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.

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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

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[chrismichelsmusic]

I have never had a favorite journalist. I do now! I love the ad/music free podcast too 🎉

[dontuseyoutubefornews]

Thank you for not being a fake space channel. You describe and have interesting videos that are easy for me to understand.

[allixandra]

I really enjoyed this! Thank you, Prof. Burchell. I love tardigrades and Enceladus is my obsession. A perfect combination!

[NotTheOneBuddy]

Super fun and informative interview. One of my favorite guests by far.

[richardreumerman]

A mission to Enceladus is such an exciting prospect!

[pauldavis]

Never even considered these questions. Thanks for sharing!

[DeAlpineBro]

Excellent lecture, Professor Mark Burchell.

[nerufer]

I love how much thought goes into that kind of missions. It goes so much further than I would ever think about. Makes me appreciate it even more.

[Yezpahr]

The 'Hardigrade' should be a grading system for how hardy stuff is when caught at orbital speeds.
1 Hardigrade is 50% survivability at approximately 1 km/s (precise: 825 meters per second / 1, 845 miles per hour).

[stuartsanderson]

I find this channel completely fascinating. The million dollar question is, why are there so few people viewing

[nrgk]

This interview is great! so much detail and makes me excited for what's coming in the future.

[TanyaLairdCivil]

Describing the things he's slammed into walls at hypersonic speeds: "Yeah, we've fired all sorts of things at hypersonic speeds. We've done grains, we've done bacteria, we've done seeds, we've done grad students..."

[buKzone]

This should be priority number one. It would give a answers to so many questions..

[alpheuswoodley]

Fascinating to get his perspective, great episode!

[bbartky]

Great interview, Fraser! You should bring back Professor Burchell for a future interview.

[JohnHSully]

Awesome job Mr. Cain. Very informative and great presentation of the information. The video was nice to see what appears to be raw video data of Enceladus and its accompanying satellites and such. Well done Sir.

[ianswann]

Great work guys. What came to mind when hearing about this speed issue was the clever design of the air intakes on the super sonic airliner Concorde. These were designed to take in super sonic air flow and slow it to speeds that the engines could cope with. Maybe a similar design could be used to minimise the impact speed of the collectors.

[MrOhdead]

Great interview both the main topic and talking about earth orbital debris.

[tbounds]

I lost it when Fraser said this about tardigrades 🤣 “I think we’re just fortunate that they are so small otherwise we might have a problem”

[zoopdterdoobdter]

_"You launched tardigrades...with a gun?"_ Is probably one of the most inadvertently hilarious questions ever asked. 🤣