Planetary Radio LIVE Continues! With John Callas of the Mars Exploration Rovers and Joy Crisp of the Mars Science Laboratory

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

Technology, Science

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🗓️ 2 January 2012

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Here's the second half of our December show recorded in front of a live audience: Mars rover updates, two more spacey songs from KJ Williams, and the big finish of Emily Lakdawalla's proof that she is not covering up evidence of aliens in our solar system! You'll also hear a brand new What's Up segment from Bruce Betts and Mat Kaplan.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	More Rovers on Mars as planetary radio live continues. Welcome to the Travel Show that takes you to the Final Frontier.
0:20.0	I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society.
0:22.0	As promised, we've got the second half of our I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society.
0:22.8	As promised, we've got the second half of our December show recorded in front of a live
0:27.3	audience at Southern California Public Radio's Crawford Family Forum.
0:32.1	Back again our Joy Crisp, Deputy Project Scientist for Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory, and John
0:38.6	Callis, Project Manager for the Mars Exploration Rovers.
0:43.0	Bill Nye, the Science and Planetary Guy,
0:45.0	will again join the conversation.
0:47.0	More musical treats too,
0:49.0	as we welcome back singer K.J. Williams
0:51.0	and guitarist Lawrence Young. Then we'll get a brand new
0:54.0	what's-up segment from Bruce Betts. We'll begin where we left off last week with
0:58.8	the Planetary Society Science and Technology Coordinator. Emily Lochuala was in the middle of telling us how she uses a bit of art to reveal beautiful
1:07.4	science truths in the images return from spacecraft around our solar system.
1:12.4	Don't forget that there are video
1:13.6	slides shows of both parts of Emily's presentation at planetary.org
1:18.5	slash blog. Emily let's start with a quick reminder of where we left off last week.
1:23.3	Well I talked about how spacecraft cameras are usually black and white cameras.
1:27.5	They shoot only black and white images and to get color information.
1:30.6	They have to put different color filters in front of the camera.
1:33.7	The same is true of Cassini as it was of the Mars Exploration Rovers.
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