Tau = 10.8 from This is Love

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4.8 • 11.2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

When twin rovers named Spirit and Opportunity landed on Mars twenty years ago, they were only supposed to last 90 Martian days. But years passed, they were still alive, and engineers kept taking care of them...

We proudly present a This is Love Spotlight — a story from out of this world, about two robots on Mars who just would not die. And the people whose job it was to check on them every day, who started to think about them as family.

This story Tau = 10.8, is from the podcast This is Love, part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.

This is Love, hosted by Phoebe Judge is a show that tells stories about a lot of different kinds of love — sometimes love between people, sometimes not. It’s made by the same team that makes what was one of the first true crime podcasts out there — a show called Criminal.

They have dozens more stories like this available wherever you get your podcasts! Their website is thisislovepodcast.com.

Artwork by Julienne Alexander

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Season 15 - Episode 20

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0:00.0	Snap Studios. The Today and Snap, we're proud to present a This Is Love spotlight.
0:29.0	An out of the world story that's about two robots on Mars battling the storm together and
0:35.1	the people whose job it is to check on them every day, people who start to think about
0:40.0	them, it's family.
0:42.0	And what happened one Martian spring, and the skies go dark. The story comes
0:48.8	to us from the podcast This is Love, hosted by Phoebe Judge. The show tells stories about lots of different kinds of love.
0:57.0	Sometimes love is between people, sometimes not.
1:00.8	From the team behind one of the first true crime podcast out there a show called Criminal
1:06.0	we probably present Ta equals 10.8
1:15.0	Snap Judgment. I think Mars looks a lot like Colorado.
1:19.0	It was funny because my daughter feels like she grew up with robot siblings and I remember
1:27.0	when she was about three years old we went out to Colorado to visit my parents and we're driving around Garden of the Gods and my
1:36.4	daughter looks out the window and I heard her say, wow, we're on Mars because she she grew up with the pictures and she's like we're on Mars and I heard her talking to herself and she said well
1:49.7	Grandma and Grandpa are mama's parents and mama works on Mars.
1:56.0	Oh, it makes sense now.
1:58.0	This is where she goes when she's working.
2:04.0	What do you do?
2:06.0	I work at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
2:08.0	I've been there 27 years.
2:14.0	Jennifer Herman has known she wanted to work at NASA since she was a little girl.
2:18.9	I was in third grade when I saw images from Voyager coming back from Saturn and it just amazed me.
2:30.0	NASA had launched the Voyager spacecrafts three years earlier to collect information about Jupiter, Saturn, and their moons.
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