Jupiter’s Gigantic Past

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This is Spaceime Series 28, episode 64


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for broadcast on the 28th of May,


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2025. Coming up on Spaceime, a new study


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shows that Jupiter was once twice as big


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as it is now. How gammaray flashes are


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unleashed by lightning and spaceflight


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history made as two spacecraft orbiting


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the Earth fly in millimeter perfect


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formation. All that and more coming up


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on Spaceime.


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Welcome to Space Time with Stuart


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[Music]




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Garry. A new study has found that the


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solar system's largest planet, Jupiter,


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was once twice as big as it is now and


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had a far stronger magnetic field.


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Jupiter is the fifth planet from the sun


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and the gas giant has more than 2 and a


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half times the combined mass of all the


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other bodies in the solar system


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excluding the sun. Its diameter of


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140,000 kilm is some 11 times larger


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than that of Earth and it's a full


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onetenth the size of the sun's diameter.


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Jupiter is huge. That's why it's often


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referred to as the king of planets. It


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circles the sun at an average distance


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some 5.2 two times further out than the


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Earth, taking 11.86 Earth years to


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complete each orbit. The new findings


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reported in the journal Nature Astronomy


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suggest that around 3.8 million years


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after the solar systems formation 4.6


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billion years ago, at a time when the


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first solids condensed out of the sun's


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protolanetary disc, Jupiter was


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significantly larger and had an even


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more powerful magnetic field. One of the


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studies authors, Constantine Badagen,


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says the ultimate goal of the research


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has been to pin down the early phase of


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planetary formation. Badajun and


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colleagues reached their findings by


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studying Jupiter's tiny moons, Amla and


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Thebee. They orbit even closer to


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Jupiter than Io, the smallest and


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nearest of the planet's four large


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Galilean moons. Now, because Amla and


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Thebee have slightly tilted orbits, the


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authors were able to analyze these small


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orbital discrepancies in order to


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calculate Jupiter's original size.


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finding it to be about twice that of its


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current radius with a predicted volume


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that was equivalent to over 2,000 times


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that of Earth. They also calculated that


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the planet's magnetic field was some 50


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times stronger than what it is today.


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This new analysis is establishing a


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clear snapshot of Jupiter at the moment


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its surrounding solar nebula evaporated.


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And that's a pivotal transition point


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where the building materials of planet


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formation disappear and the primordial


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architecture of our solar system was


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finally locked in. The results add


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crucial details to existing planet


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formation theories, suggesting that


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Jupiter, as well as other gas giants


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around other stars, were all formed


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through a process of core accretion, in


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which rocky and icy cores are first


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established and then rapidly gather


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surrounding gas. This spaceime still to


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come, a new study describes how gammaray


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flashes in Earth's atmosphere are


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unleashed by lightning. And spaceflight


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history's been made in Earth orbit with


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two spacecraft successfully flying in


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millimeter perfect formation for several


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hours for the first time. All that and


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more still to come on Spaceime.


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[Music]


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Scientists have detected intense flashes


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of high energy gamma rays associated


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with the collision of two bolts of


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lightning. Lightning is a phenomenon


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that's fascinated humanity since time


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immemorial, providing a stark example of


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the power and unpredictability of the


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natural world. Although the study of


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lightning can be challenging, scientists


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have in recent years made great strides


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in developing their understanding of


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this extreme spectacle. Now, a report in


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the journal Science Advances has


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described for the first time


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observations of an intense burst of


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radiation known as terrestrial gammaray


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flash synchronized with a lightning


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discharge. The study's lead author Yuki


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Wada from the University of Asaka says


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the ability to study extreme processes


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such as terrestrial gammaray flashes


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originating from lightning allows


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scientists better understand the high


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energy processes occurring in Earth's


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atmosphere. It's been hypothesized that


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terrestrial gammaray flashes arise from


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lightning discharges as a result of the


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acceleration of electrons to very high


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speeds. However, the transient nature of


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this phenomenon which only lasts for


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micros secondsonds has always made it


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difficult to study the hypothesis. So


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wider and colleagues developed a


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multi-ensor setup designed specifically


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to detect optical radio frequency and


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high energy radiation events. They were


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able to observe two discharge paths of


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lightning. one descending from the


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thundercloud to the groundbased


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transmission tower and one ascending up


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in the opposite direction. Wider and


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colleagues found that terrestrial


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gammaray flashes occurred just before


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the two discharge paths met creating a


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highly concentrated electric field that


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accelerated electrons in the air to near


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the speed of light. The first


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terrestrial gammaray flash photon was


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observed 31 micros secondsonds before


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the collision of the discharge paths and


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the full burst lasted for 20 micros


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secondsonds after they emit to form the


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lightning strike. The study contributes


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crucial data to the long-standing


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mystery of how lightning generates


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enough energy to produce gamma rays


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phenomenon normally associated with


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outer space events like supernova or


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black holes. The study also supports


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emerging theories about lightning leader


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dynamics and the potential role of


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thermal runaway or relativistic feedback


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in these extreme bursts. This spaceime


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still to come, spaceflight history made


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in Earth orbit with two spacecraft


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successfully flying in millimeter


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perfect formation for several hours for


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the first time. And later in the science


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report, researchers develop a new type


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of contact lens, one that will help you


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Spaceflight history's been made in Earth


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orbit with two spacecraft successfully


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flying in millimeter perfect formation


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for several hours for the first time and


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without any control from the ground. The


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European Space Ay's Prober 3 mission


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achieved the precision alignment which


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is needed in order to carry out its


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mission to study the sun's outer


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atmosphere, the corona. You see, the two


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Prober 3 spacecraft, which include a


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chronograph orbiter and an occultter


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orbiter, need to fly exactly 150 m apart


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in perfect formation in order to


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simulate a single giant


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spacecraft. Earlier this year, the first


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step of the mission was successfully


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completed. Using a set of positioning


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instruments, flight operations managers


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were able to align the two spacecraft in


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formation and then monitor them as they


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maintain their relative position


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autonomously. Now following more


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fine-tuning and testing, the team have


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achieved the desired level of precision


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they need, making Prober 3 the world's


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first ever precision formation flying


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mission. Issa Prober 3 systems engineer


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Rafael Rugo says the task was carried


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out at an orbital altitude of 50,000


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kilm. Here Earth's gravitational pool


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small enough so that very little


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propellants needed to maintain flight


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formation. But then the formation's


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broken and needs to be acquired again


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over the next orbit in a repeating


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cycle. Now the ultimate goal is for the


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two spacecraft to align with the sun so


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that the 1.4 m disc carried on the


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Acculta spacecraft casts a 5 cm shadow


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onto the optical instrument aboard the


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chronograph spacecraft thereby allowing


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it to study the faint solar corona sun's


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outer atmosphere. The spacecraft are


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able to measure and control their


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relative position using a visually based


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system which includes a wide-angle


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camera on the Acculta, tracking a set of


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flashing LED lights on the chronograph


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spacecraft. Once the satellites get


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close enough to each other, a narrow


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angle camera locks onto the same set of


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lights, enabling more accurate


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positioning. Then a fine degree lateral


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and longitudinal sensor lasers used to


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achieve the millimeter accuracy needed


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for the mission. that laser is fired


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from the Acculta spacecraft and


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reflected by the chronograph's


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retroreflector back to the Acculta where


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it's detected. Finally, a shadow


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position sensor measures light intensity


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around the chronograph aperture to


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ensure the spacecraft stays in the


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shadow cast by the Acculta spacecraft.


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This report from TV


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probin for let's try issa's family of


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experimental small


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satellites over the last two decades.


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Proba missions have pushed forward


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spaceflight technology while gathering


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valuable science data. The next in the


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series, Prober 3, is the most ambitious


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yet. Two satellites fly together as one


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with millimeter level control of their


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positions within a precise formation. In


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the process, one will eclipse or block


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the sun for the other. to reveal our


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stars faint surrounding coronal


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atmosphere for scientific


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observation. Prober 3 requires a unique


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orbit. The occulta spacecraft with its


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1.4 m diameter occulting disc could


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observe the sun in


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eclipse. The satellite's orbit is highly


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elliptical taking them to a maximum of


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60,000 km from Earth.


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Gravitational, magnetic, and atmospheric


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pertubations are much lower this far


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out. This will make possible the precise


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positioning needed for formation flying


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and observing the sun's corona. At this


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stage, it is important that the prob 3


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satellites perform a series of maneuvers


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to position themselves in relatively


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safe orbits with respective to each


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other.


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Achieving this nullifies any risk of the


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pair either drifting away from each


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other or colliding. The separation


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between spacecraft will be as short as


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25 m and as long as 250 m with a nominal


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separation of around 150 m. The pale


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determine their relative positions using


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a suite of metrologies including radio


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links, satellite navigation and a


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visualbased system with optical tracking


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of blinking


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lights. Once sufficient accuracy has


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been achieved, the final step deploy the


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most precise measuring system of all,


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the laser metrology system known as the


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fine lateral and longitudinal sensor.


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With this laser link, the total


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three-dimensional formation can attain


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millimeter level


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control. At this point, the Eula lined


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up with the sun will cast a perfect


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shadow for sustained observation of the


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sun's otherwise invisible corona.


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Once the occult shadow is maintained in


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just the right spot on the face of the


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other satellite, it will be safe for the


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coronagraph to open its protective door


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and start scientific observations of the


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sun's


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corona. Solar scientists travel the


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world to glimpse brief solar eclipses,


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but Proer 3 will create eclipses on


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demand.


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This spaceime


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[Music]


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And time now to take another brief look


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at some of the other stories making news


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in science this week with a science


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report. Scientists have developed a new


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type of contact lens, one that will help


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you see in the dark. A report in the


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journal cell claims the lenses work by


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converting infrared light otherwise


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imperceptible to the human eye into


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visible light. And unlike night vision


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goggles, these lenses don't need an


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external power source. The technology


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behind the lenses rely on nano particles


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that absorb infrared which the authors


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bonded with non-toxic polymers used in


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standard contact lenses. When tested on


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people, participants could detect the


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location of flashing infrared lights,


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which they wouldn't be able to see


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without the contacts. Now, additionally,


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the authors say they could alter the


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nanop particles to convert different


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wavelengths of light into different


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colors, thereby allowing colorblind


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people to see color. Now, currently, the


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lenses can only detect infrared light


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projected from an LED light source, but


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researchers are now working on a version


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that could detect lower levels of


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infrared light out in the


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wild. It turns out the humpback world's


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epic migrations to tropical waters from


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the Great Southern Ocean are not as


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essential as previously thought for


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giving birth. A report in the journal


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Frontiers and Marine Science documented


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newborn calves around Australia and New


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Zealand with the southernmost found at


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Port Arthur and Tasmania. That's 1500


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kilometers further south than what it


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was previously thought humpac whales


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could carve. And the highest latitude


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births recorded by Humpac Wales were


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recorded even a little bit further north


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Kikor in New Zealand. The authors say


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it's very likely that this pattern of


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births along the so-called humpback


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highways always existed, but it was


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obscured when the population crashed due


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to


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whailing. A Microsoft artificial


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intelligence called Aurora has been


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shown to outperform existing Earth


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system forecasts, predicting extreme


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events, including weather, air quality,


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ocean currents, sea ice, and hurricanes.


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Existing methods need to analyze decades


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worth of data that require huge amounts


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of computing power. A report in the


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journal Nature claims all that data was


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fed into Aurora and the AI successfully


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outperformed seven forecasting centers


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in predicting the route of cyclones 5


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days in advance with 100% accuracy and


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92% accuracy for 10-day forecasts. Even


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better, training Aurora only took 2


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months, whereas existing methods can


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take years. Of course, it was only


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possible to train the AI so quickly


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because all that data used to train the


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AI had already been collected by


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existing Earth forecasting


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centers. Google have held their major


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artificial intelligence showcase IO


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2025. With the details, we're joined by


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technology editor Alexo from


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techadvice.life.


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Yes. Well, they've had their major


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Google IO 2025 event and this is where


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they announced a lot of new things about


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AI. So, one of the first changes that


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people in the US will see on the Google


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homepage, instead of seeing the I'm


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feeling lucky button, it will be AI


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search. And this is where you're


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effectively talking to Gemini and


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getting a full AI agent similar to what


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you get with chat GPT or by going to


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gemini.google.com. And it will expand


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what you get with the AI overviews and


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be a full-on assistant right there on


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the most famous homepage in the world.


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You'll also be able to use that with


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Google Chrome. It will be able to


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navigate multiple tabs for you. Be able


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to tell you what's on a web page. You


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can question that and talk to it. They


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were showing a demo where your assistant


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could ring up a store and get


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information about items in stock and


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come back to you and uh actually take


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actions for you. Now, these are still


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coming, you know, later this year. I


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mean, the Google homepage update is


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available now for those in the US. the


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Gemini live app itself that gives you


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the ability to not just speak to the


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chatbot like you could with Chat Gibbbit


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or Grock but also now you can see so


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we've spoken about this before but this


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previously was made exclusive to the S25


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range and Google Pixel phones then it


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was expanded to more Android phones and


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now it's available to all effectively


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modern Androids going back several years


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and also iOS. Now I have tested it on my


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phone with iOS and I don't have the


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camera icon there yet. It's probably


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something that is waiting for an update


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uh to come, but you'll be able to hold


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your phone up to anything and ask


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questions about it. Identify plants,


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animals, uh looking at instructions on


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how to put together some IKEA furniture,


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whatever it might be. This is like


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talking to a a robot except you're


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holding the phone in your hand. But


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there's plenty more. I mean, Google Beam


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is an update for Project Starite, which


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was a the ability to talk to people in


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what appeared to be like a 3D way, even


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though you were sitting in front of a 2D


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television screen. Now, HP is going to


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launch these big TV screens/ monitors


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with six cameras that will take images


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from various viewpoints around you and


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and simulate a 3D image. So you will


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feel as though you are actually talking


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to that person in a way that is more


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engaging and more real than just the way


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we do with Zoom and Google Meets and and


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uh FaceTime and Skype. Another example


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of Google's proess was with the Google


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Meet Zoom equivalent where somebody was


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speaking in Spanish, somebody was


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speaking in English. And a couple of


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seconds after you start speaking in your


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language, it's being converted into


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Spanish if you're speaking English. And


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it's being done in your tone of voice.


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In the demo, it was very quick and


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lifelike is effectively pretty much in


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real time. Updates to Imagine 4, the


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image editor. V3, the video editor, were


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now delivering much more realistic


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images. And with the video, it could


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pair that with audio that would match


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the physics of what was on screen. So


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they had a gentleman in a boat. the


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waves were crashing uh you know or just


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moving and you could hear them. It was


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very realistic. And they've actually now


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got a thing called Flow which takes all


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of their tools together and can make


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movies for you just by describing each


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scene and you can extend a scene and


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export the clips. Really quite


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incredible. Also an Android XR headset


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that's extended reality being made with


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Samsung and Qualcomm. Looks very much


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like the Apple Vision Pro except of


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course it's running Android. And then


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also these glasses looking like a pair


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of black rimmed Ray-B bands for example


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and there was a camera and you could


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talk to Gemini and you could see images


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that popped up and were translucent so


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you could see through them but they were


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in your field of view. You could pick up


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a map for example and and see the


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directions. If you look down you would


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actually see a little map displayed


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there and you could speak and see


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subtitles of what somebody else was


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saying and have that translated into


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another language. Lia 2 was audio. I was


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part of the uh suite that creates the


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videos and that was able to make this


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orchestral beautiful sounding rich


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music. Pretty amazing stuff. It's


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effectively all available now. How long


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it will take until it comes to Australia


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is yet to be seen. The Flow video


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creation tool is part of Google Gemini


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Ultra. Now, this is in US dollars,


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$249.99 a month. First three months are


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at half price. There was also a a pro


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version for about 20 bucks. And uh


00:21:00.080 --> 00:21:01.830
there's clearly it's free as well, but


00:21:01.840 --> 00:21:04.230
if you want more rate limits as it were


00:21:04.240 --> 00:21:06.310
and the ability to do more with the


00:21:06.320 --> 00:21:07.750
latest tools as they come out, I mean


00:21:07.760 --> 00:21:09.909
this is next level stuff. That's Alex


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Haravo from techadvice.life.


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