We're exploring NASA's first tabletop role play game and a new way to potentially find worlds with water on their surfaces.

This week, on planetary radio. I'm Sarah Al Ahmed of the planetary society with more of the human adventure across our

solar system and beyond. If you're a space fan with a dice collection and a love of the Hubble Space Telescope,

you're in for a treat.

Today we're going to dive into the Lost Universe.

NASA's first tabletop role-play game with Christina Mitchell, a senior multimedia specialist at

NASA's Goddard Space Fight Center. Then we'll shift our gaze from the mythical to the

methodical with Amari Trio, an astronomer from the University of Birmingham in the UK.

He and his colleagues have found a new way to potentially detect liquid water on the surfaces of terrestrial exoplanets.

Then we'll connect with our chief scientist Dr. Bruce Betts

for what's up and a new random space fact. If you love planetary radio and want to

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Cosmos and are placed within it. As a side note, I got a bit of a cold while I was traveling to go see the April 8th Total Solar Eclipse.

But hopefully my croakiness won't take away from the awesome science in the show.

If you're a fan of games like Dungeons and Dragons or Pathfinder,

you'll be happy to hear that NASA has released

their first tabletop role play game.

I've been an avid fan of these kinds of games since I was

very young. At the end of my time in college I spent my nights scanning the sky

looking for exoplanets going around other other distant stars. But by day I paid my bills by working at a

tabletop gaming store. Tabletop role play games allow players to assume the roles of characters in the game, acting out their part as they're guided

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