30: Rocky Planets Rock
The Supermassive Podcast
Izzie Clarke
4.6 • 556 Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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With special thanks to Dr Suzie Imber from the University of Leicester, and Sian Prosser from the Royal Astronomical Society.
Thank you to Brilliant for sponsoring this episode. Head to brilliant.org/supermassive to start free courses in maths, science, and computer science. The first 200 subscribers will get 20% off.
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you to Brilliant for sponsoring this episode of the Supermassive podcast. |
| 0:04.5 | Brilliant is an interactive STEM learning platform that helps you to truly understand concepts, |
| 0:09.7 | maths, science and computer science by guiding you through really engaging hands-on courses. |
| 0:16.2 | Yeah, they're really brilliant to look at. I've still been cracking on with my everyday math |
| 0:20.5 | course and slowly, surely getting through it. But honestly, the way that they look is so, it's just so easy to follow. It's so clear, isn't it? Yeah, and it makes it just interesting as well. Yeah. How have you been finding the interactivity? Because some of the little widgets they have are great to help you understand like how stuff relates to each other and changes yeah no it's so good and what |
| 0:43.2 | I find even really helpful if there's something that I don't get then they have a tool just to be like |
| 0:48.6 | excuse me can I have some help give me more explanation please yeah so it's really helpful yeah that is great. Because it means like you never get stuck. You're not just sort of like marching through a topic. You're really getting to grips with the concepts that like underpin a topic. And if you do that, you know, you learn by doing it. And you have a much better chance of remembering something later down the line. Yeah, it's exactly that. |
| 1:11.5 | So if that sounds interesting to you, |
| 1:13.0 | then head to Brilliant.org slash supermassive to get started for free, |
| 1:17.1 | and the first 200 subscribers will get 20% off. |
| 1:22.4 | Come on, space. What's going on? |
| 1:24.0 | I don't worry about space plagues coming back from Mars. |
| 1:27.1 | I worry a lot more about us going there and trashing that environment. |
| 1:30.7 | And what can studying these rocky planets tell us? |
| 1:33.8 | Can't forget, the moons of the solar system. |
| 1:36.0 | They're all rocky planets, if you will. |
| 1:40.5 | Hello and welcome to the Supermassive podcast from the Royal Astronomical Society. |
| 1:45.9 | With me, science journalist Izzy Clark and astrophysicist Dr. Becky Smethurst. |
| 1:50.8 | This month we're sticking a little bit closer to home to look at the rocky planets. |
| 1:55.7 | That's Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars. |
| 1:58.9 | How come they're so different to the gas giants from last month's |
| 2:02.0 | episode and can understanding their past tell us anything about Earth's future? I'll be chatting with |
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