A Sea Under the South Pole of Enceladus?
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
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🗓️ 2 April 2007
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Is there yet another sea of liquid water in our solar system this week on planetary radio. Hi everyone, welcome to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the final frontier. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm Matt Kaplan. It's not quite water, water everywhere, but scientists |
| 0:26.4 | do seem to be finding more and more evidence that the life-giving fluid may exist in |
| 0:31.9 | far more places than we knew. |
| 0:34.0 | Planetary scientist Jeffrey Collins will tell us why he believes |
| 0:38.0 | there may be a sea under the south pole of a little moon named Enceladus, a sea that is responsible for both the satellite's |
| 0:46.1 | odd shape and its gigantic geysers. |
| 0:49.9 | And you'll hear Jeff's thoughts about the other mysterious and beautiful icy moons in our neck of the |
| 0:55.1 | cosmic woods. |
| 0:56.9 | Emily Lachawala is also up on Enceladus. |
| 0:59.9 | It seems the tiny satellite is wreaking havoc on our ability to tell how long a day is on |
| 1:05.0 | Saturn. My, my, what an influential little spear. It's a weird week up there in the heavens. |
| 1:11.2 | That's what you'll hear from Bruce Betts in |
| 1:12.8 | this week's edition of What's Up. |
| 1:14.8 | Weird or not will also give away another planetary radio t-shirt instantly |
| 1:19.3 | making one of our listeners the envy of the Milky Way. At the top of our news our that we have ignored the most important space exploration story of the last decade or more. |
| 1:36.0 | Thousands of you have told us that you are shocked and disappointed by this glaring omission. |
| 1:42.0 | We hear you, and we are truly, truly sorry. From here on |
| 1:46.1 | out we will report even the smallest detail of this monumental and still |
| 1:51.0 | unfolding tale of scientific intrigue and the human need to explore. |
| 1:56.7 | And the next time an astronaut demonstrates how tragically human he or she can be, diapers |
| 2:01.5 | and all, we'll be right on top of it, bringing you around the clock coverage |
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