40: Becky Loves Saturn
The Supermassive Podcast
Izzie Clarke
4.6 • 556 Ratings
🗓️ 29 April 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Professor Geraint Jones from UCL's Mullard Space Science Laboratory tells the Supermassive Team about the Saturnian system. Plus, Professor John Zarnecki shares his experiences of being involved with the Cassini-Huygens mission. And, as always, Dr Robert Massey is on hand to take on listener questions and share his stargazing tips for the month.
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| 0:00.0 | One of its moons, Mymus looks like the Death Star from Star Wars. |
| 0:05.6 | When we landed on the surface, that moment for me, it was so overwhelming. |
| 0:10.0 | The first time I looked through my telescope and I saw Saturn. |
| 0:13.6 | It's brilliant. |
| 0:18.3 | Hello, welcome to the Supermassive podcast from the Royal Astronomical Society with me, science |
| 0:24.3 | journalist Izzy Clark and astrophysicist Dr Becky Smethurst. It's happening, Izzy. It's finally |
| 0:30.9 | happening. Everybody stay calm. What's the procedure? I knew this is going to happen. If you |
| 0:37.3 | can't tell everyone, I'm very excited because this month |
| 0:41.6 | we are talking about my favourite planet, the one, the only sun. So for any new listeners, |
| 0:50.4 | welcome, but there is some context here. Becky, if you haven't noticed already, is obsessed with |
| 0:56.6 | Saturn and we've never made an episode about it. Never. It wasn't, it wasn't, it's not, |
| 1:02.1 | there's nothing personal, Becky, but we're here three years down the line. And I know, Robert, |
| 1:07.2 | you normally give a quick intro into the topic. Do you mind if we hand that over to Becky just for this episode? |
| 1:14.2 | You know, it would be like ruining Christmas if I said no. It has to do this. Okay. So Becky, start us for 10. Why do you love Saturn so much? |
| 1:25.5 | I've been pregnant for this moment for three years. |
| 1:28.2 | So here we go, Izzy. |
| 1:30.6 | How do I love the, let me count the reasons why? |
| 1:35.7 | Who would have known an office reference and a Shakespeare reference, like within two minutes? |
| 1:36.6 | You know, we're cultured here. |
| 1:39.7 | Anyway, so this is the obvious reason for Saturn, right? |
| 1:42.5 | It is clearly beautiful. |
| 1:45.4 | Everybody falls for it when they look at it through a telescope for the first time and see those rings, and I am the same. It's got the rings far more spectacular |
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