Can we visit the farthest parts of our solar system?

Moment of Um

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Kids & Family, Education For Kids

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🗓️ 13 October 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Our solar system is full of incredible things, from rocky asteroids to Saturn’s spectacular rings. But most of these things are millions or even billions of miles away. Is it even possible to reach the furthest corners of our solar system? We asked NASA aerospace engineer Erik Axdahl to help us find the answer.

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0:00.0	From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of um.
0:03.2	Um, um, um.
0:07.0	Um, um. um, um.
0:14.0	Moment of um comes to you from APM Studios.
0:17.0	I'm Scout, Explorer, Extraordinare and Hard Working Hamster.
0:21.0	Um... When I was a young hamster, I always dreamed of becoming a world explorer.
0:28.7	I wanted to see every single place on Earth.
0:31.5	It took lots of planning and a couple of years, but guess what? I did it.
0:36.1	What, like it's hard? So anyway, now that I've explored this world, I think it's time for me to explore another world.
0:45.2	But which one should I go to first?
0:47.2	Maybe Mercury?
0:49.1	It's the closest planet to the sun, and it's such a hot place to visit. I mean literally. Mercury's surface
0:56.1	reaches 800 degrees Fahrenheit during the day hotter than a pizza oven.
1:00.1	Hmm, actually that might singe my hamster fur.
1:04.4	Oh, I could go check out the asteroid belt.
1:07.6	There are more than a million asteroids there.
1:10.0	Giant jagged pieces of rock left over from when our solar system first formed.
1:14.4	Some of them are huge. Like the one that landed on Earth 65 million years ago and probably caused
1:20.4	dinosaurs to go extinct? Actually, maybe I'll stay away from those guys.
1:25.0	Thank you very much.
1:26.0	Oh wait, I've got it.
1:28.0	Jupiter, that's where I want to go.
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