Noah Petro on NASA's Return to the Moon and the LRO - The Cosmic Companion June 15, 2021
Channel: The Cosmic Companion - Science Comedy, Astronomy
Date: 2021-06-15

This week on Astronomy News with The Cosmic Companion, we welcome Dr. Noah Petro, Project Scientist for the NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) to the show. We talk about exploring the lunar surface, the Artemis missions, and the return of humans to the Moon! 

But first, we visit the CHIME radio Telescope in Canada, which recorded 535 fast radio bursts coming from around the Cosmos. Then, we will zoom in on Jupiter's system of moons as the Juno spacecraft records the first closeup images in 20 years of the giant moon Ganymede. Next, we will take a look at a new study finding that moons orbiting gas giants could be home to water, even without a parent star.

Watch the video here, or listen to the podcast at: bit.ly/TCC-210615-pod