{"id":117570,"date":"2020-12-23T20:22:33","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T04:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/episode-30-uranus-and-neptune-our-solar-systems-mysterious-ice-giants"},"modified":"2020-12-23T20:22:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T04:22:33","slug":"episode-30-uranus-and-neptune-our-solar-systems-mysterious-ice-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/episode-30-uranus-and-neptune-our-solar-systems-mysterious-ice-giants","title":{"rendered":"Episode 30 \u2014 Uranus and Neptune \u2014 Our Solar System\u2019s Mysterious Ice Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"420\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/h6rw5-f5d0bb?mix=1&vjs=1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>While Jupiter and Saturn have been stealing the headlines lately, this week on \u201cThe Cosmic Controversy Podcast,\u201d I\u2019m pleased to welcome planetary astronomer Heidi Hammel to talk about the ice giants Uranus and Neptune. They remain the largely forgotten gatekeepers to our outer solar system.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Renowned planetary astronomer Heidi Hammel and I chat about our solar system\u2019s mysterious ice giant planets, Uranus and Neptune. There\u2019s only been one flyby of these giant planets by NASA\u2019s Voyager 2 spacecraft back in the late 1980s. Hammel, who was part of the Voyager 2 science team, explains what that mission taught us about these objects and why we need to go back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Jupiter and Saturn have been stealing the headlines lately, this week on \u201cThe Cosmic Controversy Podcast,\u201d I\u2019m pleased to welcome planetary astronomer Heidi Hammel to talk about the ice giants Uranus and Neptune. They remain the largely forgotten gatekeepers to our outer solar system. Renowned planetary astronomer Heidi Hammel and I chat about our [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":380,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}