PLANETARY RADIO LIVE: Celebrating Rover Curiosity

The leaders of the Curiosity mission, Project Manager Richard Cook and Project Scientist John Grotzinger, join Bill Nye, Emily Lakdawalla and host Mat Kaplan for a live conversation about the thrilling mission of discovery on Mars. Bruce Betts tosses t-shirts to the space trivia contest winners in our packed audience, and everyone swings to the sound of jazz quartet Hedgehog Swing.

Related Links

• Watch the Complete Planetary Radio Live Video!
• Emily Lakdawalla's Latest Curiosity Blog Entry
• JPL Curiosity Rover Website
• Hedgehog Swing Jazz Quartet

Trivia Contest

This week's prize is a beautiful and informative 2013 Year In Space wall calendar.

This week's question:
From what country did Curiosity's REMS instrument package come?

To submit your answer:
Send an email no later than Monday, December 24, at 2 pm Pacific time to [email protected] containing:

Last week's question:
What is the most common graphical symbol for Neptune designed to look like?

Answer:
The answer will be revealed next week.

Question from the week before:
TRMM is the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission.  It is a joint project of NASA and what other space agency?

Answer:
JAXA, the Japanese space agency.