Hope Leads the Way to Mars
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2020
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
An exclusive conversation with science lead Sarah Al Amiri and project director Omran Sharaf of the Emirates Mars Mission. Their Hope orbiter is now on its way to the red planet. NASA Associate Administrator Thomas Zurbuchen has praise for the Emirates mission and looks forward to the beginning of the Perseverance rover’s own journey. Are you as good as NASA at creating acronyms? Take your best shot in the new What’s Up contest, as Bruce Betts waves farewell to comet NEOWISE. Learn more at https://www.planetary.org/planetary-radio/0729-2020-amiri-sharaf-emm-hope
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| 0:00.0 | Leading the way to the Red Planet, this week on planetary radio. |
| 0:09.0 | Welcome, I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society, |
| 0:12.0 | with more of the human adventure across our |
| 0:14.8 | solar system and beyond. Hope is on its way to Mars. We'll enjoy a |
| 0:20.4 | conversation with the two leaders of the Emirates Mars Mission in a few minutes. |
| 0:25.9 | China's Chuan One was also successfully launched a few days ago, and by the time the first of you |
| 0:32.3 | hear this, |
| 0:33.2 | Perseverance, NASA's next Mars rover, |
| 0:36.4 | should be hours away from its liftoff. |
| 0:39.6 | The agency's Thomas Surbukin and Mimeon, |
| 0:43.0 | leader of the Mars Helicopter Project, are moments away. |
| 0:46.0 | Down the line, we'll hear from Bruce Betts about Comet Neowise |
| 0:50.0 | and the other wonders waiting for you in the night sky. |
| 0:54.0 | The July 24 edition of the Down Lake is topped by a view of two worlds that aren't from around here. |
| 1:00.0 | In fact, these young gas giants Circle a star that is 300 light years away. |
| 1:06.2 | The image was captured by the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile. |
| 1:11.6 | Yeah, that's its name, the very large telescope. It was |
| 1:15.4 | augmented with a coronograph that blocked most of the stars light revealing |
| 1:20.4 | those planets. Launch of the James Webb Space Telescope has been delayed again |
| 1:26.0 | as the pandemic continues to take its toll and not just on us humans. |
| 1:31.0 | NASA is now looking at October 31st of next year. That's right, the most powerful |
| 1:36.8 | and ambitious space telescope ever will get a spooky Halloween send-off. |
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