An Ocean in Space

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4.4 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

BLAST OFF! NASA just sent a spacecraft to Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, and on the side of that spacecraft, they included a poem. . Not just any poem — a poem by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón. A poem that’s supposed to represent all of humanity to the universe. No biggie.

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0:32.0	We interrupt your regular terrestrial's programming to bring you breaking news in the world of space and poetry that's right breaking space poetry news because NASA has just launched a spaceship from planet Earth that will travel all the way to one of Jupiter's moons, a moon called Europa,
0:49.0	and that spaceship is carrying fuel and radio transmitters and telescopes and thermal cameras and
0:55.2	a poem.
0:56.2	That's right, a poem that will head out all the way into the stars. Yes, I am really serious about all this.
1:07.0	This is totally real.
1:08.7	So why?
1:10.7	Why send a poem into space and why launch it toward that one moon in particular because
1:16.9	Jupiter has like dozens of them? Well that is what we are talking about today and to
1:21.6	help we are joined by NASA scientist Dr. Cynthia Phillips who has spent months years?
1:27.6	How long Dr. Phillips working on this mission?
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