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Host: Fraser Cain ( @fcain )
Special Guest: This week we are joined by Dr. Ingrid Daubar, Planetary Scientist from Brown University studying impact cratering within our solar system. Dr. Daubar is part of a team that has been using a new AI classification tool to identify geologic features on planetary surfaces, such as Mars.

 

Ingrid has been involved in planetary science for more than two decades. Her research interests include impact craters and other time-varying phenomena on terrestrial planets. She has participated in science and operations on multiple missions including MRO, InSight, Europa Clipper, and Juno.

 

Dr. Daubar’s research on small, recent impact craters on Mars and the Moon has allowed us to better understand the impact flux in the inner solar system, the chronology of recent events and timescales of geologic processes on these bodies, and the processes involved in modern-day cratering and modification over time of planetary surfaces.

 

You can learn more about Ingrid by visiting https://vivo.brown.edu/display/idauba....

 

To read more about how this new AI tool is helping scientists, go to https://earthsky.org/space/nasa-artif...

Regular Guests:

Dr. Brian Koberlein ( https://briankoberlein.com/ & @BrianKoberlein )

Moiya McTier ( https://www.moiyamctier.com/ & @GoAstroMo )

Dave Dickinson ( http://astroguyz.com/ & @Astroguyz )

This week's stories:

- The Great Attractor. (For John Suffil.)

- Arecibo Observatory is gone. :^(

- Chang'e-5 lands on the Moon.

- Big temperature changes in the Universe revealed.

- The center of the Milky Way is 2,000 LY closer!

- CMB's hidden message? https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.14435.pdf

- Solar eclipse coming up. or is it lunar...

- Geminids meteor shower this month.

- The Jupiter/Saturn conjunction Dec 21st, the winter solstice!

- Possible StarShip flight.

 

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