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Under Alien Skies with Phil Plait

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

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The Biggest Solar Eclipse in Space History

This week in space history, Apollo 16 landed humans on the moon and 20 years later, 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was deployed. So that is a congratulations on that juice spacecraft getting launched. And it's headed off to Jupiter several years from now with solar panels to power it. The total area of the solar panels on juice is about the same as badminton.

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