Landing On Mars With JPL's Matt Golombek

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🗓️ 17 June 2013

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Join us at JPL for a conversation with Mars landing site selection leader Matt Golombek. Matt is also now Project Scientist for the Mars Exploration Rover program, and shares the great news from Opportunity about its latest discovery. Emily Lakdawalla presents a guest blog entry that features splendid images from Mars Express, while Bill Nye traces the convoluted ways of space science funding in Washington. Bruce Betts and Mat Kaplan are at a legendary Pasadena eatery for this week’s What’s Up. Cosmic hot dog, anyone?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Landing on Mars with Matt Gollumbek, this week on planetary radio.
0:17.0	Welcome to the Travel Show that takes you to the Final Frontier.
0:20.1	I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society.
0:22.6	We'll head for the Jet Propulsion Lab for a visit with the man who has helped choose
0:26.4	where to set down on Mars for nearly two decades.
0:30.6	Matt Gollumbeck will talk about this effort along with the latest discovery by Mars Exploration
0:35.6	Rover Opportunity and Insight, the next Mars Lander.
0:40.3	Emily Lochuwala is coming right up, followed by our weekly visit with Bill Nye.
0:44.8	And out at the other end of the show waits Bruce Betts with the dog of his dreams.
0:49.5	Hot dog, that is.
0:50.9	Emily, good to be talking with you once again. This piece put up by your
0:54.4	colleague one of our guest bloggers. Bill Dunford tell us about this.
0:58.0	Yeah, Bill put up this great piece celebrating 10 years in space for Mars Express.
1:02.8	Mars Express is the European Space Agency's spacecraft at Mars
1:06.3	and it's equipped with a couple of different cameras
1:08.6	and a radar system that can see beneath the surface.
1:12.3	And it's really kind of wonderful how this
1:14.3	mission has fit in amongst all of the pieces of the NASA missions that are at
1:18.9	Mars to help build up this amazing picture that we now have of Mars as a dynamic planet both in the
1:25.1	present and in the past. And the photos that Bill is selected really show that off.
1:30.1	He starts with one of my favorite space cameras, it's the visual monitoring camera on Mars Express.
1:35.2	It's actually quite a crummy little camera. It was only stuck on the spacecraft in order to watch Beagle 2 depart.
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