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TIS#041 07/16/15 From the Deep Dark of the Third Zone
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31 minutes
Released:
Jul 17, 2015
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WEEKLY UPDATE/ LIGHTNING ROUND On this week's episode, Alex talks about the crazy first week after the single was released & Sara comes on to give a live first reaction to the newest Pluto/Charon pictures from New Horizons. Alex also has a new "Lightning Round" for what's new in Space this week! Check it out at the end of the episode Congratulations to the whole New Horizons team, NASA & to the American Space Program for such an amazing and successful mission that has only begun to amaze us! NEW TO PODCASTING? Go to the "WHAT THE HELL IS A PODCAST?!" Page CLICK FOR MORE ON PLUTO FROM TODAY IN SpacE PICTURES FROM THE THIRD ZONE Pluto & Charon in a Portrait just before New Horizons' final approach. July 11, "showing high-resolution black-and-white LORRI images colorized with Ralph data collected from the last rotation of Pluto." Image credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SWRI PLUTO "taken on July 13, 2015 when the spacecraft was 476,000 miles (768,000 kilometers) from the surface" Image Credit: NASA/APL/SwRI CHARON "taken at approximately 6:30 a.m. EDT (10:30 UTC) on July 14, 2015, about 1.5 hours before closest approach to Pluto, from a range of 49,000 miles (79,000 kilometers)." Image Credit: NASA-JHUAPL-SwRI PLUTO - Up close & Personal "The close-up image was taken about 1.5 hours before New Horizons closest approach to Pluto, when the craft was 47,800 miles (77,000 kilometers) from the surface of the planet." Image Credit: NASA-JHUAPL-SwRI SPACE LINKS: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/newhorizons/main/index.html https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/ https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2015/07/13/new-crew-at-launch-site-cubesat-deployments-begin/ http://qz.com/420267/how-a-bunch-of-government-space-geeks-at-nasa-won-the-internet/ New Horizons Arrives at Pluto https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSfU2uxoFUw
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Jul 17, 2015
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