Elisa Quintana on the Discovery of Earth 2.0

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

Technology, Science

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🗓️ 24 June 2014

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Kepler-186f is the very first exoplanet that is both the size of our own world and in the habitable zone surrounding its star. SETI Institute scientist Elisa Quintana is lead author of the paper announcing its existence.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The lead discoverer of Earth 2.0 this week on planetary radio. Welcome to the Travel Show that takes you to the Final Frontier.
0:20.0	I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society.
0:22.0	Elisa Quintana is the young researcher whose name was at the top of the
0:26.1	paper announcing discovery of Kepler 186F, the first Earth-sized exoplanet found in its stars habitable zone.
0:35.0	She joins us on today's show.
0:37.0	Bill Nye revisits one of the biggest science stories of the year with a lesson about how science works and I'll congratulate Bruce Betts on the announcement
0:45.6	by NASA that the Planetary Society's living interplanetary flight experiment or life will be
0:51.8	studied for the asteroid redirect mission.
0:55.0	We begin by accompanying Emily Lachto-Wala on a literary trip to Mars.
0:59.7	Emily, it's not quite enough to fill an entire books
1:02.6	but there sure are a lot of books coming out
1:04.9	about the Curiosity Mission, the Mars Science Laboratory.
1:08.1	You've got a review of one of these
1:10.8	in your entry in the blog for June 20th and it features a book co-written by one of my favorite
1:17.8	Martians.
1:18.8	That's right, it's Rob Manning who is an engineer at JPL.
1:21.8	He's been the chief engineer for the Mars program at JPL,
1:24.6	but this book is really focused on his stint
1:27.2	as chief engineer for the Mars Curiosity rover mission.
1:30.7	And let me tell you, does he have some very candid and occasionally shocking stories to tell about the development of this mission?
1:38.0	Give us an example of one of those and you said you actually did find one story about gravity someplace else but it
1:46.2	probably wasn't told the way Rob tells it in this book. No definitely not so
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