Ep 338: Why is that moon spewing?
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Why is that moon spewing? 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.
Ep 337: Saturn’s invisible ring, and two faced moon
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Saturn’s invisible ring, and two faced moon 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, …
Ep 336: Saturn’s strangest moon is such a gas
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Saturn’s strangest moon is such a gas 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.
Ep 335: Saturn’s rings and things
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Saturn’s rings and things 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.
Ep 334: Saturn spins me right round baby, right round
Ep 333: Jupiter’s turn
Ep 332: It’s just like the ocean, under the moon
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It’s just like the ocean, under the moon We’ve save the best of Jupiter’s moons for last. Europa, which has a subsurface ocean that could hold twice the water as all of Earth’s oceans combined. What, if any, kind of life might we find there?