The Moonless Skies of Mercury and Venus
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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4.3 • 6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Moons are a popular accessory for the outer planets in our solar system, but Mercury and Venus are suspiciously unadorned. In this episode of Stuff to Blow Your Mind, Robert and Joe discuss why the two most inner planets have no moons today and whether they might have had moons in the past.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Nikki Lynnette, the host of About a Girl, here to tell you about our new season. |
| 0:05.2 | Every episode of About a Girl digs deep to explore the real stories of women who were there, |
| 0:11.0 | playing an important role in the creation of classic, beloved music. |
| 0:15.8 | For every story you might think you know, there's always another side. |
| 0:19.9 | Listen to About a Girl on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:30.1 | I'm time on to you and I'm the host of Calling Bullshit, the first podcast about purposewashing, |
| 0:36.2 | where we dig into the difference between what companies say they stand for and the actions |
| 0:41.6 | that they're taking. Join us as we investigate organizations like NUM and Spotify. Let's call |
| 0:48.1 | BS on companies that deserve it, but also make some suggestions for cleaning that BS up. |
| 0:54.2 | Listen to the Calling Bullshit podcast on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:00.4 | Sisters of the Underground is a scripted podcast about the true story of the MitaVal Sisters, |
| 1:06.0 | aka The Butterflies, Dominican women who gave up everything in the fight for freedom. |
| 1:12.0 | From executive producers Danya Rabidas and myself, Eva Lungoria, comes the story of these |
| 1:17.3 | inspiring Latinas who proved Gessi Sipwede. Listen to Sisters of the Underground on the iHeart |
| 1:24.5 | Radio app, Apple Podcast or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:34.0 | Welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, a production of iHeart Radio. |
| 1:37.2 | Hey, welcome to Stuff to Blow Your Mind, my name is Robert Lam. |
| 1:47.2 | And I'm Joe McCormack and it's Moons once again. |
| 1:50.5 | That's right, the Stuff to Blow Your Mind tour of Moons continues. |
| 1:54.4 | We've over the years we've previously covered the Moons of Saturn, the Moons of Jupiter, |
| 1:58.7 | more recently the Moons of Mars, and we intend to move on to the other Moons out, |
| 2:03.6 | the other lunar systems. But in today's episode we're going to consider the Moons of the two |
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