Planetary Radio Live! – Celebrating Curiosity on Mars

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

Technology, Science

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🗓️ 25 April 2018

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Join us for an utterly fascinating live conversation with Emily Lakdawalla about her brand new book, The Design and Engineering of Curiosity: How the Mars Rover Performs Its Job. Also joining us at Caltech were Curiosity Project Scientist Ashwin Vasavada and JPL Research Scientist Abigail Fraeman. Bruce Betts and Mat Kaplan close out the evening with a live edition of What’s Up, including the space trivia contest. Learn more about this week’s topics and see images here: http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2018/0425-2018-planetary-radio-live-lakdawalla-book-curiosity.htmlLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Everything you always wanted to know about curiosity this week on planetary radio.
0:07.0	Welcome, I'm Matt Kaplan of the the Planetary Society, with more of the human adventure across our solar system and beyond.
0:17.0	A very special extended edition this week, as we welcome Planetary Society senior editor Emily
0:24.4	Lochuwala for a live celebration of her terrific new book about the
0:28.3	Mars Science Laboratory Rover. You'll also hear from MSL Project Scientists Ashwin Vassavada and JPL research scientist
0:36.7	Abigail Framon. We'll close with a live edition of What's Up featuring Bruce Betts.
0:42.1	Back to our regular format next week
0:44.0	when we'll visit with the leader of the next mission
0:47.0	to Mars Insight Principal investigator Bruce Banard.
0:50.8	This is Planetary Radio Live. Nice! I'm Matt Kaplan. We are on the beautiful campus of the California Institute of Technology
1:06.0	and inside one of the most impressive and hallowed structures on that campus.
1:11.0	The Athenaeum is essentially Caltech's faculty club, where you can stand in the
1:16.1	buffet lunch line with Nobel Prize winners in front of you and behind you.
1:21.0	It's safe to say that some of the greatest science discoveries and engineering
1:25.2	accomplishments in the history of humanity were first scribbled on napkins
1:29.8	in this building. We're here for a celebration. The celebration of a book that I will describe
1:36.4	with an overused word that is utterly appropriate in this case. That word is awesome, as is its author. She is the Planetary Society, senior
1:47.9	editor and planetary evangelist, spreading the passion, beauty and joy of planetary in space science wherever she goes.
1:55.0	Please join me in welcoming my colleague and friend Emily Lachawala. And indeed, welcome.
2:07.0	Thank you, Matt. Always a pleasure to be here. And of course, she has been a part of many planetary radio lives and is heard regularly
2:16.4	on planetary radio during her short segments.
2:19.7	As I told you, when I saw you this afternoon, I finished the book on the train up to Pasadena today. It is amazing.
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