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Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

Ice, Snow and Lava: Exploring Antarctica’s Mount Erebus

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

Science, Technology

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2017

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Earth’s southernmost active volcano may also be its most remote. Rosaly Lopes and Michael Carroll recently spent a few frigid days on the slopes of Antarctica’s Mount Erebus. What they learned may help us understand volcanos on other worlds.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

A volcano in frigid Antarctica and a tribute to the last man to walk on the moon this week on planetary radio.

0:07.0

Welcome, I'm Matt Kaplan, of the Planetary Society with more of the human adventure across our solar

0:17.4

system and beyond.

0:19.6

Intrepid explorers Rosalie Lopez and Michael Carroll return with the tale of their just completed trip

0:26.2

to the bottom of our planet.

0:28.1

Wait will you hear about their adventure

0:29.7

and what it means for our knowledge of other worlds.

0:32.2

The Planetary Society's light sale is on display in

0:35.3

London. Bill Nye will tell you where to find it, and you'll find out what 283 Octillion

0:41.6

Earths have to do with this week's space trivia contest answer when I'm joined

0:46.4

by Bruce Betts for What's Up?

0:48.6

Emily Lochuwala is the Planetary Society's senior editor.

0:52.4

Emily, you posted a couple of absolutely stunning, gorgeous images from Saturn on the 19th, January

0:59.7

19th.

1:00.7

Tell us about these.

1:01.7

These are some images that Cassini took recently shortly after changing its orbit to one where the

1:06.8

paryapses passes right between the F-ring and the G-ring, and what that means is that they get a lot closer to the rings and to the

1:14.0

moons that are embedded in the rings and so they're getting these amazing views

1:18.0

of the weird little moons that are embedded in the rings and also of just

1:22.3

striking structure within the rings themselves.

1:25.2

Stanley Kubrick just called from Beyond the Grave.

1:27.6

He wants to know if you can use these in the remake of the 2001 Space Odyssey trip sequence.

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