Touring the Planets With Dava Sobel

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

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🗓️ 31 October 2005

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Dava Sobel has just written The Planets. Not a drop of water on Jupiter's moon Io in Q and A, space headlines, and Mars comes close.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	We tour the solar system with Dava Sobel this week on planetary Radio. Radio. Hi everyone, welcome to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the Final
0:20.0	Frontier.
0:21.0	I'm Matt Kaplan. You may know her by her previous bestsellers,
0:24.8	Londitude, and Galileo's daughter. Now she takes us from Mercury to Beyond Pluto in
0:30.5	her lyrically written new book, The Planets.
0:33.6	We'll visit with Dava Sobel in just a couple of minutes.
0:37.1	Bruce Betts has his eyes on Mars,
0:39.2	as the Red Planet passes close to Earth once again. He also has exciting news about the new
0:45.1	Planetary Society website. Well, we're excited. Speaking of news, by the time you hear
0:51.1	this, JPL may have published the latest radar images of Saturn's moon, Titan.
0:57.0	On October 28, the Cassini spacecraft flew right over the spot where the Huygens probe touched down about 10 months ago.
1:05.2	Background information is at planetary.org.
1:08.8	The Mars Rovers are moving on.
1:10.6	Spirit is headed back down Husband Hill. that's where it got to take in a spectacular
1:15.4	Martian Vista.
1:17.3	Around on the other side of the planet opportunity continues to prove that a rolling rover
1:20.9	gathers no dust or not much anyway. It's headed toward what
1:25.2	lead scientist Steve Squires calls a particularly tasty-looking promontory.
1:30.3	More info at planetary.org but don't just read for gosh sakes go outside and look at that big
1:36.7	orange ball with your own eyes there may only be two people in space right now but they're
1:42.2	celebrating the international space station be two people in space right now but they're celebrating. The International
1:44.0	Space Station has had men and women floating around in it for a solid five years.
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