JPL and England Wave at Saturn

JPL Family Points at Saturn on July 19, 2013

Air Date: 07/22/2013
Run Time: 28:50

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Guests:

Scott Edgington, Deputy Project Scientist, Cassini
Earl Maize, Program Manager, Cassini Mission

Topics: mission status, podcasts and videos, fun, interview, Planetary Society, Planetary Society People, Bill Nye, Planetary Radio, Planetary Society Video, Saturn, Cassini, astronomy, planetary astronomy

Hundreds came out on the JPL mall on Friday, July 19^th to salute the Cassini spacecraft as it captured a rare image of Earth from the outer solar system. Among them were the mission Deputy Project Scientist, Scott Edgington, and the Cassini Program Manager, Earl Maize. Emily Lakdawalla explains planetary geomorphology as she prepares for a conference about Pluto, while Bill Nye notes Congressional resistance to NASA’s planetary science funding plans. It’s a TV dog’s life in this week’s edition of the space trivia contest, part of What’s Up with Bruce Betts and Mat Kaplan.

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This week's question:
What two solar system bodies did Vega 1 and Vega 2 explore?

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Complete the contest entry form at http:planetary.org/radiocontest or write to us at planetaryradio@planetary.org no later than Monday, July 29th, at 2pm Pacific Time. Be sure to include your name, mailing address and shirt size.

Last week's question:
How long were Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin separated from the Apollo 11 command module in the Lunar Module Eagle?

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Question from the week before:
Besides Pluto, name at least one fictional dog that shares its name with a solar system object (not on Earth).

Answer:Well, there's Copernicus, Dr. Brown's dog in the Back to the Future trilogy, while Apollo and Zeus where dogs on Magnum P.I. and Pluto's new moon Kerberos is a hell of a dog.