Alaskan Aurora Adventure!

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

Technology, Science

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2014

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Join Mat Kaplan and other Aurora “virgins” as they seek the Northern Lights in Fairbanks, Alaska, and meet retired rocketeer and Director of the Poker Flat Research Range, Neal BrownLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	To Alaska for the Aurora Borealis this week on planetary Radio. Radio. Welcome to the Travel Show that takes you to the Final Frontier.
0:20.0	I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society.
0:22.7	Outside at 1 a.m. 20 below zero Fahrenheit with 40 new friends waiting and hoping to see
0:30.1	wonder in the sky.
0:32.3	My Alaskan Aurora adventure is coming up, as is our regular
0:36.3	what's up visit with Bruce Betts. Emily Lachowala is spending this week at the
0:40.5	Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. She'll have an extended and no doubt exciting
0:45.1	report for us next week.
0:47.1	The CEO of the Planetary Society is here and Bill Nye is thinking about another very cold
0:52.4	place, the outer reaches of our solar system,
0:55.6	where the sun is not much more than just another star.
0:58.6	Bill, some somewhat troubling news out of NASA via the Department of Energy.
1:04.0	This kind of thing makes me crazy, Matt, or if you will, crazier.
1:08.0	The Department of Energy is apparently not going to be able to produce enough plutonium
1:13.0	238, which is not the plutonium you use to make weapons.
1:17.5	It's the plutonium that just gets hot and stays hot for decades.
1:22.2	They're not going to be able to make enough to do any mission beyond
1:26.2	this so-called Mars 2020 rover, which is like the Curiosity rover and is going
1:31.2	to planet Mars.
1:33.0	Now what this means is the discovery class missions.
1:36.0	I don't want to get all technical on the listeners,
1:38.0	but the smaller missions that cost less money
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