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Belinda Smith

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Science Friction
12 | Artemis Explained: What a ride

Tap into their lives again in a year's time.

Science Friction
12 | Artemis Explained: What a ride

Okay, so just so everything goes really well with Artemis 3, is there an Artemis 4 planned?

Science Friction
12 | Artemis Explained: What a ride

Look, we've actually got a really good question from John about communication in space.

Science Friction
12 | Artemis Explained: What a ride

So he asks, to enable communication from the dark side of the moon or the far side of the moon,

Science Friction
12 | Artemis Explained: What a ride

Could we launch a moon-orbiting communication satellite from Earth?

Science Friction
12 | Artemis Explained: What a ride

As usual, we've got so many great questions, so we're going to try and get through as many as possible before we wind this up.

Science Friction
12 | Artemis Explained: What a ride

So this is from Peter, and he asks, the Artemis astronauts were in space for 10 days.

Science Friction
12 | Artemis Explained: What a ride

Because they were travelling quite fast both towards and away from us here on Earth,

Science Friction
12 | Artemis Explained: What a ride

their clock will be different to ours due to special relativity.

Science Friction
12 | Artemis Explained: What a ride

Also, because they've been further up Earth's gravity well, their clocks will be different due to general relativity.

Science Friction
12 | Artemis Explained: What a ride

How much difference will there be due to each component?

Science Friction
12 | Artemis Explained: What a ride

Okay, so just unpacking this a bit, the clock on Apollo 12 after their mission would have been 560 microseconds ahead of the clock that remained on Earth.

Science Friction
12 | Artemis Explained: What a ride

Okay, let's go from crazy mind-bending physics to a slightly simpler question.

Science Friction
12 | Artemis Explained: What a ride

So this is from Amelie, who's five, and she wants to know why she can see the moon during the day even when the sun is out.

Science Friction
12 | Artemis Explained: What a ride

And she's been enjoying imagining the four Artemis astronauts flying through space back to Earth.

Science Friction
12 | Artemis Explained: What a ride

So while we need the sun to have daytime, the moon can be in the sky at any time of the day or night.

Science Friction
12 | Artemis Explained: What a ride

Yeah, it's not just a night object and we love that about it.

Science Friction
12 | Artemis Explained: What a ride

A question here from Beck who asks, how come we can't see the space junk satellites and space station in the pictures the crew are taking of Earth?

Science Friction
12 | Artemis Explained: What a ride

And even though there's a lot of satellites, they're small.

Science Friction
12 | Artemis Explained: What a ride

Yeah.