Trekkin’ Across the Universe With Andrew Fazekas
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
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🗓️ 11 October 2016
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Star Trekkin, Across the Universe, this week on planetary radio. |
| 0:05.0 | Welcome, I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society with more of the Human Adventure |
| 0:16.6 | across our solar system and beyond. |
| 0:19.2 | Andrew Fisechus joins us to talk about his new National Geographic book that uses Star Trek to introduce |
| 0:26.0 | the wonders of astronomy. |
| 0:28.4 | Wait till you see the images of Mars that senior editor Emily Lochuala has gotten from India's Mars Orbiter mission. |
| 0:36.3 | Bill Nye wants NASA to make a date with the Red Planet and will learn why you shouldn't |
| 0:40.9 | mess with Bruce Betts in this week's edition of What's Up? |
| 0:45.1 | Some gorgeous new images, Emily. |
| 0:47.1 | Tell us about these pictures of Mars. |
| 0:49.5 | Well, these aren't exactly new images. |
| 0:51.4 | They are newly released images, though. It's the first formal release of science quality data from the Mars Orbiter mission, that's the Indian Space Agency's Mars Orbiter mission, and they've finally done a public release of science data |
| 1:04.5 | from all their instruments of course the one instrument I'm most interested in and |
| 1:07.7 | always is the camera and I spent a while downloading the 517 photos that they released and they really are quite unusual and very pretty. |
| 1:17.0 | And I know you spent days processing these and boy that work really shows off well here. What is so special about this camera? It's not high-rise. |
| 1:26.7 | No, it's absolutely not high-rise. In fact, it's pretty much the opposite of high-rise. High-rise, of course, is the camera on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter that takes pictures so detailed that you could use them for hiking maps. |
| 1:38.0 | They use them to plan rover traverses. |
| 1:40.0 | But each image only covers a tiny fraction of Mars. The Mars color camera, |
| 1:45.6 | Israel's Mars Orbiter mission, is basically the opposite. It's a very wide angle camera. |
| 1:50.0 | It's got a field of view that's designed so that when the orbiter is at its farthest reach from Mars |
| 1:55.3 | It is able to take in all of the planet in one view. It's also a color camera like the ones on curiosity |
| 2:01.7 | And so that means that it takes these basically magazine cover quality photos of the globe of Mars. |
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