Exploring the Cosmos With Heidi Hammel and AURA
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 30 September 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
AURA, the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, is the organization that oversees operation of many of our world’s most powerful telescopes, including the Hubble Space Telescope. Veteran astronomer and planetary scientist Heidi Hammel is its Vice President for Science. Listen to her passionate argument for exploration by ground and space-based instruments and what they may tell us about ourselves. Only one cat has gone to space! You might win a tribute to that feline in the new What’s Up space trivia contest. Links and more are at https://www.planetary.org/planetary-radio/0930-2020-heidi-hammel-aura
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| 0:00.0 | Heidi Hamill's aura shines a light across our solar system and toward other worlds. |
| 0:06.0 | This week on Planetary Radio. |
| 0:08.0 | Welcome, I'm Matt Kaplan, of the Planetary Society, with more of a human adventure across our |
| 0:17.4 | solar system and beyond. |
| 0:19.8 | Great missions, powerful telescopes, you'd think we must now know our solar system like the back of our collective hand. |
| 0:27.0 | Ha! We've mostly revealed more profound and exciting questions. |
| 0:31.0 | Astronomer and planetary scientist Heidi Hamill is a leader in the search for answers largely through |
| 0:38.0 | her work at ORA, the Association of Universities for research in astronomy. |
| 0:43.0 | She's back with lots of inspiration and news to share. |
| 0:46.0 | That'll be our focus till we check in with the Planetary Society's Chief Scientist. |
| 0:51.0 | You might win the spitting image of the only Space Cat in history, when |
| 0:56.1 | Bruce Betts offers another space trivia contest. |
| 1:00.4 | The Planetary Society went Looney a few days ago. |
| 1:03.4 | We celebrated International Observe the Moon Night |
| 1:06.8 | with lots of special features. |
| 1:08.8 | There's a nice guide to them at the top of the September 25 edition of the Downlink, available to all for free at |
| 1:15.9 | planetary.org slash Downlink. |
| 1:18.8 | It also includes these headlines. |
| 1:20.7 | NASA says it is on track for the first flight of a space launch system rocket. |
| 1:25.8 | The uncrewed Artemis 1 mission will send an Orion capsule to the Moon and back next year. Can a rock throw rocks? Asteroid Bennu does and the |
| 1:36.7 | Osiris Rex team may have figured out how. It seems to be connected to the afternoon sun |
| 1:41.9 | heating the surface. |
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