Saturn Update From Cassini Deputy Project Scientist Linda Spilker
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
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🗓️ 31 August 2009
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Back to Saturn with Linda Spilker, this week on planetary Radio. Radio. Hi everyone, welcome to Public Radio's Travel Show that takes you to the Final |
| 0:20.1 | Frontier. |
| 0:21.1 | I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society and do we ever have a packed show? |
| 0:26.2 | Started with Bill Nye's kudos to a team that has successfully tested a new kind of heat |
| 0:30.9 | shield that could get us to the surface of Mars. |
| 0:34.0 | Then it's time for one of our periodic updates from the Cassini mission's Linda Spilker, |
| 0:38.0 | and boy has there been a lot happening a billion miles away at Saturn. |
| 0:42.0 | Emily Lachto-Wala will explain a bit more about the... happening a billion miles away at Saturn. |
| 0:42.6 | Emily Lachto-walla will explain a bit more about the recent Smackdown at Jupiter, and |
| 0:47.4 | Bruce Betts will give us an up close look at more than the night sky this time. |
| 0:51.2 | He's just a mile or so from the station fire burning tens of |
| 0:55.2 | thousands of acres in Southern California. Just barely enough time now to |
| 0:59.6 | mention that space shuttle discovery has reached the International Space Station and to send our condolences |
| 1:05.0 | to India's Chandrian 1 team, contact has been lost with that nation's first lunar orbiter. |
| 1:11.5 | More details are in Emily's blog at planetary.org. Here's Bill. |
| 1:15.0 | Hey Bill Nye, the Planetary Guy here, Vice President of the Planetary Society. |
| 1:20.8 | Now this week the Augustine Commission's results are being debated. The former |
| 1:25.3 | administrator of NASA Michael Griffin is complaining saying that people must |
| 1:30.9 | keep their focus on the moon, |
| 1:32.8 | we can't lose our... |
| 1:34.0 | Okay, and so on. |
| 1:35.3 | But let me tell you what happened this week that was cool. |
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