All Shook Up: The InSight Mission to Mars

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

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🗓️ 2 May 2018

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

No mission to Mars has done what InSight will do. The lander’s spectacularly sensitive instruments will use the Red Planet’s heat and marsquakes to reveal its deep interior while also revealing secrets of other rocky worlds like our own Earth. Principal Investigator Bruce Banerdt came to Planetary Society headquarters barely a week before launch for a long and fascinating conversation. Planetary Society CEO Bill Nye says the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has mapped our galaxy as never before. Bruce Betts will help us explore a bit of the Milky Way in this week’s What’s Up segment. Learn more about this week’s topics and see images here: http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2018/0502-bruce-banerdt-insight.htmlLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Shaking things up on Mars this week on planetary radio.
0:09.0	Welcome, I'm A Kaplan of the Planetary Society,
0:12.0	with more of a human adventure across our solar system
0:15.2	and beyond.
0:16.7	You may think Insight is a mission to the Red Planet.
0:20.4	Bruce Bannert says it's really about understanding our own world.
0:24.0	Join me for an in-depth, pun intended, conversation with the leader of the next spacecraft
0:29.7	heading for Mars.
0:31.4	I don't think you'll learn more about this mission of discovery
0:33.7	anywhere else, but there's more to learn about the night sky from Bruce Betts in
0:37.9	this week's What's Up segment and we have just learned more about the entire Milky Way Galaxy, much more.
0:45.4	According to Planetary Society CEO Bill Nye.
0:48.6	Bill, big news from the European Space Agency,
0:51.8	we know our galaxy, a lot better than apparently we did not long ago.
0:55.7	Yes, the Gaia Space Crafts, European Space Agency spacecraft, has just completed another round of survey,
1:04.0	however that expression is, another survey,
1:07.0	finding billions more stars,
1:09.0	and not just finding them,
1:11.0	but finding them in three dimensions so knowing them
1:13.7	their distance relative to other stars and their motions relative to other
1:18.9	stars is really it's just one more way to know the galaxy, the know the cosmos and our place within it.
1:25.8	Among the many things I found cool about this it's you know the hurt-sprung Russell diagram?
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