[Space Bites] Moon Ejecta Hitting Earth // China’s Satellite Rescue // Asteroid Closeup

Lucy’s close up images of another asteroid, why Mars has a lopsided magnetic field, Chinese engineers rescue a pair of satellites with gravitational slingshots, and new hints about where Mars’s carbon dioxide atmosphere went. In our longer Space Bites+ on Patreon, a proposed human mission to both Mars and the asteroid Ceres. 🚀 [Space Bites+] No ADS. BONUS Story. For FREE: https://www.patreon.com/universetoday 00:00 Intro 00:24 LUCY flyby of asteroid Donaldjohanson https://www.universetoday.com/articles/nasas-lucy-probe-snaps-closeup-of-a-weirdly-shaped-asteroid 02:01 Mars' magnetic field https://www.universetoday.com/articles/mars-has-the-remnants-of-a-lopsided-magnetic-field 03:55 Where did Mars' atmosphere go? https://www.universetoday.com/articles/marss-atmosphere-used-to-be-thicker-has-curiosity-found-where-it-all-went 05:29 China's satellite rescue https://www.universetoday.com/articles/chinese-engineers-used-gravitational-slingshots-to-rescue-a-pair-of-satellites-1 07:01 Vote results https://www.youtube.com/@frasercain/community 07:42 Bacteria mimicing multicellular life https://www.universetoday.com/articles/bacteria-that-can-mimic-multi-cellular-life 09:29 Planet orbiting perpendicular to its stars https://www.universetoday.com/articles/a-planet-found-in-perpendicular-orbit-around-two-stars 11:10 Moon ejecta hitting Earth https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.15502 12:42 Cool images https://www.universetoday.com/articles/a-new-version-of-the-sombrero-galaxy-taken-by-hubble https://www.universetoday.com/articles/dazzling-pictures-celebrate-hubbles-35-years-in-orbit https://www.esa.int/ESAMultimedia/Images/2025/04/SolarOrbiterswidesthigh-resviewofthe_Sun 15:10 Guide to space 15:56 Space Bites+ 16:19 Telescope updates 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/jQNFiTQORvM 📰 GUIDE TO SPACE Newsletter No ads. Subscribe for FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)