29 – A Teenage Rover (feat. Mike Seibert)
WeMartians Podcast
English - September 05, 2017 12:07 - 53 minutes - 49.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 113 ratingsNatural Sciences Science Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
For over 13 years, NASA’s Opportunity Rover has been exploring Meridiani Planum on Mars. The determined spacecraft has faced a lot of challenges through its mission, not least of which is continuing to operate in the harsh Martian environment. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Mike Seibert joins Jake to talk about all the intricacies of operating a spacecraft another world away.
Links
Mike’s Twitter Account (@mikeseibert)
Opportunity’s 13th Birthday Video
Planetary Society’s latest update on Opportunity
Breakdown of Curiosity’s Sampling Subsystem, which Mike works on now
WeMartians music is “RetroFuture”, “Electrodoodle” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/