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Astronomy Cast, episode 331, R3C Clarks, Ideas and Technology.

Welcome to Astronomy Cast, our weekly facts-based journey through the cosmos will help you understand only what we know, but how we know what we know.

My name is Fraser Kane, I'm the publisher of the universe today, and with me is Dr. Pamela Gay, a professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, and the director of CosmoQuest.

Hey Pamela, how you doing?

I'm doing well. How are you doing, Fraser?

Yeah, I know you are a little tired.

I am. Today is the day that the Rosetta mission woke up from its many, many months of hibernation as it was out a little close to Jupiter, and beyond where solar panels could provide quite enough power for full functionality.

And we did a live hangout with a bunch of school groups over in Europe this morning at 4 a.m. local, and we have now gotten the signal back from Rosetta.

The mission did come back to life, did wake up from its hibernation, and now we're here to record a show on a completely unrelated topic, and my brain is full of science.

Good. Well, I'm really glad that Rosetta woke up. That was a little nerve wracking, because it had been offline for so long.

Before we get on, I want to give you one little piece of business, which is that we have now uploaded all of our videos that we were recording on YouTube for Universe Today.

These are these short explainer videos that we've been doing, and we've put them all on iTunes.

So, if you haven't watched them because you don't like to consume your media through YouTube, I totally understand that, and now you can consume them on your podcasting software.

So, go to iTunes, or you can just go to Universe Today.com slash video, or Universe Today.com slash audio, and you can download those that way.

So, more space goodness.

And if you're like me, and you can't do just one thing at a time, while you're watching Fraser's videos, pop on over to CosmoQuest.org,

and another part of your screen, and work on doing science while you're learning science.

Perfect.

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