Host: Fraser Cain (@fcain)
Special Guests:
Maggie Scholtz (@martianmagster), who is a Mechanical Engineer working at JPL. She worked on the Curiosity Rover, primarily on the development of the drill and sampling system.
Guests:
Paul Sutter (pmsutter.com / @PaulMattSutter / AskaSpaceman.com)
Morgan Rehnberg (cosmicchatter.org / @MorganRehnberg )
Dave Dickinson (@astroguyz / www.astroguyz.com)
This Week’s Stories:
The Fact and Fiction of Martian Dust Storms
Amazing Video of an Exoplanet in Motion
More Pluto, take 3: Can it get any better??
Rosetta reveals comet’s water-ice cycle
NASA Wants Hoverboard Company Arx Pax To Build A Tractor Beam
China Conducts Debut Launch of Long March 6
Astronomers Identify a New Mid-size Black Hole
Agreement Signed for MICADO Camera for E-ELT
Pairs of Supermassive Black Holes in Galaxies May Be Rarer Than Previously Thought
From flight crew to Flight: NASA names its first astronaut-turned-flight director
The Key to Colonizing Mars Could Be These Tiny Green Microbes
SLS manifest options aim for Phobos prior to 2039 Mars landing
ULA selects Orbital ATK’s GEM 63/63 XL SRBs for Atlas V and Vulcan boosters
Boeing identifies CST-100 prime landing sites
Rosetta reveals comet’s water-ice cycle
NIST Team Breaks Distance Record for Quantum Teleportation
Researchers: Hot, Dense Material Surrounds O-type Star with Largest Magnetic Field Known
Sagittarius A: Milky Way’s Black Hole Shows Signs of Increased Chatter
Too big for its boots: black hole is 30 times expected size
A new study suggests the universe was ‘cooked’ just right as it evolved.
Hubble Zooms in on Shrapnel from an Exploded Star
ESA team wins America’s Cup of rocket science
New ‘stealth dark matter’ theory may explain mystery of the universe’s missing mass
Perplexing Pluto: New ‘Snakeskin’ Image and More from New Horizons
Eleven year cosmic search leads to black hole rethink
Gigantic Ice Slab Found on Mars Just Below the Planet’s Surface
NASA Thrusters Propelled by New Green Propellants Complete Milestones
IceCube Collaboration Announces New Observations on Cosmic Neutrinos and Dark Matter
Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument Will Measure More Than 30 Million Galaxies and Quasars
Synchrotron Emission Will Allow Astronomers to Find Stars That No One Has Seen Before
Solar wind casts a reddish hue over rocky objects
Antihydrogen at CERN, 20 years and going strong
NASA astronaut, five years after a bike accident cost him a ride into space, gets his chance
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