Matt Taylor Rocks Rosetta

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

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🗓️ 1 November 2016

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Mat Kaplan talks with Matt Taylor, the Rosetta Project Scientist, just two weeks after the spacecraft touched down on 67/P.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Rosetta Project Scientist Matt Taylor this week on planetary radio.
0:05.0	Welcome and happy post-Alawi everyone.
0:11.0	I hope he got lots of treats and no tricks.
0:17.0	I'm at Kaplan at the Planetary Society. I collected so much great stuff at the recent Division for Planetary Sciences meeting.
0:25.0	It's time to start sharing it with you.
0:27.0	We'll begin with one of the greatest successes in the history of space exploration.
0:31.0	I think you'll enjoy hearing from plasma physicist and death metal fan Matt Taylor.
0:37.9	Bill Nye can hardly wait for election day here in the USA, while Bruce Betts dressed as his favorite cartoon character for this week's
0:45.0	What's Up segment.
0:46.5	Emily Lochuala is the Planetary Society's senior editor.
0:50.4	I asked her about the photo in her October 27th blog post at planetary.org.
0:55.9	Emily you show us photos of a brand new crater on Mars but it's not something to celebrate.
1:01.6	No, we're looking at photos of two dark splats on Mars and one bright spot.
1:06.8	These are all that remains of Isa Skiaperili Lander, which seems to have met a sad fate
1:11.8	upon arrival at Mars.
1:13.2	Sad indeed.
1:14.2	Does ESA, does the European Space Agency is beginning to get an idea of what went wrong?
1:19.2	There are various stories coming out in the media, but not yet a formal statement.
1:24.2	The good news is that the Lander was broadcasting telemetry throughout its approach to
1:29.1	Mars to a couple of orbiters and they got much of that data down they got all of the
1:33.8	data down and it actually the lander was operating fine until very late in the
1:37.9	landing sequence shortly after the parachute had had decelerated it.
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