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#Asteroid main belt: Water ice possible. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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🗓️ 15 February 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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0:00.0

Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. This is CBS I island world behind the black happy birthday Bob Zimmerman. He's taking a space exploring

0:28.3

We're headed to the moon I. What do we see Bob?? Well, the Juno orbits Jupiter and it has been doing flybys of I.

0:38.0

The moon of the closest big moon to Jupiter.

0:41.0

And some citizen scientists have accumulated the close-up images to put together

0:45.7

a mosaic of the planet as seen by a Juno up close and I posted that on behind the black.

0:53.1

These are probably going to be the best images

0:54.8

we're going to have of I.O. for decades to come,

0:57.0

because, I do know is now moving away from the,

0:59.8

its orbit is not going to bring it as close to I.

1:02.0

So any further images are going to bring it as close to I.O anymore so that any further images are

1:03.7

going to be farther away and there is no plans to send an orbiter to Jupiter that

1:08.0

will get close to I. Oh, in the near future. The only orbiter that's going to

1:11.4

Jupiter is the one going to Europa and it's going to focus on flying past Europa.

1:15.6

It might get some close-ups of I. But it's not going to be as focus at all, John.

1:19.0

There's a question mark in this statement. Water found on two main belt asteroids what's the significance

1:24.2

Bob question. Yeah the scientists used the now retired Sophia

1:29.6

Airplane Telescope to look at two main built asteroids ir Iris and my solar, actually isn't more

1:34.3

of them. But these two, the spectroscopy suggested there was water on the

1:38.4

surface or trapped in molecules on the surface. And it's a pretty good detection,

1:45.0

but there is uncertainty in it.

1:47.0

It's not unreasonable that there be water on the surface of these asteroids

1:50.0

because they are in the mailing belt,

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