Planetary Society Weekly Hangout: present and future rovers

The Planetary Society has a new weekly Google+ Hangout time slot, Thursdays at noon PT / 2000 UT. Join me and Casey Dreier for a discussion of the Curiosity kerfuffle and NASA's future rover plans. This week, Casey Dreier and I talked about the Curiosity kerfuffle and NASA's future rover plans. Here's the archived recording.

Some relevant links:

• Curiosity update, sol 117: Progress report from AGU
• Rovers are awesome, but where's the science?
• Planetary Society Statement on the 2020 Mars Rover Mission Announcement
• The 2020 Rover in Context
• The Curiosity Kerfuffle: the big (and increasing) difference between data and discovery
• Curiosity Sol-By-Sol Timeline