NASA’s New Epic Video Simulates Future Space Travel.
A still from the video, showing a scene of people kayaking on Saturn’s moon Titan. (Photo: NASA).
According to Space.com, on October 19, NASA released a short 1-minute video on YouTube, simulating a series of exploration posters originally published by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2015 and 2016, now animated to depict future adventures.
The video features scenes of an athlete skydiving onto the giant super-Earth HD 40307 g, a family standing on a bubble-like spacecraft heading towards the icy moon Enceladus as it erupts water, and two individuals—a parent and child—watching a rocket launch from a settlement on Mars. Alongside these visuals, the video illustrates humanity’s future exploration of worlds close to Earth.
“While our robotic explorers have toured the Solar System, the only place beyond Earth where humans have stood is the Moon. That is also where we are about to send astronauts again. But it will not be the last!” a representative from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center wrote in the video’s description.
This individual noted that the video’s aim is to help humanity envision a distant future of space exploration.
The most memorable scene in the video may be the simulation of a person kayaking on Saturn’s moon Titan.
Of course, NASA’s current budget cannot turn these simulations into reality. NASA is currently focused on reviving human lunar exploration, with hopes of sending astronauts back to the Moon in the 2020s. As for Mars, the U.S. space agency may send humans there as early as 2035.
