2024.09.25 | Mars and Europa — Ocean Worlds?

On The Space Show for Wednesday, 25 September 2024:

Space Show News:

* Asteroid 2024 PT5 — The tiny asteroid 2024 PT5 will be temporarily 'captured' by Earth's gravity and become a ‘mini-Moon’.

* MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission orbits Mars for 10 years.

* Perseverance continues to investigate Mars, collect and cache rock samples.

Mars and Europa — Ocean Worlds?:

Debunking reports that the InSight lander has discovered Mars has a subterranean global ocean, and how the Europa Clipper mission will characterise the suspected global ocean beneath the frozen crust on Jupiter’s moon, Europa.

From the archives: What do we know about galaxy formation from the Chandra X-ray Observatory?

Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS: Having emerged intact from behind the Sun, it is now being observed from Australia and may become a daytime comet.

Fourteen Day Limit Busted! — Cosmonauts return to Earth after 373 days, further disproving a Soviet scientist's 1965 claim that the limit for human spaceflight would be fourteen days.

In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa by Ada Limón, dedicated to NASA's Europa Clipper mission.