Professor Cristina Thomas talks about NASA's first planetary defense mission: DART. DART is a spacecraft that will impact a tiny asteroid moon. She explains why ground-based telescope observations are key to the mission's success.
69: Pinging passing asteroids with Dr. Naidu
68: Building a new instrument with Dr Hosseini
67: The most ambitious measurement ever made, with Dr. Reitze (Part 2)
66: The most ambitious measurement ever made, with Dr. Reitze (Part 1)
65: Black holes don’t suck with Dr. Gorjian
64: Hubble’s Tuning Fork with Dr. Seidel
63: Deciphering dark matter with Dr. Benson
62: Exoplanets and the fate of Earth with Dr. Schlaufman
61: Catching a photonic breeze with Dr. Betts
60: Data you can see, touch, and lick with Dr. Hunt
59: Where the universe was discovered with Dr. Mulchaey
58: The case of the missing Moon ice with Dr. Siegler
57: Voyaging to the edge of the Solar System with Suzy Dodd
56: Fiction Science with Mika McKinnon
55: Space is a team effort with Jan Chodas
54: The granite planet with Dr. Economos
53: How big? How far? How fast? with Dr. Beaton
52: Eternal sunshine of the Galactic Center with Dr. Ramirez
51: When Mars was the “Pink Planet” with Dr. Smith
50: Ganymede and Iapetus with Dr. Singer
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