A Fond Farewell: Solar System Specialist Emily Lakdawalla

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🗓️ 23 September 2020

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Emily Lakdawalla was on the very first episode of Planetary Radio, and has been heard on hundreds since then. The planetary evangelist returns for a conversation like no other. Planetary Society CEO Bill Nye shares his thoughts after we hear from Emily. Got Mars? Bruce Betts tells us it’s brighter than Jupiter in the evening sky. He’ll tell you where to look during What’s Up. Much more of Emily can be heard at https://www.planetary.org/planetary-radio/0923-2020-emily-lakdawalla-farewell-nye

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0:00.0	A very special conversation with the planetary evangelist Emily Lochuwala, this week on planetary radio.
0:07.0	Welcome, I'm Matt Kaplan, of the Planetary Society with more of the human adventure across our
0:17.4	solar system and beyond.
0:19.8	She has been part of Planetary Radio for the entire history of our show and a favorite
0:24.6	colleague at the society for even longer. Our Solar System specialist has
0:29.1	returned for a visit that is somewhat bittersweet, one that is not like any of the hundreds that have
0:35.3	come before.
0:36.3	We'll also hear from Society CEO Bill 9 before we turn toward the sky with Bruce Betts
0:42.4	in this week's What's Up.
0:44.7	The big news from Venus that we focused on last week is still raising eyebrows.
0:49.0	I bet some of you have been asked about it by friends and family, but the discovery of
0:53.0	phosphine in the Venusian atmosphere is only one of the stories in the September
0:57.5	18 edition of the Downlink. For example, we've learned that the first human return to the moon may not go to the South Pole after all.
1:07.0	NASA has announced that other landing sites might be considered for Artemis 3.
1:12.0	Japan's Hayabusa 2 won't be finished. might be considered for Artemis 3.
1:13.1	Japan's Hiabusa 2 won't be finished after it drops off bits of asteroid Ryugu here on Earth.
1:19.4	The probe will continue toward two more asteroids, not reaching the last one until
1:24.5	2031. And it turns out that the subsurface oceans on moons like Europa
1:30.5	may be kept warm by more than gravitational interaction with the giant planets they circle.
1:37.0	Most of the energy may come from their sister moons.
1:41.0	Want more? It's waiting for you at planetary.org
1:44.4	slash downlink. I won't keep you waiting any longer.
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