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A thrombicast episode 693 mission rule call Part 2 looking outward from Earth. Welcome

to a thrombicast for weekly facts based journey through the cosmos where we help you understand

not only what we know but how we know what we know. I'm Frizokane, I'm the publisher of

University with me as always is Dr. Pamela Gay, a senior scientist for the Planetary Science

Institute and the Director of CosmonQuest. Hey Pam, how you doing? I am alive. I would like to say

anything anyone ever told you about how easy it is to get a gall bladder removed may have been

their personal experience but may not be your personal experience. Yeah. I am here to say it

was much worse than they anticipated but I am here and this is this is my first time in my studio

since the eating of the gall bladder occurred. Well I'm sorry you had to go through that. You hear

that was a straight up full-on Canadian story. You're really wise. And I am glad that you're

recovering because we didn't do a show last week and and now we are which is you know back

and back on schedule and so here's to a quick recovery and maybe you find out you never really

needed that gall bladder. Yeah this is this is what I'm hoping. Yeah exactly. All right well last

week we brought you up to speed on the spacecraft which are helping to study Earth from above but

many of our missions in our inner-thorbit but looking outward to study the universe today.

We'll talk about the missions close to home helping us understand our place in the cosmos.

We were about one-third of the way through last week's episode and I realized that we had made a

horrible horrible mistake. It's true. It's true. We thought we could discuss everything vaguely

orbiting the Earth in 30-ish minutes and we were wrong. Yeah yeah and you know pretty quickly

into it I'm like wait a minute we're doomed this is not going to work so we had to break this up

and so I think sort of the logical place was to look at the spacecraft that are looking downward

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