Liftoff 16: Like a Curtain in the Wind

This fortnight, Jason and Stephen travel the length of the Solar System to catch up on the news.

This fortnight, Jason and Stephen travel the length of the Solar System to catch up on the news.

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Links and Show Notes The strangest moon in the Solar System — Starts With A Bang! — Medium Alexander Kramer on Twitter: "@jsnell && @ismh , approx. sketch of Moon Draft 2016 and their owners. (@liftoffpodcast ) https://t.co/vw1lXO2Olv" Mimas (moon) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Callisto (moon) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin plans to start taking tourists into space in 2018 | The Verge Jeff Bezos Lifts Veil on His Rocket Company, Blue Origin - The New York Times Why did Blue Origin leave so many female space reporters out of its big reveal? | The Verge Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut: Mike Mullane: 9780743276832: Amazon.com: Books Watch Us Epically Fail NASA’s Astronaut Test | WIRED Hubble Team Breaks Cosmic Distance Record | NASA Methane Snow on Pluto’s Peaks | NASA Scientists think they’ve spotted clouds on Pluto, so they want to call it a planet again - Quartz Dawn's First Year at Ceres: A Mountain Emerges | NASA Dawn Mission | Dawn Home Page ESA - Robotic Exploration of Mars: The ExoMars programme 2016-2018 NASA officially delays its next mission to Mars until 2018 | The Verge NASA Targets May 2018 Launch of Mars InSight Mission | NASA Comet Flyby Threw Mars’ Magnetic Field Into Chaos | NASA How Do We Terraform Venus? - Universe Today SE2016Mar09T.GIF (1197×1547) An EPIC Eclipse : Natural Hazards NASA - Total Solar Eclipse of 2017 Aug 21 Emily Lakdawalla on Twitter: "Says Jupiter to Earth: So you think your lunar eclipse the other day was cool? I had two simultaneous moon eclipses. https://t.co/WqiV8gtIlW" Scott Kelly’s first days back on Earth — bananas, basketball, and Super Tuesday | The Verge Robot or Not? - a podcast from The Incomparable NASA JPL on Twitter: "Earlier today in a galaxy right here at home: #BB8 met our real robots and learned about @NASA's #JourneytoMars https://t.co/IMBPeK9hmS" NASA JPL on Twitter: "These are the droids you're looking for. #BB8 visited our historic clean room where real @NASA space robots are made https://t.co/s1EItwoF3a" We finally know how Mercury gets its dark gray color: an ancient carbon crust | The Verge Remote sensing evidence for an ancient carbon-bearing crust on Mercury : Nature Geoscience : Nature Publishing Group