Cosmic Journeys
Plasma Rockets & Solar Storms. Join a small team of rocket designers as they open a window into the future of space travel. Stirring music from Digital Republic. Modern science has linked polar light shows, called auroras, to vast waves of electrified gas hurled in our direction by the sun. Today, researchers from a whole new generation see this dynamic substance, plasma, as an energy source that may one day fuel humanity's expansion into space. What can we learn, and how far can we go, by tapping into the strange and elusive fourth state of matter?
| Episode 23 - Plasma Rockets & Solar Storms |
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