The Caves of Mars and the Geysers of Enceladus
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2009
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Caves of Mars, 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 at Kaplan of the Planetary Society. Could these be the sites of future Mars |
| 0:26.3 | bases? Why stop there? How about Mars colonies? We'll talk to Glenn Cushing of |
| 0:31.8 | the US Geological Survey about his discovery of what appeared |
| 0:35.3 | to be huge lava tube caves on the red planet. |
| 0:40.0 | Bill Nye will be back with his regular commentary later today and then we'll pay a visit to Bruce Betts. |
| 0:45.8 | Our Oracle for where to look in the night sky for wandering stars and other phenomena. |
| 0:51.0 | We'll also give away another Cosmos One solar sail team jacket. |
| 0:56.1 | Space Shuttle Atlantis is still docked with the International Space Station as I record this, |
| 1:00.9 | and Mars Exploration Rover Spirit appears to be making a wee bit of progress as it |
| 1:06.6 | attempts to free itself from that Martian sand trap. |
| 1:10.3 | And now something you really must see to believe. |
| 1:14.0 | Prepare to be amazed. |
| 1:15.6 | The Cassini spacecraft's second fly-by this month of Saturn's Moon |
| 1:20.0 | Enceladus has returned some of the most beautiful, utterly jaw-dropping images |
| 1:25.6 | ever taken in our solar system. You'll find them in Emily Lockawalla's blog |
| 1:29.9 | entries for November 21 and 22. we've got direct links at planetary.org |
| 1:35.8 | slash radio. We'll forego Q&A once again this week so that we can talk with the |
| 1:40.4 | Planetary Society's Science and technology coordinator about these |
| 1:44.5 | pictures that reveal a fantastic terrain dotted with geysers that make |
| 1:49.7 | Yellowstone parks old faithful look like a dribbling garden hose. |
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