Satellite to Study Atmosphere and Oceans, Prosthetic Hand Regains Some Feeling, and Puppy Regrows Jaw
Cool Stuff Daily
Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff
4.6 • 739 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:29.9 | Welcome welcome. It's another edition of Cool Stuff Ride Home. I'm Marcus Papp. He's Reggie |
| 0:34.6 | Rizzou on today's episode. A new satellite heads to space to survey Earth's oceans and atmosphere. |
| 0:41.3 | A new prosthetic hand allows wearers to sense temperature, and a puppy spontaneously regrows its jaw after it was lost to cancer. |
| 0:50.2 | We'll tell you about the implications. Plus, on this day in history, record cold in the southern United States. |
| 0:55.9 | That's coming up on cool stuff. |
| 0:58.1 | NASA has launched its newest satellite Pace or the Plankton Aerosol Climate Ocean Ecosystem Satellite. |
| 1:05.0 | Pace will be active for three years and will orbit the Earth 420 miles above its surface. |
| 1:09.6 | Its mission is to study what is normally unseen. |
| 1:12.6 | It'll look at microscopic life in the air and water as it scans the globe daily with two of its |
| 1:18.5 | instruments, and a third will take monthly measurements. While there are already more than two |
| 1:22.9 | dozen satellites orbiting and studying Earth's climate, Pace will be able to look closer at |
| 1:27.1 | atmospheric aerosols like pollutants and volcanic ash and how plankton and satellites orbiting and studying Earth's climate, Pace will be able to look closer at atmospheric |
| 1:27.8 | aerosols like pollutants and volcanic ash and how plankton and sea life-like algae interact. |
| 1:34.1 | In fact, the other satellites in orbit can only see seven or eight colors. |
| 1:37.9 | But Pace can see 200 colors, including a spectrum of ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared |
| 1:43.1 | light, which will help scientists identify |
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