[Space Bites] Revolutionary Mercury Mission Concept // Dust Shield for the Moon // First Crewed Polar Mission
- Author
- Fraser Cain
- Published
- Fri 04 Apr 2025
- Episode Link
- https://universetoday.fireside.fm/1321
Webb discovers auroras on Neptune, and measures the exact size of Asteroid 2024 YR4, the first Private Mission to carry humans on a polar orbit, a mission that could reach and explore Mercury using only a solar sail. And in our bonus story on Patreon, what would it take to build a sample return mission to Io?
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- 00:00 Intro
- 00:24 JWST sees Neptune's auroras
- 01:46 Webb measures the size of asteroid YR4
- 03:02 Private polar mission Fram-2
- 04:36 Riding a solar sail to Mercury
- 07:37 Gaia is gone
- 08:59 Vote results
- 09:35 Electromagnetic dust shield
- 11:43 Protoplanetary disks are small
- 13:35 Cool images
- 15:40 Guide to space
- https://www.universetoday.com/articles/lunar-polar-regions-could-have-microbes
- https://www.universetoday.com/articles/subsurface-voids-could-allow-for-living-on-the-moon-and-mars
- https://www.universetoday.com/articles/how-can-we-find-cryovolcanoes-on-europa
- https://www.universetoday.com/articles/spaceflight-weakens-our-weight-bearing-bones-the-most
- 17:05 Bonus story
- 17:33 Shows to watch
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