The Solar System Part 3 - Exploring our Solar System
Channel: Astronomy with Mr Guerin
Date: 11/11/2021

How do we get to other planets?  What do we find when we get there?  And which is better - humans or robots?

This video will tell you everything you need to answer these questions in EdExcel's Astronomy GCSE.

Download the slideshow:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1v7n69srfzFmgYxF9Vct6FKp3r_ZRqFjx


Image credits:

Dawn, NASA/JPL, nasa.gov, public domain
https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA12029

Spacecraft around Earth, NASA, nasa.gov, public domain
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/news/orbital_debris.html

Voyager 2 trajectory, Phoenix7777, wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Animation_of_Voyager_2_trajectory.gif

New Horizons, NASA/Applied Physics Laboratory, public domain
http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/News-Center/News-Article.php?page=20150701-2

Sputnik Planum, NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute, nasa.gov, public domain
https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA19947

Sputnik 1, NSSDC, NASA, wikimedia, public domain
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sputnik_asm.jpg

Juno, NASA/JPL, nasa.gov, public domain
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/juno/multimedia/pia13746.html

Juno Lego figures, NASA/JPL-Caltech/KSC, nasa.gov, public domain
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/juno/news/lego20110803.html

Deep Impact diagram, NASA/Cmglee, wikimedia, public domain
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:90855main_dispcrft.svg

Deep Impact artist's impression, NASA/JPL, nasa.gov, public domain
http://deepimpact.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/Flyby_w_Impactor.html

Deep Impact collision video, NASA/Paul Stephen Carlin, wikimedia, public domain
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ITS_Impact.gif

Sky crane, NASA/JPL-Caltech, nasa.gov, public domain
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/gallery/pia14839.html

Beagle 2 model, Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net), wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Beagle_2_model_at_Liverpool_Spaceport.jpg

Philae lander, ESA/ATG medialab, wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Philae_lander_(transparent_bg).png

Bruce McCandless II, NASA, wikimedia, public domain
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bruce_McCandless_II_during_EVA_in_1984.jpg