Here Comes the Sun...with NASA's Head of Science
The Supermassive Podcast
Izzie Clarke
4.6 • 556 Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2023
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Joining them on their voyage is the Head of Science at NASA, Dr Nicola Fox, to explain the latest efforts to study the sun, the Project Scientist for Solar Orbiter, Dr Daniel Mueller, and Dr Robert Massey is on hand to answer your questions.
Watch ESA's Solar Orbiter video, featuring the Supermassive's editor Richard Hollingham. https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2022/05/Solar_Orbiter_s_first_close_encounter
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| 0:00.0 | Electromagnetism, not my favourite topic in physics. |
| 0:04.0 | Come on, Becky, buckle up. |
| 0:06.0 | They had no power, and they were powering themselves based on the current that the aurora were inducing. |
| 0:11.0 | Wow. Can we assume that the sun is like other stars? |
| 0:19.0 | Hello and welcome to the Supermassive podcast from the Royal Astronomical Society with me, |
| 0:25.8 | science journalist Izzy Clark and astrophysicist Dr Becky Smethurst. |
| 0:30.6 | This month we're off to the sun, partly because the UK summer has been rubbish so far, |
| 0:37.3 | but mostly because there's a lot of things |
| 0:39.3 | we still don't know about our local star. We'll hear from the head of science at NASA. |
| 0:45.9 | The head. I know. I'm so, I was so excited. That's Dr. Nicola Fox, and that's all about the |
| 0:51.8 | latest efforts to study the sun. Plus, the project scientist for solar orbiter, Dr. Daniel Mueller, |
| 0:57.9 | tells us all about this remarkable mission. |
| 1:00.2 | I'm excited for those two, but before that, we need to celebrate the fact that we are |
| 1:05.6 | millionaire. |
| 1:09.0 | We've officially hit one million listens across the supermassive podcast series. |
| 1:15.5 | So thank you so much to all of you for just listening to us now to Ron about space. |
| 1:21.6 | I mean, we love making this podcast. |
| 1:23.6 | So it's just great that there's someone out there listening to it, to be honest. |
| 1:27.8 | Just a couple of nerds, you know, just sat in their house and chatting about space and somehow you all want to tune in. |
| 1:34.9 | It's great. |
| 1:35.5 | The Royal Astroastroar gave us some mics and here we are. |
| 1:40.1 | But enough self-congratulation. |
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