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Jokes aside, we take a more complete look at Uranus, the sideways planet.
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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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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.
Continue reading Ep 338: Why is that moon spewing?
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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.
Continue reading Ep 337: Saturn’s invisible ring, and two faced moon
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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.
Continue reading Ep 336: Saturn’s strangest moon is such a gas
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You can’t look at Saturn without noticing the rings. So, we take a closer look at Saturn’s rings. The episode ended up a bit longer than usual as the closer you look at them, the more complicated they become.
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We get started with the second largest planet in the solar system with a look at strangely spinning strange things.
Continue reading Ep 334: Saturn spins me right round baby, right round
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In previous episodes, we talked of Jupiter’s rings, moons, and magnetic field. This time, we finally talk about the actual planet.
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We’ve save the best of Jupiter’s moons for last. Europa, which has a subsurface ocean that could hold twice the water as all of Earth’s oceans combined. What, if any, kind of life might we find there?
Continue reading Ep 332: It’s just like the ocean, under the moon
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This time we spend time with IO—the most volcanically active body in the solar system; and how it interacts with Jupiter’s magnetic field.
Continue reading Ep 331: The exploding, electrified moon