Pluto and Titan and Iran, Oh My!

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

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🗓️ 15 November 2016

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Back to the annual meeting of the AAS Division for Planetary Sciences this week, where Mat Kaplan visited with experts on worlds of ice including Titan and Pluto, with a side trip to the dunes of Iran.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Pluto and Titan and Iran, oh my, this week on planetary radio.
0:10.0	I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society with more of the human adventure across our solar system
0:15.2	and beyond.
0:16.2	I left out Pasadena.
0:18.2	That's where I talked to so many of the scientists attending the AAS Division for Planetary Sciences meeting last month.
0:25.0	We'll hear exciting stories from four of them, along with a post-election
0:29.6	space exploration outlook provided by Bill Nye.
0:33.5	The Lord of the Rings will dominate this week's What's Up segment with Bruce Betts.
0:37.6	Emily Lochuwala is the Planetary Society's senior editor.
0:42.0	I caught her this time on a minor road trip.
0:44.4	Emily you're not too far from my new hometown of San Diego what brings you down this
0:49.6	way? Well I'm here for a team meeting of the Mast Cam Z team, which is the camera that's going to be on the next rover.
0:58.0	And it's just a step that everybody has to go through in order to be able to safely get on a mission to Mars.
1:05.0	And remind us, MassCam Z, that's the camera that's going to reveal Mars is never
1:10.9	before from the surface, right? I sure hope so. We also have, it's not that
1:15.1	it's never been seen before, but it is certainly a terrific view of Jupiter that you
1:19.7	posted to the blog on November 10th.
1:22.8	Yes, it's really gorgeous.
1:24.5	This is a rotating image of Jupiter.
1:27.4	It's actually made of data acquired over four separate days.
1:31.4	And so it's a static image of Jupiter but it's rotating over and
1:35.2	over and over again in beautiful animated jiff form. Never seen anything like it.
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