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Astronomy Cast, episode 387, water on Mars again.

Welcome to Astronomy Cast, our weekly facts based journey through the cosmos.

Before we help you understand not only what we know, but how we know what we know.

My name is Fraser Cain, I'm the publisher of University Day and with me is Dr. Pamela Gay, a professor at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, and the director of Cosmic West.

Hey Pamela, how are you doing?

I'm doing well, how are you doing Fraser?

Good, so big news on the Cosmic West Front, right?

Maybe? Yes, sort of.

Well, we are one of the 27 teams that are selected to be NASA education partners for the coming half decade to decade depending on how they renew the funding.

We are currently waiting for negotiations on funding to start. This isn't a grant, it's a cooperative agreement notice.

So we're going to be getting somewhere between one and a lot of money to keep our programs going.

But like all the selected teams were still at the waiting to know more than was in the press release side of things.

But this does mean that we're just going to keep growing Cosmic West for the coming half decade to decade to come.

Yeah, we get to do more citizen science with you, our beloved friends and listeners.

And we really appreciate all of your support, especially through all of the hangout of thorns and stuff that really kept the whole machine going to help us get through this to this next level of funding.

And it really means a lot that you guys all supported us while we were sort of in the dark times.

And as promised, since we got funding, we will do a hangout of thorn that is pure science for no money.

No money, you don't want your money.

Just please come science all the things science. That sounds great.

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