Ep. 589 - Lunar Resources: Water (Update) & Other Volatiles

Astronomy Cast

Natural Sciences, Science, Astronomy

4.8 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 December 2020

⏱️ 30 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Astronomy Cast Ep. 589 - Lunar Resources: Water (Update) & Other Volatiles by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay We've talked about the Moon and its water many times here on Astronomy Cast, but there've been a bunch of big updates thanks to new research from NASA and others. Today we're gonna give you an update on the state of water on the Moon and the plans to take advantage of it.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	I'm Frieza Kane, publisher of Universe Today with me is always his Doctor Pamela Gay,
0:23.6	a senior scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the Director of Cosmicquest.
0:27.8	Hey Pamela, how are you doing?
0:29.0	I'm doing well.
0:30.0	We are almost done with this year that shall not be named.
0:34.6	Yeah, yeah.
0:35.6	2021 is going to be so much better.
0:37.6	I don't any want to agree to hold its fear.
0:41.6	That's all I have to say.
0:43.2	2021 is going to be the same.
0:45.0	It's going to be like the recovery from 2020.
0:48.0	We got some fix-in to do.
0:49.0	It's going to be, you know, it's going to be a lot of work to get everything reorganized.
0:54.0	But I have hopes.
0:56.0	As long as all the slopes are in the correct direction, because right now all the slopes
1:00.0	are in the wrong direction.
1:01.0	Yeah, I think they'll go in the wrong direction for a while in 2021 too.
1:04.8	But we're going to go with the bang, which is going to be the great conjunction, Saturn,
1:10.0	Jupiter, just within a couple of arc minutes of each other, right?
1:16.0	arc minutes, six arc minutes.
1:18.0	Yeah.
1:19.0	And that's going to be on the 21st.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Astronomy Cast, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Astronomy Cast and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.