Thomas Edison, Eclipse Chaser!

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

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🗓️ 21 June 2017

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Former NPR science reporter David Baron discusses the stories of men and women who made their way across the American West to view and document the total solar eclipse of 1878.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Thomas Edison, Eclipse Chaser, this week on planetary radio.
0:06.0	Welcome, I'm a Kaplan of the Planetary Society with more of the human adventure across our solar system and beyond.
0:17.0	A lot to share with you this week as we explore the great North American eclipse,
0:22.2	not the one coming in August, the one that enticed American
0:25.7	scientists and that famous inventor to the Wild West of 1878.
0:31.3	David Barron tells the tale in his terrific new book American Eclipse.
0:35.0	We'll visit Russia, China, Europe, and the UK with Bill Nye.
0:40.0	There's space news from each of those, and Bruce Batts joins us we will unveil the
0:45.0	brand new planetary radio t-shirt that one of you will win in the space trivia
0:49.8	contest. Does it get any better? Why, yes, it does. Because here is Planetary Society senior
0:56.6	editor Emily Lachdawala. Emily, you had much to report as always in your June 13 update on the Curiosity Mission Mars Science Laboratory.
1:05.4	They can be found at planetary.org of course. We are headed toward Vera Rubin Ridge.
1:11.8	I love the renaming of that Ridge, formerly Hematite Ridge after the great astronomer
1:18.9	who just passed away in December. Why is this such an exciting target for curiosity?
1:24.3	Humatite Ridge now known as Vera Rubin Ridge by the team.
1:27.6	I do want to mention that that's not a formal name.
1:29.7	It's just an informal one that the team refers to Landmark Spy.
1:33.7	It is one of the features that was visible from space as seen by a spectrometer on Mars
1:39.5	Reconnaissance Orbiter to show signs of water-related minerals in the rocks. Now curiosity has
1:46.5	actually passed by and even drilled into many rocks that have shown signs of
1:51.1	being affected by liquid water either forming in liquid water or having
1:55.1	groundwater percolate through them later but this is going to be the first one
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