SEA: Space Exploration & Astronomy

A Glimpse of the Sun

The Sun... both the giver of life, and destroyer of worlds. Host of the eight planets, and incubator of Earth with its light and heat. Yet in spite of its brilliance, the true nature of the sun's power remains shrouded in mystery, with scientists unable to explain many of the processes playing out in its atmosphere. But in 2024, NASA will attain their closest glimpse of the sun so far, as they come just five million miles from its surface, diving into the stellar Nether Zone, to "touch" the sun itself. BACKGROUND TRACK: "Christmas Ambience" by CO.AG Music Song: https://youtu.be/e23_O1koRiA?si=5gebdLo6tpmIQpY3 Artist: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA CHAPTERS: 00:00: Welcome... 01:45: Anatomy of the Sun 05:03: The Coronal Mystery 08:21: Space Weather & the Solar Cycle 11:59: Geomagnetic Storms 15:31: The Carrington Event 18:38: A Geomagnetic Storm in 2024? 22:20: Missions to Study Space Weather 25:02: The Parker Solar Probe 30:28: Parker's 2024 Mission

Back to the Moon with Artemis

It's been more than half a century since humans last went to the Moon. But we will return before the decade is up, through NASA's revolutionary Artemis Program. But unlike its ancestral Apollo Program, Project Artemis is about more than just landing astronauts on the lunar surface. Its endgame is to enable us to stay there, and keep going back to a semi-permanent surface habitat- all in preparation for NASA's yet more ambitious, daunting endeavour of the 2030s- to reach the Red Planet, Mars. SOUNDTRACK: "Finding Direction" - CO.AG Music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xptr7cYeDBA) "Her Smile Feeding the Cold Earth" - CO.AG Music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7gX08Ww6lY) "Are You in Here With Us?" - CO.AG Music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68e7Yqt0q_Q) "Floating Through Black" - Boomer (Storyblocks Media) "Echoes" - Enzo Orefice (Storyblocks Media) "Nightlife" - CO.AG Music (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PE2XxNWj0M) "Enchanted Winds" - Humans Win (Storyblocks Media) "Still" - Humans Win (Storyblocks Media) "Meditation Yoga Ambient" - Watermello (Storyblocks Media) CO.AG's Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@co.agmusic CHAPTERS: 00:00: Artemis II 02:15: Road to the Moon Landing 07:09: The Apollo Program 13:31: The New Space Race 18:00: The Artemis Program 21:32: Artemis III 23:22: Artemis IV: The Next Moon Landing 26:04: Moon to Mars

Voyager: Beyond the Solar System (Probes Episode #3)

Of all the spacecraft to have visited other worlds, there are two which have travelled further than any other, discovering more about the Solar System than their inventors ever could have imagined. They are the legendary pair of Voyager Probes- still the only spacecraft ever to have visited the Ice Giant planets, Uranus and Neptune. The story of their 40 years in space makes up the topic of our video today- from the gas giants, to the ice worlds, and then out into the depths of interstellar space... SOUNDTRACK: - Just a Shadow | CO.AG Music (https://youtu.be/pRDzXIV5yKg?si=Z4ooBaD1wZmV_Y7B) - Deep Sleep | Amber Waldron (Storyblocks) - Beyond This Earth to the Stars | CO.AG Music (https://youtu.be/aPQl1d96_Bk?si=sLbl_gG8oqhcwuW0) - Contemplative | Amber Waldron (Storyblocks) - Spa Go | Gushito (Storyblocks) - Descend Into Horror 5 | CO.AG Music (https://youtu.be/Ev49l2ZGFmg?si=Cj4CUoob2wRCjSaQ) - Guitar Drone Meditation | Humans Win (Storyblocks) - SpaceShip | Jayson Wayne Brown (Storyblocks) CO.AG's Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@co.agmusic CHAPTERS 00:00: Welcome Back 01:31: The Grand Tour 06:00: Voyager-1's Gas Giants Mission 09:40: Voyager-1's Titan Flyby 12:27: The Pale Blue Dot 14:30 Voyager-2's Gas Giant Mission 18:15: Voyager-2's Uranus Encounter 21:24: Voyager-2's Neptune Encounter 25:00: Exiting the Heliosphere 29:19: The Interstellar Mission 34:04: One Final World... (Pluto) 37:05: New Horizons Kuiper Belt Mission 42:48: An Unconventional Signature...

Journey to the Gas Giants (Probes Episode #2)

Far beyond the reaches of the four rocky planets, we find our Solar System's showpiece worlds- the two gas giants, Jupiter and Saturn. As the two largest planets, they both make tantalising targets for probes exploring the planetary neighbourhood, but both lie significantly further from the sun than the Earth and its terrestrial neighbours. But early in the 1970s, the technology for deep space voyages was primed, and missions to both Jupiter and Saturn ensued. Those missions make up the topic of our video today, in this second episode of our trilogy of Probes that Studied the Solar System. CHAPTERS: 00:00: Welcome Back 01:52: The Gas Giants 04:11: When Planets Align 08:15: Pioneer 10's Journey to Jupiter 12:46: Pioneer 11's Jupiter Journey 15:10: Pioneer 11's Saturn Encounter 16:59: A Postcard from Humanity 18:46: The Galileo Spacecraft 24:27: Cassini-Huygens Spacecraft 29:11: Landing on Titan 32:14: Enceladus' Underground Ocean 33:55: Other Studies: Rings & Storms 36:52: Cassini's Grand Finale 38:38: Future Missions to the Gas Giants 42:33: To be Continued...

Race to the Terrestrial Planets (Probes Episode #1)

From studying the dusty surface of Mars, to plunging into the atmosphere of Venus, over the last 60 years, we've launched hundreds of probes into space on trajectories to visit each of the terrestrial planets. But for all the fascinating discoveries made on the way, humanity's journey towards the stars started out in a much darker place- a battlefront between the world's then two great competing superpowers. And in this first episode on my new series on probes, we will revisit this space race, and the major milestones on route to visiting each of the terrestrial planets. CHAPTERS: 00:00: Introduction 02:32: The Space Race 04:48: Pioneer Probes 07:32: Mariner Probes 09:55: Mariner 4 Mars Mission 12:27: Mariner 6 & 7 14:27: Mars Orbiters 17:05: Landing on Mars 18:57: Landing on Venus 21:30: The Viking Probes 26:12: Mercury Missions 33:00: Mars Rover Missions 38:16: To be Continued...