Saving Science Education With Pamela Gay AND Creating the Blackest Black

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

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🗓️ 10 June 2013

⏱️ 35 minutes

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A Planetary Radio double header includes a visit with CosmoQuest’s Pamela Gay. She and colleagues are working to replace vital federal funds for science education and citizen science programs. We also go to the dark side with David Carnahan of NanoLab, developer of carbon nanotubes that may help us discover Earth-like planets. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Saving Science education and creating the Blackest Black, this week on Planetary Radio. planetary radio.
0:17.0	Welcome to the Travel Show that takes you to the Final Frontier.
0:20.0	I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society.
0:22.5	A double-headed in this extended podcast version of our show,
0:26.4	we'll have our usual conversations with Emily Loch Duwala and Bill Nye.
0:30.4	And then we'll turn to Pamela Gay, that astronomical star of online science media and
0:36.3	citizen science.
0:37.3	Pamela will tell us about the Hangout Athon for science that she and her
0:42.3	Cosmo Quest colleagues are planning, then we'll find out about
0:45.6	the blackest black surface ever created and how it may help us discover Earth-like planets.
0:51.7	We'll wrap up, as always, when we visit with Bruce Betts for
0:55.1	what's up. Emily I think it's great that you're giving folks a chance to
0:59.4	celebrate a sort of birthday in space an anniversary.
1:02.8	That's right, a slightly poignant one.
1:04.4	Today is the 10th anniversary of Spirit's launch to Mars.
1:08.0	And I was actually at Kennedy.
1:09.8	It's one of the two launches I've witnessed live. And so I'm going to bring up a planetary report
1:15.4	article I wrote about the launch.
1:17.1	It was pretty amazing experience to be standing there with the science team, Jim Bell and
1:21.1	Matt Gollumbeck and Joy Crisp and others watching this thing take off to
1:24.9	Mars.
1:25.9	I'm hugely envious.
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