The Search for 100 Earths
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 26 February 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Yale astronomer Debra Fischer has spent decades hunting for exoplanets. Now she leads the 100 Earths project that includes the Lowell Observatory and astrophysicist Joe Llama. Debra and Joe join us for a conversation about this search for worlds that could be like our own. There’s big space news in this week’s edition of The Downlink at the top of the show, and Bruce Betts takes us on his weekly tour of the night sky, though it’s the pre-dawn sky that may hold the most wonder. Try your hand at the space trivia contest! Learn more and enter the contest at https://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2020/0226-2020-debra-fischer-joe-llama-100-earths.html
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| 0:00.0 | The Search for 100 Earth's this week on Planetary Radio. |
| 0:09.0 | Welcome, I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society, |
| 0:12.0 | with more of the Human adventure across our solar system and beyond. |
| 0:17.0 | Deborah Fisher of Yale University has spent decades in the search for exoplanets, often relying on new instruments to help reveal these worlds. |
| 0:27.0 | Now she is using a spectrometer of unparalleled sensitivity to find Earth-sized planets that could host liquid water. |
| 0:35.0 | Deborah is in close partnership with the Lowell Observatory and |
| 0:39.0 | astrophysicist Jolama. |
| 0:41.0 | They'll join us in minutes. It's another poetry festival on what's up this week as |
| 0:45.8 | Bruce Betts leads the search for the human who has spent the most time in space alone. |
| 0:57.0 | We're just days away from unveiling the terrific new version of the Down Lake. The Planetary Society's weekly Space News briefing |
| 1:00.0 | will be enhanced with beautiful space images and cosmic factoids you'll use to |
| 1:06.4 | amaze your friends, or at least get them to say, huh, I didn't know that. |
| 1:11.2 | In the meantime, you can still find editorial director |
| 1:13.6 | Jason Davis's work at planetary.org slash downlink including these highlights |
| 1:18.8 | from the current edition. |
| 1:20.7 | NASA's Mars 2020 rover has made it to Florida safe and sound. |
| 1:25.0 | It's now being prepared for the rocket that will carry it to the red planet in July or August. |
| 1:31.0 | Testing of parachutes for the XOMARS 2020 mission that includes the Rosal and Franklin |
| 1:36.8 | rover has been delayed. The European Space Agency has yet another visitor. |
| 1:47.8 | It's a Signis cargo spacecraft that arrived with more than three and a half metric tons of supplies, |
| 1:54.8 | experiments, and new station hardware. |
| 1:57.6 | It will turn into a garbage truck in May, hauling trash from the station as it burns up on reentry. |
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