Go to https://Brilliant.org/SciShow to get 20% off of an annual premium subscription!
Normal interplanetary travel uses lots of fuel, but taking advantage of some quirks of gravity can let us travel between planets using hardly any fuel at all.
Hosted by: Reid Reimers
Head to https://scishowfinds.com/ for hand selected artifacts of the universe!
———-
Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow
———-
Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters: Lazarus G, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters
———-
Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet?
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow
Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com
Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow
———-
Sources:
http://www.polaris.iastate.edu/EveningStar/Unit6/unit6_sub2.htm
http://www.uphysicsc.com/2013-GM-A-538.PDF [PDF]
https://medium.com/@jbenson/interplanetary-superhighway-8e3e734346ed
https://phys.org/news/2016-11-interplanetary-network.html
http://datagenetics.com/blog/august32016/index.html
https://www.space.com/30302-lagrange-points.html
https://home.aero.polimi.it/topputo/data/uploads/papers/articles/article-2005-2.pdf [PDF]
https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/4050/is-there-a-lot-of-space-trash-at-the-earth-moon-lagrange-points
http://www.gg.caltech.edu/~mwl/publications/papers/lowEnergy.pdf [PDF]
http://www.gg.caltech.edu/~mwl/publications/papers/IPSAndOrigins.pdf [PDF]
http://www2.esm.vt.edu/~sdross/papers/AmericanScientist2006.pdf [PDF]
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/genesis/media/jpl-release-071702.html
——
Images:
https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/refuelling-the-rocket-gm476481322-66298475
https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/weight-scale-icon-gm871757126-243522147
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/teach/activity/lets-go-to-mars-calculating-launch-windows/
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Animation_of_Voyager_2_trajectory.gif
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lagrangian_points_equipotential.jpg
https://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/media/990529/index.html
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/20245
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Interplanetary_Superhighway.jpg
https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/planets-of-the-solar-system-in-orbit-gm111834966-15579600
Watch Now
