SEA: Space Exploration & Astronomy

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...

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...

Earth is a success story, a thriving world that has hosted life for almost 4 billion years. But, no matter how peaceful things are now, a new age is coming for the Solar System. An age of change, destruction and evolution. A place for new worlds and new stories, but one in which the Earth has no place.

MUSIC:
- Dreamscape - Density & Time
- The Unknown - CO.AG Music - https://youtu.be/IFYTGVE1aRs
- Sunrise on Mars - Audionautix
- As Prevent You Do - pATCHES
- At the Foot of the Sphinx - Twin Musicom
- It Maintains, Eyes Change - Puddle of Infinity
- Growing Space - Astron
- The Blue Pearl - Jesse Gallagher
- Kallimachou - Dan Bodan
Sunrise on Mars by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Artist: http://audionautix.com/

CHAPTERS:
00:00: Welcome Back
00:15: The Next Billion Years
06:10: Milkdromeda Collision
08:03: The Red Giant Branch
13:12: Habitable Moons
16:27: Titan
21:00: Titan's Prospects for Life
23:24: Horizontal and Asymptotic Giant Branch
26:52: The White Dwarf Sun
29:19: The Solar System's Last Day

The Solar System is vast and diverse, home to eight large planets, including one which gave rise to life. While humanity was born too late to witness the events that occurred at the birth of the Solar System first-hand, by peering into the surroundings of others stars, we are starting to piece together the events that unfolded at the birth of our own Solar System. Today, we shall explore the culmination of these decades of research, as we tell the story of the birth of the Solar System.

MUSIC:
- In the Throes - Asher Fulero
- Song of Sadhana - Jesse Gallagher
- Lord of the Dawn - Jesse Gallagher
- Cylinder Three - Chris Zabriskie
- Let Your Enemies Feel the Weight of Your Burdens - Chris Zabriskie
- Lost Kingdom - CO.AG Music
- Underwater Exploration - Godmode
- The Sky is on Fire - CO.AG
- I Am Running a Marathon - Chris Zabriskie
- Somnolent - The TidesCO.AG's can be found on his YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvAAll songs by Chris Zabriskie are licensed under a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution License.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/

CHAPTERS:
00:00: Introduction
01:11: The Solar System
04:44: The Nebular Hypothesis
07:27: Star Formation
11:54: Planetary Formation Window
18:20: The Story of the Solar System
21:34: Rise of the Gas Giants
25:23: The Terrestrial Planets
30:46: Three Water Worlds

On December 25th, 2021, NASA's most sophisticated, ground-breaking and expensive observatory ever blasted off from the Earth. The James Webb Telescope is an infrared observatory, capable of looking back all the way to the universe's first light. In this video, we will explore how this initiative came to be, and what the future holds in this exciting new age of astronomy.

SOUNDTRACK:
- Valhalla [Long Version] - CO.AG Music
- Show Me the New Way - CO.AG Music
- The Deep [Long Version] - CO.AG Music
- I Am Blessed - CO.AG Music
- Is This The Way It Ends - CO.AG Music
- The Young & Old Know Love - Puddle of Infinity (YouTube Audio Library)

CO.AG Music's Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcavSftXHgxLBWwLDm_bNvA

CHAPTERS:
00:00: Lift-off!
01:39: Background
03:55: Webb's Troubled Development
08:17: Webb's Mirrors
10:48: Surveying in Infrared
13:51: Webb's Sunshield & Orbit
16:52: Deployment Phase
22:06: The Cosmic Dawn
24:14: Light from the First Stars
28:02: Search for Habitable Exoplanets
30:46: Other Uses for Webb