REACH: A Space Podcast for Kids is a weekly, family friendly exploration of our galaxy (and beyond!) with hosts Brian Holden and Meredith Stepien. Built for kids and based on questions from kids, REACH educates with entertaining segments, fun at-home experiments, and interviews with subject matter experts & thought partners from leading institutions like the Adler Planetarium, Cosmosphere, and more. Subscribe today, and get knowledge...within your Reach. A co-production between Soundsington Media and Sandy Marshall. Recommended for ages 8+
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episode 21: Life On Other Worlds! with Dr. Cynthia B. Phillips and Jaime Moyer
Could life exist on other worlds? What if the answer could be found on an ice covered moon of Jupiter? If you could go anywhere in the solar system, where would you go? We discuss all of this and more and have a visit with a very popular moon on this episode of REACH.
Hosts: Brian Holden and Meredith Stepien
Written by: Sandy Marshall with Nate DuFort, Meredith Stepien and Brian Holden.
Co-Created, Produced by: Nate DuFort and Sandy Marshall
Edited by: Nate DuFort
Music composed by: Jesse Case
Casting Consultant: Beth Kligerman
Logo by: Steven Lyons
Special thanks to:
Dr. Cynthia B. Phillips, Europa Project Staff Scientist and Science Communications Lead at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Io was played by good friend Jaime Moyer who you may know from voicing two characters on Bob's Burgers, NBC’s A.P. Bio, Modern Family and K.C. Undercover. Follow her on Twitter @Jaime_Moyer
Our friends at NASA Space Place, and Kay Ferrari at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory
To learn more about the NASA’s Europa Clipper Mission, visit https://europa.nasa.gov/
All about Europa: https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/europa/en/
All about Io: https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/jupiter-moons/io/overview/
NASA’s “Scientist for a Day” Essay Contest: https://rps.nasa.gov/scientist-for-a-day/
At-home activity: Looking for Life: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/teach/activity/looking-for-life/
Check-out NASA’s Ocean Currents Game: https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/ocean-currents/en/
And as always, a big hooray to our REACH learning community. Thank you to Hank and Ari. You can hear Hank and his mother Phoebe on their podcast The Adventures of Power Dog in Dogland! and you can hear Ari on his podcast At Your Level both available wherever you get your podcasts.
Do you have a space related question that we didn’t get to? Well, you can submit that question for our bi-weekly “Reaching Out” episodes. Just get your parents permission and give us a call at 312-248-3402 (or an email at ReachthePodast@gmail.com) and leave us a message with your first name, where you're from and your question for a chance to be featured in an upcoming episode.
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REACH: A Space Podcast for Kids is a production of Soundsington Media committed to making quality programing for young audiences and the young at heart. To find out more go to http://www.soundsingtonmedia.com