Missions to Venus and How to Extract DNA from Strawberries
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🗓️ 20 July 2021
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Learn about past missions to Venus — and why we’re going back; and how to extract DNA from strawberries in your kitchen.
We're going back to Venus. Here are the missions to look forward to by Briana Brownell
- NASA Selects 2 Missions to Study “Lost Habitable” World of Venus. (2018). NASA. https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-selects-2-missions-to-study-lost-habitable-world-of-venus
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- Goettel, K. A.; Shields, J. A.; Decker, D. A. (16–20 March 1981). "Density constraints on the composition of Venus". Proceedings of the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Houston, TX: Pergamon Press. pp. 1507–1516. Bibcode:1982LPSC...12.1507G.
- Howell, E. (2019, March 25). Venera 13 and the Mission to Reach Venus. Space.com; Space. https://www.space.com/18551-venera-13.html
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You can extract DNA from strawberries in your kitchen by Cameron Duke
- RK Pendergrass. (2021, April 21). How to extract DNA from strawberries | Popular Science. Popular Science. https://www.popsci.com/story/diy/diy-science-project-strawberrry-dna/
- Science Buddies. (2013, January 31). Squishy Science: Extract DNA from Smashed Strawberries. Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/squishy-science-extract-dna-from-smashed-strawberries/
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from |
| 0:04.8 | Curiosity.com. I'm Cody Goff, and I'm Ashley Hamer. Today you learn about |
| 0:09.2 | exciting new missions to Venus and why we're going in the first place and how you can extract DNA from strawberries in your own kitchen. |
| 0:18.0 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:20.0 | Pack your bags, we're going to Venus. |
| 0:23.8 | Wuh! |
| 0:24.8 | Yep, that's right. |
| 0:25.8 | NASA and ESA just announced new missions to our sister planet. |
| 0:30.4 | And they're hoping to solve some of the most interesting mysteries about the world. |
| 0:34.0 | Like, what if Venus was once habitable? |
| 0:37.0 | Here are the missions to look forward to. |
| 0:40.0 | NASA's first mission, Da Vinci Plus, will help us better understand the composition of Venus's atmosphere and how it might have changed through time. |
| 0:49.0 | It'll also look into whether Venus ever had liquid oceans. |
| 0:53.0 | If Venus was once habitable, |
| 0:55.0 | something could have caused a runaway heat wave |
| 0:58.0 | that boiled oceans and made the planet inhospitable, |
| 1:01.0 | like it is now. |
| 1:02.0 | This mission will investigate what may have happened. |
| 1:05.6 | NASA's second mission, Veritas, will look at the surface of Venus and the physical |
| 1:10.5 | processes that are taking place there. |
| 1:13.0 | First, volcanoes. |
| 1:15.0 | It'll help us figure out whether Venus is still volcanically active |
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