Celebrating 35 Years of the Voyager Mission

Air Date: 09/17/2012
Run Time: 28:50

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Guests:

Ed Stone, Voyager Interstellar Mission Chief Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Ann Druyan, writer and producer,
Emily Lakdawalla, Senior Editor and Planetary Evangelist, The Planetary Society
Robert Picardo, Actor and director,

Topics: pretty pictures, citizen science, explaining image processing, history, podcasts and videos, interview, amateur astrophotos, amateur image processing, astronomy by planetary missions, Planetary Radio, Jupiter, Jupiter's moons, Saturn, Titan, Uranus, Neptune, Voyager 1 and 2

Voyagers 1 and 2 just reached 35 years of travel in space. What a great reason to celebrate! Join Voyager Project Scientist Ed Stone, Ann Druyan, Emily Lakdawalla and Robert Picardo in this special live edition of our show. Bill Nye reports on a separate celebration in London and on the International Space Station, and Bruce Betts is back in fine form with Mat Kaplan for this week’s What’s Up.

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