More Moon Water and an Update from Venus on Our 18th Anniversary!
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
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🗓️ 25 November 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
We celebrate 18 years of Planetary Radio with two great features and 10 personal questions for host Mat Kaplan from Planetary Society Chief Scientist Bruce Betts. Astronomer Jane Greaves is back with an update on the phosphine gas detected above Venus. Then we find water right out under the Sun on our own Moon. Research leader Casey Honnibal tells us how her team found it using the SOFIA telescope on a 747. Learn more at https://www.planetary.org/planetary-radio/1125-2020-greaves-phosphine-honnibal-lunar-water
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| 0:00.0 | Water all over the moon and an update from Venus this week on planetary radio. |
| 0:09.0 | Welcome, I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society with more of the human adventure across our |
| 0:15.2 | solar system and beyond. Happy anniversary Planetary Radio. It has been 18 years |
| 0:21.2 | to the day since our little show was first heard. |
| 0:25.0 | Stick around for a sweet yet understated celebration with Bruce Betts in this week's |
| 0:30.1 | What's Up segment. |
| 0:31.1 | In the meantime we'll do what we love to do and that's |
| 0:33.8 | bringing you the passionate explorers who are revealing the wonders of our |
| 0:38.1 | solar neighborhood and the farthest reaches of the Cosmos. We'll start shortly with an update from Jane Grieves |
| 0:44.5 | about her team's discovery of Phosphine Gas in the atmosphere of Venus. There's news |
| 0:50.5 | on that front. Then we'll go to the leader of work that has found water on the moon. |
| 0:55.6 | This time not in those permanently shaded regions at the poles, but on the brightly sunlit surface as well. I think you'll enjoy hearing about this from |
| 1:05.1 | Casey Honable. The big story in planetary science since our most recent issue of |
| 1:10.4 | the downlink has to be China's successful launch of Changu 5, the first lunar |
| 1:16.2 | sample return mission since the 1970s. |
| 1:19.6 | Kudos and best wishes to the international team behind this effort. |
| 1:24.0 | Topping our stories in that November 20th edition of the Downlink |
| 1:28.0 | is approval of the European Space Agency's aerial mission. |
| 1:32.0 | Aerial will focus on about 1,000 exoplanets, measuring the |
| 1:36.8 | chemical makeup of their atmospheres, which sounds like a big step in the |
| 1:41.3 | search for life elsewhere. |
| 1:43.4 | You may also want to check out the new selfie captured by the Curiosity Rover. |
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