2024-10-23
54 分钟Bob Pappalardo, Europa Clipper project scientist, recounts the mission team's dramatic encounter with Hurricane Milton before their triumphant launch.
Europa Clipper is on its way to Jupiter this week on Planetary Radio.
I'm Sarah Elahmed of the Planetary Society.
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NASA's Europa Clipper mission blasted off on Monday, October 14, 2024 on an epic mission to investigate Europa.
It's a moon of Jupiter with a potentially habitable subsurface ocean.
This week we hear the harrowing and triumphant tale of the launch from Bob Pappalardo, the mission's project scientist.
He'll share how their team navigated some technical issues and Hurricane Milton.
Then we look forward to the Planetary Society's upcoming collaboration with StarTalk as Neil DeGrasse Tyson, the director of the Hayden Planetarium in New York, visits our headquarters in Pasadena, California.
Finally, Bruce Betts joins me for what's Up, a beautiful member submitted poem and a new random space fact.
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Before we jump into the Europa Clipper team's heroic tale, I've got a fun update from a story that we've been covering for the past few months.
In April, we invited Latif Nasser on to our show.
He's one of the co hosts of the Radiolab podcast.
He told us the story of how a typo on a space poster in his kid's bedroom led to the official naming of a quasi moon of Venus called zoozve.
He returned in June to share the new collaboration between Radiolab and the International Astronomical Union, or the iau.
They created a public naming contest for a quasi moon of Earth that I know a lot of our listeners participated in.
Quasi moons are these really interesting objects that appear to orbit a planet much like a moon does, but they actually orbit the sun?
It's a really complicated scenario and I'll leave some resources on the website for this episode of Planetary Radio in case you want to learn more.
Those will be@ Planetary.org radio, but people all over the world have submitted their mythological name suggestions for this quasi moon of Earth.