[Space Bites] Special Earth // Space LEGO from ESA // Amazing Perseverance Fix

Plate tectonics could be incredibly rare, LEGO bricks made from actual space rocks, mapping the Milky Way’s dark matter halo, and Perseverance’s SHERLOC instrument is fully operational again.

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• 00:00 Intro
• 00:17 Rare plate tectonics
  • https://www.universetoday.com/167659/plate-tectonics-might-only-occur-on-0-003-of-planets-that-makes-earth-very-special-indeed/
• 02:44 Findings from OSIRIS-REx samples
  • https://www.universetoday.com/167594/asteroid-samples-were-once-part-of-a-wetter-world/
• 04:21 Fast internet for the ISS
  • https://www.universetoday.com/167625/the-space-station-now-has-blisteringly-fast-internet/
• 05:43 Space LEGO bricks
  • https://www.universetoday.com/167675/lego-bricks-printed-out-of-space-dust/
• 07:10 Vote results
• 08:06 Mapping Milky Way's dark natter halo
  • https://kiaa.pku.edu.cn/info/1031/9340.htm
• 10:21 Mars meteorites
  • https://www.universetoday.com/167645/basketball-sized-meteorites-strike-the-surface-of-mars-every-day/
• 11:49 Lunar swirls
  • https://www.universetoday.com/167646/mysterious-swirls-on-the-moon-could-be-explained-by-underground-magma/
• 13:02 Mars recovery
  • https://www.nasa.gov/missions/mars-2020-perseverance/perseverance-rover/detective-work-enables-perseverance-team-to-revive-sherloc-instrument/
• 14:49 Kuiper belt might be bigger than we thought
  • https://www.universetoday.com/167661/more-evidence-that-the-kuiper-belt-is-bigger-than-we-thought/
• 16:22 Polars Dawn launch date
• 17:18 Amazing images and videos
• 19:23 More space news
• 20:06 Amazing rescues

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