
What is Zodiacal Light?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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A Space Dust Detector
Every probe that we send and to the solar system has a dust detector on it, but these things are pretty small. One scientist from denmark was like, yo, know, we can do something else with these. We can also try to catch pictures of asteroids as we fly around the solar system to see if maybe there are asteroids we missed. And so he programmed this thing. E thought id probably not find anything. But then it started flying through the solar system, and his camera went crazy. It's like thousands and thousands of new things that nobody has seen before. Wait, what?
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