SciShow Space: What Happened to India's Moon Lander? | SciShow News

Teacher or professor: SciShow Space
Subject: Astronomy, Astronautics, Astrophysics
Content of the Lesson: This week, scientists try to figure out what went wrong with India's moon lander, and what went right with a newly discovered, naturally occurring mineral. SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- 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: https://www.isro.gov.in/launcher/gslv-mk-iii-m1-chandrayaan-2-mission https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/06/science/india-moon-landing-chandrayaan-2.html?rref=collection/byline/kai-schultz&module=inline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_the_Moon http://www.planetary.org/explore/space-topics/space-missions/beresheet.html https://www.universetoday.com/143327/chandrayaan-2-mission-loses-contact-with-vikram-lander-during-descent/ https://www.space.com/india-moon-lander-found-by-chandrayaan-2-orbiter.html http://www.planetary.org/explore/space-topics/space-missions/chandrayaan-2.html https://www.space.com/new-extraterrestrial-mineral-edscottite-meteorite.html https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/this-meteorite-came-from-the-core-of-another-planet-inside-it-a-new-mineral-20190830-p52mhg.html https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-natural-mineral-found-meteorite-destroyed-planets-core-180973042/ https://www.nanoscience.com/techniques/scanning-electron-microscopy/


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