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Episode 25 – One Giant Leap

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Welcome back to part two of our jaunt through space, as we explore what it would be like to walk around on different planets and moons in the solar system. In this episode, we’ll travel to the outer reaches of our solar system…and beyond!

Enceladus

Source: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) / Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) [Public domain]

Image of Cassini space craft diving through Enceladus’ plumes

Source: phys.org

Icy surface of Enceladus photographed by NASA’s Cassini space craft

Source: NASA

Titan

Source: NASA [Public domain]

Surface of Titan (artistic rendition)

Source: Benjamin de Bivort, debivort.org / CC BY-SA 3.0
Source: Steven Hobbs (Brisbane, Queensland, Australia)

Image of Titan’s surface, taken by Europe’s Huygen’s space probe on January 14, 2005

Source: ESA/NASA/JPL/University of Arizona.

Triton

Source: NASA/A. Tayfun Oner [Public domain]

Surface of Triton (artistic rendition)

Source: ESO/L. Calçada [CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)]
Source: Ron Miller / IFL Science

Image of Triton’s South Pole, taken by the Voyager 2 space craft

Source: NASA [Public domain]

Pluto

Source: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute [Public domain]

Surface of Pluto (artistic rendition)

Source: Ron Miller / IFL Science

View of Pluto from its moon, Charon (artistic rendition)

Source: Science Photo Library RF

Sunset on Pluto, taken approximately 11,000 miles above the dwarf planet’s surface, by the New Horizon space craft

Source: Nerdist
Source: Nerdist
Source: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

Kuiper belt

Source: flickr // European Southern Observatory / M. Kornmesser

Images of the asteroid 162173 Ryugu, captured by Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft

Source: (WP:NFCC#4)
Source: MASCOT/DLR/JAXA
Source: JAXA
Source: JAXA

Exoplanets

Kepler 16B (artistic rendition)

Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle

COROT-7B (artistic rendition)

Source: IFL Science
Source: ESO/L. Calçada [CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)]
Source: Amino

Kepler-22b (artistic rendition)

Source: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech [Public domain]
Source: Denisng [CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)]

TRAPPIST-1f (artistic rendition)

Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech [Public domain]
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech [Public domain]

Kepler-452b (artistic impression)

Source: NASA Ames/JPL-Caltech/T. Pyle [Public domain]

Kepler-186f

Source: NASA Ames/SETI Institute/JPL-Caltech [Public domain]

Neutron Star

Artistic renditions of a neutron star

Source: News Click
Source: Juric P / Deposit Photos
Source: Newsweek / Getty Images

Black Hole

Photo of supermassive black hole with a mass 7 billion times of the Sun, at the center of the galaxy Messier 87, taken by the Event Horizon Telescope

Source: Event Horizon Telescope [CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)]

Artistic impressions of black holes

Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech [Public domain]
Source: ESA/HUBBLE, ESO, M. KORNMESSER
Source: iStock/vchal

Planet Miller orbiting the supermassive black hole Gargantua, in the movie Interstellar

Source: Fandom

Music Credits:

  • “An der schönen, blauen Donau”, Op. 314 – Johann Strauss II
  • Binary Sunset (From “Star Wars: A New Hope”/Score) – John Williams, London Symphony Orchestra
  • Neutron Star sound from Elite Dangerous
  • Super Mario Bros. Theme (a.k.a. “Ground Theme” or “Overworld Theme”) – Koji Kondo
  • “Funiculì, Funiculà” – Luigi Denza 
  • “Fly me to the Moon” (originally titled “In Other Word”) – Bart Howard. Performed by Frank Sinatra
  • All other music from the YouTube Audio Library and the Immortal Soles Podcast
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