Martian Ice is Everywhere...Almost
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2008
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | More water and lots of it on Mars this week on planetary Radio. Radio. Hi everyone, welcome to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the final |
| 0:20.2 | frontier. |
| 0:21.2 | I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society. Water, |
| 0:24.6 | everywhere? Maybe. We'll talk with Jack Holt of the team that says it has |
| 0:29.6 | discovered massive Martian glaciers far from the red planets poles. |
| 0:35.0 | Speaking of Mars, Bill Nye, the Science and Planetary Guy, |
| 0:39.0 | has some thoughts about the just announced two-year delay in the launch of the Mars Science Laboratory. |
| 0:45.0 | We'll hear from him in a few seconds. |
| 0:48.0 | Why haven't we seen the actual flotsam and jetsam that makes up Saturn's rings? |
| 0:52.0 | That sounds like a good question for |
| 0:54.1 | Emily Lockwala's Q&A. And stay tuned to hear what the little Prince and Bruce |
| 0:59.0 | Betts have in common as we learn about the current night sky and give away another planetary radio |
| 1:05.0 | t-shirt. More news is waiting for you at planetary.org. Here's Bill. |
| 1:10.0 | Hey Bill Nye the Planetary Guy here, Vice President of the Planetary Society, |
| 1:15.0 | and the news this week is the Mars Science Laboratory, |
| 1:19.0 | formerly the Mars Smart Lander, same acronym, MSL, has been postponed. |
| 1:25.1 | Now when you postpone a trip to Mars, |
| 1:27.1 | you don't postpone it a few weeks. |
| 1:29.3 | No, you got to postpone it 26 months, because that's the next orbital opportunity for the rocket to get on its way to |
| 1:36.9 | Mars inexpensively or reasonably pricedly. The thing is, everybody was hustling to make this lander be something special, something else. |
| 1:46.5 | I mean, the thing is 10 times the size of spirit or opportunity, the Mars Exploration |
| 1:51.8 | Rovers, which are still working up there their fifth |
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