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Planetary Radio • May 16, 2018
Why Mars? We’ve Got the Answers
On This Episode
Nicholas Agnew
Filmmaker, creator of Seat 25
Jeff Bingham
Consultant, former NASA Associate Administrator for Legislative Affairs
Jim Garvin
Chief Scientist for NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Janet Ivey
President at Explore Mars, CEO of Janet's Planet
Abigail Harrison
“Astronaut Abby”
Keri Kukral
Raw Science and the Raw Science Film Festival
Saralyn Mark, MD
iGiant founder and president
Artemis Westenberg
Explore Mars president, director and co-founder
Bruce Betts
Chief Scientist / LightSail Program Manager for The Planetary Society
Mat Kaplan
Senior Communications Adviser and former Host of Planetary Radio for The Planetary Society
The great adventure awaits! Mat Kaplan hosts an entertaining panel discussion at the 2018 Humans to Mars Summit in Washington DC. Eight guests provide their diverse and inspiring reasons for humans to visit the Red Planet. Bruce Betts later joins Mat to explore the Demon Star.
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This week's question:
Who was the first person to orbit the Moon alone in his spacecraft?
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Last week's question:
Who is the only person to have discovered planets or moons in the 18th century?
Answer:
The answer will be revealed next week.
Question from the week before:
What star is most commonly referred to as the Demon Star?
Answer:
The star Algol in the constellation Perseus is called the Demon Star. Its name means head of the ghoul or ogre in Arabic.
The first eclipsing binary in Perseus was found,
That changed in brightness often as its stars went round and round.
It's called an occultation when they circumnavigate
Around their common center as Algol will demon-strate!—Listener and PlanRad Poet Laureate Dave Fairchild