For more on this fascinating topic, check out Dr. Alan Stern's book: bit.ly/2LavHDK! From our Book Rec page: "Chasing New Horizons is my new favorite non-fiction book. Much of it reads like The Martian, but it is 10 times more exciting because it actually happened."
January 2019 Mission Update, in case you're still curious: New Horizon flyby of 2014 MU69 (Now known as "Arrokoth") has been confirmed to be successful. It's the 2nd flyby accomplished by New Horizon after Pluto. Arrokoth is a KBO (Kuiper Belt Object) minor planet orbiting the Sun at an average distance of 44.6 AU (Astronomical Unit). (Note: 1 AU = 93 million miles; Distance bet. Sun and Earth) Arrokoth has set the record of becoming the farthest object ever explored by a spacecraft. However, New Horizon isn't done yet. In April 2020, the spacecraft was used to take pictures of nearby stars Proxima Centauri and Wolf 359. A year later in April 2021, it has already reached 50 AUs (5 billion miles) and set to explore the outer edge of the Kuiper Belt together with its 3rd flyby mission (Target to be determined). New Horizon continues to have sufficient power to be operational until the 2030s.
They're great! They're a massive inspiration for the content we make! The team should be really proud! And yep, if you can, like syvhne said - support them financially and they'll keep on pumping out the good stuff!
2020 july : earth explodes , all the stars in the galaxy explodes also for unkown reasons , atoms split and everythng too , humans dont , for them to suffocate little by little until they die for 20 years
@@parkchimmin7913 like salty if nothing can touch it that was man made, even if it's small, low gravity, and has many, MANY years to pass through, it's still a planet lol
With the way 2020 has been going... prolly that coronavirus came from Pluto and all of our planets distress is due to the repercussions of taking the “planet” status away from Pluto. 🥺 this has been one of the worst years of my life.
jesus they must've had to do incomprehensible amounts of math to calculate exactly when it would pass by pluto and that other ice body it's headed towards...
I felt despair when I heard "72 sleepless hours of coding" I almost wished they could copy-paste their codes instead when things like unexpected reboots happen.
6 7 2018 Hey+joseaca, Your post seems that you are in a very low mood? Of course you matter! Be well, look up into the night-sky, & know you were made of those stars...v
When I was younger, my older friend convinced me that Pluto exploded, and that is why it isn’t considered a planet anymore, and also, for my first science project I got a zero... Wonder why
Kudos to New Horizons Mission Operations Manager (MOM) Alice Bowman and everyone involved at NASA and JPL for a once in a lifetime ride to Pluto and Charon. Can't wait to see MU69 images.
Outstanding video: educational, interesting, well produced, and expertly narrated. Addison, you have a very soothing voice, you enunciate clearly and your intonations are well timed.
I love space! And I love everything that has to be with it. It brings me to my childhood when my dream was to work in NASA, and I remember all the nights that I spent with my telescope, oh I was a dreamer! 🎇
An object that orbits the Sun or any object that directly orbits a star or star system, and is large enough for differentiation through gravitational separation, aka big enough to be round due to gravity, and therefore large enough for active geology due to gravity, is a Planet as far as I'm concerned. No object in the entire universe is defined by external factors. Your car doesn't become a bicycle or cease being a car because you drive in a bike lane. If you pitch a tent beside your house it doesn't become a house, and your house doesn't become a tent. No external factors define objects. This is fundamentally simple logic. Let's apply a practical example, you're standing on the surface of an object that has a flat apparent horizon, next to an active volcano that is about to kill you. By definition your still willing to argue that the object your standing on is not a planet due to external factors that are billions of Kilometers away. If that makes sense to you, you should seriously review your biases. Let's review some similar terminology. Through science fiction the term "Gas Giant" has been adopted and stuck. This has further evolved to encompass the term Ice Giant. Yet no one will argue that these further classifications are somehow "not planets." When someone says "Dwarf Planet" is a descriptive classification it makes sense as scientific progress. The moment someone says "Dwarf" somehow disqualifies an object as a planet, they reveal an intellectual limitation. Such an argument is absurd in my opinion. Name another object defined by external factors. Stars are defined by nuclear fusion, which is the result of internal gravitational interaction. Similarly, all objects in a solar system, galaxy, and physical universe are defined by their interaction with gravity. Once an object is around 900+ Kilometers in diameter it is large enough for it's own gravity to define it through gravitational differentiation in a fairly uniform way. The solar system we occupy is not special. Planets orbit stars. Our planets are no different than any other planets orbiting other stars. The term "planet" must encompass all of these by definition. If someone proposes we definite the term planet through an objects relationship to external objects, no planets can be confirmed to exist around any other star because we are unable to verify these external factors. I find such a definition to be inadequate and poorly chosen at best. The argument for such a definition appears to be political in nature and stated with such evangelism as a philosophical narrative. Such an argument seems archaic and quite unbelievable that it is even considered by academia. Decades from now, this issue will be a stain on those involved. They will be remembered for such an embarrassing debacle. -Jake
Well, it really happens. It's like growing up learning that the Earth is flat or the sun orbits it, then new information comes in to dismiss those. And we can't let Pluto stay as a planet without Ceres, Vesta, Charon, or any other dwarf planets of similar (even greater) mass. We'll have a solar system with a hundred planets and counting. We're actually taking out the discrimination.
Science is always improving, that's why it isn't great to hold onto old ideologies if a better one comes along. If Pluto is still recognized as a planet, then that means there are another bodies in our solar system which should be recognized as one too since they are closer to us and bigger then Pluto.
INVESTING HUSTLER - Stocks Money Entertainment Ceres was a Planet and then Classified as a frickin' ASTEROID decades before Pluto was even found but you don't hear people whining now. Just wait, the Pluto Controversy will eventually die down...
really felt like a riddle: "everything has to be lightweight and reliable, but there's another problem: the ship has to get there as soon as possible because soon pluto will be out of reach due to its change in atmosphere. Can you find a way to get New Horizons to pluto?"
This is interesting! My questions please: 1. How many engines keep the space explorer going like that 2. I guess the fuel is recycled, right? 3. Is the spacecraft expected to return someday?
1. None. The rocket that launched New Horizons also pushed it on its way to Jupiter. It's been coasting ever since. Electric power is provided by a nuclear battery (RTG). 2. No. 3. No. It's headed straight out of the solar system.
After googling a bit, I'm still a bit confused, but I found this: news.wttw.com/2018/05/17/chasing-new-horizons-untold-drama-behind-pluto-mission and this: www.edn.com/design/analog/4443006/Mission-to-Pluto--An-interview-with-New-Horizons--MOM- and others. I'm not understanding everything (and it's too late for me to want to google more). The computer was trying to do two tasks at once (it should have been able to do them, but something happened and it didn't), a timing glitch occurred and the spacecraft went into safe mode, shutting down off every non-essential system. So they had to restore the spacecraft from safe mode, while testing every system, then "reconstruct and retransmit" the files, testing everything on a simulator before. This means that they couldn't simply send everything from backup, as the situation had changed? and they needed to alter a bunch of files. And considering the data transmission rate is a maximum of 4kb/s... I'm kind of assuming the exact technical problem is extremely complex, so they are explaining it in a simplified way.
I am very excited since it is now january 3, 2019 Looking forward to the great discoveries in the kuiper belt. Really, God had made incredible and amazing things that deserve for His praise
MEANWHILE OUTSIDE OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM: Voyager 1: hey new horizons made it to Pluto Voyager 2: big whup were outside the freaking solar system Voyager 1: well he got some pretty good pictures of Pluto Voyager 2: I GOT ENOUGH PICTURES TO MAKE A FAMILY PHOTO OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM INCLUDING PLUTO! Voyager 1: Calm down don’t let your reactor overload, you want to listen the sounds of earth record again? Voyager 2: I’d like that, thank you (Sounds of earth plays) Voyager 2: we should probably go into power save mode so we don’t shut down forever Voyager 1: yeah good night old friend Voyager 2: you do realize there is no night or day out here right? Voyager 1: Yeah good night Voyager 2: good night to you to buddy P.S this took me forever to think of and type on an iPad, can I get some likes
nobody nobody Not quite. Since space is a vacuum, there's no air resistance or friction that will act on something you throw. There's nothing that will slow the object down. However, the object will not speed up. After you throw the object and it leaves your hand, there is no other force acting on it, so its speed will stay the same.
That's correct, but there is something slowing it down... the Sun's gravity. New Horizons was given boosts of speed by it's gravitational slingshots off the planets, but while it is between planets it is constantly decelerating.
Jim Keen Right, I didn't consider that part of it. I was answering a more general part of the original poster's question (whether something in a frictionless environment would infinitely speed up), so thank you for adding a more accurate elaboration. :)
eveny119 unfortunately, Pluto is NOT a planet. Think about it, there are numerous moons larger then Pluto. Where Pluto is located there are a huge number of objects just like Pluto, so if you consider Pluto a planet then you just added tens of new planets as they are the same size or even bigger. And when our sun goes supernova Pluto would be so cold, like vacuum of space cold. So we might as well just fly away in a giant space ship, if global warming doesn’t kill us all first.
Are you saying SIZE matters? I like it a bit cold. If it's not a moon (revolving around Uranus for example) and it DOES revolve around the sun= planet. @@meatburger6910
eveny119 there are thousands of objects that orbit the sun. Literally tens of thousands and by your logic their all planets, and we don’t learn about the 20,000 planets do we? No we don’t so their obviously a problem with your logic. And you “Like it a bit cold” I hope this is a joke because it will be minus hundreds of degrees.
eveny119 Until you respond to the points in my reply don’t say anything, Pluto is not a planet because there are thousands of objects bigger then Pluto that orbit the sun. So why is Pluto a planet and not them? One answer: Pluto is not a planet.
the mission to pluto reminds me so much of the mission to saturn in 2001 a space oddyssey think about it: the gravitational boost the fly by the one chance they had the advanced computer. Arthur C. Clarke saw the future almost perfectly
For more on this fascinating topic, check out Dr. Alan Stern's book: bit.ly/2LavHDK! From our Book Rec page: "Chasing New Horizons is my new favorite non-fiction book. Much of it reads like The Martian, but it is 10 times more exciting because it actually happened."
Great video!
TED-Ed On Jan 1st 2019
We need a new video
Great work Team
The animation on this one blew me away
TED-Ed next video: Planet X
Please don't just use the metric system.
January 2019 Mission Update, in case you're still curious:
New Horizon flyby of 2014 MU69 (Now known as "Arrokoth") has been confirmed to be successful. It's the 2nd flyby accomplished by New Horizon after Pluto. Arrokoth is a KBO (Kuiper Belt Object) minor planet orbiting the Sun at an average distance of 44.6 AU (Astronomical Unit).
(Note: 1 AU = 93 million miles; Distance bet. Sun and Earth)
Arrokoth has set the record of becoming the farthest object ever explored by a spacecraft.
However, New Horizon isn't done yet. In April 2020, the spacecraft was used to take pictures of nearby stars Proxima Centauri and Wolf 359. A year later in April 2021, it has already reached
50 AUs (5 billion miles) and set to explore the outer edge of the Kuiper Belt together with its 3rd flyby mission (Target to be determined). New Horizon continues to have sufficient power to be operational until the 2030s.
Wow, that is such mind-blowing
Great bro 🙌🏻 thanks for info 🙂
thanks for this
Thank you
Where did you find this information
You ted ed people spend a lot of time on making the best animation..... and also the best content .keep it up . Make something at ramans
effect
Om Nautiyal this video was amazing
If u want them to continue support them financially.
Kurzgesagt and Ted-Ed are the best things on youtube
They're great! They're a massive inspiration for the content we make! The team should be really proud! And yep, if you can, like syvhne said - support them financially and they'll keep on pumping out the good stuff!
Ted-ed is great. They present unbelievable and interesting facts in an entertaining way. I love Ted-ed. Keep it up Ted-ed and Ted-ed supporters!
2:53
A gravity assist. That's when Jupiter yeets out New Horizons to new horizons.
Jupiter : YEET
what is with ur pfp
;-;
@@rosethz2474 ;-;
@@elwiwi4120 why're y'all crying? where's the pfp from?
@@blob431 the Percy Jackson series
Respect to Alice Bowman and her team!!!
anyway, 15th May 2020 today, i'm curious where is the New Horizons!
Me too
15 may is my birthday
Meeee toooooo
@@jamalii2483 Thank you for sharing the link.
I want a part 2 since we already passed january 1, 2019!,
No not today army
??
We already passed January 1, 2020!
KirbyCreep goodbye pluto atmosphere
No
It’s 2020
Pluto: *wells it’s been a good run*
2020 july : earth explodes , all the stars in the galaxy explodes also for unkown reasons , atoms split and everythng too , humans dont , for them to suffocate little by little until they die for 20 years
It’s official, 2020 is the worst year in the history of the world
@@asher-360no , its 2021 , see for your self
People from 1720 “first time?”
It's because pluto had to go home to the kuiper belt to avoid spreading corona
The best animation so far. Thank you Ted-Ed!!!!
Hafiz Batyrkhan I love Death note too
look alot like gumballs pluto tho.
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1:46 Yes it is
Yeah!One of the best.. but check out Kutzgesagt later, it is fascinating as well
4:20 bro tell me why I literally teared up for a few seconds
Same bro hella inspiring
Nice
Same
hard work
420 hehe
Scientists: We couldn't get our satellite to Pluto!
Scientists: Its not a planet anymore.
They’re salty
F
Pluto: why won't scientist senpai notice me?😢
I think we have common sense than they
@@parkchimmin7913 like salty if nothing can touch it that was man made, even if it's small, low gravity, and has many, MANY years to pass through, it's still a planet lol
IT'S 2020 D:
What's the update on pluto! Omg there must be a follow up video.
With the way 2020 has been going... prolly that coronavirus came from Pluto and all of our planets distress is due to the repercussions of taking the “planet” status away from Pluto. 🥺 this has been one of the worst years of my life.
@@Mordorer Don't worry, there are many more to come.
Happy future 2030.
2021
@@vrroompoom4523 yeh
New Horizons crashed into an asteroid and pluto exploded.
jesus they must've had to do incomprehensible amounts of math to calculate exactly when it would pass by pluto and that other ice body it's headed towards...
Sophie M that's what NASA scientists job
marsel egan yeah it's incredible
Sophie M they pay them a lot
marsel egan not sure how that's relevant but ok lol
I felt despair when I heard "72 sleepless hours of coding" I almost wished they could copy-paste their codes instead when things like unexpected reboots happen.
Alice Bowman and team, the real MVPs 😭
72 flipping hours, no sleep, and no room for ONE error, which could've very much happened when one is sleep deprived. They have my damn respect.
The planet faces remind me alot of The Amazing World of Gumball
yessss
**recorder noises in the distance**
6 7 2018 Hey+joseaca, Your post seems that you are in a very low mood? Of course you matter! Be well, look up into the night-sky, & know you were made of those stars...v
6 7 2018 Hey+joseaca, Thanks for the info; my bad. Be well. v
Yh I love that show.Gumball is my favorite character
Jan 1st 2019 that's tomorrow!
www.universetoday.com/141026/the-pictures-are-here-new-horizons-close-up-view-of-2014-mu69/
Ultima Thule looks awesome
It's 3019 now, did you make it?
Holy f
Ahhh! No..
1:30
That is so satisfying to watch.
ikr!
Ikr
ik
When I was younger, my older friend convinced me that Pluto exploded, and that is why it isn’t considered a planet anymore, and also, for my first science project I got a zero...
Wonder why
Mush noooo that sucks
Mush because you accepted whatever your friend said and you wrote same thing of explosion and that proved wrong so you failed.
Zubair Ahmed sarcasm...
Mush is is true?
I'm sorry but I laughed 😂
I just love how all these complicated things can be explained so easily by you guys, I love it
But do you love it?
@@demensclay6419
nah, man, kinda lame tbh
I have so much love for Pluto since it got demoted to a dwarf planet. Always got love for the underdog 💛🙊
Science with Katie make Pluto great again
Science with Katie I wouldn't say it was demoted. Rather it was reclassified to fit new data we had in hand.
Begone!
But Pluto is happier now as the king of the Kuiper belt than to be an underdog of the giants.
I feel a like for minisculal characters or some stuff
2:50 Jupiter is sooo cute!! 😍💕
Yep
Till it's gravity crushes you
3:11 pluto is more cuteeee
@@anthonyc4138 lol
@@einfacherkerl3279 yeah XD
The Creatures on Pluto:
"Look Kids, A Comet!"
"Dad why is it flashing?"
50,000 km per hour
Woah...
still pretty slow compared to everything else in the inuverse tho
Should have painted it red.
Or about 14km per second. In comparison orbital velocity is only 7km per second
For 8 years! Just to reach Pluto! We are less than a speck of dust in the ocean of the universe!!!
Arcane Wisdom TV literally
Kudos to New Horizons Mission Operations Manager (MOM) Alice Bowman and everyone involved at NASA and JPL for a once in a lifetime ride to Pluto and Charon. Can't wait to see MU69 images.
I appreciate so much for your enlightening animations :)
Mr. Addison Anderson’s presentations are always a pleasure to listen to!
MzSonicjinn i love his voice
He just narrates them actually, he doesn't make them
Kindly make a video of what it found on Jan 1st 2019
I think it's in the Kuiper Belt now
The programmer in me salutes the programmers who pulled off the bug and got the thing running back again in 72 hours
Pluto is too cute for being a planet 😅
Woah the spacecraft is traveling in 13km per seconds my ghad
If you were on the surface of Pluto, you would be singing a different tune, me thinks..........:))
Just putting a pair of eyes on anything can make it cute to be honest.
@@imabird1566 lol
It's a rock
Ted-Ed’s visuals are amazing.
Imagine riding the New horizon from New York to Brisbane. Would just take few minutes!
Non Profit Robloxian seconds*
umm you would disintegrate at 15km/s
Actually, they used the Gas giant to geto to 50,000 kph
@@simpleusername1820 or the moth meme!
Ah you have to be an Aussie to know about brisbane
January 1st past a while ago, still waiting...
11th of February, 2021. Yet still waiting.
Outstanding video: educational, interesting, well produced, and expertly narrated. Addison, you have a very soothing voice, you enunciate clearly and your intonations are well timed.
The aesthetic in this video is very nice.
I love space! And I love everything that has to be with it. It brings me to my childhood when my dream was to work in NASA, and I remember all the nights that I spent with my telescope, oh I was a dreamer! 🎇
Do you work for em now?
No, I am medical doctor. Right now I am pursuing my specialty in Intensive Care Medicine.
I had the same dream. But I could not.
Planets=
1.) Mercury
2.) Venus
3.) Earth
4.) Mars
5.) Ceres
6.) Jupiter
7.) Saturn
8.) Neptune
9.) Uranus
10.) Pluto
11.) Eris
12.) Makemake
13.) Haumea
14.) Sedna
15.) 2002 MS4
16.) 2007 OR10
17.) Quaoar
18.) Salacia
19.) Orcus
Upcycle Electronics i think ceres and eris is a giant asteroid orbiting mars and venus?correct me i'm wrong
EPIC memes Mars and Jupiter..
That would be earth :V
EPIC memes Ceres and Eros are Dwarf Planets in the Asteroid Belt which are in the orbit of Mars
An object that orbits the Sun or any object that directly orbits a star or star system, and is large enough for differentiation through gravitational separation, aka big enough to be round due to gravity, and therefore large enough for active geology due to gravity, is a Planet as far as I'm concerned.
No object in the entire universe is defined by external factors. Your car doesn't become a bicycle or cease being a car because you drive in a bike lane. If you pitch a tent beside your house it doesn't become a house, and your house doesn't become a tent. No external factors define objects. This is fundamentally simple logic.
Let's apply a practical example, you're standing on the surface of an object that has a flat apparent horizon, next to an active volcano that is about to kill you. By definition your still willing to argue that the object your standing on is not a planet due to external factors that are billions of Kilometers away. If that makes sense to you, you should seriously review your biases.
Let's review some similar terminology. Through science fiction the term "Gas Giant" has been adopted and stuck. This has further evolved to encompass the term Ice Giant. Yet no one will argue that these further classifications are somehow "not planets." When someone says "Dwarf Planet" is a descriptive classification it makes sense as scientific progress. The moment someone says "Dwarf" somehow disqualifies an object as a planet, they reveal an intellectual limitation. Such an argument is absurd in my opinion. Name another object defined by external factors.
Stars are defined by nuclear fusion, which is the result of internal gravitational interaction. Similarly, all objects in a solar system, galaxy, and physical universe are defined by their interaction with gravity. Once an object is around 900+ Kilometers in diameter it is large enough for it's own gravity to define it through gravitational differentiation in a fairly uniform way.
The solar system we occupy is not special. Planets orbit stars. Our planets are no different than any other planets orbiting other stars. The term "planet" must encompass all of these by definition. If someone proposes we definite the term planet through an objects relationship to external objects, no planets can be confirmed to exist around any other star because we are unable to verify these external factors. I find such a definition to be inadequate and poorly chosen at best. The argument for such a definition appears to be political in nature and stated with such evangelism as a philosophical narrative. Such an argument seems archaic and quite unbelievable that it is even considered by academia. Decades from now, this issue will be a stain on those involved. They will be remembered for such an embarrassing debacle.
-Jake
This was fascinating!
Space has always amazed me, and I found this particular mission really interesting!
Thank you for this incredible video.
2:08 Its been 2 years since this video was made
Carp :C
3 now
@@kurtikmurtik yeh
I grew up knowing Pluto was a planet then all of a sudden they announce pluto was no longer a planet 🤔🤔
Well, it really happens. It's like growing up learning that the Earth is flat or the sun orbits it, then new information comes in to dismiss those.
And we can't let Pluto stay as a planet without Ceres, Vesta, Charon, or any other dwarf planets of similar (even greater) mass. We'll have a solar system with a hundred planets and counting. We're actually taking out the discrimination.
Keith Mesa
Hum non really the same. It’s just the definition wich changed
At least you get to say to pesky kids "when I was your age, Pluto was a planet" :p
Science is always improving, that's why it isn't great to hold onto old ideologies if a better one comes along. If Pluto is still recognized as a planet, then that means there are another bodies in our solar system which should be recognized as one too since they are closer to us and bigger then Pluto.
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Ceres was a Planet and then Classified as a frickin' ASTEROID decades before Pluto was even found but you don't hear people whining now. Just wait, the Pluto Controversy will eventually die down...
2:52 Every 2010s Kid learned that from Angry Birds Space, am i right?
that game is old man, memories.
You just gave me so much nostalgia
AlphaAmoeba no.
AlphaAmoeba omg the nostalgia is hitting me hard
Boi that game was the one I liked back then. So much nostalgia
2:08 It's 2020 now..
Pluto: WELL GOOD LUCK WITH CORONAVIRUS HUMANS!
Lol
Pluto is essentially in an ice age rn
really felt like a riddle: "everything has to be lightweight and reliable, but there's another problem: the ship has to get there as soon as possible because soon pluto will be out of reach due to its change in atmosphere. Can you find a way to get New Horizons to pluto?"
None of y'all comments is talking about Alex boman.
She is a hero 👏
Alice Bowman
You didn't even get the name right and she's a hero because we think we know some more about a piece or rock billions of miles away...ok.
Amazing video! I love the visuals! And such an amazing story of what we have achieved thus far
Earth is the only planet that doesn't consider Pluto as a planet
Yea that's right Earth gets to decide 😎😁
Eunice Rodrigues it's *humans*
Weird Ted-Ed didn't talk about planet 9 and planet 10
@Eric Lee woosh
@Eric Lee wooooooosh
@Eric Lee annoying you
0:15 I can’t be the only one who caught the 9-Ball
@@seol3075 you can edit it right?
Some random balls just come with the planets0
Also a 13 pool ball
2:14 welp, looks like Pluto's atmosphere is frozen....🥶
The thumbnail made Pluto look all cute...but in reality I hope it isn't dangerous...🤔
TimothyAdams VEVO it's not dangerous to us on Earth. However, it is very, very cold there, so going there would be difficult.
Frayace Dare thanks for what I meant, lol 🤗
Nobody:
Ted-Ed's team to explore pluto: A camera and doggo
Pluto be like.. Planets are so mainstream 😏😎
One of the best TedEd videos, so well put together, easy to understand and simply a joy to watch. TedEd rules!
That annotation was very well placed at the end... Good job.
2:06 another thing in the list of 2020
One of the best animations of Ted Ed videos. I am in love with the Pluto ❤❤
I literally said "aw.. :(.." when the narrator said the New Horizon went blank 10 days to pluto
Really love the visuals / animation on this. Bravo!
I love this channel.So much information with good animation.I really love your guys work👍👌
This is interesting! My questions please:
1. How many engines keep the space explorer going like that
2. I guess the fuel is recycled, right?
3. Is the spacecraft expected to return someday?
1. None. The rocket that launched New Horizons also pushed it on its way to Jupiter. It's been coasting ever since. Electric power is provided by a nuclear battery (RTG).
2. No.
3. No. It's headed straight out of the solar system.
Its 2020 can we please have a part 2
Yep! New Horizons is currently zooming through the Kuiper Belt!
Interesting. Why would computer just freeze and wipe all of its data? Even more puzzling, why there would not be any back up systems in place?
Computers do that *all* the time. It's happened on laptops also, Why they wouldn't have a backup system is odd.
Saya Beast
I assume such a back-up would be wiped-out in a re-boot, too. (Correct me if I'm wrong.)
Too heavy. But idk why don't they store the backup on earth to easily execute a backup program
*illuminati music intensifies*
After googling a bit, I'm still a bit confused, but I found this: news.wttw.com/2018/05/17/chasing-new-horizons-untold-drama-behind-pluto-mission and this: www.edn.com/design/analog/4443006/Mission-to-Pluto--An-interview-with-New-Horizons--MOM- and others.
I'm not understanding everything (and it's too late for me to want to google more). The computer was trying to do two tasks at once (it should have been able to do them, but something happened and it didn't), a timing glitch occurred and the spacecraft went into safe mode, shutting down off every non-essential system.
So they had to restore the spacecraft from safe mode, while testing every system, then "reconstruct and retransmit" the files, testing everything on a simulator before. This means that they couldn't simply send everything from backup, as the situation had changed? and they needed to alter a bunch of files. And considering the data transmission rate is a maximum of 4kb/s...
I'm kind of assuming the exact technical problem is extremely complex, so they are explaining it in a simplified way.
all this gets me so excited and also brings tears to my eyes. Can never get enough of Space.
Excellent animation and a fascinating lession!
Best youtube chanel eveeer i love your videos
well they've already reached ultima thule!!! good job new horizons
I am very excited since it is now january 3, 2019
Looking forward to the great discoveries in the kuiper belt.
Really, God had made incredible and amazing things that deserve for His praise
This channel has best content with one of the best animations
Thank You TED-Ed for providing us superb content with such an amazing Animination😊😍💙
love you TED ED ♥️
8 months later they found a snowman :D
MEANWHILE OUTSIDE OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM:
Voyager 1: hey new horizons made it to Pluto
Voyager 2: big whup were outside the freaking solar system
Voyager 1: well he got some pretty good pictures of Pluto
Voyager 2: I GOT ENOUGH PICTURES TO MAKE A FAMILY PHOTO OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM INCLUDING PLUTO!
Voyager 1: Calm down don’t let your reactor overload, you want to listen the sounds of earth record again?
Voyager 2: I’d like that, thank you
(Sounds of earth plays)
Voyager 2: we should probably go into power save mode so we don’t shut down forever
Voyager 1: yeah good night old friend
Voyager 2: you do realize there is no night or day out here right?
Voyager 1: Yeah good night
Voyager 2: good night to you to buddy
P.S this took me forever to think of and type on an iPad, can I get some likes
I hate when comments like this don't get the likes they deserve
Thanks man
@@godslayer139 Np
You got one😉
This video is so amazing that it made me cry
Wow. Thankful to Ted for the content. 🤍
The animations are cherry on the cake.
#justiceforpluto
Jupiter: why not study Pluto from here, it is closer
Earth: sure
Earth goes to Jupiter, got its gravity assist, then crash on Pluto
OH sh*t
Umm it's been 2 years already. Have we reached yet? We want a part 2🙏
TedEd, you are blowing my mind 🤯 thank you
They made the impossible, possible.
hats of to you and your dedication 👍
THIS MEANS PLUTO COULD HAVE LIFE
ALL NASA NEEDS IS AN ICE/WATER SAMPLE AND WE CAN PROVE IT
OH
MY
GOD!!!!!!!
(I'm an Astrologist xD)
so you're an advanced fortune teller?
@@neth8446 i think so
4:04 *Aw, Snap! has joined the chat*
If you were to throw something in space and nothing were to hit it, wouldn't it just accelerate until it hits light speed?
nobody nobody Not quite. Since space is a vacuum, there's no air resistance or friction that will act on something you throw. There's nothing that will slow the object down. However, the object will not speed up. After you throw the object and it leaves your hand, there is no other force acting on it, so its speed will stay the same.
That's correct, but there is something slowing it down... the Sun's gravity. New Horizons was given boosts of speed by it's gravitational slingshots off the planets, but while it is between planets it is constantly decelerating.
Thanks!
Jim Keen Right, I didn't consider that part of it. I was answering a more general part of the original poster's question (whether something in a frictionless environment would infinitely speed up), so thank you for adding a more accurate elaboration. :)
Well I don't think so , try shoot a gun in space ,im just curious
Really Ted edu has the best animation for such topics
You helped me thanks
I love Pluto, it's a planet. When our sun goes nova, we should live there.
eveny119 unfortunately, Pluto is NOT a planet. Think about it, there are numerous moons larger then Pluto. Where Pluto is located there are a huge number of objects just like Pluto, so if you consider Pluto a planet then you just added tens of new planets as they are the same size or even bigger. And when our sun goes supernova Pluto would be so cold, like vacuum of space cold. So we might as well just fly away in a giant space ship, if global warming doesn’t kill us all first.
Are you saying SIZE matters? I like it a bit cold. If it's not a moon (revolving around Uranus for example) and it DOES revolve around the sun= planet. @@meatburger6910
eveny119 there are thousands of objects that orbit the sun. Literally tens of thousands and by your logic their all planets, and we don’t learn about the 20,000 planets do we? No we don’t so their obviously a problem with your logic. And you “Like it a bit cold” I hope this is a joke because it will be minus hundreds of degrees.
@@meatburger6910 The whole thing is a joke except that Pluto is a planet.
eveny119 Until you respond to the points in my reply don’t say anything, Pluto is not a planet because there are thousands of objects bigger then Pluto that orbit the sun. So why is Pluto a planet and not them? One answer: Pluto is not a planet.
Breathing mode switched to manual.
No, I'm not sorry.
bruh
BREATHING MODE SWITCH TO AUTOMATIC
2:06 so that means pluto is now frozen? cause its 2020 now...
any updates🤔
@@proloycodes idk yet...
@@joshumon5681 oh ok then😔
the mission to pluto reminds me so much of the mission to saturn in 2001 a space oddyssey think about it: the gravitational boost the fly by the one chance they had the advanced computer. Arthur C. Clarke saw the future almost perfectly
Actually shed happy tears at 4:33!
I just dream those scientists intelligence. imagine getting a machine to that far!! Humans are incredible!!!!!!
I immediately thought about love yourself tear lol
Jessica Buehne I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS COMMENT 😂✌🏾
YESSS
man, tomorrow is January 1st, i wonder what they will find on '2014 MU69'.
I wonder what they found...
We want part 2...
Ted ed...!
It's 2021...
Today, Jan 1st 2019, new horizons will break that record! You go, new horizons!
Whose watching this in 2019?
Me
2020 mehh
everytime the narrator said New Horizons i thought of Animal Crossing ✋🏻😔
Same
Good to know i’m not the only one
Same
Same
ITS DECEMBER 18TH
JANUARY 1 2019 IS SO SOON
2021 is here ..i hope you're are still alive!1
3:27 Doom 64 item pickup sound, nice :)
Really breathtaking
whos watching on january first, 2019. I wonder what it saw.
Best animation
Does your heart have to do anything with love?
No
Well done Alice and Team! 😍
Pluto is red. That, of all details, is what blew my mind.