Probably Science

Hello and welcome to probably science. I'm your host, one of three in fact. I'm Jesse Case. I'm Andy Wood. I'm Matt Kirshan. We got a special guest. You might remember a couple of weeks ago on the podcast I was talking about the fact that I got shown around JPL, got a guided tour on account of having met a real proper scientist.

And JPL, for those not for our foreign listeners?

That is the Caltech slash NASA collaboration, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. They have been responsible

for sending a bunch of spacecraft and satellites and Mars rovers and various other things

off the planet. They'll put it up there. They will do that. So our guest today is a

astrophysicist, is NASA's exoplanet science ambassador, is an employee of JPL and an all-round excellent human being. Please welcome to the show, Anjali Tripathi. How are you, Anjali? So good to be here, Matt. Thanks so much to all of you for having me. And it was great to host you at JPL last month.

Oh, it was really good fun.

It was very cool.

It was a little privilege.

It was one of those little perks of the job that I know that the general public can visit.

There are open days because everything NASA does has to be sort of open source and open to the public and everything.

And I highly recommend you do that because it's part of what you. does has to be sort of open source and open to the public and everything.

And I highly recommend you do that because it's part of what you are, like we're all responsible for it as citizens of this country and taxpayers of this country.

And like it's our thing.

And they're very proud of that.

And it's it's cool to be able to experience it and see what they're doing.

Right.

I mean, we get, what, thousands of visitors every year.

I think it's somewhere around 100,000 visitors every year.

And, you know, we have school groups, tours, right?

I think while you were there, Matt, you saw different groups, both of public and school, sort of waiting to get in at the visitors.

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