A Symphony for 7 Moons

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

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🗓️ 13 January 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Composer Amanda Lee Falkenberg has created The Moons Symphony. You’ll hear excerpts from each of its 7 movements. They are inspired by and evoke 7 of our solar system’s smaller, unique worlds. Joining Amanda are her advisors and friends, artist and International Space Station astronaut Nicole Stott and Cassini mission project scientist Linda Spilker. Bruce Betts arrives with a new space trivia question based on a visitor to one of these moons. There’s more to discover at https://www.planetary.org/planetary-radio/0113-2021-moons-symphony-falkenberg-spilker-stott

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0:00.0	A Symphony for Seven Moons and All of us who watch them in Wonder, this week on planetary radio.
0:07.0	Welcome, I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society with more of the human adventure across our
0:16.8	solar system and beyond. I think we have the perfect show for all of us who want to leave
0:22.4	our troubles behind for an hour or so.
0:25.0	You've heard two of my guests before. A few months ago, astronaut Nicole Stott and Cassini Mission Project
0:31.6	scientist Linda Spilker introduced me to the work of Amanda Lee
0:35.7	Falkenberg. I've been looking forward to welcoming all three of them ever since. We will talk
0:42.1	about Amanda's magnificent composition called The Moon's
0:46.3	Symphony and we'll hear excerpts from all seven of its movements. Each is inspired by one of those small and unique worlds that beckoned to us from across the solar system.
0:57.0	We'll save a few minutes for some fun with the chief scientist of the planetary society.
1:02.0	Bruce Betts looks to a Moon of Saturn for this
1:04.9	week's space trivia quiz.
1:07.6	We begin with headlines from the January 8th edition of the Down Lake, our newsletter of the Cosmos. It is topped this week by a gorgeous
1:15.6	false color image of Saturn's North Pole snapped in 2013 by Cassini. The European Space Agency's Exomar's Trace Gas Orbiter has been
1:26.5	circling the red planet since 2016. It has yet to find even a width of
1:32.1	methane down below. that's in spite of the Curiosity
1:35.9	rover occasionally detecting some, curiouser and curiouser.
1:41.6	It has been nearly two years since Israel Space I L
1:44.4	attempted to land Barashit 1 on the moon. Now we've learned that they will try
1:49.4	again. Barashit 2 is expected to make the trip in 2024.
1:55.0	It didn't make it into the downlink yet, but we've learned that NASA will perform the last
1:59.8	test firing of the Space Launch System's core Stage on Saturday, January 16th.
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