MultimediaAmazing Science at the 2012 DPS Meeting
Air Date: 10/22/2012
Run Time: 28:50
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Guests:
- Alan Stern, New Horizons Principal Investigator, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
- Bill Borucki, Kepler Principal Investigator,
- Heidi Hammel, Vice President of the Board of Directors, The Planetary Society
- William Hartmann, Planetary scientist, author, and artist,
- Jim Bell, President of the Board of Directors, The Planetary Society
- Rosaly Lopes, Planetary Scientist and Leading Volcanologist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Topics: explaining science, podcasts and videos, interview, Planetary Radio, Earth, Mars, Saturn's moons, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, GRAIL, New Horizons, Kepler, astronomy, geology
The 44th annual meeting of the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences brought Earth's most productive planetary scientists to Reno, Nevada last week. The Planetary Society's Emily Lakdawalla and Mat Kaplan were there to report on the amazing science unveiled. Planetary Radio talks to many of the major players. Bill Nye heads to Washington for the celebration of 50 years of solar system space missions. What's Up offers the weekly guide to the night sky and a t-shirt to the winner of the space trivia contest.
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Related Links
- AAS Division for Planetary Sciences
- 44th Annual Meeting of the DPS
- Complete conversation with William Hartmann about Earth climate model on Mars
- Presentation by Kelsi Singer at the DPS Women in Astronomy Luncheon
- VIDEO: Emily Lakdawalla Tours the JPL Booth at DPS
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About how many times brighter is the Sun than the full moon as seen from Earth?
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