What’s Next for Mars Exploration?
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 December 2019
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The Red Planet is slowly revealing its deepest secrets, but there’s much more to learn. The biggest mystery is whether it has ever been home to life. Caltech and JPL planetary scientist Bethany Ehlmann lays out the path ahead in a fascinating conversation. The holiday night sky is alive with stars, planets and even a meteor shower. Bruce Betts will tell all in What’s Up. Our last episode of the year opens with space exploration headlines from the Planetary Society’s news digest, The Downlink. Learn more and enter the space trivia contest at https://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2019/1225-2019-bethany-ehlmann-mars.html
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| 0:00.0 | The Future of Mars Exploration with Bethany Elman, this week on planetary radio. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome, I'm at Kaplan of of the Planetary Society, with more of the human adventure across our |
| 0:16.1 | solar system and beyond. |
| 0:18.7 | Happy holidays, everybody. |
| 0:20.2 | That old red planet hangs over our heads like an ornament on a cosmic tree, |
| 0:25.4 | delighting and challenging us to reveal its remaining secrets. |
| 0:29.8 | And there are many of them. |
| 0:31.2 | We'll talk with planetary scientist and confirmed |
| 0:33.8 | Martian Bethany Elman about these mysteries and the path that is taking us |
| 0:38.5 | toward solving them. Our second present is another visit with Planetary Society Chief Scientist Bruce Betts, |
| 0:45.2 | who will bring us this week's What's Up. It has been a busy time for space |
| 0:50.4 | exploration and the latest edition of the Society's News Digest, the downlink, |
| 0:55.8 | is chock full of goodies. Here's a sampling. By now you've probably heard that Boeing's |
| 1:01.0 | starliner didn't quite reach the stars or the International |
| 1:04.9 | Space Station. The uncrewed test was otherwise very successful. It became the |
| 1:10.1 | first American capsule style spacecraft to soft land on solid ground. |
| 1:16.2 | An odd on-board timer error seems to have been the only major problem with the mission, |
| 1:22.0 | the astronauts who may fly in a star liner |
| 1:24.3 | before long believe they might have been able to fix the error and make it to the |
| 1:28.8 | ISS. You just can't keep those humans down, can you? |
| 1:33.0 | The International Astronomical Union released the results from an international campaign |
| 1:38.0 | that allowed people in nations around our planet to propose names for over 100 stars and exoplanets. |
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