Mars Rovers

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🗓️ 21 June 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

A Mars rover is a motor vehicle designed to travel on the surface of Mars. Rovers have several advantages over stationary landers: they examine more territory, they can be directed to interesting features, they can place themselves in sunny positions to weather winter months, and they can advance the knowledge of how to perform very remote robotic vehicle control. They serve a different purpose than orbital spacecraft like Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. A more recent development is the Mars helicopter.

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0:00.0	Oh, come on, it was a great movie.
0:02.8	No, I agree.
0:03.8	I'm just saying I had the most abrupt theatrical finale since the Lincoln assassination.
0:08.1	I kind of cheated.
0:09.2	Well, sure, but how cool was Hobie though.
0:12.1	Oh, he's so fucking cool.
0:14.1	Hey, guys, you ready to record?
0:17.7	Hell yeah, man.
0:18.7	Uh, where's Eli?
0:20.7	Yeah, so about that.
0:23.6	You know how this week's episode is about Mars, Rovers.
0:27.5	Uh-huh.
0:29.6	And you know how NASA's latest rover has a microphone in it.
0:33.9	Right.
0:34.9	He tried to go to Mars to podcast from there this week.
0:37.5	Is that what he did?
0:38.9	Great so.
0:39.9	Yeah.
0:40.9	And so he what?
0:41.9	He died of exposure on the Martian surface?
0:44.5	No, not exact.
0:46.6	Did he blow up on the launch pad?
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