A Mars Rover Update From Steve Squyres

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

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🗓️ 14 April 2008

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Steve Squyres gives us a status report on Spirit and Opportunity, and Bill Nye comments on the rings that appear to surround one of Saturn's small moons. Last week Emily Lakdawalla told us why objects in space are round, but this time her Q&A explains why they're not.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	A Mars Rover update from Steve Squires this week on planetary radio. Hi everyone,
0:15.0	welcome to Public Radio's travel show
0:20.0	that takes you to the final frontier.
0:21.0	I'm Matt Kaplan. They keep going and going
0:25.3	more than four years now and those Mars Exploration Rovers are still phoning home
0:30.8	exciting and surprising data about the Red Planet.
0:34.0	We'll get a status report from MIR Principal investigator Steve Squires
0:39.0	and see if you can tell if he loves his work.
0:41.0	Bill Nye, the science guy, sees a wheel within a wheel out at Saturn
0:45.4	where tiny moon Rhea may have its own rings. Last week Emily Lachtoil explained why all the big objects
0:52.4	in the universe are spheres, this time she'll
0:54.8	tell us why they're not.
0:57.0	And Bruce Betts is itching to share news about the night sky and give away another planetary
1:01.3	radio t-shirt.
1:03.2	Did somebody say news?
1:04.8	The next spacecraft that will reach Mars was just successfully nudged toward a tentative landing
1:09.9	spot near the North Pole.
1:12.0	The latest on the Phoenix Lander is at
1:13.9	planetary.org. Touchdown is May 25 and that's when the Planetary Society will be
1:18.8	celebrating in Pasadena at Planet Fest 08.
1:23.0	Want to see yourself and everyone you know rise above the moon's horizon?
1:27.0	Check it out in Emily's blog at planetary.org.
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