Looking for Life in Alien Oceans
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2020
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Jet Propulsion Lab astrobiologist Kevin Hand has just written Alien Oceans: The Search for Life in the Depths of Space. Kevin and Mat explore these seas and whether they may have nurtured organisms with no connection to life on Earth. You may win a copy of Kevin’s excellent book in this week’s What’s Up space trivia contest with Bruce Betts. Take an even deeper dive at https://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2020/0513-2020-kevin-hand-alien-oceans.html
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| 0:00.0 | Alien Oceans, this week on Planetary Radio. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome, I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society, |
| 0:11.0 | with more of the human adventure across our solar system and |
| 0:15.0 | beyond. We now believe that many moons in the outer solar system are hiding warm |
| 0:20.9 | oceans of liquid water under blankets of ice. |
| 0:24.0 | Kevin Hand wants to know if any of those oceans were also hiding life. |
| 0:29.0 | We'll talk with Kevin about his excellent new book. |
| 0:32.0 | It includes his fascinating speculations |
| 0:35.1 | about the possibility of intelligent life out there. |
| 0:39.0 | Bruce Betts is also standing by with this week's |
| 0:41.5 | what's up, including your chance to win a copy of Kevin's book. |
| 0:46.0 | Headlines from the Downlaker moments away, but I've got a couple of special announcements first. |
| 0:50.0 | The May 14th Planetary Society Live will bring you Space Policy Edition live. |
| 0:57.0 | For the first time, Planetary Society Chief Advocate Casey Dreyer and I will take your questions, beginning at 9 a.m. Pacific, noon, eastern and 1600 U.T.C. |
| 1:08.0 | I'm sorry I couldn't give you an earlier heads up. |
| 1:11.0 | The webcast will be available live and later on demand at |
| 1:15.4 | planetary.org slash live. Then on Tuesday, May 19th, Explore Mars is bringing me back for a live conversation with the great John Grunsfeld. |
| 1:26.8 | The scientist, former astronaut, and NASA chief scientist will talk about the 30th anniversary |
| 1:32.3 | of the Hubble Space Telescope. This one is set for 10 |
| 1:35.9 | a.m. Pacific on the 19th, that's 1 p.m. eastern and 1,700 UTC. You'll find it at explore Mars dot o'r g now those down link headlines beginning with an update on |
| 1:48.9 | China's successful test of the long March 5B Heavy Lift rocket. A big section of the launcher came |
| 1:56.2 | down safely in the Atlantic Ocean. Success was vital for the launch this |
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