February 21, 2018 • 49 mins
Mat Kaplan attended a meeting of the science team for the zoom lens camera that will be atop the Mars 2020 rover mast. Planetary Scientist Jim Bell tells us how this new system will show us the Red Planet as we’ve never seen it before. Space is hard. Sample return is even harder, says Senior Editor Emily Lakdawalla. Bruce Betts presents Mat Kaplan with a musical Random Space Fact in this week’s What’s Up segment. Learn more and see images here: http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2018/0221-jim-bell-mastcam-z-science-meeting.html
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