The Cosmic Companion VIP Newsletter June 14, 2021 - Dr. Noah Petro on Our Return to the Moon

Interview with Dr. Noah Petro, NASA Project Scientist on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, plus 535 fast radio bursts seen by CHIME, new pictures of Ganymede, and more!

Looking forward to the return of humans to the Moon, as NASA and the world ready for the Artemis program.

The Juno spacecraft returns closeup photos of Ganymede for the first time in 20 years. Image credit: NASA/JPL/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS

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.

And… a brand-new sneak preview of Saturday’s adventure of Max on Mars!

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