Jim Bell Sends New Eyes to Mars

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🗓️ 1 July 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Mastcam-Z is the main camera system that will soon leave for Mars as part of the Perseverance rover. Mastcam-Z Principal Investigator Jim Bell is back to tell us about what the most powerful set of eyes to reach the surface of the Red Planet may show us. Planetary Society Solar System Specialist Emily Lakdawalla explores four sample return missions headed out across our solar system. The Antikythera Mechanism, an ancient Greek computing device, anchors this week’s What’s Up segment with Bruce Betts. And someone will win one of Jim Bell’s books in the new space trivia contest. Learn more at https://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2020/0701-2020-jim-bell-mastcam-z.html

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0:00.0	Jim Bell sends new eyes to Mars this week on planetary radio.
0:07.0	Welcome, I'm Ed Kaplan of the Planetary Society with more of the human adventure across our
0:15.2	solar system and beyond. The principal investigator for Mast Cam Z, the twin
0:21.3	Zoom cameras that will reveal the red planet as never before, joins us as the
0:27.2	launch of the Perseverance Mars Rover approaches.
0:30.6	Jim will also tell us about his latest books.
0:33.0	Emily Lachowala returns with a review of the four brave sample return missions underway or launching this year.
0:40.0	It's ancient Greek computers and a new look at the night sky for Bruce Betts and
0:46.1	what's up and someone will win one of Jim Bell's great books.
0:50.0	Here's a sampling of headlines from this week's edition of The Downlink, the Planetary Society's
0:56.2	newsletter.
0:57.2	NASA's Perseverance Rover is all buttoned up inside the nose cone of the Atlas
1:01.6	Five rocket that will blast it toward Mars in a few weeks.
1:06.5	Launch is scheduled for no sooner than July 22nd.
1:10.5	We have a comprehensive continually updated guide to all three Mars missions that are about to begin.
1:16.5	You'll find it at planetary.org slash Mars 2020.
1:21.5	NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstein announced last Wednesday that the agency's
1:26.8	headquarters building in Washington, D.C. will be named after Mary W. Jackson,
1:32.0	the first African- female engineer at NASA.
1:36.5	The building sits on Hidden Figures Way.
1:40.1	Bob and Doug's excellent adventure on the International Space Station continues.
1:45.0	Yeah, I know I'm mixing entertainment metaphors.
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