To Pluto and Beyond with Alan Stern
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
It has been 5 years since the New Horizons probe revealed beautiful, surprising Pluto, and 18 months since it showed us the odd little body now known as Arrokoth. Principal Investigator Alan Stern shares the latest science, and tells us what the spacecraft is up to now as it races toward the edge of our solar system. Have you seen the new comet? Bruce Betts tells you where and how to look in this week’s What’s Up. Learn more at https://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2020/0708-2020-alan-stern-new-horizons.html
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| 0:00.0 | To Pluto and Beyond, checking in with Alan Stern of the New Horizons mission this week on planetary radio. |
| 0:08.0 | Welcome, I'm at Kaplan, of the Planetary Society, with more of a human adventure across our |
| 0:18.0 | solar system and beyond. |
| 0:20.6 | We welcome back one of our most frequent guests as the New Horizons principal investigator helps us celebrate the fifth anniversary of his spacecraft's Pluto encounter. |
| 0:31.0 | Wait till you hear what it has been up to since. |
| 0:34.0 | Alan will also share plans to ride along as Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin carry science to the edge of space. |
| 0:42.0 | Have you seen the comet? |
| 0:44.0 | Bruce Vets will tell you how when we reach for the sky in this week's |
| 0:48.0 | what's up segment. |
| 0:49.0 | Ever been in a dust storm? |
| 0:51.0 | I have, but it wasn't on Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars Express |
| 0:56.6 | orbiter captured a truly jaw-dropping image of a line of dust clouds rolling across the Red Planet surface. |
| 1:05.0 | That's the first thing you'll see in the July 3rd edition of the Downlink at |
| 1:08.8 | Planetorate.org slash Downlink. |
| 1:11.8 | Then there are the headlines collected by our editorial director |
| 1:14.8 | Jason Davis including the delay in the launch date for perseverance. |
| 1:19.1 | NASA's Mars 2020 rover will now lift off no sooner than the 30th of July. |
| 1:25.9 | It's the upper stage of the Atlas 5 rocket that is causing worries, not the rover. |
| 1:31.2 | NASA is joining with the Royal Australian Air Force and the newly created U.S. |
| 1:35.9 | Space Force to find and track potentially dangerous Neos or near-Earth objects. |
| 1:42.0 | They'll use a telescope that is being moved from the U.S. to |
| 1:44.8 | down under for this work. NASA also blew up its giant space launch system rocket. |
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