Emily Lakdawalla • Dec 05, 2012
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
![Carbon-chlorine compounds detected by SAM on Mars](https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_1200x900_crop_center-center_82_line/20121203_msl_mars_rocknest_chlorine_PIA16576.jpg 1200w, https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_768x576_crop_center-center_82_line/20121203_msl_mars_rocknest_chlorine_PIA16576.jpg 768w, https://planetary.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assets/pictures/_576x432_crop_center-center_82_line/20121203_msl_mars_rocknest_chlorine_PIA16576.jpg 576w)
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