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Once thought a portent of doom, or a sign of the impending death of kings, nowadays a comet makes a good target to launch a mission at.
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We’ve been putting out episodes on science for five years. There’s no end in sight. You’re welcome, or we’re sorry, depending. In celebration we relax with a freeform episode, even drink a couple of beers. We do drift passed a bit of science, but only by accident.
Continue reading Ep 343: Five years of the lab, for reasons
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If you count it as a planet, it is the furthest away and smallest. Whether or not you think it’s a planet, it might harbor life.
Continue reading Ep 342: From Pluto, with love
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High winds, a segmented ring and other oddities confound us as we take a trip to Neptune.
Continue reading Ep 341: There’s something on the wing!
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Jokes aside, we take a more complete look at Uranus, the sideways planet.
Continue reading Ep 340: Uranus, as a whole
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Unexpected issues caused a very short episode about the seventh planet. Gave us a chance to go ahead and snicker at its name.
Continue reading Ep 339: A brief probed toward Uranus
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We finish up with the planet Saturn with a look at her moon, Enceladus. It is spewing forth giant guizers of water and other chemicals, hinting at its subsurface salty ocean and even the possibility of life.
Continue reading Ep 338: Why is that moon spewing?
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The largest ring in the solar system is nearly impossible to see. Not even the Cassini mission, which spent 13 years orbiting Saturn, was able to see it. Just to make things more interesting, Saturn also has a now-you-see-it-now-you-don’t moon. As it happens, these two oddities are related, so we relate them.
Continue reading Ep 337: Saturn’s invisible ring, and two faced moon
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The second largest moon is arguably the strangest. From lakes of liquid natural gas, to its thick atmosphere, to magic islands that come and go, join us for a look at Saturn’s moon Titan.
Continue reading Ep 336: Saturn’s strangest moon is such a gas
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You can’t look at Saturn without noticing the rings. So, we take a closer look at Saturn’s rings. The episode ended up a bit longer than usual as the closer you look at them, the more complicated they become.
Continue reading Ep 335: Saturn’s rings and things