Ep. 694: Mission Roll Call Part 3: Sun, Mercury, and Venus

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🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Astronomy Cast Ep. 694: Mission Roll Call Part 3: Sun, Mercury, and Venus by Fraser Cain & Dr. Pamela Gay Streamed live on Oct 16, 2023. Our journey through space missions continues. Now we move away from the Earth to the rest of the solar system. What’s out there orbiting, roving and flying on other worlds and in interplanetary space. Today we look inward and we’ll talk about the missions studying the Sun, Mercury and Venus. Thank you to all of our patrons who allow us to do this! This week I'd like to thank Jeremy Kerwin, Stuart Mills, Slug!, Harold Bardenhogan, Matthew Horstman, Kimberly Reich, Georgie Ianov, Scott Bieber, Jim Schooler. Marco Yarasi, David Gates, Alex Cohen, Justin Proctor, Claudia Mastriani, Scott Cohen, Disastrina, Kinsaya Pianflinko, Mathias Hayden, The Big Squish Squash!, Tim Garish, Gregory Singleton, Tim McMackin, Jeff Wilson Cooper, Paul D Disney, Benjamin Mueller, Ninja Nick, Kenneth Ryan, Eran Segev, Scott Briggs and Bruce Amazine. Thank you all so much!

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0:00.0	Oh, Oh, A's Army Cast episode 694 Mission roll call part three missions beyond the sun
0:55.2	mercury and Venus
0:56.9	welcome to the astronomy cast our weekly facts based journey through the
0:59.7	cosmos where we help you understand not only what we know but how we know what we know.
1:03.6	I'm Fraser Kane, I'm the publisher of universe today.
1:06.2	With me is Dr. Pamela Gay, a senior scientist for the Planetary Science Institute and the
1:11.2	director of Cosmoquist.
1:12.2	Hey Pamela, how you doing?
1:13.8	I am doing well.
1:15.2	I am continuing to attempt to recover from the heeding of the gallbladder and with that recovery
1:22.4	we're starting to plan ahead things for CosmoQuest and I can now tell you that our fiscal year
1:28.7	2024 Hangoutathon is going to be November 4, 5, and 6. out of
1:33.3	on the thought five and six and you're on my list of people to reach out to this afternoon
1:38.1	about doing a session.
1:39.4	Yeah sounds good.
1:41.1	Did you see the eclipse? I was rained on. Yeah, so was I, but we had this sort of crazy clouds, very kind of thick clouds that were rolling by and every now and then the sun would would peak out
1:56.3	through behind the clouds a bit and so we got to this point where the the
2:00.0	cloud cover was thin enough that you could see the sun blocked by the moon.
2:05.2	It was perfect.
2:06.5	Like if it was any less cloud cover, then you would have had to have watched it with a solar
2:12.2	filter.
2:12.8	And so there was moments where you could just see it with your eyes or you could see it
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