[Space Bites] Revolutionary Mercury Mission Concept // Dust Shield for the Moon // First Crewed Polar Mission

2025-04-04

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? 🚀 Watch THIS VIDEO with NO ADS and a secret BONUS for FREE: https://www.patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 00:24 JWST sees Neptune's au...

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00:00 Intro
00:24 JWST sees Neptune's auroras
- https://www.universetoday.com/articles/webb-sees-neptunes-auroras-for-the-first-time
01:46 Webb measures the size of asteroid YR4
- https://www.universetoday.com/articles/webb-scans-asteroid-2024-yr4-its-60-meters-across
03:02 Private polar mission Fram-2
- https://www.universetoday.com/articles/four-private-astronauts-are-about-to-make-a-polar-orbit-for-the-first-time
04:36 Riding a solar sail to Mercury
- https://www.universetoday.com/articles/a-mission-could-reach-mercury-on-solar-sails-alone
07:37 Gaia is gone
- https://www.universetoday.com/articles/its-mission-over-gaia-rides-off-into-the-sunset
08:59 Vote results
- https://www.youtube.com/@frasercain/community
09:35 Electromagnetic dust shield
- https://www.universetoday.com/articles/nasas-new-dust-repelling-shield-seems-to-work-well
11:43 Protoplanetary disks are small
- https://www.universetoday.com/articles/many-protoplanetary-disks-arent-much-bigger-than-earths-orbit
13:35 Cool images
- https://www.universetoday.com/articles/a-dramatic-einstein-ring-seen-by-webb
- https://www.universetoday.com/articles/here-are-spherexs-first-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