A Schronomy Cast Episode 567 when satellites need a house call.

Welcome to Astronomy Cast, our weekly facts-based journey food cause, which will help you understand

not only what we know, but how we know what we know.

I'm Frisercane, publisher of University of University today with me as always Dr. Pamela

Gay, senior scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the Director of Cosmic

Quest. Hey Pamela, how are you doing? I'm doing well. How are you doing, Fraser? Good.

How are you responding now to the coronavirus? How are you changing your work? What's new?

So I've worked purely from home for the past year. I've worked largely from home my entire

career. Yeah. But I normally travel 50% of the time. And it turns out that all the time

that I was putting into waiting for airplanes, going to airplanes, getting on airplanes,

leaving airplanes. There's a lot of dead time in there. No getting. And all of that time

is now getting channeled into gardening and making my house clean. I have found objects.

It's a very big house. I've got my own stuff I'm now finding. Now, luckily there's nothing

that I'm finding that I've repurchased. But I have found a whole bunch of things where

I've been like, it would be really cool if I had one of these. And I swore I had one.

I did. I did. And now I'm finding them. Right. So many places.

It's weird. For me, I don't know where my time is going. It's, you know, because for me,

it's not much has changed because I wasn't doing all that traveling. So the thing that's been

different is I've felt less motivated to write episodes and do like original writing and

more motivated to interview people. And so because I've mentioned before, everybody's

trapped at home. I've been able to get all of these astronauts and astronomers and stuff

and interview them. And so I've, I've normally I would do one live interview on my, my channel

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