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Elokuussa amerikkalainen tutkimusryhmä ilmoitti löytäneensä Marsin pinnan alta alueita, joissa on todennäköisesti nestemäistä vettä. Löytö tehtiin hämmästyttävästi tutkimalla Marsin maanjäristyksiä eli marsjäristyksiä; kuten maapallollakin, planeetan läpi kulkevat maanjäristysaallot kertovat myös Marsin sisärakenteesta. Kyseessä oli jälleen yksi monista kerroista, kun Marsin vedestä on tehty isoja otsikoita. Vettähän punaiselta planeetalta on "löydetty ensimmäistä kertaa" jo usein, niin jäänä kuin kuurana pinnalla. Marsin pinta ja sen kivet kertovat omaa kieltään planeetan todella vetisestä historiasta, ja kun katsotaan miljardien vuosien taakse historiaan, niin Marsissa oli todennäköisesti myös elämälle otolliset olosuhteet. Nyt elämä, jos sitä on, voi luurata pinnan alla suojassa kylmyydeltä ja voimakkaalta säteilyltä. Mitä Marsin vedestä ja mahdollisesta elämästä tiedetään? Millaisia ovat tämän tutkimusmatkan tärkeimmät käänteet? Olennaisessa osassa ovat avaruusluotaimet ja -laskeutujat. Haastateteltavina on useita hankkeissa mukana olleita tutkijoita: Matthew Golombek, Steve Squyres, Vittorio Formisano, Philippe Laudet ja Jorge Vago. Toimittajana on Jari Mäkinen.
Tom talks with the truly amazing astronomer and planetary scientist Steve Squyres. Steve shares in his story about how he became an astronomer, talks about the Mars Exploration Rover Mission and much much more.
The Learning Leader Show With Ryan Hawk Text LEARNERS to 44222 Full show notes found at www.LearningLeader.com #367: Ozan Varol - How To Think Like A Rocket Scientist Sustaining excellence = The ability to learn from failure - "Failure sucks and shouldn't be celebrated. We must learn from it." "Learn fast, don't fail fast. We need to get better with each iteration. Breakthroughs should be evolutionary, not revolutionary How success can lead to failure The Challenger Explosion - A string of successes discounted the role that luck played in the process "Just because you're on a hot streak doesn't mean you'll beat the house." Post mortem - A Latin phrase for "after death." Instead of a post mortem, do an "after action review." Review after all actions whether they succeeded or failed. The "Kill The Company" exercise Ask the people within your company what they would do to compete and beat your company... And then do that. Mark Zuckerberg does this with acquisitions (WhatsApp, Instagram). One of his greatest fears is becoming the next MySpace. As a mid-level manager: Put yourself in the position of your customer. Why are customers justified in buying from our competitions? "They see something we're not seeing." Growing up in Istanbul, Turkey. It was a culture of conformity. Ozan did not fit in. In fact, he was assigned a number in school and that was used to call on him instead of his name. His parents let him choose which school he went to and he remembers feeling so empowered by them for having a choice. He wanted more of that. So he decided to come to the United States for college and attended Cornell. Ozan blindly applied for a job that didn’t exist by emailing Steve Squyres (he was in charge of a NASA funded project to send a river to Mars). And he acted on his dad’s advice, “you can’t win the lottery if you don’t buy a ticket.” “Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.” - Carl Sagan In the modern world we look for certainty in uncertain places. We search for order in chaos. The right answer in ambiguity. And conviction in the complexity. We should be fueled not by a desire for a quick catharsis but by intrigue. Where certainty ends, progress begins. “The great obstacle to discovering was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge. - historian Daniel J Boorstin It takes courage... Often times there is a failure of courage. Have the courage to take action when the rest of the world is standing still. Ask yourself two questions: What's the worst that can happen? What's the best that can happen? Adopt an experimental mindset - Frame your actions as experiments. Don't be afraid to try new things... "The way you figure out what's right is to try to prove it wrong." The goal? "Find what's right, not to be right." Ask people who disagree with you... Why? Have a mindset to learn from them. "Tell me what's wrong with this..." Be a work in progress. "All progress happens in uncertain times." "It's bizarre. People prefer certainty of bad news instead of the fear of the unknown." "Be curious about tomorrow." Think: "What problems can I solve right now?" It is not helpful to try and solve something that you cannot control. Diversify your identity and services -- This allows you to be flexible and not depended on one stream of revenue. "All of our differences are minimized when we zoom out." The Apollo 8 mission gave us an opportunity to look at the Earth from afar (mission to go near the moon). Jim Lovell could cover up the earth with his thumb. It put things in perspective. Rocket science teaches us about our limited role in the cosmos and reminds us to be gentler and kinder to one another.
Risk is part of any endeavor, whether you're managing money or multi-million-dollar robots on Mars. Steve Squyres, the Scientific Principal Investigator of the Mars Exploration Rover Project, and AQR's Lars Nielsen offer two unique perspectives on managing risk. This podcast was recorded on April 15, 2019. The views expressed in this recording are the personal views of the participants as of the date indicated and do not necessarily reflect the views of AQR itself. AQR and its affiliates may have positions (long or short) or engage in securities transactions that are not consistent with the information and views expressed in this presentation. This recording has been prepared solely for informational purposes. Nothing contained in this [recording][podcast] constitutes investment, legal, tax or other advice, and it should not be viewed as a current or past recommendation or a solicitation of an offer to buy or sell any securities or to adopt any investment strategy. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. There can be no assurance that any investment strategy will be successful. The investment strategies and themes discussed herein may be unsuitable for investors depending on their specific investment objectives and financial situation. The information in this recording is based on current market conditions, which will fluctuate and may be superseded by subsequent market events or for other reasons. AQR does not assume any duty to update forward looking statements. The information in this recording has been developed internally and/or obtained from sources believed to be reliable; however, no representation or warranty, express or implied, is made or given by or on behalf of AQR as to the accuracy and completeness or fairness of the information contained in this recording. Any liability as a result of this recording (including any direct, indirect, special or consequential loss or damage) is expressly disclaimed. ©2019 AQR Capital Management, LLC. All rights reserved.
Steve Squyres is the principal investigator for the Mars Exploration Rover Program, which gave us the plucky and productive rovers Spirit and Opportunity. With the latter on life support and the former no longer with us, I spoke with him about his amazing run on Mars and what he’s working on now. It’s all out-of-this-world stuff.
NASA's Spirit and Opportunity rovers were only supposed to rove around Mars for 90 days. Listen in with Steve Squyers from Cornell University as he recounts the amazing discoveries we've made about the Red Planet because of these two long-lived rovers.
NASA's Spirit and Opportunity rovers were only supposed to rove around Mars for 90 days. Listen in with Steve Squyers from Cornell University as he recounts the amazing discoveries we've made about the Red Planet because of these two long-lived rovers.
Jake and Anthony drink a beer that has been to space, discuss the recently-announced New Frontiers finalists, and propose their own flagship-class missions. Huge thanks to Ninkasi Brewing Company for powering this episode! Beers Ninkasi Brewing - Ground Control 2017 Ground Control (2017) - Ninkasi Brewing Company - Untappd Ninkasi Space Program - Home Topics Future Planetary Exploration: Proposed New Frontiers Missions NASA Invests in Concept Development for Missions to Comet, Saturn Moon | NASA Dragonfly Dragonfly: A Proposal to Explore Titan, Saturn's Largest Moon, via Quadcopter - YouTube Picks SPACE 1: We're Going To Space : Planet Money : NPR Amazon.com: Forever Young: A Life of Adventure in Air and Space eBook: John W Young, James R. Hansen: Kindle Store Follow Jake WeMartians Podcast - Follow Humanity's Journey to Mars WeMartians Podcast (@We_Martians) | Twitter Jake Robins (@JakeOnOrbit) | Twitter Follow Anthony Main Engine Cut Off Main Engine Cut Off (@WeHaveMECO) | Twitter Anthony Colangelo (@acolangelo) | Twitter
Join Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice as they tour the solar system with Mars Exploration Rover principal investigator Steve Squyres and planetary scientist Heidi Hammel. Extended with an update on Pluto from Neil deGrasse Tyson and 10 minutes of new Cosmic Queries with Bill Nye and Chuck Nice!
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Take a tour of the solar system with Mars Exploration Rover scientist Steve Squyres and planetary scientist Heidi Hammel.
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Cornell's Steven Squyres for a discussion of the Mars Exploration Rover Mission. Reflecting on the intellectual journey that led to his role in the Mars mission, Squires reminisces about his early years, his education and his career in geology and astronomy. Discussing the role of leadership in a complex scientific project, he compares the characteristics, skill set, and work of scientists and engineers, and he describes the dynamic process that led to the project’s success in exploring Mars. He explains the importance of the mission and what was learned and concludes with thoughts on the future of planetary exploration. Series: "Conversations with History" [Science] [Show ID: 22444]
Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes Cornell's Steven Squyres for a discussion of the Mars Exploration Rover Mission. Reflecting on the intellectual journey that led to his role in the Mars mission, Squires reminisces about his early years, his education and his career in geology and astronomy. Discussing the role of leadership in a complex scientific project, he compares the characteristics, skill set, and work of scientists and engineers, and he describes the dynamic process that led to the project’s success in exploring Mars. He explains the importance of the mission and what was learned and concludes with thoughts on the future of planetary exploration. Series: "Conversations with History" [Science] [Show ID: 22444]
Steve Squyres gives us a status report on Spirit and Opportunity, and Bill Nye comments on the rings that appear to surround one of Saturn's small moons. Last week Emily Lakdawalla told us why objects in space are round, but this time her Q&A explains why they're not.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
We look at the state of the rovers currently on Mars, the big accidental discovery by the Spirit rover, and the next-generation device slated to join them in 2010, the Mars Science Laboratory Rover. Interviews with Cornell's Melissa Rice, the payload downlink lead for the rover cameras, and the Jet Propulsion Lab's Michelle Viotti, about the Mars Science Laboratory Rover. Also press conference clips featuring Cornell's Steve Squyres, principal investigator for the science instruments on the Mars Exploration Rover Mission, and Harvard's Andrew Knoll, a biologist with the Mars missions. Plus, we'll test your knowledge of some recent science in the news. Web sites mentioned on this episode include www.jpl.nasa.gov
This week we talk with Steve Squyres, principal investigator for the science payload on the Mars Exploration Rover Project, & Professor of Astronomy at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Preview from the show: "We have been so incredibly lucky with this mission. I mean, to have that dead wheel, which we thought was a catastrophe at the time, turn up one of the most exciting discoveries of the mission, was very good fortune." "The next big thing, at least in mars exploration, along with the continuing adventures of the rovers, is a mission called Phoenix. And Phoenix is a lander mission that's going to land near the north polar region of mars, and is going to dig down into the soil there, hope to find ice and then, scoop up some of that ice, and put it into a little chemistry set on top of the lander, and find out what's inside of that ice." "What we've tried to do is provide images, provide curriculum materials, and provide information for educators as we go. And I think that's actually the best way to do it, because the thing that makes this exciting is not reading about it in the historical sense after the mission's over, so much as being an active participant - you know following the mission as it's going along. You can go to our website, and you can download the latest pictures from Mars that have come down in the last day or so." Links: NASA's Mars Exploration Page Audio clips with Dr. Steve Squyres, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY Transcript: Mars Rover Update with Dr. Steve Squyres Steve Squyres on NASA Direct Steve Squyres entry from Wikipedia Steve Squyres: Man on a Misson from NOVA Steve Squyres Interview on The Colbert Report Steve Squyres on NPR's Fresh Air from WHYY, March 29, 2004 ABC News Person of the Week Article Father of Spirit and Opportunity, an article from Scientific American, October 2004 Interview with Steve Squyres from The Cornell Daily Sun Mars Exploration Rovers Mission Update blog & Way Cool Scientist! UC Berkeley Distinguished Lecture in Astronomy Lecture with Steve Squyres on Google Video Roving Mars, written by Steve Squyres from amazon.com Brian's "Flaming Pumpkin of Death" Dale's Stop-motion video project
Steve Squyres and Phil Christensen discuss Opportunity's latest goal, Endeavour Crater; Emily Lakdawalla knows how to find a spacecraft sailing out beyond Pluto, and Bruce Betts has a lock on a couple of comets.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Doctor Steven Squyres talks about the challenges, human and robotic, facing the Mars Exploration Rover mission; Emily Lakdawalla is watching for shooting stars...on Mars, and Bruce Betts and Mat Kaplan attend the Planetary Society's holiday party.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices