Europa Clipper’s Search for Life with Kevin Hand

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🗓️ 29 October 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Will we find life alive in our very own solar system? Neil deGrasse Tyson dives into the ocean worlds beyond Earth, exploring the Europa Clipper, and the search for life in our own backyard with astrobiologist and planetary scientist Kevin Hand.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Star Talk. Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.
0:09.0	Star Talk begins right now.
0:15.0	This is Star Talk.
0:17.0	Neil Degrass Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.
0:20.0	Today we're going to talk about Ocean World.
0:25.0	And we got with us a previous guest on Star Talk, Kevin Hand.
0:29.0	Kevin, Kevin, welcome back.
0:30.0	Hey, my pleasure and welcome to JPL. Oh yeah this is not my office is it?
0:35.4	You made a great trip out here? It's not my office. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah.
0:38.6	Yeah, in your turf at Pasadena, California, the Jet Propulsion Labs.
0:43.8	I don't ever presume that everyone knows
0:46.8	what those three letters stand for.
0:48.6	But you can take it for granted if you work here.
0:51.0	Everybody knows. I don't think everybody knows.
0:54.0	Jet propulsion labs and water worlds is your thing.
0:58.0	And my God, just at the dawn of COVID you had a book by that title.
1:04.0	That's right, alien oceans.
1:05.3	Alien oceans, there it is.
1:07.3	Typically when people think about an ocean world
1:10.1	other than Earth, they go straight to Europa at the top of everybody's list.
1:15.1	I don't know if it has a better PR agent or what.
1:18.9	And so, but if you abstract that idea and go to any place that might have sort of liquid in the world doing anything, that list goes up.
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