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Podcaster:  Host : Fraser Cain ; Guest : Jolene Creighton, Dave Dickinson, Kimberly Cartier, Morgan Rehnberg

Weekly-Space-HangoutTitle: Weekly Space Hangout: Dr. Michelle Thaller

Link: http://cosmoquest.org
Michelle’s new podcast:
http://orbital.prx.org/category/podcast/
Michelle’s website suggestions:
https://www.nasa.gov/
http://climate.nasa.gov/
http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/

You can watch the video in: http://youtu.be/aQOM95gIEZg

Description: This Week’s Stories:

  • Scott Kelly returns after a year in spaaaaace!
  • Ancient history on Mars. The Tharsis Dome has slipped its disk
  • The best places to surf Titan… Or ski… Or fly…
  • Back to Venus!
  • Fast Radio Bursts – Now with more repeating! Or not?
  • Super cool proposed NASA supersonic jet!
  • Life in the ice! The Hovering Underwater Vehicle’s implications for exo-life.
  • ESA’s International Village. ON THE MOON!

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. Michelle Thaller, (@mlthaller ), the deputy director for Science Communication at NASA HQ, from 2009 to 2015 she was the Assistant Director for Science at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. From 1998 to 2009 she was a staff scientist at the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center, and later Manager of the Education and Public Outreach program for the Spitzer Space Telescope, at the California Institute of Technology.

Guests:
Kimberly Cartier ( @AstroKimCartier )
Morgan Rehnberg ( MorganRehnberg.com / @MorganRehnberg )
Jolene Creighton ( fromquarkstoquasars.com / @futurism )
Nicole Gugliucci ( cosmoquest.org / @noisyastronomer )
Carolyn Collins Petersen ( thespacewriter.com / space.about.com / @spacewriter )

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