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Dust Simulations Paint Alien's View of the Solar System (2010)

2010 · Television · 2 min

Synopsis

Dust ground off icy bodies in the Kuiper Belt, the cold-storage zone that includes Pluto and millions of other objects, creates a faint infrared disk potentially visible to alien astronomers looking for planets around the sun. This is a short video about the Kuiper Belt and the new supercomputer model of its evolution.

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Running time
2 minutes
Collection
NASA