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#67 OSIRIS-REx NASA mission scientist Greg Brennecka brings us up to date on the incredible early findings from the Bennu asteroid sample.
Season 1 Episode 67
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In September 2023, Greg Brennecka stopped by to preview the return to Earth of the OSIRI-REx asteroid Bennu sample return capsule. Th…
2 years, 4 months ago
#66 Saturn’s largest moon Titan is an incredible place, but could anything live there? Canadian Astrobiologist Dr Catherine Neish led a study on Titan’s habitability. She joins us for a fascinating chat about what she found.
Season 1 Episode 66
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Titan. The largest moon in the Saturnian system has been a candidate as a habitable world ever since NASA’s Cassini mission sent back…
2 years, 5 months ago
#65 Spaghettification? This really is a thing. It happens if you get too close to a black hole, but what is it? And how did it get that name?
Season 1 Episode 65
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Space and cosmology throws up some strange effects sometimes, none stranger than spaghettification. Stephen Hawking coined the term f…
2 years, 6 months ago
#64 The Odysseus Moon Lander. The first private moon lander has touched down, but is it still ok?
Season 1 Episode 64
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Houston-based aerospace company Intuitive Machines produced the first private mission to land on the moon. The Odysseus lander is jus…
2 years, 7 months ago
#63 Space Ethics. How do we navigate the ethical challenges of our journey beyond Earth?
Season 1 Episode 63
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So we pollute the upper atmosphere with rocket exhaust, is it worth the benefits of communications satellites and GPS? What about spa…
2 years, 8 months ago
#62 The iconic Earthrise photograph. Is this the most influential picture from the Apollo era?
Season 1 Episode 62
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Apollo 8 orbited the Moon in December 1968, seven months before the first moon landing. Even though Apollo 8 never landed on the Moon…
2 years, 9 months ago
#61 Will Saturn’s rings really disappear from view in 2025? What’s going on with that?
Season 1 Episode 61
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In the news lately, you might have seen reports that the rings of Saturn are going to disappear from view. What could make that happe…
2 years, 10 months ago
#60 Astrophotography. It's photography with a completely different technique. How do the pros do it, and what can I do with my smartphone?
Season 1 Episode 60
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Photographing the night sky is a completely different technique to photographing almost anything else. There's hardly any light, the …
2 years, 11 months ago
#59 India's Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft became the first spacecraft to land in the south polar region of the moon. Let's see why the this incredible spacecraft and rover could be instrumental for the future of human spaceflight.
Season 1 Episode 59
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India’s Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft, with the Vikram lander and Pragyan rover have landed in the south polar region of the moon. Some cr…
3 years ago
#58 Resident space rock expert Greg Brennecka is back to preview the return to Earth of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft with a sample of asteroid Bennu.
Season 1 Episode 58
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Cosmic Coffee Time’s resident space rock expert and NASA mission scientist Greg Brennecka is back again to preview the return to Eart…
3 years, 1 month ago