NASA's Curious Universe - Introducing NASA’s Curious Universe

Episode Date: April 1, 2020

Our universe is a wild and wonderful place. Join NASA astronauts, scientists and engineers on a new adventure each week — all you need is your curiosity. First-time space explorers welcome.

This is really what you get into science for. It's from moments like this. You're ready, your team is ready, and these things happen at random moments. And so you have to be ready when opportunity knocks. Everything we've seen has been surprising. Just the sheer amount of structure in the solar wind. You know, the fact that when we first saw the magnetic field data, the first worry was, oh, no, is the instrument malfunctioning?

Houston, we are inspired, we are ready. Let's go fix this thing. Sounds like a good plan, endeavor. Good morning. It's changed everything we know about the universe, the planets in our solar system, the way that stars are born, live, die, the most distant galaxies.

This is one of the grand adventures of NASA. Sometimes the blanket person, we might be the last ones to touch the spacecraft before it. launches. It's a real sense of awe, I think, that we find in the natural world, and there are many different places you can find it. You know, being out there on your own, in a space suit, looking back at the planet, you're really in this self-contained life support system, really your own little spaceship. Welcome to NASA's curious universe. Our universe is a wild and wonderful place.

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