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What Mount Kilimanjaro Has To Do With The Search For Alien Life

What Mount Kilimanjaro Has To Do With The Search For Alien Life

FromShort Wave


What Mount Kilimanjaro Has To Do With The Search For Alien Life

FromShort Wave

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Length:
13 minutes
Released:
Mar 16, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Understanding how life survives in extreme Earth environments could point to ways life can survive on other worlds. Astrobiologist Morgan Cable talks to host Emily Kwong about how her missions here on Earth have guided two upcoming NASA missions in search for alien life, not in a far off galaxy, but here in our solar system. The Titan Dragonfly and the Europa Clipper missions will each explore an ocean world in our solar system, where scientists believe we could find life--life that may be unlike anything we've seen before. Today on Short Wave, life as we know it - and life as we don't know it.Learn more about the search for life in our solar system in the new planetarium show Living Worlds, now at the California Academy of Sciences: Thoughts? Questions? Pitches? E-mail us at ShortWave@npr.org.
Released:
Mar 16, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

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New discoveries, everyday mysteries, and the science behind the headlines — all in about 10 minutes, every weekday. It's science for everyone, using a lot of creativity and a little humor. Join host Maddie Sofia for science on a different wavelength.