7 More Minutes of Terror: Perseverance Arrives at Mars
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 20 January 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
The 2020 Mars Rover will reach the Red Planet on February 18th after many months in the relative quiet of space. It will then undergo a true trial by fire as it descends to the surface. Jet Propulsion Lab systems engineer and his colleagues hope it will arrive as successfully as its sister Curiosity did in 2012. He tells host Mat Kaplan what to expect. Planetary Radio listeners prove once again that they are awesome as they go to amazing and unnecessary lengths (oops!) to answer the space trivia quiz. There’s more to discover at https://www.planetary.org/planetary-radio/0120-2021-gregory-villar-perseverance-edl
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| 0:00.0 | Looking forward to seven more minutes of terror as perseverance reaches Mars this week on |
| 0:06.7 | planetary radio. |
| 0:08.7 | Welcome, I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society with more of the Human Adventure |
| 0:17.4 | across our solar system and beyond. Gregory Villar is a young engineer who will join his JPL colleagues and the rest of the world |
| 0:27.0 | as Perseverance, the Mars 2020 rover, plunges toward the Red Planet's surface on February 18th. |
| 0:34.1 | He'll help us understand that harrowing event on today's show. |
| 0:38.2 | By the way, you'll be able to join the Planetary Society's |
| 0:40.9 | celebration of Mars when we go online for Planet Fest 21 beginning |
| 0:45.8 | February 13th details are at planetary.org slash Planetfest 21. The time has come, the pot host said, to talk of many things of solar sales and |
| 0:56.5 | capton film of misstatements and wings, which is my way of teasing this week's What's Up visit with Chief |
| 1:04.3 | Scientists Bruce Betts. But before we get to any of this let's visit the |
| 1:08.8 | weekly newsletter from the Planetary Society. Headlines from the January 15 edition of the Down Lake are led by |
| 1:15.7 | something you heard Andrew Jones mention here a few weeks ago. China may send a lander to |
| 1:21.9 | Jupiter's moon Callisto, arriving there in 2035. |
| 1:25.4 | It's one of two proposed missions by China to our solar systems giant world. |
| 1:30.4 | We're also happy to report the Jupiter orbiter, Juno, and the Insight Lander on Mars |
| 1:36.0 | have been granted mission extensions by NASA. Juno will examine the other |
| 1:41.3 | Galilean moons. |
| 1:43.0 | And NASA finally held that static test of the space launch system's core stage. |
| 1:48.0 | It looked great for about a minute before shutting down well short of the planned eight minutes, we've just learned |
| 1:55.1 | that computers end of the test when a quote intentionally conservative unquote pressure limit |
| 2:00.8 | was reached in a hydraulic system. There was at least one other unexpected |
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