT.

Genge: THAT GAS IS
CONSTANTLY IN MOTION.

IT'S A VERY
TURBULENT ATMOSPHERE.

Narrator: VOYAGER DEPLOYS
ITS INFRARED SENSORS

TO COLLECT TEMPERATURE DATA

FROM THE SWIRLING MASS
OF JUPITER'S CLOUDS.

WE EXPECT TO SEE TEMPERATURES
AROUND 200 KELVIN,

WHICH IS MINUS-100
DEGREES FAHRENHEIT.

IT'S PRETTY COLD.

Narrator: BUT VOYAGER'S DATA
REVEALS A SHOCKING ANOMALY.

Stallard:
THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE OF JUPITER

IS MUCH HOTTER
THAN IT SHOULD BE.

IN FACT, WHAT WE FIND IS
IT'S 1,300 DEGREES FAHRENHEIT.

THAT'S RIDICULOUSLY HOT
AND HARD TO EXPLAIN.

WHAT STRANGE POWER SOURCE
COULD BE AT PLAY ON JUPITER?

Narrator: ONE THEORY
NASA SCIENTISTS CONSIDER

IS THE HEAT COULD BE COMING
FROM JUPITER'S EXPLOSIVE CORE.

Aguilar:
IT DOESN'T JUST BURN.

IT EXPLODES LIKE
CONTINUOUS ATOMIC BOMBS,

AND IT RADIATES ENERGY OUT.

Genge: COULD THE HEAT IN
JUPITER'S CORE BE POWERING

THESE REALLY HIGH TEMPERATURES
IN ITS ATMOSPHERE?

BECAUSE JUPITER'S CORE IS HOTTER
THAN THE SURFACE OF THE SUN.

Narrator: NASA SCIENTISTS

CONDUCT AN ASTONISHING
EXPERIMENT TO INVESTIGATE.

IN DECEMBER 1995,

THE GALILEO PROBE
PLUMMETS TO ITS DOOM

THROUGH THE LAYERS
OF JUPITER'S ATMOSPHERE.

BEFORE IT IMPLODES,

THE SPACECRAFT
SENDS BACK VITAL DATA.

BUT THE FINDINGS
ONLY DEEPEN THE MYSTERY.

Stallard: THE LOWER ATMOSPHERE
IS MUCH COOLER.

IT'S NOT HOT.

THERE'S NO OBVIOUS
SIGNATURE OF HEATING.

SO IT'S NOT JUST, LIKE, A BIG
UPWELLING OF HEAT FROM BELOW.

Narrator: WHEREVER THE
MYSTERIOUS HEAT IS COMING FROM,

IT'S NOT THE PLANET'S CORE.

HOW DO YOU GET WARM STUFF
TO JUMP OVER A COLD AREA

AND THEN HEAT UP AN AREA ABOVE?

THERE'S REALLY NO WAY
TO REALLY DO THAT.

Narrator:
THERE IS ANOTHER WAY

JUPITER'S ATMOSPHERE COULD BE
GENERATING HEAT.

CHARGED PARTICLES
FROM THE SUN

CONSTANTLY STRIKE
JUPITER'S MAGNETIC FIELD,

RELEASING ENERGY IN DAZZLING
DISPLAYS CALLED AURORAE.

THESE AURORAS PRODUCE
1 MILLION WATTS OF POWER.

THAT'S 1,000 TIMES
MORE POWERFUL

THAN THE EARTH'S AURORAS.

SO COULD THE INTENSE HEAT
PRODUCED BY THE AURORAS

AT THE POLES OF JUPITER
BE RESPONSIBLE

FOR THE HIGH TEMPERATURES
WE SEE IN THE ATMOSPHERE?

Narrator:
THE THEORY SEEMS TO FIT

UNTIL SCIENTISTS EXAMINE
HUBBLE IMAGES

OF JUPITER'S ATMOSPHERE.

THE INFRARED PICTURES
SHOW THE HEAT

FROM JUPITER'S AURORAE

GETS NO FURTHER
THAN THE PLANET'S POLES.

SOMETHING IS HOLDING
THE HEAT IN PLACE.

THE PROBLEM WITH JUPITER IS
THAT IT HAS A REALLY FAST SPIN,

AND, WITH THAT,
HEAT CAN'T PROPAGATE DOWN,

WHICH EFFECTIVELY MEANS IT JUST
GETS CAPTURED AT THE POLES.

Baines: WE CAN EXPLAIN WHY
THE POLES OF JUPITER ARE HOT,

BUT IT TURNS OUT
ALL OF JUPITER IS HOT.

SO WE HAVE A BIG CONUNDRUM HERE.

Stallard:
IT'S VERY FRUSTRATING.

EVERY TIME WE THINK
WE'VE COME UP WITH AN ANSWER,

IT DISAPPEARS AGAIN.

Narrator: IN DECEMBER 2016,
SCIENTISTS WORKING

WITH HAWAII'S
MAUNA KEA OBSERVATORY

RELEASE NEW FINDINGS

THAT COULD OFFER A CLUE
TO THE MYSTERY.

THEIR TEMPERATURE DATA COMES

FROM THE GAS GIANT'S
NOTORIOUS RED SPOT.

NOW, JUPITER'S RED SPOT
IS AN EXTREMELY INTENSE,

VERY LARGE STORM,

AS BIG AS THE DIAMETER
OF THE EARTH.

COULD JUPITER'S GIANT RED SPOT

BE BLASTING
THE ATMOSPHERE WITH HEAT?

Narrator:
ASTRONOMER TOM STALLARD

IS ON THE RESEARCH TEAM.

WE SAW A SPIKE
IN THE RADIATION OF LIGHT

FROM THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE.

USING OUR SPECTRAL ANALYSIS,

WE WERE ABLE TO SHOW
THAT THAT WAS BRIGHTER

BECAUSE IT WAS MUCH HOTTER
AND INCREDIBLY HOT.

IT'S HUNDREDS OF DEGREES HOTTER

THAN THE REST OF THE PLANET.

Narrator: SCIENTISTS PROPOSE
THE STORMS WITHIN THE RED SPOT

COULD BE SENDING
OUT SOUND WAVES,

WHICH TRANSPORT ENERGY
THROUGH THE CLOUDS.

WHEN THE WAVES HIT
THE THIN UPPER ATMOSPHERE,

THEY RELEASE THEIR
ENERGY AS HEAT.

SCIENTISTS HAVE RECORDED
SIMILAR ACOUSTIC WAVES

RELEASING SOME HEAT
INTO THE CLOUDS

OVER THE ANDES
IN SOUTH AMERICA.

WHETHER THIS ACOUSTIC
WAVE EFFECT

COULD GENERATE ENOUGH HEAT
TO BE RESPONSIBLE

FOR THE MASSIVE JUPITER
ANOMALY IS UNKNOWN.

Baines: WE HAVE SEVERAL
PRETTY NICE THEORIES,

BUT ALL OF THEM HAVE PROBLEMS.

SCIENTISTS NEED MORE DATA
BEFORE WE CAN REALLY FIGURE OUT

WHAT'S GOING ON JUPITER.

Narrator: FOR NOW, THE NATURE
OF THE MYSTERIOUS HEAT SOURCE

ON JUPITER REMAINS UNCERTAIN.

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