You may be familiar with some recent news about far-flung interstellar locations, like the Psyche Mission, Mars InSight Mission, and the Juno Mission to Jupiter.  Award-winning planetary scientist Dr. Sabine Stanley has been involved in some of these missions and is the author of the new book from Johns Hopkins Press, What’s Hidden Inside Planets? 

Thanks to Dr. Sabine and her team, our listeners can use promo code HPLAN for 30% off What’s Hidden Inside Planets? when you order from Hopkins Press at press.jhu.edu.

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We were lucky enough to have Sabine on the podcast to share all about it for this episode of People of Science. She also shares her non-traditional STEM Origin story that starts in a small mining town in the middle of an impact crater!

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More topics from this episode:

• How her interest in planetary interiors began.
• Some of the forces at work inside planets, and how they affect the surface and why to truly understand a planet on the outside, we must know what’s happening on the inside.
• Some of the forces at work inside planets, and how they affect the surface and why to truly understand a planet on the outside, we must know what’s happening on the inside.
• What the future holds for planetary exploration and if there are planets yet to be discovered.
•  What this planetary scientist thinks of Pluto, whether its a planet and the surprise of how YOUNG the King of the Kuiper Belt is after the New Horizons flyby
• Thoughts on Psyche, James Webb Telescope, OSIRIS-REx and more!

Let us know what you think about this episode in the comments! 

We'd love to know your thoughts and questions! Email us at [email protected]

SOURCES:

https://sabinestanley.com/aboutme/

https://sabinestanley.com/research/

Sabine Stanley, PhD, is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Planetary Physics at Johns Hopkins University focusing on magnetic fields and other geophysical elements as a means of studying the interiors of planets, moons, asteroids, and exoplanets. She is a 2011 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow and received the William Gilbert Award of the American Geophysical Union in 2010. She’s a participating scientist on the NASA Mars InSight mission investigating Mars’s ancient magnetic field and leads the Magnetism & Planetary Interiors (MagPi) research group at Johns Hopkins. Her work has been featured in National Geographic Magazine, Bloomberg View, CBC Radio’s Quirks and Quarks, and the Washington Post. She will be featured in the Summer 2024 BBC series “The Planets II,” and is the creator of The Great Courses lecture series “A Field Guide to the Planets.”

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Timestamps

00:00 Planetary science and the challenges of exploring deep into the Earth's interior

01:49 Planetary science origin stories and mentorship.

04:52 Mentors, college experience, and planetary science research.

10:43 Planetary science and the study of magnetic fields.

14:08 Planetary formation and classification.

17:23 Exoplanet exploration and potential for life detection.

23:47 Space missions to metal asteroid Psyche and asteroid Bennu.

27:10 Space exploration and the analysis of asteroids.

33:54 Meteorites, impact craters, and geology.

37:32 Gravity, mass, and time in planetary science.

41:27 Moon formation, Pluto's status, and New Horizons mission.

47:39 Scientists' reluctance to admit uncertainty.

51:10 Space exploration and scientific growth.