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A Mission to Study the Potential for Life on Jupiter’s Moon Europa, A Potential Breakthrough in the Field of Neuroscience that Could Help Combat Alzheimer’s Disease & TDIH; the Microwave Oven is Patented

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

News, Tech News, Science, Society & Culture

4.6732 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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A mission to study the potential for life on Jupiter’s moon Europa is soon expected to launch. Plus, a potential breakthrough in the field of neuroscience that could help combat Alzheimer’s disease symptoms. And on 'This Day in History'; the microwave oven is patented. NASA is launching a major mission to look for habitable spots on Jupiter’s moon Europa (theconversation.com) SpaceX, NASA stand down from Oct. 10 Europa Clipper launch due to Hurricane Milton (msn.com) Neuroscientists spark shelter-seeking response by reactivating memory circuit Ride the (electromagnetic) Wave with Percy Spencer! (MIT) Percy Spencer & The Microwave Oven (MIT) National Inventors Hall of Fame Contact the show - [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome to Cool Stuff Ride Home, Marcus Faf, joined by Reggie Rizu. On today's episode, a mission to study the potential for life on Jupiter's Moon Europa is soon

0:42.6

expected to launch.

0:44.1

We've got details.

0:45.4

Plus, a potential breakthrough in the field of neuroscience that could help combat Alzheimer's

0:49.8

disease.

0:51.0

And on this day in history, the microwave oven is patented, or at least applied for.

0:56.0

Come up on cool stuff.

0:58.0

A highly anticipated mission to Jupiter's Moon Europa to study the Moon and its ocean is expected to launch soon, once the weather conditions are right.

1:07.0

The $5 billion Europa Clipper mission will have the spacecraft conduct a detailed study of the moon

1:12.3

looking for potential places where Europa might host alien life.

1:17.0

It's the largest planetary exploration spacecraft NASA has ever made.

1:21.1

As wide as a basketball court when its solar sails are unfolded,

1:24.8

it has a mass of about 6,000 kilograms, or to put that in perspective,

1:29.3

the weight of a large African elephant. The search for life in our solar system has been primarily

1:34.6

focused on Mars due to the fact that it's technically in the habitable zone from the sun.

1:39.8

However, Mars is not an attractive place to live, as it has a lack of atmosphere and high levels of radiation.

1:47.0

But it is relatively close to Earth, making it easier to send missions there to explore it.

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