Getting Samples From Enceladus Is Harder Than You Think

How do we plan a mission that can go to Enceladus and grab a sample of its plumes? How fast does it need to go? Will it bring samples to Earth or analyse them on the spacecraft? Figuring out the answers with Professor Mark Burchell from the University of Kent. 📜 Hypervelocity impact induced light flash experiments on single and dual layer Kapton targets to develop a time of flight space dust and debris detector 👉 We Must Go Back To Enceladus! Here’s Why 🦄 Support us on Patreon: 📚 Suggest books in the book club: 00:00 Intro 02:07 Firing tardigrades from a gun 05:32 Enceladus 13:14 How fast can we go 21:07 Optimal mission to Enceladus 32:35 Exploring Io 41:43 Sampling interstellar objects 47:55 Dust in interstellar space 51:19 Current obsessions 01:01:04 Final thoughts and more interviews 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 70,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe for Free: 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: Astronomy Cast: 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Mastodon: @fcain Twitter: Twitter: Facebook: Instagram: 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@ ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.