Opportunity, Phone Home!

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

Technology, Science

4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The dust is settling on the Red Planet. Is the remaining Mars Exploration Rover about to rise and shine after three months of slumber? MER Project Manager John Callas returns with a realistic yet hopeful assessment. He also tells us what Opportunity will be asked to do after we hear from her. Planetary Society Senior Editor Emily Lakdawalla returns with a preview of China’s next two missions to the Moon, one of which will make the first-ever farside landing. How close is the nearest black hole? We’ll get the answer as Bruce and Mat explore the night sky in this week’s What’s Up. Learn and hear more at: http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2018/0912-2018-john-callas-opportunity.html Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Opportunity, please phone home this week on planetary radio.
0:07.0	Welcome, I'm at Kaplan, of the Planetary Society,
0:12.9	with more of the human adventure
0:14.6	across our solar system and beyond.
0:17.6	The skies over the Red Planet are clearing,
0:20.5	and the Mars Exploration Rover team is anxiously but hopefully waiting.
0:25.0	We'll talk with MER Project Manager John Callis about the outlook for the little rover
0:30.0	that has already spent nearly 15 years on Mars.
0:35.0	How close is the nearest black hole?
0:38.0	The answer will come during our what-up segment
0:40.0	and will win someone this week's space trivia contest.
0:44.0	China is preparing its next voyages to Earth's moon.
0:48.0	We go to the Planetary Society's senior editor, Emily
0:52.0	locked wallet, to learn more.
0:53.0	Emily, other than talking about these terrific missions that are going to get underway very soon,
0:58.0	this is also a sneaky way for me to congratulate you on your very first edition of the planetary report,
1:05.7	the magazine that goes out quarterly to all planetary society members and the first one
1:11.2	that you've been in charge of.
1:13.2	That's right, it's my first magazine.
1:14.8	I got it out on time.
1:16.2	It has two feature articles from wonderful contributors.
1:20.0	I've got ESA's Elson, Montagnon,
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