The Giant Magellan Telescope
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
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🗓️ 9 August 2010
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Giant Magellan Telescope takes shape this week on planetary Radio. Radio. Welcome to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the final frontier. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society. It will dwarf every current optical instrument, including |
| 0:27.4 | the twin keck eyes atop Monokea in Hawaii. Patrick McCarthy is in charge of creating the GMT, one of a new class of super or extremely |
| 0:37.2 | large telescopes. |
| 0:39.0 | We'll visit with him at his base of operations. |
| 0:41.7 | Emily Lockwala will reveal a new explanation for the bad case of |
| 0:45.4 | acne on the face of Mars while Bill Nye, the science and planetary guy, will tell us |
| 0:50.5 | how a solar sail may one day test a weird prediction made by the theory of |
| 0:55.3 | relativity. We'll close with a quick look at the night sky from Bruce Betts, |
| 0:59.3 | recorded immediately after the Planetary Society Open House a few days ago. |
| 1:05.0 | Emily Lachwaala gets us underway with highlights of the blog at planetary.org. |
| 1:10.0 | Emily, good to see you at the Planetary Society's open house last week, especially with your 3D camera. |
| 1:15.0 | Yeah, I had fun shooting 3D photos of all the people who came out. |
| 1:18.0 | There are lots of members who came to support the Planetary Society, and a few big names names like a certain Apollo 11 dancing astronaut Buzz Aldrin. |
| 1:26.4 | That was the first time I had actually met him so that was exciting for me. |
| 1:29.0 | Oh really? |
| 1:30.0 | He was great. |
| 1:31.0 | He had a nice little statement in support of the society. |
| 1:33.4 | It was fun to have him. |
| 1:34.4 | And I got to move his car because he parked it in some federal judges |
| 1:38.1 | spot next door. |
| 1:39.3 | But let's talk about planetary science, |
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