Tiktok Solar System tours - Resources
Because it’s tricky to list all of my sources in tiny font on a TikTok video, I’m going to keep a running list here! I’ll try to keep it updated as I go. Give me a shout if you want more information.
Mercury:
NASA’s Solar System Overview “Mercury”: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/mercury/overview/
Lawrence et al., 2012, “Evidence for Water Ice Near Mercury’s North Pole from MESSENGER Neutron Spectrometer Measurements”, Science 339 (6117) pp 292-296 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1229953 (This appears to be the first paper published about this!)
Astrobites article (2021) “Mercury Has Ice… But wait, there’s more!” https://astrobites.org/2021/06/01/template-post-2-2-2-2-2-2/
Rubanenko et al., (2018), “Ice in Micro Cold Traps on Mercury: Implications for Age and Origin”, Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 123, pp 2178-2191: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2018JE005644
Article by the Universities Space Research Association Newsroom (2022): “Radar Studies of Ice at Mercury May Help Artemis Program”. https://newsroom.usra.edu/radar-studies-of-ice-at-mercury-may-help-artemis-program/
The incredible video I use of Mercury’s surface in False Colour is from NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington. It was published on December 18, 2017 and you can find it here: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/532/mercury-false-color-rotation-movie/
MESSENGER Mission Overview website: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/messenger/in-depth/
Article about MESSENGER’s Wide Angle Camera published on March 31st, 2011: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/messenger/multimedia/mercury_orbit_image4.html
ThoughtCo. “Light and Astronomy” by Carolyn Collins Petersen. Published on July 3rd, 2019: https://www.thoughtco.com/light-and-astronomy-3072088#:~:text=The%20EMS%20comprises%20the%20full,%2Drays%2C%20and%20gamma%20rays
The Sun:
MinutePhysics (Jul 19 2016): “Hitting the Sun is HARD” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHvR1fRTW8g)
JHU Applied Physics Laboratory (Feb 9 2022): “Why NASA’s Parker Solar Probe Swings by Venus” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y91nNh0ZG9M)
NASA Parker Solar Probe mission blog: https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/parker-solar-probe
ScienceAlert article (Mike McRae, 16 Oct 2020): “We were wrong about Betelgeuse’s size and now it’s imminent death is super unlikely” (https://www.sciencealert.com/we-were-wrong-about-betelgeuse-s-size-and-now-its-imminent-death-is-super-unlikely)
The Science Asylum (Apr 25, 2021): “I proved 1,300,000 Earths WON’T fit inside the Sun” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga0TKrylnXY) NOTE - It’s bloody close. Nick shows that it should be about 960,000 Earths.
EarthSky article (Larry Sessions, Jan 19 2022): “Blue-White Rigel is Orion’s Brightest Star” (https://earthsky.org/brightest-stars/blue-white-rigel-is-orions-brightest-star/)
Sky and Telescope (Daniel Johnson, Sept 3, 2020): “Meet Antares: the star that is not Mars” (https://skyandtelescope.org/observing/meet-antares-the-star-that-is-not-mars/)
NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/
University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics Public Lecture Series: “What is Space Weather and why should I care?” presented by Tom Berger (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQGR81PxBxM&t=3813s)
The Royal Society (Mar 12 2022): “Space Weather with Suzie Imber” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4uGINjk7PE&t=976s)
NASA’s Gravity Assist Podcast: Season 1, Episode 1 “The Sun with Nicky Fox” (Nov 16, 2017) https://www.nasa.gov/mediacast/gravity-assist-podcast-the-sun-with-nicky-fox
VIDEO CONTENT:
https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/gallery/main/item/75 - SDO Video showing a 20 hour timelapse of a CME captured on May 9-10, 2011. I used both the Lasco and ultraviolet light videos.
Goddard Media Studios “Two weeks in the life of a Sunspot”: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12105
Goddard Media Studios “A powerful sequence of flares start September 2017”: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12706#X8.2
All videos and images used in my TikToks are Public Domain and available to use for free.
