To Phobos and Back

Air Date: 11/13/2007
Run Time: 0:25:52

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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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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.