Plate tectonics could be incredibly rare, LEGO bricks made from actual space rocks, mapping the Milky Way’s dark matter halo, and Perseverance’s SHERLOC instrument is fully operational again.
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- 00:00 Intro
- 00:17 Rare plate tectonics
- https://www.universetoday.com/167659/plate-tectonics-might-only-occur-on-0-003-of-planets-that-makes-earth-very-special-indeed/
- 02:44 Findings from OSIRIS-REx samples
- https://www.universetoday.com/167594/asteroid-samples-were-once-part-of-a-wetter-world/
- 04:21 Fast internet for the ISS
- https://www.universetoday.com/167625/the-space-station-now-has-blisteringly-fast-internet/
- 05:43 Space LEGO bricks
- https://www.universetoday.com/167675/lego-bricks-printed-out-of-space-dust/
- 07:10 Vote results
- 08:06 Mapping Milky Way's dark natter halo
- https://kiaa.pku.edu.cn/info/1031/9340.htm
- 10:21 Mars meteorites
- https://www.universetoday.com/167645/basketball-sized-meteorites-strike-the-surface-of-mars-every-day/
- 11:49 Lunar swirls
- https://www.universetoday.com/167646/mysterious-swirls-on-the-moon-could-be-explained-by-underground-magma/
- 13:02 Mars recovery
- https://www.nasa.gov/missions/mars-2020-perseverance/perseverance-rover/detective-work-enables-perseverance-team-to-revive-sherloc-instrument/
- 14:49 Kuiper belt might be bigger than we thought
- https://www.universetoday.com/167661/more-evidence-that-the-kuiper-belt-is-bigger-than-we-thought/
- 16:22 Polars Dawn launch date
- 17:18 Amazing images and videos
- 19:23 More space news
- 20:06 Amazing rescues
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