E279 - Mercury Bound: BepiColombo's 8-Year Journey & the Moon Born in 5 Hours

This week on Kalam Astro, host Alya Al-Nuaimi brings you four extraordinary stories from the frontiers of space science — from satellites watching over us with AI eyes, to a spacecraft that took 8 years to reach its destination!

We start with Earth observation and AI: private companies are now launching entire fleets of small satellites, and these aren't your grandparents' space cameras. With onboard artificial intelligence, these satellites process data in orbit, spotting storms, illegal shipping, and environmental disasters instantly — sending back only what matters most.

Then we travel to Mercury — the most underexplored planet in our so...