Meteorite Hunting: Unlocking Our Solar System's Secrets #shorts

Added: 2026-05-22

[00:00:10]This man is about to take a trip into the depths of our solar system without even leaving the Earth's atmosphere. Planetary astronomer Richard Terrell is on a journey to explore the origin of our planets.

[00:00:28]He's come here to the heart of the Mojave Desert, one of the driest and most barren places on Earth to search for meteorites, rocks from outer space.

[00:00:44]Meteorites are phenomenally important because they're really the only samples we have of what's out there except for the moon rocks we've collected.

[00:00:53]They're objects we can place in our laboratories. They can tell us what the raw ingredients were that formed the Earth and the planets.