Show Notes
On The Space Show for Wednesday, 1 October 2025: Artemis II Orion spacecraft named Integrity: * The crew of Artemis II explain the naming of their Orion capsule. (Courtesy NASA)
Parker Solar Probe Completes 25th Close Approach to Sun: * Mission scientists discuss the series of perihelion passes that brought the Parker Solar Probe as close as 6.1 million kilometres of the solar surface at a record setting speed of 687,000 km/h. (Courtesy GSFC) Juno at Jupiter: Io’s tidal response precludes a shallow magma ocean: * Scott Bolton (Southwest Research Institute), Shannon Brown (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), Alessandro Mura (National Institute for Astrophysics, Italy) and Ryan Park (Jet Propulsion Laboratory), discuss the findings by the Juno spacecraft about the internal structure of Io and Jupiter. (Courtesy American Geophysical Union and European Geophysical Union)
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