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All right guys, this week it's a good one.

I get to talk to Dr. Amanda Hendrix.

She's a planetary scientist.

She was at NASA's JPL for 12 years. She was a principal investigator on the Hubble Space Telescope Observing Program. Gosh on Kacini, you guys guys we're going to dive really deep into

Cassini. No pun intended. We're going to talk a lot about Saturn and

Saturn's moons, but especially we're going to talk about her new book, Beyond Earth,

Our Path to a New Home in the planets, which she co-authored with Charles

Wolforth. So you know what, without any further... with Charles Wolforth.

So you know what, without any further ado, here she is,

Dr. Amanda Hendrix.

Well, Amanda, thank you so much for joining me today.

Well, thanks for having me.

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