Podcaster: Host : Fraser Cain ; Guest : Dr. Matthew Golombek, Morgan Rehnberg, Kimberly Cartier, Nicole Gugliucci, Paul Sutter, Ramin Skibba
Title: Weekly Space Highlight: Dr. Matthew Golombek
Link: http://cosmoquest.org
You can watch the video in: http://youtu.be/oRxYj4jljy4
Description: This Week’s Stories:
– Are there Mars quakes?
– How hard would it be to grow potatoes on Mars?
– If we find life on Mars, how can we tell if it’s not Earth life?
– Does NASA have a ground-penetrating radar planned for Mars?
– How has the scientific perspective on Mars changed during our career?
– A planet orbiting a white dwarf breaks up!
– This week in Musk: Back to flight!
– More breakup news: An SMBH breaks up a star!
– Planet hunters find spiral arms in an accretion disk!
– Hubble uses gravitational lensing to study the earliest galaxies so far!
– New Horizons fires its thrusters to go to a new KBO.
– The NASA budget: Planetary science gets shafted again.
– Scott Kelly breaks the USA space endurance record!
– Most habitable planets have yet to be born.
– EXO Mars, a joint ESA/Roscosmos mission gets a launch date!
We record the Weekly Space Hangout every Friday at 12:00 pm Pacific / 3:00 pm Eastern. You can watch us live on Google+, Universe Today, or the Universe Today YouTube page
Bio: Fraser Cain is the publisher of Universe Today
Special Guest: Dr. Matthew Golombek, JPL Project Scientist for MER, and working on the NASA’s InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) Discovery Program mission.
And our regular guests are:
Morgan Rehnberg ( cosmicchatter.org / @MorganRehnberg )
Kimberly Cartier ( @AstroKimCartier )
Nicole Gugliucci ( cosmoquest.org / @noisyastronomer )
Paul Sutter ( pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter )
Ramin Skibba ( raminskibba.net / @raminskibba
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