we first told you about the tiny helicopter ingenuity and the one-ton rover perseverance nearly a year ago before they left earth but they’ve come a very long way since then in february they...
In the late 19-teens, Albert Einstein had a new hammer, and he was in search of nails to hit. He had just developed a new and more powerful mathematical description of gravity , and...
– This month, NASA’s four pound Ingenuity Helicopter separated from the belly of the Perseverance Rover. A day later, the Rover backed up to allow the helicopters solar array to charge and sent this...
Thanks to MagellanTV for sponsoring today’s video. Perseverance had just performed the most impressive Mars landing of all time. With its high-definition video of the parachute deploying and the skycrane’s footage of Perseverance landing...
(ominous music) – Sometimes you have to do something just to show that you can do it. When the Wright brothers flew for the first time, they flew in an experimental aircraft and in...
I’m at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, and I’m here to see the first drone that’s gonna fly on another planet. It’s the Mars helicopter. Come on! – So this is our baby....
When we imagine the solar system, we tend to have this concept of a flat disk with lots of rings indicating the orbital motion of the planets. Given that we’ve learned this since we...
DART is the Double Asteroid Redirection Test. The Earth is hit by Asteroids and pieces of asteroids all the time. Every year or so We get hit by things maybe the size of a...
My name is Nancy Chabot. I’m a planetary scientist here in APL in the space exploration sector and I’m really pleased to be here today to talk to you about the dart mission on...
This is Lowell Observatory. Lowell is one of many observatories around the world that will be observing the DART impact, NASA’s first ever planetary defense test mission to see how much a spacecraft impact...
Hi, everyone, I’m Thomas Pesquet, and I’m with my favorite astronaut, Shane Kimbrough, up here on the space station. Today, we’re going to talk about a very cool new NASA mission called DART. Can...
In case there was an asteroid coming towards Earth and you’re there. You can actually stop it. I mean, that’s kind of fantastic. NASA is crashing a spacecraft into an asteroid. What? You think...
China has long been shooting for the moon and these tiny lunar rocks brought back are one of the reasons why the moon is sort of a stepping stone for a lot of the...
China has just unveiled its plan to colonize the moon. On this episode we take a look at China’s moon base. It’s been only a handful of days ago China landed their Chang-e 4...
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