On Episode 169 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Rob Manning, JPL’s Chief Engineer Emeritus, to look again on the Mariner 4 Mars mission 60 years later.
Six a long time in the past this week, the Mariner 4 probe sped previous Mars, the primary to reach this then-brash enterprise. The expertise was unbelievably primitive, but efficient, sending again 22 low-resolution video frames of the Crimson Planet. On that day, the wee hours of July 15 at JPL in Pasadena, the Mars of the romantics died. What had lengthy been seen as a barely colder, considerably drier, near-twin of Earth ended up having only a hint of an environment and regarded extra just like the moon–bone dry and pummelled by craters.
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This Week in Space covers the brand new house age. Each Friday we take a deep dive into a captivating subject. What’s occurring with the brand new race to the moon and different planets? When will SpaceX actually ship folks to Mars?
Be part of Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik from Area.com as they sort out these questions and extra every week on Friday afternoons. You possibly can subscribe at the moment in your favourite podcatcher.
Rod Pyle is an writer, journalist, tv producer and Editor-in-Chief of Ad Astra magazine. He has written 18 books on house historical past, exploration, and growth, together with Area 2.0, Innovation the NASA Means, Interplanetary Robots, Blueprint for a Battlestar, Wonderful Tales of the Area Age, First On the Moon, and Vacation spot Mars
In a earlier life, Rod produced quite a few documentaries and quick movies for The Historical past Channel, Discovery Communications, and Disney. He additionally labored in visible results on Star Trek: Deep Area 9 and the Battlestar Galactica reboot, in addition to numerous sci-fi TV pilots. His most up-to-date TV credit score was with the NatGeo documentary on Tom Wolfe’s iconic ebook The Proper Stuff.
Chargeable for Area.com’s editorial imaginative and prescient, Tariq Malik has been the Editor-in-Chief of Area.com since 2019 and has coated house information and science for 18 years. He joined the Area.com crew in 2001, first as an intern and shortly after as a full-time spaceflight reporter protecting human spaceflight, exploration, astronomy and the evening sky. He grew to become Area.com’s managing editor in 2009. As on-air expertise has introduced house tales on CNN, Fox Information, NPR and others.
Tariq is an Eagle Scout (sure, he earned the Area Exploration advantage badge), a Area Camp veteran (4 instances as a child, as soon as as an grownup), and has taken the final word “vomit comet” trip whereas reporting on zero-gravity fires. Earlier than becoming a member of Area.com, he served as a workers reporter for The Los Angeles Instances protecting metropolis and schooling beats. He has journalism levels from the College of Southern California and New York College.
