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Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Case for a Return to Enceladus

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

Science, Technology

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2021

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Flying a spacecraft through geysers spewing from Saturn’s moon Enceladus might reveal the building blocks of life or even life itself.

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0:00.0

Making the case for a return to Enceladus, this week on Planetary Radio.

0:08.0

Welcome, I'm At Kaplan of the Planetary Society, with more of the human adventure across

0:15.6

our solar system and beyond.

0:18.2

NASA Jet Propulsion Lab researcher Morgan Cable balances a lot of tasks, and sometimes

0:25.0

she balances herself on a mountain unicycle.

0:29.0

You'll have to listen to the end of our recent conversation to learn about that.

0:33.2

Along the way you'll hear her passion at plea for a mission to Saturn's tiny but very active

0:38.5

moon.

0:39.5

Morgan is lead author on a paper that lays out the reasons.

0:43.2

She'll also tell us about fascinating work with organic crystals that may be common on

0:48.6

Saturn's biggest moon, Titan, the target of the upcoming Dragonfly mission.

0:54.7

How many spaceships are parked at the International Space Station?

0:58.4

That space trivia quiz from Bruce Betts has generated some very entertaining answers and

1:04.0

a first-time winner.

1:05.8

And we'll talk in a minute or so with my Planetary Society colleague Kate Howles about the

1:11.0

brand new issue of our magazine, The Planetary Report, that you can read at planetary.org.

1:19.0

Kate also helps pull together our weekly newsletter, The Downlink.

1:22.4

Here's a stunning picture of Galaxy Centaurus A at the top of the September 10th issue.

1:28.6

It combines images taken at X-ray, optical infrared, and radio wavelengths.

1:34.4

Below it are these and other headlines.

1:37.3

Perseverance, the 2020 Mars rover, has now collected two samples from rock, dubbed Rochette.

1:45.2

Exploration of Jezero Crater is really roll it along now.

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