A Passionate Conversation with Carolyn Porco
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 November 2019
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
The outspoken planetary scientist who led the Cassini imaging team finally sits down with Mat Kaplan for a revealing, fun conversation. We also talk with astronomer Jay Pasachoff while he watches tiny Mercury crawl across the face of the Sun. Chief scientist Bruce Betts was in the Planetary Society parking lot enjoying the November 11th transit of Mercury. He joins us from there for What’s Up. Learn more about this week’s guest and topics at: https://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2019/1113-2019-carolyn-porco.html
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| 0:00.0 | Our first ever conversation with Carolyn Porco and the transit of Mercury this week on planetary radio. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome, I'm Matt Kaplan, of the Planetary Society, with more of a human adventure across our |
| 0:16.9 | solar system and beyond. |
| 0:19.4 | She is one of the best-known planetary scientists on our planet, a leader of the imaging community for decades, |
| 0:26.7 | and she doesn't shy away from controversy. |
| 0:29.4 | And it's about time she was our guest. |
| 0:31.6 | Join me for a revealing, funny, and often profound interview. |
| 0:36.4 | Did you catch the transit? Bruce Betts did. I talked with my what's up partner as he watched |
| 0:41.5 | tiny Mercury crawl across the face of the sun on the 11th of November? |
| 0:47.0 | High above Southern California, the man who may be the greatest living eclipse and Tranted Chaser was at the Big Bear Solar Observatory that we visited in August of 2017. |
| 0:58.0 | Jay Passacoff is Field Memorial Professor of Astronomy at Williams College, but he travels the world studying |
| 1:04.6 | phenomenal like this transit. I reached him on his mobile phone moments after he |
| 1:10.1 | exited his car next to Big Bear Lake. |
| 1:13.0 | Hi, we're just arriving at the observatory. |
| 1:14.8 | Well, some people have been here already. |
| 1:16.3 | Just a second. |
| 1:17.3 | And we'd, would you carry down to that? |
| 1:19.7 | Are you under the dome yet? |
| 1:21.5 | No, just approaching the dome now and we've been meeting |
| 1:24.8 | and organizing and some people have been here already this morning. That's great how |
| 1:29.2 | are the how are the skies? Oh perfect absolutely perfect. You're not looking at the sun I know, not yet because you're too smart to do that without |
| 1:36.4 | protection, but you're walking out on that spit of land out toward the dome? |
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