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

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 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 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/1NN_dPBVRoE 📰 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)