Jason and Stephen talk about the not-so-impending doom facing Phobos and a bunch of other news before being joined by Emily Lakdawalla from The Planetary Society to discuss the future of solar system exploration.

This episode of Liftoff is sponsored by:

• Luminos: A fantastic astronomy app, 10 years in the making! Now with an Apple Watch app for skygazing!
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Guest Starring:

Emily Lakdawalla

Links and Show Notes

Attempt no landing there? Yeah right—we’re going to Europa | Ars Technica

Sophomore Lit » Blog Archive » 011 Cat’s Cradle

Stanford astronomers observe the birth of an alien planet | Stanford News Release

Earth-Like Exoplanet May Be Too Radiation-Blasted to Host Life

An explosive quartet | ESA/Hubble

Astrophoto: Space station photo gets a seismic jiggle.

Space station suffers small power failure, but it can’t be fixed until next year | The Verge

NASA’s New Horizons Yields Wealth of Discovery | NASA

Mars’ Moon Phobos is Slowly Falling Apart | NASA

NASA's Deputy Administrator discusses agency's road-map to Mars in exclusive interview - SpaceFlight Insider

Astronomers spy most distant Solar System object ever : Nature News & Comment

Emily Lakdawalla | The Planetary Society

Emily Lakdawalla (@elakdawalla) | Twitter

Homepage | The Planetary Society

Blogs | The Planetary Society

Planetary Radio Program Archives | The Planetary Society

Europa (moon) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Enceladus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Uranus | Planets - NASA Solar System Exploration

Neptune | Planets - NASA Solar System Exploration