Universe Today Podcast Fraser Cain

Lava tubes are one of the most interesting places on the Moon. They can be a great place for a potential lunar base, but they also can be a time capsule that can tell us about the entire history of the Moon. And there's a very interesting mission in development that could explore lava tubes. It's called Lunar Leaper.


Guest: Dr Anna Mittelholz


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00:00 Intro
03:08 Lava tubes
07:31 Lunar Leaper
13:11 Hopping on the Moon
24:04 Going inside a lava tube
27:28 Mars lava tubes
30:44 Mars magnetosphere
36:45 Why don't they just ... crash things into Mars
39:34 Current obsessions
45:15 Final thoughts


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Starship is ready for its 4th flight, Webb finds the most distant galaxy ever seen, a new way to detect Hawking Radiation, and fresh volcanoes on Venus.


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00:00 Intro
00:14 Starship Flight 4 Coming Soon
01:55 Starliner might finally fly humans to space
02:47 James Webb sees the most the distant galaxy
04:58 New way to measure black hole rotation


https://www.universetoday.com/167127/a-new-way-to-measure-the-rotation-of-black-holes/

06:44 Possible way to see Hawking radiation


https://www.universetoday.com/167112/merging-black-holes-could-give-astronomers-a-way-to-detect-hawking-radiation/

08:32 Giant stars disappearing


https://www.universetoday.com/167171/hundreds-of-massive-stars-have-simply-disappeared/

10:42 Vote results
11:18 China's about to land on the Moon
13:07 Sorry, Spock! Vulcan is not a planet


https://www.universetoday.com/167161/sorry-spock-but-vulcan-isnt-a-planet-after-all/

14:28 Volcanos on Venus


https://www.universetoday.com/167156/volcanoes-were-erupting-on-venus-in-the-1990s/

15:39 Akatsuki lost connection
16:32 Cool images and videos
18:10 Newsletter
19:15 Missions to Venus


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Where can we observe the effects of dark matter? How did all satellites survive the recent solar storms? Why auroras can show different colours? If we found Planet X, could we even observe it? Answering all these questions and more in this week's Q&A show.


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00:00 Start
00:24 [Andoria] Where can we observe dark matter?
08:02 [Vulcan] How good are MOND theories?
11:21 [Risa] Why did we survive all the recent solar storms so well?
15:23 [Aeturen] Can we even see Planet X if it actually exists?
20:43 [Vendikar] Can multiple scientists use JWST at the same time?
24:23 [Remus] Can neutrinos be dark matter?
28:15 [Janus] Why some auroras are pink and not green?
29:50 [Cait] What is the Drake equation?
32:58 [Betazed] Falling into a black hole


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NASA selected the Agnostic Life Finder (ALF) for Phase 1 in 2024. It will be studying a possibility to search for existing and past life on Mars alongside the in situ resource utilization process. How will this device work and what potential implications could it have? Finding out with Dr Jan Spacek.


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00:00 Intro
02:23 The NIAC Proposal for ALF
17:25 Life as we don't know it
23:31 What's next for the NIAC project
27:45 The Morning Star mission to Venus
35:37 IMPRESS mission to Mars
43:55 Europa and Enceladus
50:19 Finding life
53:50 Current obsessions
55:33 Final thoughts


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A proposal for a giant new space telescope, a Venus-sized world in a star’s habitable zone, Vera Rubin gets its camera, and the first data release from Euclid.


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00:00 Intro
00:14 SALTUS: Giant 14m space telescope proposal


https://www.universetoday.com/167083/astronomers-propose-a-14-meter-infrared-space-telescope/

03:32 New ExoVenus planet found


https://www.universetoday.com/167096/a-new-venus-sized-world-found-in-the-habitable-zone-of-its-star/

05:07 Massive Protoplanetary disk


https://www.universetoday.com/167038/this-is-the-largest-planet-forming-disk-ever-seen/

06:24 Voyager-1's Back for Real


https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/05/22/voyager-1-resumes-sending-science-data-from-two-instruments/

07:27 China's space aquarium


https://news.cgtn.com/news/2024-05-19/Aquatic-antics-Fish-exhibit-disorientation-in-China-Space-Station-1tJt4wprXMY/p.html

09:11 Vote results
10:27 More Evidence for Gravitational Wave Background


https://www.universetoday.com/167058/more-evidence-for-the-gravitational-wave-background-of-the-universe/

13:09 Vera Rubin Got Its Camera


https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2413/

14:25 Euclid data release


https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Euclid/ESA_s_Euclid_celebrates_first_science_with_sparkling_cosmic_views

16:23 More space news
17:32 ExoVenus


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Getting to Enceladus is cool. However, it's not yet possible because there isn't enough budget for it. How can we make missions like that happen despite the budget limitations? Finding out the answers with Dr Manasvi Lingam.


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00:00 Intro
02:17 Why Enceladus
03:46 How can NASA cut costs
08:24 Mission profile
15:06 The science
24:23 Alternative approaches
31:21 Practical demonstration
37:44 Out of the box ideas
52:57 Current obsessions
58:41 Final thoughts


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