Ep 345: Accidents and asteroids
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Accidents and asteroids
We didn’t notice it was going to be asteroid day until yesterday, but by coincidence, today is all about asteroids.
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Ep 344: Robots chasing tail
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Robots chasing tail
Once thought a portent of doom, or a sign of the impending death of kings, nowadays a comet makes a good target to launch a mission at.
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Ep 343: Five years of the lab, for reasons
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Five years of the lab, for reasons
We’ve been putting out episodes on science for five years. There’s no end in sight. You’re welcome, or we’re sorry, depending. In celebration we relax with a freeform episode, even drink a couple of beers. We do drift passed a bit of science, but only by accident.
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Ep 342: From Pluto, with love
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From Pluto, with love
If you count it as a planet, it is the furthest away and smallest. Whether or not you think it’s a planet, it might harbor life.
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Ep 341: There’s something on the wing!
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There’s something on the wing!
High winds, a segmented ring and other oddities confound us as we take a trip to Neptune.
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Ep 340: Uranus, as a whole
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Uranus, as a whole
Jokes aside, we take a more complete look at Uranus, the sideways planet.
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Ep 339: A brief probed toward Uranus
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A brief probed toward Uranus
Unexpected issues caused a very short episode about the seventh planet. Gave us a chance to go ahead and snicker at its name.
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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.
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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, so we relate them.
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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.
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