Mighty Jupiter Revealed
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2021
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
It’s more massive than all the other planets combined. In nearly four years at Jupiter the Juno spacecraft has returned science that is revolutionizing our understanding of this gigantic world. Principal investigator Scott Bolton shows us the mysterious cyclones at its poles and that famously persistent red spot. Casey Dreier says the United States House of Representatives has proposed legislation that is at odds with NASA’s current Moon and Mars plans. John Flamsteed almost discovered Uranus! Bruce Betts will tell us where he went wrong in this week’s What’s Up space trivia contest. Learn more and enter the contest at https://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2020/0115-2020-scott-bolton-juno.html
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| 0:00.0 | Mighty Jupiter Returns, this week on Planetary Radio Welcome. I'm at Kaplan of the |
| 0:10.7 | Planetary Society with more of the human adventure across our solar system and |
| 0:15.7 | beyond. Scott Bolton is back, the leader of the Juno mission that has spent |
| 0:20.8 | nearly five years orbiting and revealing Jupiter has great science to report. |
| 0:26.3 | Scott is also going to tell us a story about Carl Sagan that you don't want to |
| 0:30.6 | miss. The fun and fascination continue when Planetary Society Chief Scientist |
| 0:36.0 | Bruce Betz drops in with another report on the night sky where there is a lot |
| 0:41.4 | to marvel at and you might earn a Planetary Radio t-shirt. Listening to the |
| 0:47.2 | podcast version of Planetary Radio, if so you may notice a change, you asked for |
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| 1:13.7 | your friends about our little show. Thank you. Here are a couple of headlines from |
| 1:18.7 | the May 28th edition of our weekly newsletter, the downlink. We're pretty |
| 1:23.0 | certain that a vast ocean of liquid water is under the kilometers of ice that |
| 1:27.9 | blanket Europa. A new computer model of the Jovian Moon now points to underwater |
| 1:33.9 | volcanoes, much like the ones at the bottom of Earth's seas. And you know what's |
| 1:39.5 | found surrounding those energy sources on our planet, right? Extra-terrestrial |
| 1:44.6 | two-borms, anyone? Mars science rover curiosity is delivered tantalizing, but still |
| 1:50.6 | inconclusive evidence for organic salts on the red planet. If they are there, |
| 1:55.9 | they could be leftovers from extinct life forms. Or not. Don't you wish we'd get |
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