A Planetary Mystery is Solved, and it’s Bill Nye’s Anniversary!
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 September 2020
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
JPL’s Marc Rayman, former Dawn mission director, reveals the secrets of those bright spots on dwarf planet Ceres. First though we celebrate Bill Nye’s 10th anniversary as CEO of The Planetary Society. Chief Operating Officer Jennifer Vaughn is followed by the Science Guy himself. And there’s a Nye invention at the heart of this week’s What’s Up space trivia contest. Links and more are at https://www.planetary.org/planetary-radio/0909-2020-marc-rayman-ceres-bill-nye-jennifer-vaughn-10th-anniversary
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| 0:00.0 | A planetary mystery solved and a Science Guy's anniversary celebrated this week on |
| 0:06.6 | planetary radio. |
| 0:08.6 | Welcome, I'm at Kaplan, of the Planetary Society, with more of the Human Adventure |
| 0:17.4 | across our solar system and beyond. |
| 0:20.2 | JPL's Mark Raymond is back, his retired dawn spacecraft, discovered and has now enabled us to |
| 0:26.7 | explain those brilliant white spots on dwarf planet series. |
| 0:32.2 | We'll talk to Mark in a bit, but first will mark Bill Nye's 10th anniversary as leader |
| 0:37.4 | of the Planetary Society. |
| 0:40.0 | Society Chief Operating Officer Jennifer Vaughn will join us before we hear from the science guy himself. |
| 0:46.5 | The celebration will continue as Bruce Betts introduces a ny centric space trivia contest that |
| 0:52.4 | is going to win someone a rare and valuable |
| 0:55.8 | rubber asteroid. Did you know that Martian Dust Devils can reach 8 kilometers |
| 1:01.4 | into that pink sky. |
| 1:03.6 | The little devil captured recently by a camera on the Curiosity Rover isn't nearly as ambitious, |
| 1:09.6 | but it still tops the September 4th edition of the Downlink. And here is some of the space news |
| 1:15.4 | in that week's newsletter beginning with the ongoing saga of the Mole. The |
| 1:20.8 | Insight Mars Landers burrowing Heat Probe is fully buried for the first time. |
| 1:26.0 | Thanks to help from the spacecraft's robotic scoop. |
| 1:29.0 | Keep digging, little one. |
| 1:31.0 | Artificial intelligence has helped discover 50 more exoplanets. This pioneering |
| 1:36.1 | achievement was accomplished with data from the Kepler Space Telescope. |
| 1:40.8 | Northrop Grumman has successfully test fired a solid rocket booster for the giant space launch system. |
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