Another Goldilocks World and the Space Telescope That Discovered It
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
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🗓️ 12 February 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
The planet has the less than romantic name TOI 700 d, but its discovery has generated passion among those searching for another Earth, including Emily Gilbert. The graduate student is lead author of a paper about the new world. TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, played a key role in its discovery. MIT planetary scientist and astrophysicist Sara Seager returns to tell us about this powerful tool and more. We also visit with the leader of NASA heliophysics research as she awaits launch of the Solar Orbiter. Look out! The rubber asteroids are back on What’s Up! Learn more and enter the contest at https://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2020/0212-2020-tess-toi700d-seager-gilbert.html
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| 0:00.0 | Another Goldilocks world and the powerful space camera that helped us discover it this week on planetary radio. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome, I'm A Kaplan, of the Planetary Society, with more of the human adventure across our |
| 0:17.2 | solar system and beyond. |
| 0:19.9 | We've got so much for you this week. Planetary scientist and astrophysicist Sarah |
| 0:24.7 | Seger is back to tell us about Tess, the space telescope that is |
| 0:29.6 | revealing new exoplanets. One of those worlds is in the fabled habitable zone of its dwarf |
| 0:36.6 | star. We'll learn about it from Emily Gilbert, the graduate student who served as |
| 0:42.0 | lead author of one of three papers about TOI 700D. |
| 0:47.0 | We'll also hear about the beginning of a mission to learn more about our own star |
| 0:52.0 | and out there beyond it all waits Bruce Betts with |
| 0:55.3 | this week's What's Up including the return of the rare and dangerous rubber |
| 1:00.8 | asteroids. Sounds like a lot but there's so much more going on in space exploration. |
| 1:06.0 | Here are a few headlines from the most recent edition of The Downlink, |
| 1:11.0 | collected by Planetary Society editorial director Jason Davis. |
| 1:16.0 | Welcome home. |
| 1:17.0 | NASA astronaut Christina Koch is back on Terra Firma after 328 days in low-Earth orbit. She now holds the record among women for |
| 1:26.0 | the longest single spaceflight and she says she looks forward to someone else |
| 1:30.8 | breaking that record. |
| 1:33.0 | NASA's Mars 2020 rover has been packed up and shipped off to the Kennedy Space Center. |
| 1:38.8 | The launch window opens in July and runs into August. |
| 1:43.0 | And the Russian Space Agency, Ros Cosmos, |
| 1:45.8 | reports that all 13 science instruments have been installed |
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