Cassini Project Scientist Linda Spilker With a Saturn Mission Update

Janus, Pandora, Enceladus, Mimas, and Rhea. Processed by Emily Lakdawalla.

Air Date: 06/04/2012
Run Time: 28:50

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Guests:

Linda Spilker, Cassini Project Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Topics: mission status, interview, Planetary Radio, spacecraft, Saturn, Saturn's moons, Saturn's rings, Enceladus, Saturn's small moons, Titan, Cassini, weather and climate

Planetary Radio's most frequent guest returns with the latest news from the great ringed world, its moons, and those rings. Emily Lakdawalla previews robotic solar system exploration in June. Bill Nye visits Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo. Bruce Betts tells us What's Up! Also, special congrats to Elon Musk and SpaceX!

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What is the name of the simple scale commonly used to rate the appearance and brightness of the moon during total lunar eclipses?

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Question from the week before:
Who performed the first known observation of a Venus transit, and in what year?

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Jeremiah Horrocks and his buddy William Crabtree on December 4, 1639.