Today, it continues to drive photosynthesis,
light our way and keep us warm.
I'm Miles Hatfield, and in this episode,
we're talking about living with a star.
We've been putting together this video series called
“High Above Down Under,”
that's all about us following two rocket teams to Australia
where they were going to be the first launches from a brand new launch range.
And we talk about the science they were doing, but we also
wanted to capture the experience of what is it like to be in the field.
So, Miles and I are both writers, which means this was kind of our
first time really delving into the videography side of stuff,
which was a challenging and very rewarding
learning curve.
One of the cool things about sounding rockets is that,
you know, they launch up and do their science up in space
and then they fall back down.
And so, you have to go recover the parts.
So, you’re going to see a little bit of us going out to do some of the recovery.
Looks pretty expired to me.
We wanted to have a lot of fun
and we wanted that to come across in the video.
Earth is packed with life.
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Earth is packed with life.
Ahh! There's some life biting me right now.
Why are you smiling?
Because you're about to fly!
We had a great time out in the field recording all this video.
Miles is out there getting bitten by ants while we’re recording,
and there's spiders everywhere.
That's just a terror.
That’s huge!
But we're also getting to talk with and hang out with all these amazing people,
from the engineers to the scientists to the people who helped
make the rocket range and all the local rangers who
know all about the flora and fauna and all the local history as well.
It was a lot of fun filming this series
and we hope you guys will enjoy it, too.