How NASA found GOLD from Space - Prof Simon?

NASA found gold from space by using something like a giant magnet in the sky.

Imagine you're playing with your toys on the floor, and there's a strong magnet above you, it pulls certain toys up to the ceiling! That’s kind of what NASA did. They used special tools that acted like magnets to find gold inside a rock from space.

NASA looked at a special rock called an asteroid, think of it like a big, rocky ball floating in space. This asteroid had some gold inside it, just like how your piggy bank has coins inside it.

They used something called a mass spectrometer, which is like a super-smart scale that can tell what's inside things without opening them up. It works by sending tiny bits of the rock through a special machine and seeing how they move, this helps scientists know if there’s gold or other cool stuff hidden inside.

It’s like when you shake your piggy bank and hear coins clinking around, you know there are coins inside, even if you can’t see them yet!

So NASA didn’t need to dig up the gold from the ground, they found it floating in space!