[Q&A] Europa Sample Return, Imaging Auroras, Winds of Titan

29 Oct 2024 • 41 min • EN
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How hard can it be to retrieve a sample from Europa? How strong are the winds on Titan? What are the differences between different types of time dilation? Will Starship have landing legs? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A show. 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Start 00:29 [Alaris] What are the weird rocket noises? 04:54 [Ardena] Could we be forever trapped on Earth because of its spin? 08:29 [Asuria] How to take pictures of auroras? 11:54 [Belote] How big is the Solar System? 15:16 [Cartego] How hard would it be to do a sample return from Europa? 21:37 [Chulak] Why worry about contaminating space probes? 25:25 [Dakara] What are the plans to explore lava tubes on Moon/Mars? 28:36 [Edora] How strong are the winds on Titan? 30:32 [Goronak] Will there be legs of Starships that go to Moon and Mars? 31:51 [Hadante] What are the chances of Europa Clipper finding plumes and sampling them? 34:20 [Hebridan] Any news on Starshot? 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/K344oQzUWVU 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

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