Planetary Radio Live Celebrates the Mars Rovers

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

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🗓️ 28 January 2014

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Opportunity has been rolling across Mars for 10 years! We celebrate the Mars Exploration Rovers and their sisters on the red planet at Planetary Radio Live, this week featuring MER Principal Investigator Steve Squyres. Emily Lakdawalla and Bill Nye join Mat in front of a capacity crowd at Southern California Public Radio’s Crawford Family Forum. Bruce Betts closes the show with a live Random Space Fact and rover trivia contest.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Happy 10th anniversary on Mars everyone. That's how long opportunity the Mars Exploration
0:05.9	Rover has been exploring the red planet. This week we celebrate Oppi, her sister spirit, their
0:11.8	big sister curiosity, and Little Sojener that set us to Roving Mars back
0:16.3	in 1997.
0:18.3	We'll begin with excerpts from the January 23rd Rover Party we held at KPCC Southern California Public Radio's Crawford Family Forum
0:26.8	in collaboration with the next People Science Tomorrow series that I host for SCPR.
0:33.0	Welcome to Public Radio's Travel Show that takes you to the final frontier.
0:38.0	We're back with Plan Rad Live in front of another full house here in Pasadena,
0:42.7	not far from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory,
0:45.2	the robotic space exploration capital of the world
0:48.8	and the birthplace of every rover that has gone to Mars. We have gathered to celebrate the spirit of exploration,
1:00.6	the unforeseen opportunities that always result from exploring and the
1:05.0	curiosity that drives this basic human need. You'll hear a principal
1:09.3	investigator for the Mars Exploration Rovers, Steve Squires.
1:13.2	That's coming up in just a few moments.
1:14.9	But right now, I want to welcome the CEO of the Planetary Society,
1:19.0	my boss and friend, Bill Nye, the Science Guy, the Science Guy. Thank you, Matt.
1:30.0	It's so good to be here, So good to see all these planetary enthusiasts here in the room and I hope there are many
1:37.8	That was no millions listening online as we celebrate 10 years of exploring Mars with these extraordinary
1:46.0	two rovers that were launched back in 2004 and they were supposed to run for three Martian months. And they've, one of them is, well, one went six years, the other's gone 10 years.
2:00.0	This would be equivalent to buying a car with a three-year warranty and driving it for 120 years.
2:06.8	That is extraordinary.
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