[Space Bites] AMAZING Lunar Spectacle // Alternative Mars Sample Return // Direction of a Death Star

Blue Ghost wraps up two busy weeks on the Moon with a sunset, good news, the death star isn’t pointing at us, and a new option for the Mars Sample Return mission. And our longer edition on Patreon, how supernovae could have caused two of Earth’s mass extinction events.

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• 00:00 Intro


• 00:19 Blue Ghost's eclipse and sunset
  
  
  • https://www.universetoday.com/articles/this-is-a-lunar-eclipse-seen-from-the-moon
  
  
  • https://www.universetoday.com/articles/blue-ghost-watches-the-lunar-sunset-signalling-the-end-of-its-mission
  
  


• 02:45 Some science for Athena IM-2
  
  
  • https://www.universetoday.com/articles/one-instrument-on-the-failed-lunar-lander-did-a-little-science
  
  


• 04:25 Good News about the "Death Star"
  
  
  • https://keckobservatory.org/pinwheel/
  
  


• 06:30 Rocket Lab's Mars Sample Return architecture
  
  
  • https://spacenews.com/bringing-mars-to-earth-solving-mars-sample-return/
  
  


• 08:36 China's MSR
  
  
  • https://www.cnsa.gov.cn/english/n6465645/n6465648/c10652198/part/10652214.pdf
  
  


• 09:36 Euclid's deep field
  
  
  • https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-esas-euclid-space-telescope-gives-glimpses-of-its-deep-field
  
  


• 11:19 Vote results
  
  
  • https://www.youtube.com/@frasercain/community
  
  


• 11:57 My favourite exoplanet system
  
  
  • https://www.universetoday.com/articles/webb-directly-observers-giant-planets-sensing-carbon-dioxide-in-their-atmospheres
  
  


• 14:06 A glipse of SKA's ability
  
  
  • https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-square-kilometre-array-releases-its-first-test-image
  
  


• 16:01 Deimos by Hera
  
  
  • https://www.universetoday.com/articles/hera-swings-past-mars-sees-deimos-from-a-new-angle
  
  


• 16:59 Guide to space


• 17:31 Secret bonus story


• 17:58 New articles

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