020 Moons and Planets with Francis Nimmo The Padverb Podcast with KMO

Francis Nimmo is a professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research specialty is understanding the structure and evolution of rocky and icy planets.


KMO and Francis discuss:


02:30 – The importance of the James Webb and other telescopes
03:40 – NASA probes, the AI connection, and technical challenges
08:30 – The possibility of finding life and the radiation factor
09:45 – Europa and Enceladus
10:42 – Breaking molecules at fly-by speeds
11:50 – Technology limitations and ambiguity in our search for life
14:40 – The question of independent emergence of life
16:05 – Subsurface oceans
18:40 – Moons
23:25 – Saturn's rings
26:05 – The Kuiper belt and beyond
28:00 – Autonomy and hibernation
29:25 – Gas giants vs ice giants
31:25 – Pluto
35:50 – Mission re-assignment
40:10 – Canned apes and getting to Mars
42:30 – Sci-Fi future we were promised
44:15 – Venus
49:40 – Mercury
53:45 – Comets
56:05 – The Earth
57:40 – Deep Time




Francis (The Guest):



websites.pmc.ucsc.edu/~fnimmo/
Francis Nimmo @ Wikipedia




KMO (The Host):



Twitter: @Kayemmo
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