Transcription
Hi folks. So I have a set of PowerPoint slides that I've posted up on solar system missions.
And in this video, I'm just introducing it. I'm not gonna go talk through them all. This is more something for you to kind of flip through and take a look at. I'll kind of do that a little bit while I'm talking here. You know, essentially, I want you to know things like how many people walked on the moon. You don't have to know all these dates. I just want you to be aware of them.
So you should know, for instance, Mercury Messenger. That's the mission to Mercury, right? So this is the kind of stuff. All I ask you is just kind of, you know, which mission's going to Venus? Well, the Express. You know, which mission is currently looking at things on the surface of Mars? Curiosity. Explorer. That's what's the Curiosity is the one that's looking around on Mars right now. So that's the kind of thing I'm gonna ask. Just some real basic stuff.
Figure there's about one mission for each planet or region. So Cassini was the one to Saturn. Most recently, we've got Juno going to Jupiter, things like that. And then, of course, we've got New Horizons out looking at the Kuiper belt. So, you know, again, I just want you to kind of go out and look at some of these things. Go through it. Just think about the basics. How many people walked on the moon? Which missions to which places? Again, you don't need to know all the dates and stuff.
You should know the Voyager missions are the only ones that, well, that we're talking about here, that have gone just to the outer edge of our solar system. So just be aware of those. Okay, so that's kind of the end of this video. Again, I just want you to be familiar with these topics. Okay.