s3e3: Solar System Sanctuaries

In this season on life in the universe, it's time to look closer to home: what are the chances we will find evidence of life — present or past-tense — in the Solar System, our own back yard? Emily's fabulous colleague Dr Clément Moissard, plasma physicist at the University of York, joins us to discuss the search for life on Mars, on the icy moons of Jupiter and Saturn ... even on Pluto?! Surely not. It's a fascinating and fun conversation with plenty of surprises: Chris somehow missed the fact that we landed on Titan in 2005, Clément is super keen to visit mysterious Planet 9, and Emily just seems fixated on tasty space fish.

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Syzygy is produced by Chris Stewart and co-hosted by Dr Emily Brunsden from the Department of Physics at the University of York.

Some of the things we talk about in this episode:

• Our special guest Dr Clément Moissard

• Latest evidence for life on Mars?

• Water on Europa

• Life on Enceladus?

• The Cassini-Huygens mission

• Cassini’s Grand Finale and images

• Wait … we landed on Titan?

• Sample return missions from Mars

• JUICE mission to Ganimede

• Zeppelins on Venus?!

• There’s water on Pluto?!

• Planet 9