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The Next 10 Years of Planetary Exploration – The Planetary Society
Posted: March 26, 2020 at 6:18 am
Preparations at NASA are underway for creation of the next planetary science decadal survey, a roadmap intended to guide exploration of our solar neighborhood from 2023 to 2032. Six scientists, each considering a different world or class of objects, will share their thoughts and hopes. The Planetary Societys Emily Lakdawalla offers fun and fascinating science education suggestions for housebound families. Some lucky (?) listener will be getting a special message from Bruce and Mat if he or she wins the new Whats Up space trivia contest.
Bruce and Mat will record an outgoing message for your phone, if you dare.
Who was the first person to do a deep space EVA (extravehicular activity or spacewalk)? Deep space is defined as beyond low Earth orbit.
The Chandrasekhar limit is the maximum mass of a stable white dwarf star. In solar masses, what is the approximate value of the Chandrasekhar limit?
The winner will be revealed next week.
What is the second largest planetary moon in our solar system that orbits retrograde? (Neptunes Triton is by far the largest.)
Our solar systems second largest moon orbiting in retrograde is Phoebe at Saturn.
Mat Kaplan: [00:00:00] Planning the future through NASA's decadal survey, this week on Planetary Radio. Welcome. I'm Mat Kaplan of The Planetary Society with more of the human adventure across our solar system and beyond. They are intended to guide NASA's science and nearly the entire scientific community believes they are essential. As we approach formulation of the next decadal survey for planetary science, we'll survey the solar system through the eyes of six scientists. Like the rest of us, Emily Lakdawalla is learning to deal with the challenges of these strange times. My colleague is uniquely qualified to recommend ways to keep our minds and the minds of our children wandering the universe, even as we stay within our homes. She'll join us right after The Downlink headlines.
We'll close as always with Bruce Betts and What's Up. You'll get the chance to win a [00:01:00] personalized message from Bruce and me, if you want it. Here's this week's sample of the mission updates collected by Planetary Society editorial director Jason Davis for The Downlink. Like the rest of the world, the space community is being affected by COVID-19. All NASA employees except mission essential personnel are working remotely. Europe has taken similar measures, suspending its launches, even Buzz Aldrin is quarantined at home. It's unclear how severely the pandemic will affect upcoming mission schedules, but NASA officials say at least one is still on schedule for now, the Perseverance Mars Rover. Sadly, work on the James Webb Space Telescope has been halted by the pandemic.
There are signs that NASA's latest efforts to save the heat flow probe aboard the Mars InSight Lander may be working. The self-hammering instrument known as the mole has unsuccessfully been [00:02:00] trying to bury itself since March of last year. Engineers are now using InSight's robotic scoop to press down on top of the mole while it hammers. And when NASA astronauts make their first flight to the lunar surface as part of the agency's Artemis program, currently scheduled for 2024, they won't be making a pit stop at the Gateway, a small yet to be built lunar space station. NASA officials say they are still committed to building the Gateway later, but that it is no longer in the so-called critical path for the first moon landing, not counting Apollo of course.
More news and other great features are waiting for you online at planetary.org/downlink. You can also sign up to get The Downlink delivered to your inbox each week for free. Here's our solar system specialist, Emily.
Emily, thanks for joining me, uh, and this is such a critical time to be doing this. Of course, we are both doing it from home. [00:03:00] I know you're there with your daughters, uh, attempting to keep them busy and stimulated. My wife just left to, uh, go take care of our grandson while our, uh, our daughter works from home, and we're all looking at the same challenge. Those of us who are working with children and many of us, uh, [laughs] we're trying to keep our own minds busy. This is something you've given a lot of thought to I know over the years and it now seems more important than ever.
Emily Lakdawalla: Yes. Uh, it's certainly an interesting challenge for a lot of us to try to maintain our jobs and maintain our children's education, and maintain all of our sanity while we're stuck at home here.
Mat Kaplan: [laughs]
Emily Lakdawalla: Uh, we're actually doing pretty well. My daughters are older now. They're 13 and 10. The 13-year-old's, uh, schooling has transitioned seamlessly online. She's just going, uh, right along with all of her classes. The fifth graders, not so much, but she does have work to do every day. And then she is actually very good at keeping herself busy. But we all want to enrich our lives with science. We're all a little bored staring at the same four walls all day. So, let me give you a couple of ideas for [00:04:00] things you can do to keep the kids and yourself entertained, and then I can, uh, give you some suggestions for how to guide you in making your own activities up for your kids.
So first of all, uh, let's talk about just exploring museums from home. Most of the great museums around the world are really acting fast to put a lot of their exhibit materials online. Um, they've been doing this for years and years and now they're just foregrounding it all. And of course I'm gonna highlight the National Air and Space Museum whose two museums are now closed to the public, but they have something called Air and Space Anywhere where they have a, a single website that's a portal into all of their great online offerings. So you can go explore, uh, the United States' vast collections of space paraphernalia, aerospace, airplanes, spaceships, tours, uh, artifacts, all kinds of interesting things to look at and activities to do.
Another great activity, if you're interested in studying planets, is to study your own planet. And the Washington DC [00:05:00] Capital Weather Gang has something called Weather School for kids at home that they're operating off their Facebook page and they're encouraging children and their parents to go out and make observations of the world around them, of the changing weather, and those kinds of observations, they're science, it's the very first step into understanding how to make observations on other planets. So that's a really fantastic activity to do with your kids and it gets them outdoors as well. And observing how each day is different from the next day, which I think is really helpful right now when all the days seem to be blending together.
Mat Kaplan: [laughs]
Emily Lakdawalla: Um, the last ones, both, uh, more relaxed and I think really super fun, and that's something called Story Time From Space, where actual astronauts on the space station read books aloud while they are floating through the space station, and in different parts of the space station. The books that they read, a lot of them are picture books suitable for younger children, but they read middle school books as well. So, um, really kids of all ages and honestly even adults, uh, can really [laughs] enjoy [00:06:00] the astronauts, uh-
Mat Kaplan: [laughs]
Emily Lakdawalla: ... reading their books from station. Some of them are better reader than others, but it's all just wonderful. And periodically you'll see another astronaut floating around or, or hear pe-, hear cosmonauts talking in Russian in the background, and that's really fun.
The last couple of suggestions I have are back on The Planetary Society's website, planetary.org. A more passive, but really inspiring thing you can do is to just look through our vast space image library, planetary.org/images. We have so many gorgeous images from all over the solar system. If you look down at the bottom of each individual image page, there's keywords that you can click on and then you get a whole host of images that, uh, are tagged with that keyword. And so, um, there's so much to explore there. It's really fun. And then-
Mat Kaplan: It's a beautiful library. Yeah.
Emily Lakdawalla: Yeah. Um, I'm very proud of it. [laughs] So-
Mat Kaplan: You should be.
Emily Lakdawalla: Yeah. And then finally we actually have courses online that are suitable I think for both high school, uh, students and adults. I've created some space image processing tutorials where, uh, [00:07:00] I walk you through the very beginning steps of learning how to process space images. And of course, uh, uh, Dr. Bruce Betts has his own, um, uh, solar system, introduction to the solar system classes. You can get those at planetary.org/bettsclass, and you can take a whole course on the solar system. And so, uh, all of those things I think would be great activities for kids of all ages.
Mat Kaplan: And I got one more to mention and that is the course on how to become a space advocate. Maybe you already are in your own mind, but if you want to make it happen in the real world, there's Casey Dreier's course, uh, for that as well. All three of these are terrific, and of course we got much more on the website. You might want to check out The Planetary Report. Uh, that new Equinox, Vernal Equinox edition is, uh, available right now. And, uh, that's, uh, something, Emily, that, uh, you had tremendous influence over up until just recently when now that you've moved on to, uh, other things. Listen, we still have some time, at least for our podcast listeners, there's so much content out there, not all of it at the [00:08:00] level of quality of the, uh, stuff that you've just described. How can parents and others figure out, uh, what's worth giving time to?
Emily Lakdawalla: Well, fortunately there's guidance in something called the science standards, and every single state has its own set of standards, but an awful lot of them are guided by something called the Next Generation Science Standards. They're sort of a-a guide to the kinds of topics that are suitable for children. And it's not just, uh, a list of topics like, "In first grade you study Earth." No, it's not that simple. It's not about the, the subject matter. It's about the kinds of scientific work that kids of different ages can be expected to do. So I went to the Next Generation Science S-standards website and I just pulled the standards for one particular topic, which is Earth's place in the universe. And so you can see how at different grade levels, uh, the standards ask kids to, um, be able to think about Earth's place in the universe in different ways.
For a first grader or a second grader, [00:09:00] you might expect children to be able to make observations of the Earth at different times of year and relate the amount of day light to the time of year. So you might ask kids to notice when the sun rises, when does it set? They're also learning at that age, how to read time on clocks. And so you can tie reading clocks with looking at when the sunrises and the sunsets. And that's the kind of activity that's appropriate for six-year-olds, five- and six-year-olds.
When you're looking at older kids like who are, you know, nine to 10, fifth grade in the United States, they're expected at that age to develop and use a model of the Earth, sun, moon system to describe the cyclical patterns of lunar phases, eclipses of the sun, and moon. You can see how as kids get older, they're expected to be able to, um, uh, tie their observations to mental models, to things, pictures that they can hold in their head about how Earth, and sun, and moon move with respect to each other. You can't expect a six-year-old to do that, but you can expect a 10-year-old to do that kind of thing. In middle school, [00:10:00] they're expected to understand the role of gravity in motions of the solar system. And you know, it goes on to be more sophisticated as you get kids older and older.
Mat Kaplan: This is terrific. I mean, it's not just learning science, it's learning how to think, uh, how to be rational and, and appreciate everything that's around us. I, I, I think this is just, uh, terrific. So how can people learn more about these standards?
Emily Lakdawalla: Well, you go to the Next Generation Science Standards website and they actually have a really easy form that you can use to plug in the age of the child and the topic area that you're interested in, whether it's Earth and the solar system, or biology, or some other topic. And then you can ask it to spit out, uh, the kinds of topics, the kinds of, uh, subjects and also provides you with a, um, a download of the parti-, of a much longer description of the standards for that particular age. I highly recommend that the parents who are doing science education for their own kids to go there and read. And it helps you understand the, the capability of your child at their [00:11:00] particular age. Um, what they're able to, um, hold in their heads and observe at the same time, and the kinds of reasoning you can expect them to be able to do given their age. It's really valuable.
Mat Kaplan: Great. Great suggestions, Emily. Thank you so much for all of these. There is one more thing that I'm going to mention. Uh, and I only just learned about it in time for us to record this segment. Some of you out there may be able to participate in it live. If not, my assumption is though, I'm not sure, I believe I, I, it's hard to believe that they would not make this available as a recording on demand after the fact. But I was contacted, uh, minutes ago by Danica Remy who is a co-founder of Asteroid Day, and Asteroid Day has gotten together with space agencies around the world, especially the European Space Agency, on Thursday, Thursday, um, evening for some of us, Thursday morning for others, they are going to put together a series of live webcasts. Uh, you can find out about it [00:12:00] at spaceconnects.us, spaceconnects.us.
It's, uh, going to start at 3:00 PM GMT. That would be 8:00 AM Pacific Time. It's in five different languages, beginning with Dutch. The English broadcast will begin at 7:00 PM GMT. That's noon Pacific Time, Pacific Daylight Time, on Thursday, March 26th. Uh, the English portion will be hosted by physicist and science communicator, Brian Cox. So that alone would be worthwhile. But they are put, they have put together this tremendous list of celebrities, of scientists, and of astronauts. I mean, just in the English portion, uh, they've got Tim Peake from the UK, Tom Jones and Nicole Stott, both, uh, past guests on Planetary Radio. We don't have time to read all of these, but, uh, it is well worth checking out. Again, you can find out more at [00:13:00] spaceconnects.us, us. It's not continuous over this period. There are four half hour programs in Dutch, German, Italian, and French, and then an hour of English. Again, that's at 7:00 PM GMT and noon PDT.
Emily, if nothing else, most of us can go outside, stand in the yard or in front of wherever we live, and look up at the night sky if we're lucky enough to have a clear one, or maybe out the window. Because as, uh, my wife said, uh, just before she left to take care of our four-year-old grandson, we can all keep looking up. Thanks very much, and, um, keep sheltering in place.
Emily Lakdawalla: [laughs] And I'll be putting some more stuff out on video as time goes on. So, stay tuned to planetary.org for that.
Mat Kaplan: That's Emily Lakdawalla, our solar system specialists keeping our own minds and the minds of lots of children hopefully, uh, very busy during this unprecedented time around planet Earth. A new edition of The Planetary Report has been available to all for a [00:14:00] couple of weeks now. You'll find the digital version of the magazine at planetary.org. It offers a lot, including a main feature called The Next 10 Years, an introduction to the decadal survey. While there are surveys for each of the four science divisions of NASA, we're going to limit ourselves to planetary science.
The current survey's term ends in 2022. A new planning effort is just getting underway. It will lay out a recommended path for 2023 through 2032. It's remarkable how effective this process has been. With oversight by the National Academy of Sciences, it relies on scores of scientists for its formulation, with thousands more carefully following its progress and many attempting to influence it.
As the effort kicks off, The Planetary Society has invited six distinguished planetary scientists to give us an idea of what to expect. We'll hear from three of them [00:15:00] this weekend, and continue the conversations next week. We begin with Edgard Rivera-Valentin. Ed is a staff scientist with the USRA, the Universities Space Research Association, at the Lunar and Planetary Institute.
Ed, welcome to Planetary Radio. I, I guess from reading about you, we could have talked to you about, just about anything in the solar system since your interests are, are pretty much in everything, at least out as far as the outer planet. But you, uh, got Mercury in this, uh, issue, the current issue of The Planetary Report. I'm glad that we can start with you there and we'll work our way out from the sun as we, uh, progress through talking, uh, to your colleagues, who also contributed to, uh, the magazine this time around. And let me just say again, welcome.
Edgard Rivera-Valentn: Thank you. Thank you. I'm happy to be talking to you.
Mat Kaplan: Mercury, fascinating little world. As you look over the last 10 or 20 years, we've learned a lot about this little world, haven't we?
Edgard Rivera-Valentn: We definitely have. Um, Mercury [00:16:00] is I'd say one of the more interesting ones. Um, and I was happy to write about it because we've gotten so much radar data on it. One of the first weird things that we found on Mercury was the discovery that its poles might have ice. So you wouldn't expect that when you're talking about the planet that's closest to the sun, right? Uh, you'd imagine a very hot world, there's no way you could have water or ice there. Uh, radar return from both the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico and the Goldstone Solar System Radar showed that there was definitely something very bright right at the poles. And later, once we were able to send, uh, a spacecraft to Mercury, we were able to say, "Yep, there's definitely ice here," and there's still a lot of work going on trying to decipher what that ice is, how did it get there, and how is it forming or was it delivered? There's still a lot to learn about Mercury.
Mat Kaplan: So that's one of the things you'd like to learn more about.
Edgard Rivera-Valentn: Yeah.
Mat Kaplan: And i-i-is this ice, is it the same situation that we have on the moon where it's in these [00:17:00] permanently shaded areas that, uh, keep the sun from hitting it directly?
Edgard Rivera-Valentn: Correct. Yeah. So Mercury, it's still in its topography is in such a way that at the poles, some of the craters will have parts of them that will be permanently shadowed. They will never see the sun. And because of that, those areas actually can be really, really cold. Um, there you'll be able to store ice either right at the surface or right below the surface, covered by some regular. There are a little bit differences between the type of ice that we think we're seeing at Mercury versus the type of ice that we're seeing at the moon, because when you zap the moon with radar, the returns would tell you there's no such thing as ice there.
Mat Kaplan: Hmm.
Edgard Rivera-Valentn: Versus Mercury where it was immediate, there's definitely ice there. So we're thinking that the ice that's at the moon, it's, it's not a lot. It's port fi-, it's what we call port filling. So in the right width or the soil, there's some water ice that's filling in some of the holes inside the soil. While [00:18:00] on Mercury, it might be more like slabs of ice and ...
On Mercury it might be more like slabs of ice and-
Mat Kaplan: Huh.
Edgard Rivera-Valentn: ... soil mixed together. So there's a larger fraction of ice there compared to [inaudible 00:18:08].
Mat Kaplan: What else do we still want to know more about on mercury? I mean, after all, I mean, you mentioned other spacecraft. We had the Messenger spacecraft visit there, uh, and do terrific work up until recently. And, uh, this European spacecraft, BepiColombo, will be arriving before too long to, uh, tell us much more.
Edgard Rivera-Valentn: Mercury is more than just the ice. That's one of the things that I really like about it. Mercury is enigmatic from all the way from its formation. The type of data that we've gotten back from Messenger shows us that if you look at Mercury from a geophysics perspective it's mainly a core. About 85% of the volume of Mercury is its core. How did that even happen? Did you have... Did it form that way? Did it form by a bunch of objects that were just really metallic [00:19:00] and all of those metals ended up suddenly into a core or at one point or another they had a large impact combine strip away those outer layers leaving behind, uh, maybe just a mantle covering the core? We still don't know that part.
And also from a solar system formation perspective, uh, in a lot of these models that we use to try to understand how all the planets formed Mercury is really close to what's called one of those boundary conditions, the outer edge of those simulations. So we really can't quite get to making a Mercury. We can reproduce everybody else, but making a Mercury is a little bit more difficult in these types of models. We're getting some hints by looking at exoplanets, but we're still a little unsure how you even get a Mercury. Not only how do you reproduce the interior of it but how do you make it where it's at?
So there's a lot of information to learn about the interior of its body. From a geology perspective, it's covered in [00:20:00] just volcanic plains. There's pyroclastic deposits everywhere. So it was definitely a very active world at one point or another, even though we're seeing a quote unquote dead world today, but some of the data that Messenger brought back is showing us that it's actually still changing. It's contracting. So that's still changing its geology. ,
So BepiColombo when it gets there around... Let's see here. It launched in 2018. BepiColombo should get there on 2025. Um, it's still going to be elucidating a lot of these very important, very fundamental questions for Mercury. How did it form? How the heck do you get the interior, um, to be with something such a large core? And can we better understand the volatiles and the geochemistry that we're seeing on the surface?
Mat Kaplan: And there's one more factor which you mentioned in your TPR, uh, article, and that's the [00:21:00] magnetic field of Mercury, which is something that I... We've had conversations in the past with Sean Solomon about. Of course, he was the PI for the, the Messenger mission. It's still something that we need to learn more about?
Edgard Rivera-Valentn: Oh, for sure. The more you learn about magnetic fields the... in planetary science, the more you know that we don't understand them. [laughing] Um, that's the best way I could, uh, describe my mag- magnetism. Yeah, so there's still a lot to learn about how, uh, Mercury is actually generating its magnetic field precisely, better measurements, uh, across the planet at distances so we could better characterize it. BepiColombo will definitely be unraveling a lot from that perspective. I'm... That is one of the fields I am definitely not an expert in. It's just one of those, "Oh, that's really neat." [laughs]
Mat Kaplan: From everything that you've talked about, it sounds like just like with all the other bodies in the solar system, Mercury can teach us a [00:22:00] lot about everything in the solar system and maybe worlds outside the solar system as well. Am I, am I right about that?
Edgard Rivera-Valentn: Yeah, for sure. The more we understand the diversity of worlds that we have in our own solar system the better we can understand not only our place in our solar system but also put into context all this new data we're getting from exoplanets. Understanding each and every world, including the first world, Mercury, helps us in getting a better understanding of how even the entire galaxy works.
Mat Kaplan: I got one I got to ask you just because of my science fiction interests. Uh, it's gonna be a little bit out of left field. When I was growing up, when I was a kid, a long time ago, people thought that Mercury was tidally locked, that, uh, it always had one side facing the sun, one side facing away from. We know now of course that that's not the case, but it does rotate pretty slowly. Are you familiar with... There was a great book by a Kim Stanley [00:23:00] Robinson past guest on our show, 2312. And in it it's got a lot of highly speculative, marvelous stuff. He actually talks about a city on Mercury appropriately called Terminator, and this city crawls along tracks so that it can always stay in that twilight zone, the terminator zone. Uh, so that it's neither frozen nor roasted. I... A completely novel idea or have you ever heard of this?
Edgard Rivera-Valentn: No, I have not read this. Now I need to.
Mat Kaplan: I highly recommend it. There's a lot of other stuff in it like, like colonies on Io where I'm not sure I would ever want to even visit much less live there. It's an absolutely fascinating and... As is Mercury. I appreciate your taking a few minutes to, uh, introduce us to it. And I, I hope like with all of the, the articles by your colleagues, uh, that people will take a look at the digital version of the Planetary Report, which is available at [00:24:00] Planetary.org. I've got just one more question for you. I know you're very involved with sharing science, uh, with the larger community and including young people, and there's one, one group in particular I'm curious about. Correct me if I get it wrong, but I think it's the Boricua Planeteers. Why... What's that about?
Edgard Rivera-Valentn: Yes. So Boricua Planeteers is a group of Puerto Rican planetary scientists, including myself and a bunch of my friends from PR. We're spread across the US. The point of the group is to increase the visibility of latinx, specifically in this case, Puerto Rican scientists, but to also bring back planetary science to Puerto Rico. So PR we have the Arecibo Observatory, right? The best radar telescope, the second largest radio telescope. But education wise on the island astronomy hasn't been one of the major focuses. In fact out of the about a 100 universities that we have in Puerto Rico only three offer [00:25:00] bachelors degrees in even physics. And there's no astronomy degree granting program in PR yet.
So we thought of putting together this group to be able to increase the ability for students to get into planetary science, to give them those opportunities in Puerto Rico and across the US, and to let people know that there are such thing as latinx scientists doing really cool science.
Mat Kaplan: That's outstanding. Great outreach work and, and great science, uh, to compliment it. Thanks so much, Ed. I- I'm a very glad that, uh, you could join us to kick off this, uh, coverage of what's ahead the next 10 years for our solar system.
Edgard Rivera-Valentn: Thank you so much. It was a pleasure.
Mat Kaplan: Edgard Rivera-Valentin of the Lunar and Planetary Institute. We'll take up Venus next right after a brief break.
Deborah Fischer: Hi, I'm Yale astronomer, Deborah Fischer. I've spent the last 20 years of my professional life searching for other worlds. Now I've taken on the 100 Earths Project. We want to discover 100 earth sized [00:26:00] exoplanets circling nearby stars. It won't be easy. With your help, the Planetary Society will fund a key component of an exquisitely precise spectrometer. You can learn more and join the search at planetary.org/100earths. Thanks.
Mat Kaplan: Continuing our survey of the solar system, we move out one big rock from Mercury for a conversation with Joseph O'Rourke. Joe is an assistant professor in the school of earth and space exploration at Arizona State University. He serves on the steering committee of NASA's Venus exploration analysis group. Joe, welcome to Planetary radio as we, uh, continue our little tour of the solar system looking 10 years out. Glad to have you here.
Joseph O'Rourke: Thank you so much for having me. I'm excited to talk about Venus.
Mat Kaplan: You say that it is the most Earth-like planet that there is. You're not the first person I've heard say that, but it still sounds slightly outrageous. Can you make that case?
Joseph O'Rourke: Yes. If we were an alien astronomer looking at our [00:27:00] solar system using the same telescopes that we use to study exoplanets today Earth and Venus would be indistinguishable. They have the same mass, the same radius to within reasonable uncertainties. Venus is just a tiny bit smaller than earth and they're both compositions are similar. So if you were an alien astronomer looking at our solar system to first order you would think that Venus and Earth are similar planets.
Of course, when you look more closely Venus is different than Earth in terms of its habitability. Venus is a hellish wasteland, whereas Earth has been [inaudible 00:27:35] for billions of years. If we want to understand anything about rocky planets, we need to understand why Venus and Earth are so different on the surface, but so similar in almost every other respect.
Mat Kaplan: You take me back to when I was a little kid. I remember seeing artists' concepts of the surface of Venus and it looked like something from 65, 70 million years ago on earth. [00:28:00] Huge plants. It was hot. It was tropical, and, you know, something like dinosaurs wandering around and then we got this rude awakening, right, which partly came from people like one of our founders, Carl Sagan. It's kind of toasty down there, a lot more than tropical.
Joseph O'Rourke: Yes, exactly. Uh, science fiction books would show pictures of a jungle Venus because we thought we... We've known for a long time that Venus has clouds that cover the entire surface. Early astronomers thought those might be water clouds like on Earth, uh, in which case Venus would be a sort of swampy muggy world. But we now know that those clouds are sulfuric acid. The atmosphere is over 90% carbon dioxide, and the surface temperatures on Venus are hot enough to melt lead. So not a place you'd want to spend much time.
Mat Kaplan: That is the great cliche yet so true. Don't bring anything made out of lead to the surface of Venus on-
Joseph O'Rourke: Yes.
Mat Kaplan: When you visit there as a tourist. Okay. So then along comes Magellan, that [00:29:00] enormously successful spacecraft. It's hard to believe that it arrived at, uh, at Venus 30 years ago. I love that you pointed... point out that you were 10 days old when it happened. And we learned a little bit more about, uh, Venus because we were finally able to look through those clouds with, with some kind of accuracy, right?
Joseph O'Rourke: Exactly. You can't see the surface with visible light, but you can see the surface with radar and in a few spectral windows using infrared light. So the Magellan mission produced these amazing global maps of the surface with a resolution of just over 100 meters per pixel. And those geologic maps revolutionized our understanding of Venus basically by revealing that we have no understanding of Venus. [laughing] The surface geology, it's, uh, revealed that Venus is... has a young surface. It's an active world, but the surface geology is unlike any other planet in the solar system.
Mat Kaplan: The only other two spacecraft, Venus Express, it's done did... finished its work in [00:30:00] 2014, Akatsuki, that that plucky little spacecraft that had such trouble getting into orbit, but it's still there today doing some work. Have we learned much more from them and, and what about?
Joseph O'Rourke: Yes, we've learned tons from both of those fabulous missions. My own background is in geophysics and geology. And those two missions were designed to study, uh, atmospheric science, uh, but Venus Express in particular carried an infrared instrument that provided some constraints on the surface. It's provided these fascinating hints that terrain called tessera on the surface might have granite light compositions, which would mean that they are analogous to continents on Earth and signatures of abundant liquid water at some point in the past. Japanese mission has discovered, uh, an array of amazing meteorological features, uh, such as this huge, uh, stationary wave in the atmosphere. And it's produced some of the best maps of 3D wind speeds in the Venus [00:31:00] atmosphere.
Mat Kaplan: That has, uh, come up, uh, before on our show, a little bit of, uh, those results from Akatsuki. Uh, we all know that there still nevertheless has been this long drought in, uh, missions to Venus as you mentioned, but maybe it's going to come to an end. You must be pretty thrilled as a Venus guy to see that, uh, there are a couple of missions that are now being considered as finalists or semi-finalists anyway, no finalists I think, by NASA.
Joseph O'Rourke: I would call them finalists. Uh-
Mat Kaplan: Yeah.
Joseph O'Rourke: Yes, the VERITAS and the Da Vinci Plus missions. Um, NASA should pick both of them. [laughing] The science, uh, that both the missions would do does not really overlap. They aren't redundant with each other. And the Venus community has consistently said that the science goals of these missions are top priorities for the Venus community.
Mat Kaplan: Would either of these or maybe both be able to give us some more evidence about those strange structures that indicated [inaudible 00:31:56] you, you say in the article, it's possible that once upon a [00:32:00] time Venus was a very different place and maybe it did have oceans as we have today on Earth.
Joseph O'Rourke: Yes. The VERITAS mission is the natural successor to Magellan. It would use a updated radar instrument and a much better infrared camera, uh, to return data that are at least in order of magnitude, often many orders of magnitude, better than Magellan. So I really want to see the VERITAS mission fly in order to answer some of these questions that the community has debated answers to over the past three decades. I would say that Venus absolutely has volcanic activity and tectonic activity that have occurred in recent times. Uh, we have lots of powerful evidence for recent volcanism on Venus.
Mat Kaplan: Mm-hmm [affirmative].
Joseph O'Rourke: You see what looked like volcanic flows that are probably fairly young and there are chemical species in the atmosphere that would decay within a few million years if they weren't being constantly replenished by volcanoes, uh, in recent times, at least what counts to [00:33:00] geologists as recent times.
Mat Kaplan: We all know that you, you geologists, your, your timescales are a little bit different from those of us who just deal with, uh, lifetimes of humans. Wha- what are we talking about? Millions of years ago or, or tens of thousands of years ago.
Joseph O'Rourke: Arguably tens... as early as tens of thousands. Uh, what would be really exciting with the mission, again, like VERITAS is you can use modern radar techniques to study active surface de- deformation at Venus. And so you could possibly see much stronger evidence for, um, active meaning today, not just geologically recent volcanism on Venus.
Mat Kaplan: So I take it that the radar we're talking about that we would be able to send now all these decades after Magellan would deliver far better performance than Magellan could.
Joseph O'Rourke: Absolutely. The maps of the surface of Venus we have now are comparable to what we had for Mars in the 1970s. And I think it's time that, uh, the most interesting planet in our solar system, uh, that we had comparable data from it, uh, that [00:34:00] we can achieve on any other planet.
Mat Kaplan: Let's go to a, a theme which I think is going to run through every one of these conversations, uh, with you contributors to the current issue of the Planetary Report, and that is how the study of a word like Venus can help us understand other worlds in our solar system and of increasing importance the worlds, we're discovering the thousands of them that we find circling other stars that we, we talk about a lot on this show.
Joseph O'Rourke: Yes. I think the exoplanet revolution is one of the most powerful motivations for further exploration of Venus. If we don't understand why Venus and Earth are different than we don't know in general how rocky planets evolve and what governs whether they're habitable or not. And in that case, if we can't understand Earth and Venus it's useless to speculate about the possible fates of, uh, rocky worlds around other stars. If we can't understand the exoplanet in our own backyard, [00:35:00] uh, how will we understand the exoplanets that we can't go out and touch, go out and observe at, at close range?
Mat Kaplan: Well, best of luck to you and all the other Venus scientists out there who have their fingers crossed that, uh, NASA picks at least one and to make, uh, you happy, both of those venous missions which are now being considered as discovery class missions and would, and would visit Venus for the first time in, well, quite a few years. Before I leave you though, I got to ask you, you, you warned me. In fact, we had to change the time of our conversation a little bit because you had to, uh, have a meeting with some folks from JPL. I'll say a remote meeting because of course you are observing social distancing like the rest of us. And you mentioned that it had something to do with a, a proposal that you guys have for a mission. What's this about?
Joseph O'Rourke: I am the principal investigator of a mission called Athena, which is a small sat about the size of a mini fridge before we extend the solar panels that would visit one of the largest [00:36:00] asteroids in the main asteroid belt, uh, to understand how [inaudible 00:36:04].
... -roids, and the main asteroid belt, uh, to understand how water-rich it is. To understand how water has influenced its, uh, formation and evolution, and thus to understand, um, how the, uh, planetesimals that were formed on the asteroid belt may have delivered water to the inner solar system in the earliest epoch of planet formation.
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There needs to be a full review of the costs that will arrive from the ban on fossil fuels – HeraldScotland
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YOUR article on the costly subsidies given out to the smart meter industry ("Costly smart meter plan has not been very clever", Herald Business, March 24) highlights the huge payments provided to the renewables industry that receive little attention from the politicians at Holyrood.
The problem in Scotland is that the consequences of such policies are never debated yet there is a proposal from the CEO of Scottish Power that, as renewable energy is too expensive, the cost must be transferred to the taxpayer. Voters are still awaiting a response from the Finance Secretary as to whether she will include such a policy in her party manifesto for the 2021 election. The mistake by Alex Salmond and his deputy in failing to ensure that the English interconnector was expanded in line with every planning application for Scottish wind farms means there will be billions of pounds paid by the taxpayer in constraint payments over the summer as the current system does not have the capacity to export the excess energy to England.
Surely it is time that Holyrood pays a body such as the Fraser of Allander to carry out a review of the subsidy and infrastructure bills that will arise from a ban on fossil fuels.
Ian Moir, Castle Douglas.
THE dire, present threats to economies of nations battling the present viral pandemic together with financial damage to nations complying with programmes to curtail carbon dioxide to offset future climate changes cannot be achieved simultaneously.
Costs of dealing with the viral plague are huge but unquantifiable.
The vast expenses of trying to prevent adverse climate changes along with the projected, barely tolerable, damage to our lifestyles are set to stretch national economies to breaking point or beyond.
Therefore, attempts to tackle distant threats to us from global warming can safely and must now be put on the back burner.
(Dr) Charles Wardrop, Perth.
I AGREE with many of Mike Wilson's observations on the state of the planet (Letters, March 23). We have not looked after our beautiful planet, we are dismally failing future generations and in addition we pour billions into space exploration while an estimated 790 million people on Planet Earth do not have access to clean water, and around 1.8 billion people (25 per cent of the world's population) are without access to adequate sanitation. However, while God knows there is nothing good about the outbreak of coronavirus and it is hard to find even a sliver of a silver lining, at least the drastically cut number of planes taking off into our skies, and the miles and miles of roads empty of vehicles in increasing numbers of countries around the world is providing a semblance of environmental relief.
As we sit in our houses fortified by walls of toilet rolls, perhaps we should pass the time pondering on how we all can do things differently in future, and what real, wide-ranging and decisive environmental action we should be demanding of our governments when we finally emerge back into our bruised, battered and neglected world.
Ruth Marr, Stirling.
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Rising Inclination To Online Gambling Platforms To Drive The Global Sports Betting Market Growth – The Tricks Trend
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A sport betting is a gambling bustle that entails guessing the result of any sports event and assigning the stakes accordingly. Several sports, like poker, cricket, horse racing, and numerous others, are a part of this group. The global sports betting market is expected to witness remarkable growth opportunities for both the bettors and the sportspersons. With the advent and elevated infiltration of the digital platform, gamblers have the flexibility to put wagers on sports, from any spot across the globe. Internet gambling is among the most rapidly booming domains of the e-commerce industry. Punters have more assurance as the complete procedure is digitalized and the likelihoods of fraud & error are less. Also, digital uprising provides unrecognizability to punters. Thus, the advent of the digital revolution and its escalated use in the sports industry will further fuel the growth of the global sports betting market during the forecast period.
In addition, the growing captivation of sports and online video games stimulates the gamblers to choose virtual sport betting. To add more to it, virtual betting is non-prejudiced as it selects the result from a computer algorithm. Further, it is fortified with extremely cutting-edge and advanced graphics that fascinate the players. The superior videos of events and matches provide expansive avenues for gamblers in the global online betting platforms market. This, in turn, is expected to upsurge expansion of the global sports betting market in the years to come.
Furthermore, the usage of machine learning methods and tools is gaining popularity within sport betting as this technology can make nearly exact to absolute correct forecasts. This trend is projected to impact the market growth positively in the coming period. Apart from this, the acceptance of sports betting is rising on account of its legalization by several governments. Consequently, the viewership is expected to increase for sports events, thereby amplifying incomes for sports organizations and associations. Thus, the authorization of sports betting will contribute considerably to the growth of the global sports betting market over the coming years. This advancement would also assist in obtaining more involvement among the sports fans, thus boosting market expansion.
To cite, in March 2020, Wiseodds, Sports betting supplier, has introduced its latest skill-based peer-to-peer platform, in which gamblers contest against each other in poker-motivated rooms to forecast the result of sporting events. In this novel model, the social portion of online poker is merged with sports betting, with partakers taking a seat at one of the several tables accessible to them in an online lobby by putting a wager on a sporting fixture.
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How Online Gambling Is Regulated in India | Info4u – India West
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What we all see in the past few years is that gambling, and more specifically, its virtual form has greatly taken off, with one of the greatest contributors to this being the unseen advancement in technology. Sports betting and playing casino games over the Internet is now enjoyed by huge groups of people all across the world, counting India.
As it turns out, the gaming industry in the country has a huge growth potential that does not go unnoticed by gaming operators. The question that typically arises here has to do with the scope of gambling laws in India, and by having the legal framework explained.
Legal Framework
Gambling is becoming increasingly popular in India, which is evidenced by the emergence of a constantly growing number of online casinos and bookies that have focused their attention on customers from that region in particular.
As is the case with many other countries around the globe, this invariably gives rise to the discussion about the forms of gambling that are legal and the ones that are outlawed. Interestingly enough, this matter has been in the focus of attention not only of gambling enthusiasts but of legislators as well. In essence, many forms of gambling in India continue to be heavily restrained by law, while most of the time, regulations pertaining to online gambling might be absent at all, which further complicates matters.
How is online gambling regulated in India might turn out to be a slightly tough question to answer due to the fact that for its most part, the legislation that deals with the different forms of gambling in the country is rather obsolete.
First off, it should be clarified that the individual states are given the freehand to come up with an outlook on gambling on their own, which makes things even more complex. An interesting thing about the current state of affairs in India is that a huge part of the legislation that deals with gambling has been enacted long before the rise of online gambling, which leaves room for different interpretations.
One of the major enactments on gambling in India remains the Public Gaming Act of 1867. Needless to say, it does not contain any references to online gambling, and it only mentions physical premises. Gambling enthusiasts should not underestimate the Currency Exchange Act of 1999 as well. Please make sure that the online casino or sports betting site you are playing at accepts payments in Rupees because opting for another currency might be viewed as an exchange of currencies.
Another major piece of legislation that should be given due attention is the Information Technology Act of 2011. According to this piece of legislation, a penalty will be imposed in the event that there is content that encourages individuals to engage in gambling activities. Additionally, the advertisement of games where luck is required cannot be advertised on TV.
Apparently, the situation in India is further aggravated by the fact that the description of gambling that is provided in the constitution of the state is rather controversial.
That being said, currently, the states of Sikkim and Goa have passed legislation under which gambling is considered within the law but to a rather limited extent.
Virtual players and sports bettors who are seeking to gain better knowledge of the legal landscape in India should consider visiting G2G where they will find another complete guide on the topic.
How Is Online Gambling Regulated in India
Since casino games significantly extended their reach, this called for the introduction of legislation that takes into consideration the contemporary situation. This study about the casino regulation in India shows that some Indian states are swiftly switching to a much more liberal stance om gambling, which is the case with the state of Sikkim.
The Sikkim Gambling Law was enforced back in 2008 with the aim to impose taxes on online gambling, and at the same time, to ensure that this form of entertainment is properly regulated and controlled by the state. What should be noted about the state of Sikkim is that in 2009, the provision of online gambling was made legal within the territory of the state but the federal government considered that this might arise some issues in the future. For that reason, certain restrictions were introduced, which made it clear that gambling sites can only be accessed if you are physically based in the state. Please note that such gambling websites can only operate under a license from the respective state authorities.
The other state that has passed laws dealing with online gambling, in particular, is the state of Nagaland. The Nagaland Gambling Law was initially passed in 2015 and faced several amendments in 2016 aimed at regulating games of skill.
The situation in the state of Telangana is much more different due to the fact that the lawmakers have passed amendments to the legislation that deals with gambling. That way, they have tightened the grip of the state on all forms of online gambling and made them illegal as well.
Conclusion
As you have already figured out, online gambling in India will continue to be a grey area until lawmakers do not come up with clear-cut rules about online gambling. All in all, it is rather unclear whether gambling enthusiasts who live in states other than the ones we mentioned above will infringe law if they decide to make their wagers over the Internet.
In spite of the fact that the gaming websites that greet customers from India are prolific, we have one word of warning. Make sure that the gaming site you are intent on playing at is above-board due to the fact that such oversea gaming websites do not fall under the control of the state. In simple terms, this means that even if some kind of an issue arises, you cannot ask for help from the authorities.
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Common Myths About Online Casinos – Online Gambling Safety and Tips – BestUSCasinos.org
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Real money online casinos have long been the subject of many misconceptions. People spread rumors about anything and everything, and believe me when I say that online casinos are no exception. Many of them are outright false and have no basis in reality.
While there are plenty of myths and legends about online casinos, much of this can be attributed to mistrust of internet culture. When the internet was first starting out, many people mistrusted it because it was new. Surprise, surprise, people are usually skeptical of new things.
Many of these myths have already been corrected. With that being said, many of these misconceptions about casinos still unfortunately exist.
Today, Ill show you seven misconceptions about online casinos to help you sort through all the fake information about casinos. Youll learn whats real and whats not, what you should take seriously and what you shouldnt.
Lets get this one out of the way first. This is the most common assumption about online casinos: Users assume that because the casino is based online that its somehow not as valid as a real casino. People think that just because they are physically in a building that is a casino, they are less likely to be scammed. And these same people believe that playing games online means theyll be scammed. This is all patently false.
Online casinos are actually safer than physical casinos in many ways. For one thing, you dont have people plying you with free drinks to try to get you to make mistakes.
Online casinos use the same games and play styles as real casinos, using software to simulate playing a game. You can play against a computer or other online players. And because its taking place online, those real players cant cheat you through sly conversation or clever card tricks.
Online casinos also use RNGsrandom number generators. RNGs ensure the online casino is providing a fair experience for all players. RNGs generates a random number to determine what card youll draw or how the slot machine will work, which is much safer than a deck of physical cards that can be messed with or manipulated.
Many people assume gambling sites arent secure compared to their real-world counterparts. I think this is probably because many people dont trust something if they cant see it. People are more likely to trust something they can touch and feel than something like the internet, which is more intangible.
But just because the internet is an abstract idea, that doesnt mean online casinos are unsafe. Online casinos are as safe and secure as any in-person casinos (more so in some ways). Believe me when I say that companies that operate online casinos have proper encryption. They want to protect themselves as much as you do!
Online casinos are also certified by the government of whatever country theyre based in. The government of the country the online casino is from is responsible for making sure the casino is safe and fair to all users. Online casinos have strict regulations that guarantee they are safe and secure for their users.
Online casinos that do engage in negative behavior are few and far between. These are known as rogue casinos. These casinos are reported by users and reported on casino forums to protect the community. If an online casino is reported by enough users, itll become blacklisted. Blacklisted casinos tend to get shut down pretty quickly.
Encryption, government, and users reporting issues all help make online casinos safe places to gamble. Online casinos are as safe to gamble in as any other alternative.
This is completely false. Kids are not allowed to gamble at online casinos. This is exactly the same as the law preventing kids from gambling in physical casinos. If youre under 18 years old, youre not allowed to gamble in physical or online casinos.
You might be thinking, Sure, but the kids just lie online! They can try, but security procedures are more robust than that.
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Online casinos require ID checks once a player wants to deposit or withdraw money.
People under 18 will not be able to gamble in online casinos because they wont have a valid ID to present.
This is one of those weird rumors spreading on the internet that no one seems to be able to squash, that players can only win money in online casinos during certain hours of the day. Who knows how this rumor got started, but I can tell you that its completely false.
Maybe a gambler was frustrated that they were on a cold streak? Maybe someone just wanted to be a top-level troll in the community? Like most rumors, the origins are unknown, but theres no truth to this one.
Unless a game is specifically set up this way, the claim is untrue (and I seriously doubt any are). Any game you play in an online casino will have clear rules indicating how money can be won.
Games in online casinos are not governed by peak hours. Many brick and mortar casinos do have peak hour rules that affect how much money can be won, just not whether you can win at all. And these rules are clear to everyone, theyre not a secret. Maybe this is why people think online casinos have a secret scam going on.
Online casinos simply dont operate the same as brick and mortar casinos, and a big part of that includes the RNGs I mentioned earlier in this post. The chances of winning are purely random in online games. The number generated by the RNG is the only factor in determining whether you win.
Many online casinos have an autoplay feature, an incredible feature that you sure wont find in any physical casino. This feature allows players to walk away and do other things while continuing to play. Many of us have busy lives and would love to save some time while were playing.
Now, a lot of people assume that because they arent present while the autoplay is turned on that the online casino will try to rip them off. This simply isnt true.
There are many regulating bodies throughout the world that prevent online casinos from ripping off their players. Many countries governments have agencies where illegal gambling can be reported. Resources like this prevent online casinos from operating illegally and pulling stunts like this.
You can rest assured that you are just as likely to win while playing autoplay as you are sitting and playing the games yourself.
One of the major marketing methods of online casinos is to give big bonuses to players. These bonuses give players the chance to win some money with the free money the casino provides.
Part of the reason the casino provides these bonuses is to give players an incentive to try out their casino.
Casinos want you to play and spend a lot of time at their casino, so theyre willing to give you some money to start out. They hope you will enjoy playing so much that you continue to play, that they become your online casino of choice.
Consumers are cynical of this practice unfortunately, and assume that because the bonus money is free, theres no way they can win with it. It makes sense from a certain perspective I suppose, if you truly believe theres no such thing as a free lunch. But the reality is that you can win real money with these bonuses, and if you know what youre doing and get a little lucky, that money might be significant).
The bonuses work the same as any other payment you use in an online casino. The casino doesnt know if youre playing with a bonus or if youre playing with real money. The game is played with an RNG either way, so the results have nothing to do with where the money came from.
This misconception is another example of players assuming something is too good to be true. Just because they give you the bonus doesnt mean theres no way you can win with the bonus. Youre just as likely to win with the bonus as you are with any other money.
Many people think slots are going to be boring compared to other options offered by online casinos, like poker or blackjack.
However, even though slots dont have other players involved, they certainly arent boring. Slots can be as fun as anything else you play in an online casino, especially given how advanced real money online slots and their graphics have become over the years.
Many slot games are now being targeted toward millennial audiences because the designers know how much that audience likes video games. So, they design their games to be as similar to video games as they can, which is to say, they are more interactive than you might think. Its a misconception to think that slots are only for older audiences or that slots are more boring than other casino games. Slots can be just as fun as anything else in an online casino.
There are a ton of misconceptions about online gaming, partly because of the nature of the internet. Information moves fast, and people make snap judgments without knowing all the information beforehand.
Just remember that regulatory agencies, governments, and watchdog groups help legitimize online casinos. These misconceptions arent based in reality.
What common misconceptions about online casinos have you heard that we didnt mention? Let us know in the comments!
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The Global Online Gambling Market is expected to grow by USD 114.21 bn during 2020-2024, progressing at a CAGR of 11% during the forecast period -…
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Global Online Gambling Market 2020-2024The analyst has been monitoring the global online gambling market 2020-2024 and it is poised to grow by USD 114.21 bn during 2020-2024, progressing at a CAGR of 11% during the forecast period. Our reports on global online gambling market 2020-2024 provides a holistic analysis, market size and forecast, trends, growth drivers, and challenges, as well as vendor analysis covering around 25 vendors.
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The report offers an up-to-date analysis regarding the current global market scenario, latest trends and drivers, and the overall market environment. The market is driven by the rising popularity of the freemium model. In addition, introduction of bitcoin gambling is anticipated to boost the growth of the global online gambling market 2020-2024 as well.
Market SegmentationThe global online gambling market 2020-2024 is segmented as below:Type: Lottery
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Washington Sports Betting First To Legalize In 2020 As Inslee Signs Bill – Legal Sports Report
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Washington sports betting moved to the front of the line for legalization in 2020 on Wednesday.
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signed into law ESHB 2638, which allows retail sports betting only on tribal lands. Mobile sports betting in Washington is not permitted outside the grounds of tribal casinos.
A controversial emergency provision in the bill bypasses a required voter referendum, although legal trouble still looms.
The WA sports betting bill met resistance from cardrooms in the state legislature but ultimately passed easily. The Washington House voted 83-14 in favor after a 34-15 vote in the Senate.
Rebecca Kaldor, Washington Indian Gaming Association (WIGA) executive director, offered a statement on the bill Wednesday:
We thank Governor Inslee for joining bipartisan majorities in the legislature to pass this careful and thoughtful approach to sports betting. The revenue generated by tribal gaming funds critical needs in our communities, and it enhances the lives of both tribal and nontribal Washingtonians.
Tribal communities and governments are currently dealing with the devastating impacts of the coronavirus pandemic, with many tribal governments focusing on essential services and shutting down business activities such as casinos. As we recover from this crisis, the addition of this amenity will help tribal governments fund the essential services their members will need to get back up on their feet.
Washington becomes the first state in 2020 to legalize sports betting. Maryland and South Dakota earlier passed bills allowing voters to weigh in on sports wagering on the November ballot.
Throughout the process of vetting the Washington sports betting bill, Maverick Gaming CEO Eric Persson maintained he will sue to stop it if passed.
At the heart of Mavericks challenge likely will be the emergency clause, Persson told LSR last month:
The emergency clause is something we welcome because we think its flawed logic and there is no emergency. We think ultimately through litigation this legislation would probably be thrown out.
The language of the emergency provision reads:
This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and takes effect immediately.
Perssons company owns19of the states44 cardrooms. Maverick supported two other bills that would have opened up sports betting Washington to cardrooms and tribes.
They also would have allowed for mobile wagering statewide.
Neither bill received a committee vote and both died.
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PA Gaming Review: Online Casino And Poker On The Rise As New Slot Titles Added – Play Pennsylvania
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Online betting remains a bright spot everywhere that it is available. Virtually every physical casino throughout the US is shuttered due to coronavirus precautions.
PA online casinos performed especially strong in February, and are likely to continue to beef up as betting habits shift.
Underscoring that, online casino operators added a slew of new slot titles, and Divine Fortune struck with yet another online jackpot. Also, poker numbers online at PokerStars PA have doubled.
Online gaming revenue peaked in February, but PA sports gambling saw month-over-month declines.
Still, internet-based gambling in Pennsylvania brought in nearly $19.5 million in revenue for its best month yet.
Thats a39.6% increase over Januarywhen revenue totaled just under$14 million. Online casinosbrought in$6.8 million in tax revenue last month.
Retail casinos were healthy in February with slot revenue across the states 12 land-based casinos at nearly $200 million, which was a 5.1% increase year over year. Table games brought in$77.4 millionin revenue across operators, an increase of 4.6%.
Next months numbers should be interesting, with 12 brick-and-mortar casinos allshuttered by March 17to curb the spread of thecoronavirus.
Fortunately for online slot players in PA, many new titles are now available online. Some of the highlights include the following:
BetRivers has eight new titles, including Jimi Hendrix,Double Stacks,Solstice Celebration and Jumanji.
SugarHouse has added five titles, including Sparkling Roses, Egg-o-Matic and Star Magic.
Hollywood and PokerStars each added Mercy of the Gods.
ALititz, PA,man won the Divine Fortune jackpot while playing online atPlaySugarHouse. He hit the jackpot with a$1 bet, winning$278,430.23. It was his second timehitting the jackpot inless than a month.
Check our games tracker for weekly updates on PA casino game offerings.
Parallel with state-ordered casino closures, the number of players logged onto PokerStars PA began to rise around March 17.
Nightly checks of traffic byPlayPennsylvaniacontributors show the number of players logged onto PokerStars PA hasmore than doubledover the last week.
The number had run around 1,400 a night to 1,700, but its been around 3,400 to 3,600 more recently. Our recent PlayPennsylvania report includes a detailed table.
Expect a revenue bump for the operator in March.
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Online Gambling & Betting Market Key Players, Product and Production Information analysis and forecast to 2028 – Jewish Life News
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888 Holdings Remain Hopeful That Online Casino and Poker Operations Could Compensate for Some Losses of Its Sports Betting Business – Casino Guardian
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Online gambling operator 888 Holdings revealed yesterday that its 2020 core profit could suffer a blow in the high single-digit millions of dollars in case the disruptions in international sporting events schedule because of the coronavirus pandemic remain until September.
The Covid-19 trading update published by 888 Holdings on March 24th made the company part of the gambling operators, such as GVC Holdings, Flutter Entertainment and William Hill, which have already issued warnings of an expected big hit to their earnings due to the cancellation of all major sports events.
Still, considering the fact that 888 Holdings has a smaller exposure to sports in comparison to some of its rival companies, the losses it is expected to suffer, could be smaller. According to information provided in the companys financial reports, its sports arm accounted for only 16% of its 2019 revenue.
The gambling operator revealed that the Board is currently closely monitoring the situation with the coronavirus spreading in order to make sure it complies with all guidelines unveiled by the countrys government and health organisations. It also noted that, for the time being, Covid-19 situation is quite dynamic, so it remains unknown how it would evolve in the upcoming months, along with the cancellation and postponement of various sports events.
Despite the difficulties the gambling group could face due to the slowdown in its sports betting arm, 888 Holdings revealed that there was some evidence of rising customer activity in its casino and poker operations. According to preliminary projections, if the trend of such an increase continues, it might, in part, compensate for the disruption in sports betting operations for a certain period of time in the short term. However, if the disruption continues for a prolonged period of uncertainty, there is a possibility that customer spending on the online gambling operations of 888 Holdings may also be affected.
As mentioned above, the Board of the gambling giant has estimated that the potential impact on Group earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) in the ongoing financial year could be worth up to high single-digit millions of dollars should the disruption to international sporting events calendar continues until September 2020.
Despite the hard economic situation and the market uncertainty, the Board of 888 Holdings shared it remains confident that the gambling group would be able to manage the challenges, especially considering the fact it still has diversified brand presence across several markets on a global scale and various product verticals, not to mention a strong balance sheet at the end of the previous fiscal year. The track record of the company remaining operationally efficient, as well as its growing customer base, are seen by the online gambling operators Board as significant opportunities for further growth in 2020 and the following years.
Olivia Cole has worked as a journalist for several years now. Over the last couple of years she has been engaged in writing about a number of industries and has developed an interest for the gambling market in the UK.
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