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EPISODE · Dec 15, 2015 · 28 MIN

Planetary Deep Drill: Join the Desert Field Test

from Planetary Radio · host Mat Kaplan

Drilling through many meters of ice to Europa’s ocean or to the pristine sub-surface layers of Mars will be hard. The Planetary Deep Drill prototype has shown that it may be a practical approach. Join Mat Kaplan and Planetary Society colleagues at the field test site deep in California’s desert. Emily Lakdawalla has good news from Venus and comet 67/P. Mat returns with Bruce Betts for What’s Up and a special, light-hearted feature celebrating relativity. Learn more about the show here:http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2015/1214-planetary_deep_drill.html

Episode metadata supplied by the publisher feed · Published Dec 15, 2015

Drilling through many meters of ice to Europa’s ocean or to the pristine sub-surface layers of Mars will be hard. The Planetary Deep Drill prototype has shown that it may be a practical approach. Join Mat Kaplan and Planetary Society colleagues at the field test site deep in California’s desert. Emily Lakdawalla has good news from Venus and comet 67/P. Mat returns with Bruce Betts for What’s Up and a special, light-hearted feature celebrating relativity. Learn more about the show here:http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2015/1214-planetary_deep_drill.html

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