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In today's episode of star talk it's a cosmic queries where we learn all about the chip propulsion laboratories through the lens of its brand new director. Lori Leshin a geochemist an old friend actually and in there we learn about where we ever get to Europa is their mission on the books. And is JPL developing another telescope if it is what's it going to do and why all of that and more with my co who's Chuck nice. This is start off cosmic queries edition Neil deGrasse Tyson here your personal astrophysicist and I got check nice with me check my coast.

Could there be life under the icy surface of Europa? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic Chuck Nice explore interplanetary missions, asteroid mining, and other exciting launches with the Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Laurie Leshin.

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Photo Credit: NASA / Jet Propulsion Lab-Caltech / SETI Institute, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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