Enceladus Up Close, with Carolyn Porco - StarTalk All-Stars

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🗓️ 6 September 2016

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Is the subsurface ocean on Saturn’s moon Enceladus the most likely place in our solar system to harbor life? Dive in with StarTalk All-Stars host and planetary scientist Carolyn Porco, guest NASA astrobiologist Chris McKay, and co-host Chuck Nice.

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0:00.0	This is StarTalk.
0:03.0	Hello. This is StarTalk All Stars Edition.
0:12.0	I'm your All Star host this evening.
0:14.0	Carolyn Porco is my name.
0:16.0	And I'm a planetary scientist and the leader of the
0:19.0	imaging science team on the Cassini mission,
0:21.0	which is as we speak in orbit around Saturn.
0:24.0	My co-host today is Chuck Nice.
0:27.0	Thank you. Chuck for being here.
0:29.0	Thank you.
0:30.0	And my guest today is Chris McKay from the Ames Research Center in the Bay area.
0:37.0	He's astrobiologist extraordinaire.
0:40.0	Chris spends his time scouring the deserts of Earth from Antarctica to Siberia, Namibia,
0:47.0	Sahara trying to understand those places on the Earth that might be like Mars in their
0:52.0	environment and wondering how life can thrive there.
0:56.0	He's been involved in conjuring what kind of human mission back to Mars might be like.
1:03.0	This is a mission that would be piloted by humans.
1:06.0	He's involved in that.
1:07.0	And I've invited him here today because he is my cohort for the last 11 years in trying to get people to
1:14.0	pay attention to what we have found with the Cassini mission on Enceladus,
1:20.0	which is a small moon in the Saturn system, no bigger across than England.
1:25.0	And why this small moon presents to us the most promising environment in the solar system to actually
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