Martian rock collecting: From meteorites to Mars Sample Return

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

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🗓️ 22 February 2023

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Meenakshi Wadhwa, principal scientist for Mars Sample Return at NASA JPL, updates us on the missions that will bring bits of the red planet back to Earth.

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0:00.0	Looking forward to Mars' sample return, this week on Planetary Radio.
0:13.2	I'm Sarah Allahmadeh of the Planetary Society, with more of the human adventure across our
0:17.8	solar system and beyond.
0:20.4	The international effort to collect and return material from the red planet is ramping
0:24.4	up.
0:25.6	This week, Minakshi Wadwa, principal scientist for Mars' sample return at NASA's Jet
0:30.1	Repulsion Laboratory, joins us to share the exciting updates to the plan.
0:34.9	You may have also noticed the dazzling light of Venus and Jupiter in the recent night sky.
0:39.7	Bruce Betts, the chief scientist of the Planetary Society, will pop in for what's up to tell
0:44.1	us more.
0:46.1	This week, members of the Planetary Society's communications and space policy and advocacy
0:50.9	teams gathered for retreat at our headquarters in Pasadena, California.
0:55.3	We have a lot of exciting upcoming projects to share with you all in the future, but the
0:59.3	additional work in bonding was weak meant that our team didn't have time to prepare
1:03.1	our usual space mission briefings.
1:05.5	I promise that we'll be back to our regularly scheduled updates from the world of space
1:09.4	news and next week's show.
1:11.4	As always, you can learn more about what's going on in space in the Planetary Society's
1:15.6	weekly newsletter, the downlink.
1:18.1	Read it or subscribe to have it sent to your inbox for free every Friday at planetary.org-downlink.
1:24.8	Humans have been exploring Mars with robotic spacecraft since the 1960s.
1:29.4	In that time, we've learned a lot about the red planet and its history.
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