Latest / Made of Stars / Following Up on Four Stories

Transcript

Following Up on Four Stories · Made of Stars

0:00
Speaker 1: Warning. The following podcast contains an entertaining look at astronomy, physics,
0:04
Speaker 1: and space news throughout the known universe. Listeners have been
0:07
Speaker 1: known to learn about astronomical phenomenon, the scientific method, and
0:10
Speaker 1: expanded vocabulary to include terms like quasar asterism and uranus. Listen,
0:15
Speaker 1: that's your own risk.
0:16
Speaker 2: Go ahead.
0:22
Speaker 3: When made of stars, made them stars, madies. When made
0:30
Speaker 3: us stars, you could be from high they would new Mexicomas.
0:39
Speaker 3: Where all stars?
0:43
Speaker 4: When we are made of stars.
0:57
Speaker 5: I'm Wes Carrol, joined by my good friend doctor Sean
0:59
Speaker 5: Cruise from Columbus State University's Coca Cola Space Science Center.
1:03
Speaker 2: Hey Sean, Hey Wes, good to be here today.
1:06
Speaker 5: We got some pretty cool stories today, some update stories.
1:09
Speaker 5: I guess these are all Are they all follow up stories?
1:14
Speaker 5: Maybe we got one kind of new story towards the end,
1:18
Speaker 5: but it's well, it's kind of a follow up story,
1:20
Speaker 5: I guess in a way, I think it is.
1:22
Speaker 2: I think they might all be follow up stories. So
1:24
Speaker 2: if you're a regular listener to the podcast, you're going
1:27
Speaker 2: to have some inside scoops here on the background for
1:30
Speaker 2: these stories. But we have the latest developments.
1:32
Speaker 5: There you go, and at least one of these stories
1:35
Speaker 5: is when we've been talking about at least since radio.
1:37
Speaker 5: So I'm excited about that one. That's the second story.
1:40
Speaker 5: We'll get to that one coming up in a minute. First,
1:43
Speaker 5: let's start with this double team with NASA and Blue
1:46
Speaker 5: Origin getting ready to launch two spacecraft Mars YEP.
1:51
Speaker 2: And so the story about the NASA mission is an
1:54
Speaker 2: important story. We I think covered it on a previous podcast,
1:59
Speaker 2: But to me, the the most interesting part of this
2:01
Speaker 2: story is the Blue Origin part of the story. So
2:06
Speaker 2: NASA and Blue Origin have teamed up for the launch
2:08
Speaker 2: of a brand new Mars exploring mission called Escapade. And
2:14
Speaker 2: of course this is a strained acronym. This is what
2:16
Speaker 2: we do, right, So it's the Escape and Plasma Acceleration
2:19
Speaker 2: and Dynamics Explorers and that's Explorer's plural. There's two of them, right,
2:26
Speaker 2: So it's one mission, two spacecraft, and the launch date
2:31
Speaker 2: being targeted right now is early November of this year,
2:34
Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, to launch these two vehicles up to Mars.
2:38
Speaker 2: And yes, there's a very interesting story behind the vehicles,
2:42
Speaker 2: but most of the really interesting part of the story
2:45
Speaker 2: to me is the fact that Blue Origin will be
2:48
Speaker 2: launching its new Glen rocket. This is its massive moon
2:53
Speaker 2: capable launch vehicle, equivalent in class at least to the
3:00
Speaker 2: Saturn five rocket to SpaceX's Starship rocket, And so this
3:04
Speaker 2: is a very important launch vehicle for its own purposes.
3:09
Speaker 2: And so just knowing that this vehicle is capable of
3:12
Speaker 2: putting payloads out into the Solar System and on their
3:15
Speaker 2: way to Mars is a really important development just in
3:19
Speaker 2: the whole space industry in general. So, so yes, the
3:22
Speaker 2: Mars mission from NASA very important, but also very important
3:27
Speaker 2: watching this brand new heavy lift rocket from Blue Origin
3:31
Speaker 2: and seeing as it goes through its paces, is it
3:34
Speaker 2: going to be a reliable heavy lift launch vehicle going
3:38
Speaker 2: into the future.
3:40
Speaker 5: Well, and to call it a you know, moon capable
3:43
Speaker 5: rocket if they're sending it to Mars, I guess this
3:45
Speaker 5: is also part of the Well, can we now call
3:47
Speaker 5: this a Mars capable rocket, which obviously has a slightly
3:51
Speaker 5: different classification for it. And this is the second test
3:56
Speaker 5: flight for this vehicle.
3:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right. So the first time vehicle flew, everything
4:02
Speaker 2: went pretty much flawlessly until they tried to land and
4:06
Speaker 2: recapture the main stage, and of course that didn't go well.
4:09
Speaker 2: But everything up to that point went flawlessly, So it's
4:12
Speaker 2: going to be a very interesting mission to see, of course,
4:16
Speaker 2: whether the Blue Origin rocket works. But then also these
4:19
Speaker 2: two twin spacecraft are heading to the orbit of Mars
4:24
Speaker 2: to be able to study Mars solar weather. So we
4:29
Speaker 2: talk a lot about space weather here on the planet Earth. Well,
4:33
Speaker 2: Mars is also subject to that same space weather due
4:36
Speaker 2: to its interaction with the Sun, and so these vehicles
4:39
Speaker 2: are going to go out and really study the effects
4:42
Speaker 2: of the solar wind on the Martian atmosphere and magnetic field,
4:47
Speaker 2: both of which are very very thin and low magnitude
4:51
Speaker 2: compared to that of the Earth.
4:54
Speaker 5: And we talk about this all the different career options
4:57
Speaker 5: and things, because obviously what you guys do there at
5:00
Speaker 5: the Cocola Space Science Center it's about creating interest and
5:04
Speaker 5: excitement things for stem and careers. And I have a
5:08
Speaker 5: budding meteorologist in my home. I trust him. I want
5:12
Speaker 5: a Gabby by the way for covering a storm once.
5:16
Speaker 5: But I have a child in my house who I
5:18
Speaker 5: trust him with his weather knowledge much better than my own.
5:22
Speaker 5: And I keep telling him, hey, I know weather is
5:25
Speaker 5: your thing, but just know that we now have this,
5:29
Speaker 5: you know, Mars weather is a career option out there
5:32
Speaker 5: for folks, and it just we like to point those
5:34
Speaker 5: things out. Career options. You know, there's things out there
5:37
Speaker 5: that maybe you haven't quite thought of. Most people think, oh,
5:40
Speaker 5: if I took a job at SpaceX, or if I
5:43
Speaker 5: took a job at Blue Origin or took a job at.
5:45
Speaker 4: NASA, this would be what I would be doing.
5:47
Speaker 5: I would be you know, you know, I have to
5:49
Speaker 5: be an astronaut or have to be someone working on
5:51
Speaker 5: the ground. There's other options, there's other career things when
5:55
Speaker 5: it comes to working for those companies. That's all I'm
5:58
Speaker 5: pointing out.
5:59
Speaker 2: Yeah, so a general solid background in science will get
6:03
Speaker 2: you a lot of different career options and a lot
6:06
Speaker 2: of different possibilities. And that includes that includes forecasting both
6:10
Speaker 2: atmospheric kinds of weather but also space weather on the
6:14
Speaker 2: planet Mars when we go up there and colonize the place. Right, So, yes,
6:18
Speaker 2: all of those future careers which the future is getting
6:21
Speaker 2: closer friends, I mean, the plan is to ever be
6:25
Speaker 2: full on Mars by twenty thirty five. That's just a
6:29
Speaker 2: decade away, right, So just in perspective, we're talking about
6:33
Speaker 2: having boots on the ground, not on the moon only
6:37
Speaker 2: but also on Mars in the next ten years. So
6:41
Speaker 2: these are not like some kind of sci fi fantasy
6:44
Speaker 2: type career. These are futures that are just right around
6:46
Speaker 2: the corner in terms of what the proposal for the
6:51
Speaker 2: American space program is.
6:52
Speaker 5: And there's going to be people a need for people
6:54
Speaker 5: here still on Earth to break down data and all
6:57
Speaker 5: that stuff. So it's not just about being an astronaut,
7:00
Speaker 5: all right. This is one that goes back to radio
7:02
Speaker 5: as We've been talking about this really really cool looking
7:07
Speaker 5: ship for a while, and I'm glad you included an
7:10
Speaker 5: image when you sent me over some notes on it
7:13
Speaker 5: today because i just always like looking at it, and
7:15
Speaker 5: I'm mad at myself that I haven't been following it
7:18
Speaker 5: more closely to I don't know, just look at it.
7:20
Speaker 5: I'm gonna take I'm a save this image right now,
7:22
Speaker 5: and that way I can maybe even make it my desktop,
7:25
Speaker 5: and that way I can just look at it anytime.
7:27
Speaker 2: I want to.
7:28
Speaker 5: It looks like this is that we're and by the way,
7:30
Speaker 5: we're talking about now this next story about the Dream Chaser,
7:36
Speaker 5: and I'll let you go into the specifics on this,
7:38
Speaker 5: but this is a spacecraft that is moving forward yet again,
7:43
Speaker 5: we're a step closer to this becoming a reality. But
7:46
Speaker 5: it looks like the Space Shuttle and a dolphin mat
7:50
Speaker 5: it and this is what we got, and that's what
7:52
Speaker 5: That's the only way I can describe what this thing
7:54
Speaker 5: looks like. But also that has a giant, you know,
7:58
Speaker 5: rocket attached to the back of it. So this thing
8:02
Speaker 5: looks cool, and I'm just excited that we're a little
8:04
Speaker 5: bit closer to the reality of this thing going to space.
8:08
Speaker 2: So you and I again, for those longtime listeners, they
8:11
Speaker 2: may have heard us discuss this before, but for everyone else,
8:15
Speaker 2: Wes and I have been a very big fan of
8:18
Speaker 2: the of the Dream Chaser space plane for a number
8:21
Speaker 2: of years, dating even before we did the podcast, all
8:24
Speaker 2: the way back to when we had our radio show
8:26
Speaker 2: together on the air. We like it. It's a cool
8:29
Speaker 2: looking vehicle, and you know, I like your Space Shuttle
8:33
Speaker 2: and dolphin uh you know, child of uh kind of analogy.
8:39
Speaker 2: I think it maybe looks a bit more like an Orca,
8:42
Speaker 2: you know, like an Orca and the Space Shuttle started dating,
8:45
Speaker 2: they fell in love, and now we have a Dream Chaser.
8:48
Speaker 2: Maybe it is maybe.
8:49
Speaker 5: They somehow both went into that little teleporting thing from
8:52
Speaker 5: the movie The Fly, you know, at the same time,
8:54
Speaker 5: and they both came out on the other side. Maybe
8:56
Speaker 5: that if you don't want to have to get into
8:57
Speaker 5: the Birds and the Beast talk, maybe that's what it is.
9:00
Speaker 2: If you have no idea what we're talking about, first
9:03
Speaker 2: of all, it's probably better. But second of all, just
9:06
Speaker 2: go out and search Dream Chaser and check out this
9:10
Speaker 2: new space vehicle. It's from Sierra Space. Now it's not
9:13
Speaker 2: really new, it's just being newly developed for a new contract.
9:18
Speaker 2: That's the interesting part. The dream Chaser has never really
9:22
Speaker 2: flown human beings to space, but the dream Chaser has
9:26
Speaker 2: been being developed by what used to be the Sierra
9:29
Speaker 2: Nevada Corporation and they now have changed their name to
9:32
Speaker 2: Sierra Space. So Sierra Space is a company that is
9:37
Speaker 2: manufacturing the dream Chaser, which is a small scale space
9:41
Speaker 2: plane again think of the Space Shuttle, but much smaller
9:46
Speaker 2: and a bit more, a bit more aerodynamic and curvy
9:50
Speaker 2: looking just quite honestly, it's where it gets. It's kind
9:53
Speaker 2: of Orca dolphin look to it. Anyway. So the vehicle, though,
9:57
Speaker 2: is made to launch vertically on a rock and then
10:01
Speaker 2: come down and land on a runway just like the
10:05
Speaker 2: Giant Space Shuttle did, only on a much smaller scale. Well,
10:09
Speaker 2: NASA has been working with Sierra Space to try to
10:11
Speaker 2: get this vehicle, and it's really unique and important design
10:16
Speaker 2: into their arsenal in a lot of different ways. And
10:18
Speaker 2: they had written a contract for Sierra Nevada to go
10:23
Speaker 2: up and take supplies to the International Space Station, then
10:26
Speaker 2: to bring garbage back down from the International Space Station
10:31
Speaker 2: and burn up in the atmosphere. That wasn't even it
10:34
Speaker 2: wasn't even going to come back down on land. It
10:35
Speaker 2: was just simply going to burn up little space dolphins
10:39
Speaker 2: in the atmosphere. But fortunately that contract is no longer
10:44
Speaker 2: valid because we don't want to see any space dolphins
10:46
Speaker 2: burn up in the atmosphere. So what the new reorganized
10:50
Speaker 2: contract between NASA and Sierra Space is doing is to
10:54
Speaker 2: prepare this vehicle to become an independent flyer in space,
11:00
Speaker 2: or as the wording on the article from New Atlas
11:03
Speaker 2: dot Com says, it's a free flyer. It's a free
11:07
Speaker 2: flyer instead of going up and docking with the International
11:09
Speaker 2: Space Station, it's going to be flying its own missions
11:12
Speaker 2: to orbit, then coming back down and landing on the
11:14
Speaker 2: runway itself. This is for a post International Space Station era,
11:20
Speaker 2: an era where in low Earth orbit human spaceflight will
11:23
Speaker 2: not be relying on the International Space Station. They will
11:27
Speaker 2: be going up in either autonomous vehicles that will just
11:30
Speaker 2: perform their own missions, or they will go up and
11:34
Speaker 2: be docking to commercial space stations like those currently being
11:39
Speaker 2: constructed by Axiom Space and other space industry contractors. So
11:45
Speaker 2: that's the new thing for the dream Chaser. And also
11:49
Speaker 2: it's preparing for work in the defense and intelligence industry.
11:53
Speaker 2: So that's another part of the new contract with NASA.
11:56
Speaker 2: It's preparing for it's preparing for those future use scenarios.
12:01
Speaker 2: The thing is wes. This thing looks a lot like
12:04
Speaker 2: the United States Air Forces version of a space plane.
12:08
Speaker 2: It's called the X thirty seven B, and we've covered
12:11
Speaker 2: the X thirty seven B here on the podcast. It's
12:13
Speaker 2: had many successful missions to space already. It doesn't look
12:17
Speaker 2: entirely unlike that vehicle, right, So there are some similarities
12:21
Speaker 2: and there'll be some similar use scenarios for the Sierra
12:26
Speaker 2: Nevada or i should say, Sierospace Dreamchaser compared to the
12:31
Speaker 2: Air Force's X thirty seven B.
12:33
Speaker 5: You and I are big fans of the Shuttle and
12:36
Speaker 5: the Shuttle program. We were really disappointed when they shut
12:40
Speaker 5: that down. And I think most people, like especially anybody
12:44
Speaker 5: my age. I'm a gen X kid. I'm fifty and
12:49
Speaker 5: I grew up in that time when the Shuttle program
12:51
Speaker 5: got really hot, a lot of talk about it, a
12:53
Speaker 5: lot of excitement about it. I just think it's cool
12:55
Speaker 5: to see that there's like this, this sort of continuation
12:58
Speaker 5: of it. I know it's different in so many ways,
13:02
Speaker 5: but it still just has that feel of that you
13:06
Speaker 5: see this thing, you know, you look at it and
13:08
Speaker 5: you kind of it's hard not to think about the Shuttle,
13:11
Speaker 5: and then when you think about it coming back down,
13:13
Speaker 5: landing on a runway, I can already imagine it being
13:16
Speaker 5: transported around on the back of a plane from one
13:19
Speaker 5: one spot to another. All those cool things that we
13:22
Speaker 5: loved about the Shuttle that were so cool, and it
13:24
Speaker 5: does it's got its own look. It just it feels
13:27
Speaker 5: like they've you know, taken some old classic car and
13:30
Speaker 5: refurbished it for use and they've said, yeah, we're going
13:33
Speaker 5: to release this new version of this car and you're
13:35
Speaker 5: all going to love it again.
13:36
Speaker 4: And of course people do.
13:37
Speaker 5: They it's hard not to go back to something that
13:40
Speaker 5: so many people were such a big fan of. So
13:42
Speaker 5: it's kind of exciting to know that this thing is
13:45
Speaker 5: a little bit closer to its eventual mission.
13:48
Speaker 2: For a period of thirty years, from nineteen eighty one
13:53
Speaker 2: to twenty eleven, the Space Shuttle was our spaceship. It
13:59
Speaker 2: was America's space ship. So if you ask any child
14:02
Speaker 2: from that era to draw a picture of a spaceship,
14:06
Speaker 2: they we're going to draw something that looked like the
14:08
Speaker 2: NASA Space Shuttle, right. So that's why I think maybe
14:12
Speaker 2: just the look of this vehicle kind of resonates with
14:15
Speaker 2: people like you and me because it looks like what
14:18
Speaker 2: we would call a spaceship. We don't necessarily think of
14:21
Speaker 2: a capsule as a spaceship, and yes, certainly capsules are spaceships,
14:26
Speaker 2: but again that childlike instinct to think of a spaceship
14:30
Speaker 2: as something looking like a Space shuttle and has wings.
14:34
Speaker 2: It can both be in space and in our own
14:36
Speaker 2: atmosphere and be perfectly at home in either environment. That's
14:40
Speaker 2: what this looks like, right. So again it's just esthetically
14:44
Speaker 2: interesting to me. I just like the way the vehicle looks,
14:47
Speaker 2: and I wish a Sierra space the best of luck
14:49
Speaker 2: with this new venture with NASA.
14:52
Speaker 5: Coming up after a quick break, we have a visitor
14:56
Speaker 5: to our solar system from beyond, a fresh new look
15:00
Speaker 5: at it. We'll talk about that next. There's been so
15:21
Speaker 5: many movies made about things coming to visit us from
15:25
Speaker 5: beyond our solar system. So whenever we have a story
15:29
Speaker 5: about something that's visiting us from beyond our solar system,
15:33
Speaker 5: it's always a good it's always a good day. And
15:35
Speaker 5: then and when it gets spotted again by something that's
15:40
Speaker 5: able to get us, you know, a nice close up
15:42
Speaker 5: photo of it, that's exciting too.
15:45
Speaker 2: Also exciting. I've seen a couple of these preview photos.
15:48
Speaker 2: I don't know if I would call them close up,
15:50
Speaker 2: but they're early photos. How about that? Early photos of
15:53
Speaker 2: this object? Anyway?
15:54
Speaker 5: They're closer up than we've seen before though, right, I mean,
15:57
Speaker 5: is this the most close up photo we've got or.
16:00
Speaker 2: It for sure is in terms of the actual space distance. Yes.
16:04
Speaker 2: So here's what's happening, friends. It's all relative, baby, that it is.
16:08
Speaker 2: It's all relative. Right now as we speak, there's this
16:11
Speaker 2: weird interstellar comment called three I Atlas. And if you're
16:15
Speaker 2: on Facebook at all and you do anything with space,
16:18
Speaker 2: you realize that a lot of people think it's a spaceship,
16:21
Speaker 2: you know, that made to look like a rock. I guess.
16:25
Speaker 2: I guess they think the Aliens would have to disguise
16:27
Speaker 2: their spaceship as rocks. So, for some reason, I don't
16:31
Speaker 2: know why, I.
16:31
Speaker 5: Think we've hit a point. And we don't do politics.
16:34
Speaker 5: This is just me throwing out an observation. In general,
16:37
Speaker 5: I think we've officially hit a point in society where
16:41
Speaker 5: our starting line, our baseline, is conspiracy, and then we
16:46
Speaker 5: have to like back ourselves down from it, if we're
16:49
Speaker 5: even capable. In many cases, we can't even do that,
16:52
Speaker 5: so we have to start at well, clearly, it must
16:54
Speaker 5: be an alien spacecraft.
16:58
Speaker 2: You know. My favorite such news stories are the ones
17:01
Speaker 2: that include the phrase you know, some people say, yeah,
17:06
Speaker 2: some people say some people say that comment three Eye
17:10
Speaker 2: Outlis is actually a spacecraft. Well, you can find some
17:13
Speaker 2: people that'll say just about anything, friends. So I'm here
17:18
Speaker 2: to say it's my expert opinion that I do not
17:21
Speaker 2: believe in any manner that commet three Eye Outlis is
17:24
Speaker 2: a spacecraft. But people would say, well, some people say,
17:29
Speaker 2: but it could be.
17:31
Speaker 5: I mean, that's the real I love that as the
17:33
Speaker 5: defense of it. There's a story that's floating around online
17:37
Speaker 5: now about somebody stealing people's credit cards, a waitress stealing
17:41
Speaker 5: credit cards and buying little phone games or something with it,
17:44
Speaker 5: and people have been sharing it. When people point out
17:46
Speaker 5: it's fake, the response has been, but it could have happened.
17:51
Speaker 5: It could have You can't art. You're right, you've just
17:53
Speaker 5: made a point that can't be disputed. It could be
17:58
Speaker 5: that very thing. This could be. There's a chance it
18:01
Speaker 5: could be full of little green men. Well, let's maybe
18:04
Speaker 5: we'll start with this. Did this closest up photo that
18:08
Speaker 5: we've gotten give us a look at little green men?
18:10
Speaker 5: Can we start there? And if not, and we can
18:12
Speaker 5: say it could just be a rock.
18:15
Speaker 2: I mean, NASA already knows there's aliens West. They would
18:19
Speaker 2: never show you the picture of them waving from the
18:22
Speaker 2: point from the rock shaped spacecraft from another solar system,
18:26
Speaker 2: but they could.
18:27
Speaker 5: Show us the photo, well they could.
18:29
Speaker 2: I mean, they probably already have these photos, but they're
18:31
Speaker 2: not going to share them with us ever. No, no, no, well,
18:34
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, that's a different podcast. Let's get back to
18:37
Speaker 2: this podcast. It's not an alien vehicle, it's a comment. Okay,
18:41
Speaker 2: But it did come from another solar system. It's pretty cool.
18:44
Speaker 2: And over the last several days it's been making a
18:47
Speaker 2: near pass to the planet Mars. Now, when we say
18:50
Speaker 2: near pass, nineteen million miles, So I mean, you know,
18:54
Speaker 2: I wouldn't want to run that distance on Earth. No,
18:59
Speaker 2: I wouldn't want to run that. But nineteen million miles
19:02
Speaker 2: in terms of space, well, you know that's relatively nearby, right,
19:06
Speaker 2: That's that's you know, like a tenth of mars distance
19:10
Speaker 2: from from Mars to the Sun for instance, right, So
19:14
Speaker 2: so in terms of Mars distances, yeah, it's close by.
19:18
Speaker 2: And so all the vehicles, all the little spacecraft on Mars,
19:21
Speaker 2: they turned the little cameras which are normally used for
19:24
Speaker 2: taking pictures of little rocks and geological features and things
19:27
Speaker 2: like that, and they pointed them up skyward and they
19:31
Speaker 2: tried to catch pictures of the interstellar comet three iye
19:34
Speaker 2: Atlas as it was zipping by the red planet. And
19:37
Speaker 2: so this was particularly done by a suite of European
19:40
Speaker 2: Space Agency spacecraft. The first one is the Exo Mars
19:45
Speaker 2: Trace Gas Orbiter, we know it as TGO. So Exo
19:50
Speaker 2: Mars TGO focused its camera up toward the sky and
19:55
Speaker 2: got a quote unquote close up of three I Atlas. Now, friends,
19:59
Speaker 2: if you go at actually look at these images, yes
20:02
Speaker 2: you can tell it's a comet, but that's about all
20:05
Speaker 2: you can tell. It's not resolved well enough to actually
20:08
Speaker 2: see the little green arms of the Aliens from another
20:11
Speaker 2: star system waving out the windows, so you're not going
20:14
Speaker 2: to see that. But you know, the interesting thing is
20:18
Speaker 2: is gathering data that helps us understand the vehicle better.
20:22
Speaker 2: And also the Mars Express Orbiter, another European Space Agency
20:27
Speaker 2: spacecraft which has been circling the red planet since two
20:30
Speaker 2: thousand and three, it also attempted to photograph the comet.
20:35
Speaker 2: They're still downloading those images. We don't have confirmation whether
20:38
Speaker 2: or not the Mars Express captured it. But the Space
20:42
Speaker 2: Agency has a third vehicle out there, and this one's
20:45
Speaker 2: not a Mars vehicle. This one's actually on the way
20:48
Speaker 2: to Jupiter, but it's going to get a glimpse of
20:51
Speaker 2: three I Atlas on the second of November. That vehicle
20:56
Speaker 2: is called JUICE. That's an acronym. It is a acronym
21:00
Speaker 2: for Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer. Juice.
21:04
Speaker 5: Yeah, I got it, I got it.
21:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, JAYU I'm still struggling a little bit with that one.
21:12
Speaker 2: But well, where's the X, where's the R? I don't know, Juice.
21:17
Speaker 5: I'm looking at it written out and I'm just seeing
21:20
Speaker 5: those capital letters in there, going okay, well that works,
21:25
Speaker 5: I mean kind of.
21:27
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, it's not that we're above making
21:30
Speaker 2: fun of various space agency acronyms on this show.
21:33
Speaker 5: So this may be the most strained one. I don't
21:36
Speaker 5: know that we've seen a more strained one.
21:37
Speaker 2: But that's a good way to say it. Yeah, this
21:40
Speaker 2: is among the most strained acronyms that we have ever
21:43
Speaker 2: seen from a space agency. But anyway, the Juice vehicle
21:46
Speaker 2: will be taking pictures of three I atlas on its
21:49
Speaker 2: way to Jupiter on November second, So there you have
21:52
Speaker 2: that going for you. Yeah.
21:53
Speaker 5: And just as far as this distance, the nineteen million
21:57
Speaker 5: miles passing by Mars, I think that may be a
22:01
Speaker 5: way to describe this, to say that it's not you know,
22:04
Speaker 5: it's close, but it's not really close. I think if
22:06
Speaker 5: you're on Mars and you're in a vehicle, it's probably
22:09
Speaker 5: safe to put your arms out, you know, and they
22:11
Speaker 5: tell you keep your arms in if you're going to
22:13
Speaker 5: pass by something really close. You're probably safe on Mars
22:17
Speaker 5: to go ahead and just put your arms out the
22:18
Speaker 5: window if you want to, You'll be fine. I think
22:21
Speaker 5: that's I think that's safe.
22:23
Speaker 2: I think Mark Wattley would agree with you. You know,
22:25
Speaker 2: space pirate, Mark Wattley's based pirate would stick his arms
22:28
Speaker 2: out the window. Absolutely, that's right, all right.
22:30
Speaker 5: We like to cover stories that talk about possible life
22:35
Speaker 5: in our Solar system, not necessarily on the rock that's
22:39
Speaker 5: come from beyond our solar system, but favorable conditions at
22:43
Speaker 5: least for life in our solar system. And we've been
22:46
Speaker 5: tracking one particular moon where there's a possibility, and we're
22:50
Speaker 5: getting some more evidence now that says it's a possibility.
22:53
Speaker 2: There's there's a new study out of Germany from University
22:56
Speaker 2: of Stuttgard and from the Freer University in burn In. Anyway,
23:01
Speaker 2: this is a new study of ice geysers from the
23:07
Speaker 2: moon of Saturn called Enceladus. So an ice geyser is
23:12
Speaker 2: kind of like a volcano made of watery ice. So
23:18
Speaker 2: the little moon gets close enough to Saturn that Saturn's
23:22
Speaker 2: gravity contorts the inner portion of the Moon with tidal forces.
23:27
Speaker 2: It heats up the frozen water oceans underneath the surface
23:32
Speaker 2: of Enceladus and it causes watery geysers to shoot off
23:36
Speaker 2: into space. And we've known about these geysers since twenty
23:40
Speaker 2: seventeen when NASA's Cassini spacecraft was out there at Saturn
23:43
Speaker 2: taking pictures. But the data from that spacecraft largely has
23:48
Speaker 2: been archived, and so in this new study out of
23:51
Speaker 2: these two German universities was to go back and look
23:54
Speaker 2: at all the data from from Enceladus using the Cassini
23:58
Speaker 2: spacecraft that data a bit more closely, and what they
24:02
Speaker 2: found is they've found some very interesting things inside the
24:06
Speaker 2: plumes of water jetting off Enceladus and it includes organic molecules. Friends,
24:14
Speaker 2: that's the important story here, So it's not just water.
24:18
Speaker 2: That water actually contains the building blocks for life here
24:22
Speaker 2: on the Earth, organic molecules and other things in the
24:27
Speaker 2: ice grains like precursors for amino acids. So there are
24:34
Speaker 2: some important life building compounds that have been discovered from
24:41
Speaker 2: these data from the Cassini spacecraft from many years ago.
24:45
Speaker 2: With a reanalysis by two German universities, and they have
24:48
Speaker 2: come up with this very interesting finding. So a comment
24:52
Speaker 2: from the spokesperson for the study says this Cassini was
24:56
Speaker 2: detecting samples from Enceladus all the time it flew through
25:00
Speaker 2: Saturn's e ering. That's one of the rings around Saturn.
25:05
Speaker 2: So the quote goes on to say, we had already
25:08
Speaker 2: found many organic molecules in these ice creams, including precursors
25:13
Speaker 2: from amino acids, and now they're able to verify some
25:16
Speaker 2: of those some of those findings from before, and so
25:19
Speaker 2: this is a really interesting and important study from that
25:23
Speaker 2: moon Enceladus. It could be friends that as we search
25:27
Speaker 2: for life out there in the universe, somewhere that those
25:31
Speaker 2: destinations were actually finding the first life not from the
25:34
Speaker 2: Earth might be right here in our own solar system,
25:39
Speaker 2: in either the moon Enceladus around Saturn, or in Court
25:44
Speaker 2: of course in the or in the moon Europa around Jupiter.
25:47
Speaker 2: Both of these have similar kinds of environments where they
25:51
Speaker 2: have frozen water and other kinds of compounds in there.
25:54
Speaker 2: And so this is a really interesting find making yet
25:57
Speaker 2: another location in our solar system a possible place to
26:01
Speaker 2: find evidence of life.
26:04
Speaker 5: You guys, just a couple of days ago there at
26:06
Speaker 5: the Cocola Space Science Center had the latest music under
26:09
Speaker 5: the dome always a great time, always a fantastic show.
26:15
Speaker 5: If you miss the first one for this season, guess what,
26:18
Speaker 5: there's another one coming up next month.
26:20
Speaker 2: There is, and I'm happy to announce that we will
26:23
Speaker 2: have the same visual artist for the November show that
26:27
Speaker 2: we had for the October show, and that's our very
26:29
Speaker 2: own Lance tankers Lee, our director of our planetarium here
26:32
Speaker 2: at Columbus State University's Coca Cola Space Science Center. Lance
26:35
Speaker 2: will also be doing the show all of the visuals
26:38
Speaker 2: for the show on November fourth, which is the next
26:41
Speaker 2: upcoming concert, and it will be all the visuals will
26:44
Speaker 2: be set and choreographed to the beautiful music being played
26:48
Speaker 2: by the Schwobes School of Music faculty and students performing
26:52
Speaker 2: live inside the Atmosphere Theater. Friends, if you've not been
26:56
Speaker 2: to one of our Music under the Dome concerts, that
26:58
Speaker 2: is a really great experience and you should buy tickets
27:02
Speaker 2: right away because they do tend to sell out. There
27:04
Speaker 2: are tickets available right now for that November concert. Get
27:07
Speaker 2: on our website www dot cc SC dot org, Charlie
27:13
Speaker 2: Charlie Samsamcharlie dot org and get tickets for November fourth.
27:18
Speaker 2: By the way, Wes you and I have a kind
27:20
Speaker 2: of an exciting event coming up before November fourth.
27:23
Speaker 5: We do November first, just a few days before the
27:26
Speaker 5: next music under the Dome, we will be taking Made
27:28
Speaker 5: of Stars on location, or actually just bringing it there.
27:34
Speaker 5: It's still a bit of a home game. We do
27:36
Speaker 5: this show me from my studio at my home and
27:39
Speaker 5: you from your office there at the Coca Cola Space
27:42
Speaker 5: Science Center. So I mean we do half of the
27:44
Speaker 5: show each week basically from there anyway, but this time
27:48
Speaker 5: we'll both be there and we'll be live inside the
27:54
Speaker 5: planetarium there under the Dome. I mean, that's what we're
27:57
Speaker 5: going to be doing. We'll be right there doing Made
28:00
Speaker 5: of Stars live. We've not done this before with an audience.
28:03
Speaker 5: We've had a small group of people around before, but
28:06
Speaker 5: we've never had a big group of people before to
28:09
Speaker 5: do this. So we're hoping to fill up the auditorium there,
28:16
Speaker 5: and we would love to have you. It's free. I mean,
28:19
Speaker 5: we you know, want to pack the place out. We'd
28:21
Speaker 5: love to get as many of you there as possible.
28:23
Speaker 5: We've heard from many of you interested in coming to
28:26
Speaker 5: actually check out the show, so we're we're excited about
28:30
Speaker 5: the folks. We've already heard from, but November the first
28:33
Speaker 5: will be our very first Made of Stars Live. We
28:36
Speaker 5: hope to make this a regular event, so if we
28:39
Speaker 5: get a nice attendant, it's a nice turnout.
28:42
Speaker 4: No reason we can't do this again.
28:44
Speaker 5: It will be very similar to the show as far
28:47
Speaker 5: as content goes, but obviously we'll have some things there
28:50
Speaker 5: for those they'll be there attending live. So we're looking
28:52
Speaker 5: forward to having you guys come out and check out
28:56
Speaker 5: the show for us from Made of Stars Live. Now,
28:58
Speaker 5: this is the other good part of this because you're
29:00
Speaker 5: getting a two fer. Not only is it free for
29:04
Speaker 5: you to come check out Made of Stars Live. Immediately
29:08
Speaker 5: after there's Astronomy Night, which will also go for the
29:11
Speaker 5: great lolo price of free, so you can check out
29:15
Speaker 5: Doctor Rosa Williams and her team will be showing you
29:19
Speaker 5: the nighttime sky weather permitting, but also giving you a
29:23
Speaker 5: breakdown on what's in the sky and what you'll have
29:26
Speaker 5: a chance to look at there. So it'll be like
29:28
Speaker 5: a full night of things. But we'll go back to back.
29:31
Speaker 5: We'll do Made a Stars Live followed by Astronomy Night
29:33
Speaker 5: there at the Coca Cola Space Science Center, and we
29:36
Speaker 5: hope to see you there.
29:38
Speaker 2: Imagine this podcast as performance art. There you go, that's
29:43
Speaker 2: what it's going to be. And by the way, for
29:45
Speaker 2: those of you who have made it this far through
29:47
Speaker 2: the podcast today, thank you for listening all the way
29:49
Speaker 2: to the end. I promise to stop singing karaoke and
29:52
Speaker 2: blowing out my voice before the next Before that live
29:55
Speaker 2: podcast on the first of November, I will rehabilitate my voice.
30:00
Speaker 2: I appreciate your patience getting this far. But yeah, we're
30:03
Speaker 2: we're going to be you know, I imagine, you know,
30:06
Speaker 2: Made of Stars as a stage performance. It's a first
30:09
Speaker 2: for us and it's gonna be kind of interesting. We're
30:11
Speaker 2: gonna have absolutely as much fun as we possibly can,
30:14
Speaker 2: and then we're gonna go look at the sky with telescopes.
30:17
Speaker 2: How bad could it be for the low price of
30:19
Speaker 2: free ninety five? As Wes said, it's gonna be. It's
30:21
Speaker 2: gonna be free of charge, and we're hoping you come
30:24
Speaker 2: out and join us for that really fun event on
30:26
Speaker 2: November first, here at the Space Sign Center. That is
30:28
Speaker 2: a Saturday, by the way, so you know it's not
30:30
Speaker 2: it's not like a workday for the majority of folks.
30:33
Speaker 5: I would just like to also point this out speaking
30:35
Speaker 5: of your voice, and I appreciate you were a trooper
30:37
Speaker 5: to do this today with your your voice being a
30:40
Speaker 5: bit strained. I just want to point out that like
30:42
Speaker 5: a month ago, I had surgery on my neck that
30:45
Speaker 5: involved a human being navigating medical instruments and implements around
30:52
Speaker 5: all of my like esophagus and all of my voice box,
30:57
Speaker 5: everything just moving around in there to get it to
31:00
Speaker 5: my spine and do this surgery. My voice was a
31:03
Speaker 5: little raspye, and we did the next show after that
31:07
Speaker 5: with a little bit of rasp in my voice. And
31:10
Speaker 5: I don't talk nearly as much as you do, and
31:13
Speaker 5: yours sounds quite a bit more strained than I think
31:16
Speaker 5: mine did back then, and you do the majority of
31:20
Speaker 5: the talking. So I appreciate you for doing this today,
31:23
Speaker 5: and Sean and I do appreciate you listening, and we
31:26
Speaker 5: will do this again next week. Overhead Door Company of
31:36
Speaker 5: Columbus has all of your garage door needs covered, residential
31:40
Speaker 5: and commercial service and repairs. If you need a new
31:43
Speaker 5: garage door, you're just looking to upgrade or repair your
31:46
Speaker 5: current door, Overhead Door Company of Columbus has you covered.
31:50
Speaker 5: Plus they've got your emergency repairs or service covered as well.
31:54
Speaker 5: Seven oh six three five eight forty five hundred. Seven
31:57
Speaker 5: oh six three five eight forty five hundred d C
32:00
Speaker 5: Columbus dot com