Judging a Planet's Habitability With Abel Mendez
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2009
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Earth, a great place for life? This week on planetary Radio. Radio. Hi everyone, welcome to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the final |
| 0:20.0 | frontier. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society. The discovery of an Earth-sized fully |
| 0:25.9 | terrestrial exoplanet seems to be imminent. Our guest Abel Mendez has come up with a |
| 0:31.4 | system for evaluating the habitability of planets, including |
| 0:36.0 | our own. We'll ask him how we ended up with only an average grade. Emily Lochu Lachwaala will use her |
| 0:42.1 | Q&A segment to answer those who say the new |
| 0:45.0 | definition of a planet is so narrow, maybe there aren't any. And Bruce Betts is |
| 0:50.3 | just back from what might be called the Armageddon Conference. |
| 0:54.6 | He'll tell us about it in today's What's Up segment featuring yet another space trivia contest. |
| 1:00.8 | I want you to know that next week we will start the celebration of what would have been |
| 1:04.2 | Carl Sagan's 75th birthday. Dr Sagan's widow and longtime collaborator |
| 1:09.9 | And Dr. Sagan will join us once again. In the meantime, the latest news from around our universe is always in Emily's blog |
| 1:17.1 | at planetary.org. |
| 1:19.7 | The next couple of minutes belong to Bill Nye. |
| 1:22.0 | Bill has found a link between two stories |
| 1:24.2 | you may have missed in last week's space news and that link is elemental. I'll be |
| 1:30.8 | right back with Abel Mendez. |
| 1:32.0 | Hey hey Bill Nye the planetary guy here, Vice President of the Planetary Society, and this week, let's talk about |
| 1:39.6 | oxygen. |
| 1:41.1 | In the ocean of Europa. Europa is one of the moons observed by Galileo originally. |
| 1:46.8 | If you have a telescope, you can see Europa yourself. |
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