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Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

Become an Icehunter With Pamela Gay

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

Science, Technology

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2011

⏱️ 29 minutes

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0:00.0

Can you find the final frontier.

0:20.0

I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society. The New Horizon spacecraft will study the

0:25.4

former ninth planet in 2015. Then what? Astronomer and podcast host Pamela Gay

0:32.0

will tell us how we can join the search for New Horizons next

0:36.0

target.

0:37.0

Speaking of targets, NASA has announced the destination for the Mars Science Laboratory

0:42.3

Rover, now known as Curiosity.

0:45.0

Emily Lautwala will tell us about it in a moment.

0:47.7

She's also got an exciting update from opportunity,

0:50.2

that other robot that continues to crawl across the red planet.

0:54.0

Remember the pioneer anomaly?

0:56.0

Bill Nye says that 40-year-old mystery may nearly be solved.

1:00.0

And Bruce Betts will provide the solution for yet another space trivia quiz in our what's up segment.

1:06.0

We begin as always with the Planetary Society Science and Technology Coordinator.

1:10.0

Emily Lachto-Wala is also the editor of the blog at planetary.org.

1:16.0

Emily, let's start with big news from the Curiosity Team, Mars Science Laboratory.

1:21.2

That's right, they're getting ready for launching the spacecraft. It's being stacked together

1:25.8

at Kennedy Space Center. But the news this week is that we finally know where it's going.

1:30.6

It's going to Gail Crater. Gail is a crater that's 150 kilometers in diameter.

1:36.0

It's near Mars's equator.

1:38.0

Smack-Dab on the boundary between the so-called dichotomy boundary

1:42.0

between the southern highlands and the northern lowlands,

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