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Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

Your Personal Photoshoot on Mars?

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

Science, Technology

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2010

⏱️ 29 minutes

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0:00.0

Your personal photo shoot on Mars, this week on planetary radio. Hi everyone, welcome to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the final frontier.

0:21.0

I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society. It's the highest

0:25.2

resolution camera circling the red planet and now you may be able to point it.

0:30.3

Alfred McEwen returns to our microphone with an update on the Mars

0:34.8

reconnaissance orbiter's High-rise Imager and the new High Wish program that

0:40.6

invites everyone to suggest sights on Mars for a snapshot.

0:45.0

Our own Emily Lachto-walla got her high wish nominations turned in a few weeks ago.

0:50.0

Listen in as we find out from Alfred if she's a winner.

0:54.0

Emily's best of the Planetary Society blog feature is just a few seconds away.

0:59.0

President Barack Obama has scheduled a space summit for April 15.

1:04.0

Bill Nye, the science and planetary guy, is looking forward to that discussion.

1:08.6

And Bruce Betts will join me for a look at the night sky.

1:11.7

We've also got a very special prize for the winner of the new

1:15.3

Space Trivia Contest.

1:17.4

Emily Lochuwala is the Planetary Society's Science and Technology coordinator. If you've visited planetary.org, you know she also does

1:26.1

amazing work with the Society's very popular blog.

1:29.8

That's why we call her up every week.

1:32.1

Emily, another look at the blog this week, and in particular a couple of images which are not

1:38.0

exactly current missions.

1:40.0

I mean, they're both going back into the archives.

1:42.8

Absolutely and they're the examples of the kinds of things I really like to feature on the blog so much because there is such a wealth of data in the archives that really very few people have taken the time to look at or used modern

1:54.4

computer processing methods to bring out their beauty.

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