[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.
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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
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