IN TODAY'S EPISODE:
🌙 MOON OCCULTS MERCURY TONIGHT — right now, a crescent Moon is hiding Mercury from skywatchers in parts of the southern US. Plus Ganymede transits Jupiter.
🚀 ARTEMIS II FUELLING TEST TOMORROW — NASA begins loading the SLS moon rocket tomorrow after hydrogen leak repairs. Launch target: March 6 at earliest.
🛸 ARIANE 6 LAUNCHES 32 KUIPER SATELLITES — Europe's most powerful rocket delivers Amazon's Starlink rival into orbit today.
☄️ 3I/ATLAS: JUICE DATA ARRIVING NOW — ESA's JUICE spacecraft is downlinking its closest-ever observations of an interstellar comet this week.
🪐 HOW SATURN GOT ITS RINGS — new research traces the iconic rings AND Titan's origin to a single moon collision 400 million years ago.
⚡ 30 DAYS TO MARS? — Russia's Rosatom unveils a nuclear plasma engine in ground testing that could reach Mars in a month.
CHAPTERS:
00:00 — Introduction
02:00 — Artemis II: Second Wet Dress Rehearsal
06:30 — Moon Occults Mercury & Ganymede Transit
10:00 — Ariane 6 Launches Amazon Kuiper Satellites
13:00 — 3I/ATLAS: JUICE Data Downlinking Now
16:00 — Saturn's Rings & Titan: One Ancient Collision
19:30 — Russia's 30-Day Plasma Mars Engine
22:30 — Outro & Clear Skies
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