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Planetary Radio

To Phobos and Back

Airdate: Tuesday, November 13, 2007
Running Time: 00:25:52
Listen: Windows Media | MP3

Highlights of a Planetary Society seminar about the little potato-shaped moon of Mars. We'll hear from Tom Duxbury, Phobos expert at JPL, from Alexander Zakharov of the Russian Space Research Institute about plans for a Phobos sample return mission, and from The Planetary Society's Bruce Betts, manager of a proposed experiment for that mission which may help determine whether life could have come to Earth from Mars. Bruce also joins us for a What's Up night sky update with a new space trivia question, while Mat announces yet another prize in the Planetary Radio fifth anniversary contest -- a limited edition Star Trek poster signed by Michael Okuda joins Vision Videogames' SpaceStationSim game, and a genuine fragment of a Mars meteorite donated by Spaceflori.com. All entries in the weekly trivia contest are automatically entered in the fifth anniversary competition. All this, and Emily Lakdawalla's Q&A.

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Guests

• Bruce Betts, Director of Projects, The Planetary Society
• Tom Duxbury, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
• Alexander Zakharov, Russian Space Research Institute

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