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liftoff of the atlas 5 curiosity

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i'm dan mclease

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i'm jpl's chief scientist on on behalf

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of jpl's leadership team i'd like to

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welcome you to our celebration of

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curiosity one year on mars

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one year ago today believe it or not

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uh began one of the most daring

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adventures yet in planetary exploration

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certainly the most daring

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of our exploration steps for mars

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the thrill of the curiosity rover and

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its science payload hurtling toward the

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planet to a

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soft touchdown on six wheels remains

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with us today

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and we're reminded just what an

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incredible science and

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engineering feat this is

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i'm impressed by

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work that's been done since those

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initial moments on the surface with

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everything worked perfectly

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i'm impressed by the work that's been

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done in the first year of exploration

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and the rover's performance has just

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been i think

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in excess of what the most optimistic of

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us had imagined it might be

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while learning to operate the amazing

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machine that the rover and science

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payload are

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the

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engineers and scientists have forged a

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partnership that includes the rover

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itself

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they've been testing and they've been

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utilizing

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thousands of rover and payload functions

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and what we have today is an

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astonishingly powerful tool for science

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we've been observing

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we've been measuring we've been sampling

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and in the background

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throughout laboratories across the globe

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there have been scientists working to

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help interpret the measurements that

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i think it's important to recognize that

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the questions that we ask address some

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of the most important questions in

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science and for mars one of the great

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mysteries and that is

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was this planet ever habitable

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our celebration of the success of

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curiosity's first year

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includes the anticipation of even more

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exciting years of discovery to come

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we have three conversations today for

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one is about getting the amazing rover

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to the surface and making it work

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about the science that's been

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accomplished and that cut to come

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and we conclude with a look at the

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extraordinary

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public and worldwide impact that this

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mission has

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had but before getting started i'd like

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to quickly acknowledge

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the past and present leaders of

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the project managers

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are mike sander pete tysinger richard

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cook

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and jim erickson and project scientist

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ed stolper and john grotzinger gentlemen

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everyone

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who has been part of this amazing

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mission

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to please stand and be acknowledged

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please stand those of you who have been

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part of this mission and worked

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together with these individuals

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so to frame our first conversation

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here's a short video that i think helps

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it took to get to the surface of mars

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great things take

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many people working together to make

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them happen is one of the fantastic

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things of human existence

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not only we've driven the rover we've

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moved its arm put it all through its

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paces but it's been in a thermal vacuum

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chamber and kept very cold parts of it

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have been in a centrifuge

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we've done drop tests pull tests drive

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it's just an amazing amount of testing

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this vehicle has gone through we've

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tried every way of operating at the

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vehicle using the software literally

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thousands and thousands of hours of

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years really of constant testing and

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am i confident that she's gonna go and

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she's gonna be successful absolutely

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what a fantastic demonstration of what

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our nation and our agency can do

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i could only think of the words of teddy

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roosevelt as i was sitting there

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it is far better to their mighty things

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even so we might fail

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than to stay in the twilight that knows

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neither victory nor defeat and the team

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[Applause]

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so i'd like to introduce the host of

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today's first conversation

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the man who led the project that put

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spirit and opportunity

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on the surface of mars in 2004

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and again delivered the curiosity rover

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to mars in 2012.

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ladies and gentlemen pete tysinger

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i really wish dan would stop reminding

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me how old i am

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you know you look at that video and i

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don't know about you but i've probably

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seen that video uh a hundred times in

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the last year

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you still think about how you felt that

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night and still

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in wonderment that it really did what it

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did it's it's an amazing story

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so i brought with me three of uh three

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of my cohorts to talk to you a little

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bit about uh some of the engineering

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uh stories about getting curiosity to uh

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to the launch pad and and to the planet

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and and in preparation for the surface

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to my left is matt wallace he was the

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flight system manager uh

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on on the mission uh from beginning to

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end uh which means he probably has the

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least sleep of anybody on the mission

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uh to his left is alan chen uh he was an

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engineer on adl and you may remember him

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at the night of

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curiosity's landing as being the voice

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mars everybody that was a nice nice

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development and now leaves the

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engineering team and she'll talk a

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little bit about operations so matt

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to some of you but on every single

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there were some tough times there

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and uh and so i thought i'd say a couple

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words about one of those periods um it

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ship the the vehicle to the cape

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we had had a pretty good winter we had

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vibration test of the vehicle of

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curiosity we took it into the chamber

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of the vehicle in the chamber with the

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simulated sun shining down on it and we

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storms and within a month or so as you

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the rover was up on the blocks it was

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dead bugged we had ripped some wheels

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about some of these boxes having a noise

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vulnerability that could have ended the

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mission during the entry descent and

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where we were going to find enough time

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in the schedule to put this thing back

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together retest it get it down to the

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cape get the spacecraft free stacked and

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why are we struggling here why is this

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so hard you know what do we try to do

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that is exactly what we did we did

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intend to do that to ourselves and the

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reason was from the first day i i

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we designed this system we architected

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it to be robust

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reliable in flight for it to have the

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take a punch from mars and stay on its

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when we landed we went right down the

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middle we had a very successful landing

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surface of mars i think this is a very

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um this is a this is a vehicle that

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likes to be on its way or on the surface

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design and build some very difficult

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strong and resilient team to do that

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everything they could to get through

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and eventually in the next image you can

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see the spacecraft fully assembled ready

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for encapsulation uh

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inside the uh the launch vehicle

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uh so uh it was uh

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you know the the project brought all

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kinds of challenges absolutely but uh

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the story ends well as you all know

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and uh and and i want to once again just

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thank the the team here and at the

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various centers uh out in industry our

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international partners everybody that

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really made this uh this possible so

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thanks pete thank you matt

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um of course that was only one of the of

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the many stories and challenges that uh

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that happened to curiosity on the way to

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florida

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i can remember um

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talking with matt and and dave rule the

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head of atlo and

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talking about it including rework

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periods in the outlook schedule because

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we knew we were going to have problem

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failure reports we knew that some of

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those were going to require hardware

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changes and

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we thought we would you know preschedule

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some of that thing and and so we put the

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one of of the we put a reworked period

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in the outlook schedule and and the

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incident that matt talked about was

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number three of the one uh outlaw rework

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period that we had

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um i want to i want to uh echo matt's

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congratulations to the team that not

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only worked on the design of curiosity

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but also the atlo team

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that in so many of our missions uh save

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our our behinds because of the ability

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to compress schedule at the very end

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and also to the kennedy team who uh

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who uh in in in preparation of the

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fairing which had to be cleaned for

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planetary protection purposes and also

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in uh in the last integration of the

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vehicle did a fantastic job so that we

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launched in fact on the second

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geometrical opportunity and it was uh it

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was a very successful launch and that

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got us into cruise and of course you

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might think that that

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would have been an easy time but it was

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not really um we had uh we had flight

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software to

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to to do because we had the late flight

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software development we had a few cruise

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things to worry about we had the uh

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we had a computer issue early on that

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was that we solved with the help with

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the help of our baa partner

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and then we got to edl and alan we'll

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talk a little bit about that

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uh since it's been a year since landing

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i figured it would be a good time to

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make a bit of a public confession

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as pete mentioned i you know i had the

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honor of

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doing the play-by-play on the way down i

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kind of gave myself two guidelines one

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was to try not to say anything stupid

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the second was to try to report what i

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saw and report everything i saw and it's

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actually that second one which i didn't

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do

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it turns out uh you know if you're

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taking you back to that night uh a year

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ago

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you know we were watching telemetry

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coming in from the vehicle and we had

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two types we had these tones that that

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the one of these 256 notes that the the

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the uh that curiosity would send back to

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us to tell us what was going on and

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that's all we had for about you know 14

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15 minutes from around cruise stage

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separation until we got into the

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atmosphere and then after that we

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started picking up data from odyssey

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it's those tones that you know things

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were looking pretty good for a long time

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you know we had 10 minutes of pretty

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boring heartbeat tones i was like

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my blood pressure was up but you know

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this was calming down a little bit

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then uh shortly after we hit the

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atmosphere we got a tone called uh meads

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beta catastrophic

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usually bad when you get these these

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tones that come back saying catastrophic

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you know we had intended that tone to

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tell us that we were about to imminently

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lose the vehicle um these were uh it was

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based on uh you had to do a lot of

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processing because you couldn't send

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back raw telemetry in these tones

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and uh you know that really spiked my

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blood pressure i think i almost had a

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heart attack when i saw that

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you know what that meant was you know if

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it was true was that the uh the vehicle

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was either tumbling

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or not heat shield forward um toward the

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atmosphere uh we was using uh it's using

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the sensors actually you can see them on

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the heat shield there

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these pressure sensors to try to guess

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try to figure out what the attitude of

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the vehicle was

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um so

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i bet if you watch i haven't gone back

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and re-watched the video i can't stand

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watching myself but

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i bet if you go back and watch it you

411
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could probably see me seize up um i'm a

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terrible poker player and uh

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you know it's uh

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yeah that was definitely a

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heart-stopping moment for me

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and i thought about it for a second you

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know i had figured you know if

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you know if about to lose the vehicle i

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better not say anything dumb there back

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i was like you know this this just

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happened right after we hit the

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atmosphere there really shouldn't be

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much air at that point do i really

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believe this you know is there is there

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something going on here that's uh that's

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more than more than i was thinking about

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um you know because it's it's using uh

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you know it's trying to basically

429
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subtract off the pressures from two

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different sides of the heat shield to

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figure out what the attitude is but

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really there's not much error up there

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are we getting much pressure at all

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what's going on

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um so i figured let me sit on this one

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for a minute if we're about to lose the

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vehicle if we're about to you know we're

438
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about to hit peak deceleration and peak

439
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heating it's going to become pretty

440
00:17:56,230 --> 00:17:53,360
obvious if we're going to lose the

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vehicle in a minute or two

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so i sat on it and you know luckily

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everything else turned out okay

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00:18:05,350 --> 00:18:03,600
um you know it turns out actually that

445
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the instrument is working fine but the

446
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uh we just had a calibration error and

447
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that was going about it um but uh yeah

448
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if i wasn't already sweating a lot then

449
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then i was super sweating after that

450
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definitely got the heart pounding so but

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you know as i like to say edl is really

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just the uh the middle of the story or

453
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even closer to the beginning really uh

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it's what's happened afterward that's

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kind of been the most rewarding for me

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thanks alan um

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i'm glad you didn't tell me

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i didn't want to kill anybody too on

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that

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and given all the taxes given all the

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vips that were there that night i'm glad

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you exercised a measure of restraint

463
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and for all that work for the seven

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years to get to that point in time for

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all the risk reduction that had happened

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all the

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the risk reduction during design and

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during assembly and and the fact of

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launch which has its own

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issues and crews

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and edl and we're finally on the surface

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and you need to realize at that point

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in your book that you're reading you've

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just passed the prologue

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okay

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because we do all that work so that the

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surface science and the service

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operations take place and jessica will

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talk a little bit about that so we've

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really been having an exciting time on

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the surface in this past year we've sent

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over 15 000 commands to the rover so far

483
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with an average of 600 to 800 commands a

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day

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which is a pretty impressive and our

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five

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samples that we've scooped and two drill

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rock targets where we delivered those

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samples to our analytical instruments

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and

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were approaching two kilometers or about

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one and three quarter kilometers

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and the countless number of science

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papers that the science team has been

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able to

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draft and present

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has really been a testament to how much

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we've been able to exercise the

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capabilities all the capabilities of

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this vehicle

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so we've been having a great time on the

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surface but kind of keeping in line with

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00:20:09,190 --> 00:20:07,039
these challenges

504
00:20:11,750 --> 00:20:09,200
our our pro probably our biggest

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challenge arise about

506
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halfway into the year

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we had just finished our first drill

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sample

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at the john klein science target and

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had delivered

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some of those

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samples to the science instruments

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but

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on one of the afternoons when we

515
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received the data we were

516
00:20:34,070 --> 00:20:32,320
we saw that we actually weren't getting

517
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data products from the spacecraft and

518
00:20:37,510 --> 00:20:35,919
that's one of the main ways that we get

519
00:20:38,630 --> 00:20:37,520
the telemetry from what's happening on

520
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the rover

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and

522
00:20:47,110 --> 00:20:45,280
was a little hard to to make out what

523
00:20:48,870 --> 00:20:47,120
was going on with the data but we have a

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second overflight from the odyssey

525
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orbiter and and that data also showed us

526
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that the rover hadn't gone to sleep um

527
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in between the two times um from the mro

528
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pass and this odyssey pass

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so that got people worried and

530
00:21:06,149 --> 00:21:03,600
the conclusion was is that the

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spacecraft really wasn't operating how

532
00:21:10,710 --> 00:21:08,159
we were expecting it to and it wasn't

533
00:21:14,390 --> 00:21:10,720
performing its nominal functions so

534
00:21:15,909 --> 00:21:14,400
after a very long day and night and

535
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commanding into the middle of the night

536
00:21:20,149 --> 00:21:18,240
and we weren't uh we were no longer on

537
00:21:22,789 --> 00:21:20,159
mars time so everybody had already been

538
00:21:25,270 --> 00:21:22,799
there a long day um the team concluded

539
00:21:27,350 --> 00:21:25,280
that the most important thing was to get

540
00:21:29,990 --> 00:21:27,360
it back into the configuration that we

541
00:21:31,830 --> 00:21:30,000
know which is to swap the computers from

542
00:21:32,870 --> 00:21:31,840
the a-side computer over to the b-side

543
00:21:34,549 --> 00:21:32,880
computer

544
00:21:36,149 --> 00:21:34,559
and

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00:21:38,149 --> 00:21:36,159
all this was happening

546
00:21:39,909 --> 00:21:38,159
and you know surface being this mission

547
00:21:42,470 --> 00:21:39,919
of you know science discovery and being

548
00:21:44,230 --> 00:21:42,480
led by whatever

549
00:21:46,630 --> 00:21:44,240
is in front of you i don't know if the

550
00:21:48,470 --> 00:21:46,640
team was just nostalgic for a deadline

551
00:21:51,510 --> 00:21:48,480
um because you know launch happened and

552
00:21:53,590 --> 00:21:51,520
cruise happened or edl happened and uh

553
00:21:55,909 --> 00:21:53,600
we had solar conjunction happening

554
00:21:57,830 --> 00:21:55,919
within a month from when this event

555
00:21:58,710 --> 00:21:57,840
occurred which meant we weren't going to

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00:22:01,029 --> 00:21:58,720
see

557
00:22:04,070 --> 00:22:01,039
we weren't going to be able to command

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00:22:06,310 --> 00:22:04,080
or really hear from the spacecraft in

559
00:22:08,870 --> 00:22:06,320
for about three weeks over

560
00:22:11,270 --> 00:22:08,880
the month of april so

561
00:22:13,270 --> 00:22:11,280
so here we were in march

562
00:22:14,950 --> 00:22:13,280
the team pulled together

563
00:22:16,710 --> 00:22:14,960
we had members

564
00:22:17,990 --> 00:22:16,720
past team members and current team

565
00:22:20,149 --> 00:22:18,000
members

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00:22:21,830 --> 00:22:20,159
really coming together stepping up and

567
00:22:23,510 --> 00:22:21,840
doing all kinds of different jobs

568
00:22:25,270 --> 00:22:23,520
everybody kind of broke out into

569
00:22:28,149 --> 00:22:25,280
investigating the hardware side of what

570
00:22:30,390 --> 00:22:28,159
was going on in the software side

571
00:22:32,710 --> 00:22:30,400
and the ops process was even you know

572
00:22:35,669 --> 00:22:32,720
revamped to figure out how to channel or

573
00:22:39,350 --> 00:22:35,679
how to adapt to the anomaly at hand

574
00:22:41,830 --> 00:22:39,360
and just seeing the team come together

575
00:22:44,310 --> 00:22:41,840
like that i think was just a testament

576
00:22:46,789 --> 00:22:44,320
to the integrity and

577
00:22:49,270 --> 00:22:46,799
the commitment that we all have on these

578
00:22:51,510 --> 00:22:49,280
types of missions where you know you

579
00:22:53,190 --> 00:22:51,520
come back and you put

580
00:22:55,510 --> 00:22:53,200
put forward what

581
00:22:56,549 --> 00:22:55,520
what you bring what you know

582
00:23:00,390 --> 00:22:56,559
and

583
00:23:02,950 --> 00:23:00,400
i think

584
00:23:05,029 --> 00:23:02,960
being able to experience that and seeing

585
00:23:07,750 --> 00:23:05,039
all the faces kind of

586
00:23:10,310 --> 00:23:07,760
bring their piece to the table was

587
00:23:12,390 --> 00:23:10,320
was pretty exciting to go through that

588
00:23:14,390 --> 00:23:12,400
kind of harrowing time where we were

589
00:23:15,190 --> 00:23:14,400
against the clock

590
00:23:17,430 --> 00:23:15,200
so

591
00:23:19,590 --> 00:23:17,440
we recovered in a couple weeks and got

592
00:23:21,190 --> 00:23:19,600
science back up and running and we

593
00:23:23,350 --> 00:23:21,200
modified the flight software to be more

594
00:23:26,549 --> 00:23:23,360
robust so going into that conjunction

595
00:23:28,230 --> 00:23:26,559
period and we were prepared um should

596
00:23:29,750 --> 00:23:28,240
you know a problem like this happen

597
00:23:33,270 --> 00:23:29,760
again on the other computer that we were

598
00:23:36,230 --> 00:23:33,280
operating on but um but aside from that

599
00:23:38,230 --> 00:23:36,240
one you know kind of scary moment there

600
00:23:39,830 --> 00:23:38,240
the surface operation has just been

601
00:23:42,630 --> 00:23:39,840
fantastic in terms of what we're

602
00:23:44,230 --> 00:23:42,640
learning and uh and just

603
00:23:46,710 --> 00:23:44,240
all the the different

604
00:23:48,710 --> 00:23:46,720
uh suite of capabilities that this rover

605
00:23:50,310 --> 00:23:48,720
has that's the first time ever on mars

606
00:23:52,470 --> 00:23:50,320
stuff that we're doing so it's been

607
00:23:54,789 --> 00:23:52,480
pretty fun

608
00:23:57,350 --> 00:23:54,799
thank you jessica um i hadn't known it

609
00:23:58,789 --> 00:23:57,360
was a stormy night when that happened

610
00:24:01,750 --> 00:23:58,799
those of us that lived through the sole

611
00:24:04,149 --> 00:24:01,760
18 anomaly may have

612
00:24:06,149 --> 00:24:04,159
you know deja vu all over again with

613
00:24:09,590 --> 00:24:06,159
that whole with that whole story

614
00:24:11,110 --> 00:24:09,600
so um that's only one part of uh as a as

615
00:24:12,390 --> 00:24:11,120
an old television program used to say

616
00:24:13,909 --> 00:24:12,400
there are eight million stories in the

617
00:24:15,990 --> 00:24:13,919
naked city and there's certainly eight

618
00:24:18,710 --> 00:24:16,000
million stories in terms of getting

619
00:24:20,870 --> 00:24:18,720
curiosity to where it is in today and

620
00:24:22,630 --> 00:24:20,880
and i think that people would uh would

621
00:24:23,830 --> 00:24:22,640
would be disappointed if i didn't point

622
00:24:25,190 --> 00:24:23,840
out that for all this wonderful

623
00:24:26,870 --> 00:24:25,200
congratulations and for all this

624
00:24:28,390 --> 00:24:26,880
wonderful feeling and for this

625
00:24:30,070 --> 00:24:28,400
celebration the fact is we're halfway

626
00:24:32,230 --> 00:24:30,080
through the mission we have not yet

627
00:24:34,549 --> 00:24:32,240
leveled that final level 1 requirements

628
00:24:35,990 --> 00:24:34,559
and but but i think the science panel

629
00:24:37,830 --> 00:24:36,000
will be up next and we'll talk about

630
00:24:39,350 --> 00:24:37,840
what we have accomplished and

631
00:24:49,590 --> 00:24:39,360
and where we're going thank you very

632
00:24:54,710 --> 00:24:51,110
well thank you pete

633
00:24:57,269 --> 00:24:54,720
thank you matt alan and jessica

634
00:24:59,110 --> 00:24:57,279
uh in order to set up our discussion of

635
00:25:01,510 --> 00:24:59,120
some of the scientific achievements that

636
00:25:04,230 --> 00:25:01,520
we've seen thus far in the mission let's

637
00:25:07,060 --> 00:25:04,240
use some pictures to remind us of what's

638
00:25:17,830 --> 00:25:07,070
happened

639
00:25:21,510 --> 00:25:19,190
hello everybody

640
00:25:23,350 --> 00:25:21,520
good morning mr president

641
00:25:25,990 --> 00:25:23,360
i just want to call and say

642
00:25:28,149 --> 00:25:26,000
congratulations to the entire

643
00:25:29,990 --> 00:25:28,159
hard science laboratory team what what

644
00:25:32,070 --> 00:25:30,000
you've accomplished embodies the

645
00:25:34,310 --> 00:25:32,080
american spirit and your passion and

646
00:25:36,789 --> 00:25:34,320
your commitment is making a difference

647
00:25:39,510 --> 00:25:36,799
you guys have done an outstanding job

648
00:25:42,230 --> 00:25:39,520
you made a call proud curiosity is going

649
00:25:43,830 --> 00:25:42,240
to be telling us things that we did not

650
00:25:44,710 --> 00:25:43,840
know before and laying the groundwork

651
00:25:46,470 --> 00:25:44,720
for

652
00:25:47,830 --> 00:25:46,480
an even more audacious undertaking in

653
00:25:53,110 --> 00:25:47,840
the future and that's the human mission

654
00:25:57,590 --> 00:25:55,750
to recap here we have a set of go no go

655
00:26:00,310 --> 00:25:57,600
criteria we want to make sure that the

656
00:26:01,430 --> 00:26:00,320
vehicle is healthy and safe

657
00:26:03,269 --> 00:26:01,440
i will

658
00:26:04,549 --> 00:26:03,279
give everybody a heads up about 15

659
00:26:06,290 --> 00:26:04,559
minutes in advance of when we're

660
00:26:11,669 --> 00:26:06,300
expecting data

661
00:26:13,750 --> 00:26:11,679
[Music]

662
00:26:22,340 --> 00:26:13,760
uh images are coming down

663
00:26:37,750 --> 00:26:29,890
[Applause]

664
00:26:42,710 --> 00:26:39,909
congratulations everybody it looks like

665
00:26:51,370 --> 00:26:42,720
we've got some nice new images to look

666
00:26:51,380 --> 00:26:56,149
[Music]

667
00:27:05,920 --> 00:26:58,630
so

668
00:27:16,310 --> 00:27:14,390
[Applause]

669
00:27:19,029 --> 00:27:16,320
please

670
00:27:21,510 --> 00:27:19,039
help me welcome the project scientist

671
00:27:24,310 --> 00:27:21,520
for the mars science laboratory

672
00:27:27,029 --> 00:27:24,320
the man who leads an amazing team of

673
00:27:38,870 --> 00:27:27,039
science across our planet

674
00:27:45,590 --> 00:27:40,950
well it's a real pleasure to be here on

675
00:27:47,350 --> 00:27:45,600
behalf of our 468 science team members

676
00:27:48,950 --> 00:27:47,360
that work on the curiosity mission and

677
00:27:51,029 --> 00:27:48,960
i'd like to start by thanking our

678
00:27:53,269 --> 00:27:51,039
colleagues in engineering that have made

679
00:27:54,630 --> 00:27:53,279
this all possible it really has been

680
00:27:56,710 --> 00:27:54,640
spectacular what you all have

681
00:27:59,430 --> 00:27:56,720
accomplished so thank you for that

682
00:28:01,909 --> 00:27:59,440
i'm joined today by my colleagues on the

683
00:28:03,830 --> 00:28:01,919
mission uh ken edgett who is the

684
00:28:07,990 --> 00:28:03,840
principal investigator of the mali

685
00:28:10,630 --> 00:28:08,000
instrument and a lifelong mars scientist

686
00:28:13,669 --> 00:28:10,640
and bethany ellman another colleague on

687
00:28:16,310 --> 00:28:13,679
the mission who works as one of our

688
00:28:21,269 --> 00:28:18,789
leads called a science operation working

689
00:28:22,070 --> 00:28:21,279
group chair that that commands the rover

690
00:28:25,269 --> 00:28:22,080
and

691
00:28:26,870 --> 00:28:25,279
adjudicates between all the different

692
00:28:28,870 --> 00:28:26,880
people that would like to do science

693
00:28:30,470 --> 00:28:28,880
each day and coming up with a final list

694
00:28:32,549 --> 00:28:30,480
of what needs to be done

695
00:28:34,549 --> 00:28:32,559
and ashwin vasavada who is an

696
00:28:37,430 --> 00:28:34,559
atmospheric scientist and the deputy

697
00:28:40,149 --> 00:28:37,440
project scientist along with joy crisp

698
00:28:42,789 --> 00:28:40,159
and ashwin does tactical work as well as

699
00:28:44,710 --> 00:28:42,799
strategic work and i think we widely

700
00:28:45,830 --> 00:28:44,720
appreciate him for pretty much running

701
00:28:48,470 --> 00:28:45,840
the mission

702
00:28:50,710 --> 00:28:48,480
and uh he does a terrific job

703
00:28:53,110 --> 00:28:50,720
i want to take you back to to the drill

704
00:28:54,950 --> 00:28:53,120
hole uh that that really has made

705
00:28:57,909 --> 00:28:54,960
history for this mission

706
00:29:00,230 --> 00:28:57,919
and it's shared as a major

707
00:29:02,630 --> 00:29:00,240
engineering accomplishment it wasn't

708
00:29:04,470 --> 00:29:02,640
seven minutes it took seven months

709
00:29:06,950 --> 00:29:04,480
and you know this was something that the

710
00:29:08,950 --> 00:29:06,960
team worked incredibly hard at and we

711
00:29:12,149 --> 00:29:08,960
approached this prospect with great

712
00:29:14,549 --> 00:29:12,159
anticipation because before we landed

713
00:29:17,190 --> 00:29:14,559
the science team made a map

714
00:29:18,789 --> 00:29:17,200
and with that map when we landed we

715
00:29:21,110 --> 00:29:18,799
decided to do something that completely

716
00:29:22,870 --> 00:29:21,120
baffled the media which was to drive in

717
00:29:24,710 --> 00:29:22,880
the opposite direction that we had told

718
00:29:25,990 --> 00:29:24,720
everybody we were going to be driving in

719
00:29:27,669 --> 00:29:26,000
we're supposed to be driving towards

720
00:29:30,149 --> 00:29:27,679
this mountain and now the science team

721
00:29:32,389 --> 00:29:30,159
is headed off in the opposite direction

722
00:29:34,389 --> 00:29:32,399
we had a few people to explain that to

723
00:29:36,710 --> 00:29:34,399
and and rationalize

724
00:29:39,190 --> 00:29:36,720
uh but the reason for that was is that

725
00:29:41,430 --> 00:29:39,200
that the team had done their homework

726
00:29:43,110 --> 00:29:41,440
and with all the incredible work that

727
00:29:44,230 --> 00:29:43,120
came down from mars reconnaissance

728
00:29:45,590 --> 00:29:44,240
orbiter

729
00:29:47,510 --> 00:29:45,600
the high-rise

730
00:29:49,830 --> 00:29:47,520
camera the christen

731
00:29:52,149 --> 00:29:49,840
hyperspectral camera we were able to

732
00:29:55,029 --> 00:29:52,159
come up with a very highly evolved

733
00:29:56,789 --> 00:29:55,039
understanding of what our options were

734
00:29:59,190 --> 00:29:56,799
so that when we landed we decided to

735
00:30:01,110 --> 00:29:59,200
execute one that took us on this path

736
00:30:02,789 --> 00:30:01,120
eventually down into a place called

737
00:30:03,590 --> 00:30:02,799
yellowknife bay where we drilled this

738
00:30:05,750 --> 00:30:03,600
hole

739
00:30:07,510 --> 00:30:05,760
and when we drilled into it we realized

740
00:30:09,510 --> 00:30:07,520
the scent was getting warmer and warmer

741
00:30:11,669 --> 00:30:09,520
and then as we got down in there

742
00:30:13,830 --> 00:30:11,679
we drilled it we looked at it and mars

743
00:30:15,510 --> 00:30:13,840
changed from red to gray and that told

744
00:30:16,710 --> 00:30:15,520
us that the iron was reduced which is

745
00:30:18,710 --> 00:30:16,720
something that's very important for

746
00:30:20,950 --> 00:30:18,720
microbial metabolism

747
00:30:23,029 --> 00:30:20,960
and basically what we got out of that

748
00:30:25,830 --> 00:30:23,039
was an understanding of a habitable

749
00:30:28,149 --> 00:30:25,840
environment which is not just yet again

750
00:30:30,549 --> 00:30:28,159
another discovery of water but

751
00:30:32,630 --> 00:30:30,559
characterizing that water and the rocks

752
00:30:35,590 --> 00:30:32,640
and the minerals that were there to tell

753
00:30:37,350 --> 00:30:35,600
us that if simple microorganisms

754
00:30:39,590 --> 00:30:37,360
so simple that they don't need sunlight

755
00:30:40,870 --> 00:30:39,600
they need only chemical energy they use

756
00:30:42,549 --> 00:30:40,880
rocks and minerals sort of like

757
00:30:45,669 --> 00:30:42,559
batteries and there's a transfer of

758
00:30:46,870 --> 00:30:45,679
electrons as the microorganism interacts

759
00:30:49,830 --> 00:30:46,880
with these

760
00:30:51,350 --> 00:30:49,840
chemical substances that are there and

761
00:30:53,830 --> 00:30:51,360
what we were able to do with the payload

762
00:30:55,990 --> 00:30:53,840
this was a truly integrated set of

763
00:30:58,070 --> 00:30:56,000
observations every instrument was

764
00:31:00,310 --> 00:30:58,080
involved in this the rems instrument

765
00:31:01,990 --> 00:31:00,320
which is our atmospheric experiment

766
00:31:04,230 --> 00:31:02,000
actually has a ground temperature sensor

767
00:31:06,070 --> 00:31:04,240
so that when we crossed over this

768
00:31:08,630 --> 00:31:06,080
boundary that you had seen in the with

769
00:31:10,310 --> 00:31:08,640
themis data from orbiter from odyssey

770
00:31:12,549 --> 00:31:10,320
that predicted we would cross over in a

771
00:31:13,909 --> 00:31:12,559
high thermal inertia terrain

772
00:31:16,389 --> 00:31:13,919
when we crossed over that boundary

773
00:31:18,630 --> 00:31:16,399
within one saw the ground temperature

774
00:31:19,830 --> 00:31:18,640
sensor on rems told us we were in the

775
00:31:22,710 --> 00:31:19,840
right terrain

776
00:31:25,110 --> 00:31:22,720
the remote sensing package the the

777
00:31:26,549 --> 00:31:25,120
chemcam instrument worked perfectly to

778
00:31:28,310 --> 00:31:26,559
tell us that suddenly there were

779
00:31:30,549 --> 00:31:28,320
sulfates there where we had seen none

780
00:31:31,990 --> 00:31:30,559
before and then after that as we went

781
00:31:34,389 --> 00:31:32,000
down even the rad instrument which

782
00:31:36,549 --> 00:31:34,399
measures the background radiation for

783
00:31:39,590 --> 00:31:36,559
for astronauts to do future exploration

784
00:31:41,590 --> 00:31:39,600
it made a measurement it all added up to

785
00:31:43,909 --> 00:31:41,600
understanding this environment as being

786
00:31:46,310 --> 00:31:43,919
chemically one that was favorable for

787
00:31:47,750 --> 00:31:46,320
life not in a in a harsh way but

788
00:31:49,909 --> 00:31:47,760
actually quite a benign environment

789
00:31:52,149 --> 00:31:49,919
that's very much like earth so we have

790
00:31:54,310 --> 00:31:52,159
this new understanding now that's what

791
00:31:56,230 --> 00:31:54,320
we found and i want to turn it over my

792
00:31:58,149 --> 00:31:56,240
colleague ken now who can take you back

793
00:32:00,630 --> 00:31:58,159
a little bit to talk about his

794
00:32:02,710 --> 00:32:00,640
experience and early observations of

795
00:32:04,630 --> 00:32:02,720
gail and what it's like to be the

796
00:32:05,850 --> 00:32:04,640
principal investigator on the mission

797
00:32:08,070 --> 00:32:05,860
that's a whole lot of stuff

798
00:32:09,750 --> 00:32:08,080
[Laughter]

799
00:32:11,669 --> 00:32:09,760
first of all what it's like to be a

800
00:32:13,669 --> 00:32:11,679
principal investigator i'm just one of

801
00:32:16,389 --> 00:32:13,679
the team there's over 400 people on this

802
00:32:18,789 --> 00:32:16,399
team each one of us represents about 100

803
00:32:20,549 --> 00:32:18,799
plus of them just by sitting here we

804
00:32:22,230 --> 00:32:20,559
love them all and we work with them very

805
00:32:23,430 --> 00:32:22,240
carefully and closely

806
00:32:25,830 --> 00:32:23,440
uh

807
00:32:29,509 --> 00:32:25,840
i we none of us do this by ourselves

808
00:32:31,590 --> 00:32:29,519
this is a group effort and i am always

809
00:32:33,509 --> 00:32:31,600
always learning new things from the

810
00:32:35,190 --> 00:32:33,519
people i work with the people here that

811
00:32:37,830 --> 00:32:35,200
i've worked with it's a very

812
00:32:40,070 --> 00:32:37,840
overwhelming experience but what we have

813
00:32:42,549 --> 00:32:40,080
found is so stunning because if you

814
00:32:44,630 --> 00:32:42,559
asked me a year ago what are you going

815
00:32:46,070 --> 00:32:44,640
to find in the first year i wouldn't

816
00:32:48,870 --> 00:32:46,080
have ever said we're going to find what

817
00:32:50,389 --> 00:32:48,880
we went looking for we don't know mars

818
00:32:55,350 --> 00:32:50,399
that well

819
00:32:58,230 --> 00:32:55,360
i'm really still very surprised

820
00:33:01,110 --> 00:32:58,240
long ago if you think of a martian day

821
00:33:03,669 --> 00:33:01,120
as like a 24 hour clock and right now

822
00:33:05,830 --> 00:33:03,679
this moment is just some teeny fraction

823
00:33:06,710 --> 00:33:05,840
microsecond before midnight of the next

824
00:33:09,029 --> 00:33:06,720
day

825
00:33:11,750 --> 00:33:09,039
the rocks were looking at and exploring

826
00:33:15,029 --> 00:33:11,760
in gale are back somewhere around in the

827
00:33:17,029 --> 00:33:15,039
3 a.m to 6 a.m time frame of mars

828
00:33:19,029 --> 00:33:17,039
history so it's a very long time ago

829
00:33:21,590 --> 00:33:19,039
mars was a different place

830
00:33:23,750 --> 00:33:21,600
at that time there were larger craters

831
00:33:25,750 --> 00:33:23,760
forming on mars more frequently than now

832
00:33:28,230 --> 00:33:25,760
and there were volcanoes erupting and

833
00:33:31,190 --> 00:33:28,240
all of those things produce sediment and

834
00:33:33,190 --> 00:33:31,200
the atmosphere was thicker and wind

835
00:33:35,269 --> 00:33:33,200
transports sediment and then we now

836
00:33:37,190 --> 00:33:35,279
think and know from all the missions

837
00:33:38,950 --> 00:33:37,200
over the last 15 years that there was

838
00:33:41,190 --> 00:33:38,960
water there's still water it's frozen

839
00:33:43,509 --> 00:33:41,200
now but there was liquid water the water

840
00:33:45,029 --> 00:33:43,519
not only transports sediment it also

841
00:33:47,110 --> 00:33:45,039
causes rock to break down and

842
00:33:48,389 --> 00:33:47,120
disintegrate into other types of

843
00:33:50,789 --> 00:33:48,399
minerals and chemistries which

844
00:33:54,310 --> 00:33:50,799
precipitate out as other minerals and

845
00:33:57,269 --> 00:33:54,320
we're finding those minerals in gale

846
00:33:59,110 --> 00:33:57,279
gale's a hole in the ground sediments

847
00:34:01,669 --> 00:33:59,120
from this early time with all this stuff

848
00:34:03,509 --> 00:34:01,679
going on piled up in gale

849
00:34:05,269 --> 00:34:03,519
just like on many other craters on mars

850
00:34:06,950 --> 00:34:05,279
there are craters the size of gale and

851
00:34:09,190 --> 00:34:06,960
bigger that are still buried and we

852
00:34:10,389 --> 00:34:09,200
don't even know the crater exists

853
00:34:13,270 --> 00:34:10,399
gale though

854
00:34:15,430 --> 00:34:13,280
by some magical erosional process has

855
00:34:17,430 --> 00:34:15,440
somewhat exhumed itself and left behind

856
00:34:20,149 --> 00:34:17,440
this remnant this mountain that's three

857
00:34:23,190 --> 00:34:20,159
miles or five kilometers high of layered

858
00:34:24,069 --> 00:34:23,200
sedimentary rock we went there thinking

859
00:34:26,470 --> 00:34:24,079
that

860
00:34:27,990 --> 00:34:26,480
every layer is a page in a history book

861
00:34:30,149 --> 00:34:28,000
and we can

862
00:34:32,470 --> 00:34:30,159
go there and see not only are there

863
00:34:33,909 --> 00:34:32,480
habitable environments recorded in there

864
00:34:36,389 --> 00:34:33,919
but is

865
00:34:38,710 --> 00:34:36,399
how do the environments change over time

866
00:34:40,950 --> 00:34:38,720
as you go up the mountain you will see

867
00:34:43,669 --> 00:34:40,960
the the time getting closer and closer

868
00:34:45,990 --> 00:34:43,679
to now still a long time ago but it will

869
00:34:47,349 --> 00:34:46,000
get younger and younger so

870
00:34:48,950 --> 00:34:47,359
it's stunning i don't remember what else

871
00:34:51,349 --> 00:34:48,960
you asked me to talk about so you've

872
00:34:56,149 --> 00:34:53,190
we could all go on for a long time yeah

873
00:35:00,230 --> 00:34:56,159
so you you had been looking at gail for

874
00:35:02,150 --> 00:35:00,240
10 years 14 14. yeah and then we wound

875
00:35:04,470 --> 00:35:02,160
up there yeah what were you thinking i

876
00:35:06,950 --> 00:35:04,480
had the incredible privilege 14 years

877
00:35:10,230 --> 00:35:06,960
ago of being able to select targets for

878
00:35:11,910 --> 00:35:10,240
the camera on mars global surveyor and

879
00:35:14,150 --> 00:35:11,920
gale was one of the places that we

880
00:35:15,670 --> 00:35:14,160
stumbled on as holy cow look at this

881
00:35:18,470 --> 00:35:15,680
there are these layered sediments and

882
00:35:21,430 --> 00:35:18,480
then the story i just told evolved to

883
00:35:24,310 --> 00:35:21,440
actually land in one of the pictures you

884
00:35:26,550 --> 00:35:24,320
helped take 14 years ago and then the

885
00:35:28,710 --> 00:35:26,560
camera that you're now responsible for

886
00:35:30,950 --> 00:35:28,720
gets down and right up to the rocks like

887
00:35:32,710 --> 00:35:30,960
that and seize those rocks up that close

888
00:35:36,230 --> 00:35:32,720
after being three four hundred

889
00:35:39,109 --> 00:35:36,240
kilometers up it's just

890
00:35:40,069 --> 00:35:39,119
it's the 21st century people

891
00:35:41,270 --> 00:35:40,079
awesome

892
00:35:43,270 --> 00:35:41,280
so bethany

893
00:35:44,430 --> 00:35:43,280
tell us about what it's like in the day

894
00:35:47,510 --> 00:35:44,440
of a rover

895
00:35:49,190 --> 00:35:47,520
468 people all want to go left

896
00:35:51,030 --> 00:35:49,200
some want to go right

897
00:35:52,790 --> 00:35:51,040
how do you how do you wade through this

898
00:35:54,310 --> 00:35:52,800
process what kind of decisions and

899
00:35:56,470 --> 00:35:54,320
what's it like to operate the most

900
00:35:58,710 --> 00:35:56,480
complex vehicle that's ever landed on

901
00:36:00,470 --> 00:35:58,720
another planet yeah well uh well first

902
00:36:02,390 --> 00:36:00,480
of all it's a lot of fun to operate the

903
00:36:03,670 --> 00:36:02,400
most complex vehicle vehicle that's ever

904
00:36:06,470 --> 00:36:03,680
landed on another planet so it's

905
00:36:09,270 --> 00:36:06,480
enormous privilege to you know be

906
00:36:10,310 --> 00:36:09,280
a part of the team but also to be sort

907
00:36:12,069 --> 00:36:10,320
of in

908
00:36:13,670 --> 00:36:12,079
taking on this role in a day-to-day

909
00:36:15,589 --> 00:36:13,680
sense that really is kind of the nexus

910
00:36:17,109 --> 00:36:15,599
between science and engineering and

911
00:36:18,950 --> 00:36:17,119
getting these to work together to

912
00:36:21,670 --> 00:36:18,960
working with the engineers to implement

913
00:36:25,670 --> 00:36:21,680
the science desires in the best possible

914
00:36:27,829 --> 00:36:25,680
way uh utilizing the energy the the data

915
00:36:29,910 --> 00:36:27,839
downlink capacity and all of those other

916
00:36:31,670 --> 00:36:29,920
things that limit what we can do

917
00:36:33,270 --> 00:36:31,680
any given day how do we get the best

918
00:36:35,030 --> 00:36:33,280
science done

919
00:36:36,390 --> 00:36:35,040
but uh what's really interesting about

920
00:36:37,910 --> 00:36:36,400
this is before we can get to the

921
00:36:39,670 --> 00:36:37,920
question in the process of implementing

922
00:36:41,190 --> 00:36:39,680
the plan for how to get the best science

923
00:36:43,670 --> 00:36:41,200
done we kind of have to come to

924
00:36:45,670 --> 00:36:43,680
agreement as a team as to well what is

925
00:36:46,950 --> 00:36:45,680
the science that we should be doing

926
00:36:49,270 --> 00:36:46,960
anyway

927
00:36:51,430 --> 00:36:49,280
so part of this this whole process of

928
00:36:53,750 --> 00:36:51,440
operation is getting you know 400 and

929
00:36:55,430 --> 00:36:53,760
something science folks marching in the

930
00:36:58,069 --> 00:36:55,440
same direction or at least the same

931
00:37:00,230 --> 00:36:58,079
general direction and you know that's a

932
00:37:02,550 --> 00:37:00,240
process that that

933
00:37:05,190 --> 00:37:02,560
that folks lead both strategically and

934
00:37:07,030 --> 00:37:05,200
tactically so i remember kind of along

935
00:37:09,750 --> 00:37:07,040
the i don't know maybe it's around the

936
00:37:11,270 --> 00:37:09,760
100th saw on mars or so maybe a little

937
00:37:13,589 --> 00:37:11,280
bit before that

938
00:37:15,670 --> 00:37:13,599
there was a big push with with john and

939
00:37:17,670 --> 00:37:15,680
ashwin and joy and of the members of the

940
00:37:19,670 --> 00:37:17,680
project science group it was like okay

941
00:37:22,230 --> 00:37:19,680
we have this amazing stratigraphy these

942
00:37:23,750 --> 00:37:22,240
layers of rocks before us what is our

943
00:37:25,190 --> 00:37:23,760
strategy like what do we want to

944
00:37:26,950 --> 00:37:25,200
accomplish we all agree that this is

945
00:37:29,430 --> 00:37:26,960
like cool

946
00:37:31,510 --> 00:37:29,440
but what is it we want to do well and

947
00:37:33,670 --> 00:37:31,520
and it was even more profound than that

948
00:37:35,990 --> 00:37:33,680
some people were saying these are lake

949
00:37:38,150 --> 00:37:36,000
sediments other people were saying these

950
00:37:39,750 --> 00:37:38,160
are fluvially transported you know down

951
00:37:41,829 --> 00:37:39,760
from the rim of the crater deposited

952
00:37:44,950 --> 00:37:41,839
chaotically or maybe it's volcanic

953
00:37:46,870 --> 00:37:44,960
sediments or maybe it's air fall uh sort

954
00:37:49,190 --> 00:37:46,880
of an ash deposit

955
00:37:51,589 --> 00:37:49,200
okay so each each of us scientists comes

956
00:37:53,990 --> 00:37:51,599
in with our set of hypotheses about how

957
00:37:56,390 --> 00:37:54,000
mars works how these rock units relate

958
00:37:57,910 --> 00:37:56,400
to how mars works so then it's a process

959
00:37:59,910 --> 00:37:57,920
of figuring out okay well how do we sit

960
00:38:00,950 --> 00:37:59,920
down and test these ideas

961
00:38:02,310 --> 00:38:00,960
and that's really one of the amazing

962
00:38:04,790 --> 00:38:02,320
things about working on the science team

963
00:38:06,550 --> 00:38:04,800
is that even if we disagree completely

964
00:38:08,630 --> 00:38:06,560
about how a particular rock unit is

965
00:38:11,030 --> 00:38:08,640
formed we can still come to a consensus

966
00:38:15,030 --> 00:38:11,040
on okay well how is it we test out how

967
00:38:17,109 --> 00:38:15,040
these particular rock units form and if

968
00:38:18,550 --> 00:38:17,119
we sit down and we we have it out you

969
00:38:20,230 --> 00:38:18,560
know during the beginning of the mission

970
00:38:21,750 --> 00:38:20,240
it was every day we'd have science

971
00:38:23,190 --> 00:38:21,760
discussions about what we're thinking

972
00:38:24,950 --> 00:38:23,200
about how we're interpreting this

973
00:38:26,310 --> 00:38:24,960
different unit but what was interesting

974
00:38:27,910 --> 00:38:26,320
is that even if we disagreed

975
00:38:30,230 --> 00:38:27,920
scientifically about how something came

976
00:38:32,390 --> 00:38:30,240
to be we could agree that that place on

977
00:38:34,550 --> 00:38:32,400
mars is important and that is the place

978
00:38:36,150 --> 00:38:34,560
that we need to investigate and so it

979
00:38:37,910 --> 00:38:36,160
all comes down came down from these

980
00:38:39,829 --> 00:38:37,920
strategic decisions for where we need to

981
00:38:42,310 --> 00:38:39,839
go and then day to day sticking on the

982
00:38:44,470 --> 00:38:42,320
plan keeping in mind what is important

983
00:38:46,630 --> 00:38:44,480
to to to reach these high level

984
00:38:48,710 --> 00:38:46,640
objectives to to explore this particular

985
00:38:50,390 --> 00:38:48,720
rock unit then this one then this one

986
00:38:53,670 --> 00:38:50,400
retaining the sequence of events in your

987
00:38:55,349 --> 00:38:53,680
head as you plan each day on mars

988
00:38:57,430 --> 00:38:55,359
is there one moment that sticks out in

989
00:38:58,310 --> 00:38:57,440
your mind a science discovery that

990
00:39:03,270 --> 00:38:58,320
you'll

991
00:39:05,190 --> 00:39:03,280
well sort of my my my uh my absolute

992
00:39:08,069 --> 00:39:05,200
favorite my favorite set of pictures

993
00:39:10,230 --> 00:39:08,079
that that came down uh from the rover

994
00:39:12,550 --> 00:39:10,240
was when uh so we had we had been

995
00:39:14,870 --> 00:39:12,560
working our way down the stratigraphy

996
00:39:16,630 --> 00:39:14,880
into the yellowknife bay sediments that

997
00:39:18,630 --> 00:39:16,640
you mentioned where where we saw the

998
00:39:20,710 --> 00:39:18,640
picture of of the drill hole

999
00:39:22,550 --> 00:39:20,720
and for me before the drill what was

1000
00:39:23,990 --> 00:39:22,560
most amazing is it was after one of our

1001
00:39:26,870 --> 00:39:24,000
drives heading heading down the

1002
00:39:29,829 --> 00:39:26,880
depression into yellowknife bay

1003
00:39:32,310 --> 00:39:29,839
when the navcam images uh came down that

1004
00:39:33,990 --> 00:39:32,320
day onto the computers onto the the

1005
00:39:35,750 --> 00:39:34,000
software system that all of us used to

1006
00:39:37,510 --> 00:39:35,760
operate the rovers those pictures had

1007
00:39:38,950 --> 00:39:37,520
these little funny nodules or

1008
00:39:40,950 --> 00:39:38,960
concretions and then you could see these

1009
00:39:42,950 --> 00:39:40,960
light veins heading heading through the

1010
00:39:44,710 --> 00:39:42,960
rock and it was like oh this just got

1011
00:39:46,550 --> 00:39:44,720
real interesting

1012
00:39:48,390 --> 00:39:46,560
in terms of the habitability story in

1013
00:39:49,829 --> 00:39:48,400
terms of the water on mars story so that

1014
00:39:51,349 --> 00:39:49,839
definitely was one of my favorite days

1015
00:39:52,230 --> 00:39:51,359
and favorite images

1016
00:39:55,670 --> 00:39:52,240
great

1017
00:39:57,190 --> 00:39:55,680
so so speaking of of water ashwin as

1018
00:39:59,030 --> 00:39:57,200
atmospheric scientists you've got all

1019
00:40:01,030 --> 00:39:59,040
these geologists and geochemists that

1020
00:40:02,150 --> 00:40:01,040
are you know always wanting to drill and

1021
00:40:03,750 --> 00:40:02,160
sample and do all that but the

1022
00:40:05,030 --> 00:40:03,760
atmosphere is a really important part of

1023
00:40:07,430 --> 00:40:05,040
it we're trying to get at the very

1024
00:40:09,510 --> 00:40:07,440
ancient atmosphere

1025
00:40:11,109 --> 00:40:09,520
we had this discovery of a conglomerate

1026
00:40:12,950 --> 00:40:11,119
we see this evidence for flowing water

1027
00:40:14,470 --> 00:40:12,960
and some people might say well we've

1028
00:40:16,550 --> 00:40:14,480
found evidence for flowing water from

1029
00:40:18,950 --> 00:40:16,560
the surface of mars but it's important

1030
00:40:20,950 --> 00:40:18,960
to confirm it from the surface what goes

1031
00:40:22,950 --> 00:40:20,960
through your mind now wondering because

1032
00:40:24,550 --> 00:40:22,960
it's not like we see some giant gusher

1033
00:40:27,109 --> 00:40:24,560
where it might have catastrophically

1034
00:40:28,390 --> 00:40:27,119
flowed out from mars this seems like the

1035
00:40:30,310 --> 00:40:28,400
climate might have been different then

1036
00:40:31,589 --> 00:40:30,320
what what were you thinking when you saw

1037
00:40:33,829 --> 00:40:31,599
that image

1038
00:40:35,910 --> 00:40:33,839
well as ken said you know mars is an

1039
00:40:37,430 --> 00:40:35,920
extremely different planet today than it

1040
00:40:39,510 --> 00:40:37,440
was in the past that's one of the

1041
00:40:41,349 --> 00:40:39,520
reasons we we go there so often we have

1042
00:40:42,150 --> 00:40:41,359
this idea that mars was a warmer wetter

1043
00:40:43,589 --> 00:40:42,160
place

1044
00:40:45,109 --> 00:40:43,599
may have been more friendly to life and

1045
00:40:47,109 --> 00:40:45,119
may have had an extremely different

1046
00:40:48,790 --> 00:40:47,119
environment back then

1047
00:40:50,550 --> 00:40:48,800
one that was able to support liquid

1048
00:40:53,109 --> 00:40:50,560
water flowing on the surface of course

1049
00:40:54,950 --> 00:40:53,119
we'd seen pictures for decades of mars

1050
00:40:56,390 --> 00:40:54,960
with these catastrophic flood channels

1051
00:40:59,109 --> 00:40:56,400
and river systems

1052
00:41:00,790 --> 00:40:59,119
uh but never had we seen uh you know

1053
00:41:02,309 --> 00:41:00,800
firm evidence of it up close with our

1054
00:41:06,150 --> 00:41:02,319
own eyes and

1055
00:41:08,710 --> 00:41:06,160
about a year and a half ago i was out in

1056
00:41:10,390 --> 00:41:08,720
back of jpl where's the arroyo and

1057
00:41:12,470 --> 00:41:10,400
filming an outreach video about why we

1058
00:41:14,630 --> 00:41:12,480
selected gale as a landing site and

1059
00:41:16,470 --> 00:41:14,640
walking around back there and uh you

1060
00:41:17,990 --> 00:41:16,480
know it was springtime and water was

1061
00:41:19,910 --> 00:41:18,000
coming down the san gabriel mountains

1062
00:41:21,910 --> 00:41:19,920
and forming a little stream through the

1063
00:41:23,670 --> 00:41:21,920
arroyo and carrying debris down from the

1064
00:41:24,870 --> 00:41:23,680
mountains and the stream was full of

1065
00:41:26,390 --> 00:41:24,880
little pebbles

1066
00:41:28,390 --> 00:41:26,400
you know rounded as they made their way

1067
00:41:30,150 --> 00:41:28,400
down the mountains and sand with them

1068
00:41:31,910 --> 00:41:30,160
and we're just sort of you know looking

1069
00:41:33,750 --> 00:41:31,920
around and i told the cameraman as we're

1070
00:41:35,190 --> 00:41:33,760
filming this video if we ever found

1071
00:41:37,750 --> 00:41:35,200
something like this on mars it would be

1072
00:41:40,390 --> 00:41:37,760
a home run and and like ken you know i

1073
00:41:41,829 --> 00:41:40,400
think all of us were um we'd say those

1074
00:41:43,990 --> 00:41:41,839
things but in our heart of hearts you

1075
00:41:45,670 --> 00:41:44,000
know we we knew it was it was a long

1076
00:41:47,190 --> 00:41:45,680
shot you know it wasn't like we took it

1077
00:41:49,670 --> 00:41:47,200
for granted

1078
00:41:51,030 --> 00:41:49,680
and then you fast forward to landing a

1079
00:41:53,109 --> 00:41:51,040
year ago and

1080
00:41:54,950 --> 00:41:53,119
uh you know as as the rover's landing

1081
00:41:57,270 --> 00:41:54,960
it's its rocket engines are scouring

1082
00:42:00,069 --> 00:41:57,280
away the gravel and the next morning you

1083
00:42:02,710 --> 00:42:00,079
know we we get these pictures from mars

1084
00:42:03,750 --> 00:42:02,720
and and we look in the in the the scour

1085
00:42:05,829 --> 00:42:03,760
mark and

1086
00:42:08,790 --> 00:42:05,839
what do you know it's bedrock a

1087
00:42:11,030 --> 00:42:08,800
conglomerate a rock made up of rounded

1088
00:42:13,190 --> 00:42:11,040
pebbles and sand cemented together you

1089
00:42:15,030 --> 00:42:13,200
know even before curiosity landed she

1090
00:42:17,430 --> 00:42:15,040
had already hit this home run for us and

1091
00:42:19,670 --> 00:42:17,440
and revealed this ancient mars to us

1092
00:42:20,790 --> 00:42:19,680
that we were hoping to find so we drove

1093
00:42:22,710 --> 00:42:20,800
literally

1094
00:42:23,910 --> 00:42:22,720
through a stream bed on mars that flowed

1095
00:42:26,150 --> 00:42:23,920
ankle deep

1096
00:42:27,910 --> 00:42:26,160
you know a few billion years ago that's

1097
00:42:28,829 --> 00:42:27,920
just i'm getting goosebumps just telling

1098
00:42:32,150 --> 00:42:28,839
you about

1099
00:42:33,990 --> 00:42:32,160
it so for me you know my interest is in

1100
00:42:36,870 --> 00:42:34,000
the atmosphere but really of the past

1101
00:42:39,109 --> 00:42:36,880
climate of mars and we knew that even if

1102
00:42:41,190 --> 00:42:39,119
we never found life with this mission we

1103
00:42:42,870 --> 00:42:41,200
would have this incredible

1104
00:42:45,589 --> 00:42:42,880
secondary ability with this rover to

1105
00:42:47,750 --> 00:42:45,599
explore a beautiful site that can help

1106
00:42:49,670 --> 00:42:47,760
find and that would tell us about this

1107
00:42:51,109 --> 00:42:49,680
ancient environment of mars that that's

1108
00:42:52,630 --> 00:42:51,119
that's just uh you know we're just

1109
00:42:54,550 --> 00:42:52,640
archaeologists sort of trying to piece

1110
00:42:56,150 --> 00:42:54,560
that together with this rover

1111
00:42:57,270 --> 00:42:56,160
so how would that how is this going to

1112
00:42:58,870 --> 00:42:57,280
feed into

1113
00:42:59,750 --> 00:42:58,880
the maven mission

1114
00:43:01,829 --> 00:42:59,760
yeah

1115
00:43:02,790 --> 00:43:01,839
what's exciting is that we're here on

1116
00:43:04,069 --> 00:43:02,800
the ground

1117
00:43:05,670 --> 00:43:04,079
sort of getting this ground truth of

1118
00:43:07,910 --> 00:43:05,680
what the atmosphere and climate would

1119
00:43:10,230 --> 00:43:07,920
have been like billions of years ago

1120
00:43:11,750 --> 00:43:10,240
and it fits into this general theory

1121
00:43:13,670 --> 00:43:11,760
that we have about mars atmosphere that

1122
00:43:16,230 --> 00:43:13,680
it's lost over time and one of the

1123
00:43:18,150 --> 00:43:16,240
primary reasons we think it was lost is

1124
00:43:20,230 --> 00:43:18,160
mars magnetic field went away and

1125
00:43:21,910 --> 00:43:20,240
exposed made mars atmosphere vulnerable

1126
00:43:23,349 --> 00:43:21,920
to being stripped away by the solar wind

1127
00:43:25,510 --> 00:43:23,359
by the sun

1128
00:43:27,270 --> 00:43:25,520
and so we're sort of seeing that we're

1129
00:43:29,190 --> 00:43:27,280
painting together the story from the

1130
00:43:31,670 --> 00:43:29,200
ground up of how that may have happened

1131
00:43:34,150 --> 00:43:31,680
maven an orbiter will arrive at mars i

1132
00:43:36,230 --> 00:43:34,160
think next year and begin studying the

1133
00:43:38,630 --> 00:43:36,240
atmosphere from the top down watching in

1134
00:43:40,710 --> 00:43:38,640
real time as the sun continues to road

1135
00:43:43,589 --> 00:43:40,720
away the atmosphere and together the two

1136
00:43:46,390 --> 00:43:43,599
missions will help understand early mars

1137
00:43:49,109 --> 00:43:46,400
great thanks guys so you know that gives

1138
00:43:51,510 --> 00:43:49,119
us a view of how a curiosity's mission

1139
00:43:53,510 --> 00:43:51,520
will pass on to the to the next mission

1140
00:43:54,470 --> 00:43:53,520
and i'll just finish up with a few words

1141
00:43:56,950 --> 00:43:54,480
about

1142
00:43:59,349 --> 00:43:56,960
what curiosity we'll do now i think the

1143
00:44:00,230 --> 00:43:59,359
part of this as as you've heard all of

1144
00:44:02,710 --> 00:44:00,240
us

1145
00:44:04,150 --> 00:44:02,720
we really we have these hopes you don't

1146
00:44:06,309 --> 00:44:04,160
know that it's you're really going to

1147
00:44:08,870 --> 00:44:06,319
find this stuff and i think the most

1148
00:44:10,790 --> 00:44:08,880
extraordinary thing really is that we

1149
00:44:12,950 --> 00:44:10,800
found it all so quickly and that

1150
00:44:15,190 --> 00:44:12,960
decision to drive 500 meters in the

1151
00:44:16,470 --> 00:44:15,200
opposite direction obviously paid off uh

1152
00:44:18,550 --> 00:44:16,480
very well

1153
00:44:20,790 --> 00:44:18,560
and we haven't even gotten towards our

1154
00:44:22,870 --> 00:44:20,800
prime goal yet we selected gail out of

1155
00:44:25,190 --> 00:44:22,880
the four finalists for one simple reason

1156
00:44:27,910 --> 00:44:25,200
it was a unanimous decision to pick the

1157
00:44:30,150 --> 00:44:27,920
gale site because it's so diverse so by

1158
00:44:32,390 --> 00:44:30,160
driving now to mount sharp we will

1159
00:44:34,309 --> 00:44:32,400
return to our initial objective

1160
00:44:36,950 --> 00:44:34,319
which is to explore these foothills that

1161
00:44:38,710 --> 00:44:36,960
you can see here that are the size think

1162
00:44:41,190 --> 00:44:38,720
about driving around the lab here you've

1163
00:44:43,829 --> 00:44:41,200
got buildings that are sort of one to

1164
00:44:45,270 --> 00:44:43,839
three to five stories tall with narrow

1165
00:44:47,430 --> 00:44:45,280
corridors between them that's this

1166
00:44:49,030 --> 00:44:47,440
terrain that you're looking at there

1167
00:44:50,790 --> 00:44:49,040
that'll that'll be what it's like as we

1168
00:44:53,109 --> 00:44:50,800
get into that terrain it's going to be

1169
00:44:55,109 --> 00:44:53,119
we think visually quite beautiful

1170
00:44:56,710 --> 00:44:55,119
but those layers that you see there we

1171
00:44:58,230 --> 00:44:56,720
know from orbit from the chrism data

1172
00:45:00,230 --> 00:44:58,240
that they have clays we know that

1173
00:45:02,069 --> 00:45:00,240
there's hematite we know that there's

1174
00:45:04,630 --> 00:45:02,079
sulfate so we hope to be able to sample

1175
00:45:06,550 --> 00:45:04,640
a number of what could be

1176
00:45:08,309 --> 00:45:06,560
a different habitable environments and

1177
00:45:10,230 --> 00:45:08,319
maybe revisit some old friends that

1178
00:45:11,270 --> 00:45:10,240
we've seen from previous missions things

1179
00:45:13,990 --> 00:45:11,280
like that

1180
00:45:15,750 --> 00:45:14,000
so we're all really excited uh to carry

1181
00:45:17,990 --> 00:45:15,760
on with the mission we have a long drive

1182
00:45:20,230 --> 00:45:18,000
we think that it could take if we stop

1183
00:45:22,390 --> 00:45:20,240
to smell the roses a little bit it could

1184
00:45:23,990 --> 00:45:22,400
take till the end of the nominal mission

1185
00:45:25,910 --> 00:45:24,000
and we know that nasa is going to back

1186
00:45:27,829 --> 00:45:25,920
us and and so we have confidence that

1187
00:45:30,470 --> 00:45:27,839
we'll continue on with this great

1188
00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:30,480
exploration mission and uh thanks to

1189
00:45:44,630 --> 00:45:33,370
everybody for supporting us

1190
00:45:48,630 --> 00:45:44,640
[Applause]

1191
00:45:50,710 --> 00:45:48,640
well thank you john ken bethany anashwan

1192
00:45:52,710 --> 00:45:50,720
you know the public excitement and

1193
00:45:54,710 --> 00:45:52,720
involvement in this mission is something

1194
00:45:57,190 --> 00:45:54,720
that's really touched us all

1195
00:46:00,790 --> 00:45:57,200
and we have a video now that will remind

1196
00:46:08,610 --> 00:46:00,800
us of some of the events which show how

1197
00:46:13,430 --> 00:46:11,430
[Music]

1198
00:46:15,750 --> 00:46:13,440
this big huge parachute that we've got

1199
00:46:17,270 --> 00:46:15,760
it'll only slow us down to about 200

1200
00:46:18,870 --> 00:46:17,280
miles an hour but we've got to cut it

1201
00:46:20,680 --> 00:46:18,880
off

1202
00:46:23,670 --> 00:46:20,690
and then come down and rock us

1203
00:46:25,710 --> 00:46:23,680
[Applause]

1204
00:46:28,309 --> 00:46:25,720
they're never going to make

1205
00:46:30,470 --> 00:46:28,319
[Applause]

1206
00:46:33,349 --> 00:46:30,480
what happens

1207
00:46:35,349 --> 00:46:33,359
nation it is a proud day for america our

1208
00:46:36,950 --> 00:46:35,359
flags are flying and we're singing that

1209
00:46:38,950 --> 00:46:36,960
verse of the national anthem with all

1210
00:46:42,470 --> 00:46:38,960
the curse words in this

1211
00:46:46,309 --> 00:46:42,480
because at 1 30 a.m america standard

1212
00:46:53,250 --> 00:46:46,319
time nasa's curiosity rover touched down

1213
00:46:53,260 --> 00:46:59,860
[Applause]

1214
00:47:10,790 --> 00:47:06,460
[Music]

1215
00:47:12,550 --> 00:47:10,800
space nerds and gamers

1216
00:47:15,430 --> 00:47:12,560
the space agency has teamed up with

1217
00:47:39,850 --> 00:47:15,440
microsoft to create a mars rover landing

1218
00:47:46,069 --> 00:47:42,710
[Music]

1219
00:47:48,069 --> 00:47:46,079
we are more than proud to honor nasa's

1220
00:47:50,710 --> 00:47:48,079
jet propulsion laboratory as this year's

1221
00:48:12,710 --> 00:47:50,720
webby and people's voice winner for

1222
00:48:12,720 --> 00:48:20,600
let's go

1223
00:48:47,109 --> 00:48:28,100
[Music]

1224
00:48:51,589 --> 00:48:49,349
if you want to know whether curiosity is

1225
00:48:53,510 --> 00:48:51,599
part of the culture of the world i think

1226
00:48:55,990 --> 00:48:53,520
that pretty much sums it up the answer

1227
00:48:58,549 --> 00:48:56,000
is you bet

1228
00:49:01,750 --> 00:48:58,559
you know more people have been involved

1229
00:49:03,829 --> 00:49:01,760
in the stories of curiosity

1230
00:49:07,190 --> 00:49:03,839
than in any mission that we've sent to a

1231
00:49:09,670 --> 00:49:07,200
planet yet and one of the people who has

1232
00:49:11,750 --> 00:49:09,680
played such a critical role in getting

1233
00:49:13,510 --> 00:49:11,760
out to the world the stories of

1234
00:49:15,430 --> 00:49:13,520
curiosity

1235
00:49:19,190 --> 00:49:15,440
is the manager

1236
00:49:20,470 --> 00:49:19,200
of news and social media for jpl

1237
00:49:30,549 --> 00:49:20,480
please welcome

1238
00:49:33,750 --> 00:49:31,910
i have to start off well first of all

1239
00:49:34,790 --> 00:49:33,760
let me introduce the um the rest of my

1240
00:49:36,549 --> 00:49:34,800
panel up here because we're gonna have a

1241
00:49:37,990 --> 00:49:36,559
lot of fun talking about social media

1242
00:49:40,150 --> 00:49:38,000
and memes and everything else i have

1243
00:49:42,470 --> 00:49:40,160
babak ferdowsi of course he was flight

1244
00:49:45,750 --> 00:49:42,480
director on landing night

1245
00:49:48,069 --> 00:49:45,760
adam steltzner the phase lead for entry

1246
00:49:51,510 --> 00:49:48,079
descent and landing

1247
00:49:53,430 --> 00:49:51,520
and anita sengupta the parachute systems

1248
00:49:54,230 --> 00:49:53,440
engineer for curiosity

1249
00:49:55,829 --> 00:49:54,240
so we're going to have a little

1250
00:49:58,150 --> 00:49:55,839
conversation about social media but i

1251
00:50:00,950 --> 00:49:58,160
want to start out by saying that this

1252
00:50:03,349 --> 00:50:00,960
entire campaign to make this mission

1253
00:50:06,069 --> 00:50:03,359
um ingrained in the in the public and in

1254
00:50:07,430 --> 00:50:06,079
popular culture and to engage the public

1255
00:50:09,670 --> 00:50:07,440
and bring them into this mission has

1256
00:50:12,390 --> 00:50:09,680
been an incredible effort across the

1257
00:50:13,670 --> 00:50:12,400
laboratory and it's not just

1258
00:50:15,589 --> 00:50:13,680
my group

1259
00:50:17,430 --> 00:50:15,599
doing news and social media but the

1260
00:50:20,390 --> 00:50:17,440
outreach team public engagement the

1261
00:50:21,750 --> 00:50:20,400
visualization experts the videographers

1262
00:50:24,870 --> 00:50:21,760
and editors

1263
00:50:27,349 --> 00:50:24,880
and working in conjunction with people

1264
00:50:29,270 --> 00:50:27,359
like these and all of you out there

1265
00:50:30,950 --> 00:50:29,280
because you know that for a few years

1266
00:50:33,990 --> 00:50:30,960
before we even landed we were knocking

1267
00:50:35,750 --> 00:50:34,000
on your doors and asking you to help us

1268
00:50:37,589 --> 00:50:35,760
get that word out to the public and you

1269
00:50:40,470 --> 00:50:37,599
all volunteered your time either doing

1270
00:50:43,589 --> 00:50:40,480
talks or doing chats online

1271
00:50:44,950 --> 00:50:43,599
uh being interviewed for our videos and

1272
00:50:47,270 --> 00:50:44,960
that made all the difference in the

1273
00:50:50,230 --> 00:50:47,280
world it made this a success

1274
00:50:52,069 --> 00:50:50,240
so let's talk a little bit about um

1275
00:50:54,309 --> 00:50:52,079
you know we started out we did curiosity

1276
00:50:56,870 --> 00:50:54,319
cam for those who didn't know we were we

1277
00:50:59,670 --> 00:50:56,880
had a camera up in the gallery while the

1278
00:51:01,990 --> 00:50:59,680
rover was being built we had about 4.5

1279
00:51:04,470 --> 00:51:02,000
million views of that camera

1280
00:51:06,150 --> 00:51:04,480
by the time that we shipped out to ksc

1281
00:51:07,990 --> 00:51:06,160
and that we did a public chat every

1282
00:51:09,829 --> 00:51:08,000
single day that we had that camera up

1283
00:51:11,670 --> 00:51:09,839
there every working day at least

1284
00:51:13,430 --> 00:51:11,680
and then i would say the next big hit

1285
00:51:15,109 --> 00:51:13,440
for the public to get even a bigger

1286
00:51:16,630 --> 00:51:15,119
group involved in the mission was seven

1287
00:51:18,790 --> 00:51:16,640
minutes of terror

1288
00:51:20,790 --> 00:51:18,800
adam anita you two were in seven minutes

1289
00:51:23,510 --> 00:51:20,800
of terror what did you think about the

1290
00:51:25,109 --> 00:51:23,520
impact that video had

1291
00:51:27,510 --> 00:51:25,119
i had a major impact and i think had an

1292
00:51:28,950 --> 00:51:27,520
impact on school children especially so

1293
00:51:30,630 --> 00:51:28,960
i have a lot of educators who are my

1294
00:51:32,069 --> 00:51:30,640
friends who ended up showing that video

1295
00:51:34,230 --> 00:51:32,079
to their school children it made them

1296
00:51:36,230 --> 00:51:34,240
all want to be engineers and scientists

1297
00:51:38,150 --> 00:51:36,240
and are incredibly interested in mars

1298
00:51:40,069 --> 00:51:38,160
exploration so

1299
00:51:41,829 --> 00:51:40,079
yeah i was i was surprised i can

1300
00:51:44,150 --> 00:51:41,839
remember when

1301
00:51:46,630 --> 00:51:44,160
when uh john was putting the video

1302
00:51:48,710 --> 00:51:46,640
together and it i didn't have any i sent

1303
00:51:50,950 --> 00:51:48,720
sense that it would

1304
00:51:53,190 --> 00:51:50,960
end up hitting

1305
00:51:54,950 --> 00:51:53,200
a nerve like it did

1306
00:51:56,710 --> 00:51:54,960
and uh

1307
00:51:58,630 --> 00:51:56,720
and you know forever people are just

1308
00:52:00,630 --> 00:51:58,640
always mentioning the seven minutes of

1309
00:52:02,470 --> 00:52:00,640
terror in fact people were tweeting

1310
00:52:05,270 --> 00:52:02,480
thanks for the terror

1311
00:52:08,309 --> 00:52:05,280
hashtag thanks for terror

1312
00:52:10,230 --> 00:52:08,319
so that's been phenomenal yeah and it

1313
00:52:11,750 --> 00:52:10,240
taught all of us a lot as well and i

1314
00:52:12,870 --> 00:52:11,760
have even heard people here at jpl

1315
00:52:15,510 --> 00:52:12,880
saying they weren't afraid until they

1316
00:52:19,829 --> 00:52:17,349
because all of a sudden you saw it all

1317
00:52:22,150 --> 00:52:19,839
there um every little movement that had

1318
00:52:24,470 --> 00:52:22,160
the river had to take to avoid

1319
00:52:26,870 --> 00:52:24,480
catastrophe it was really exciting

1320
00:52:29,270 --> 00:52:26,880
now the next thing um that we did to

1321
00:52:31,430 --> 00:52:29,280
engage the public in this mission was

1322
00:52:34,069 --> 00:52:31,440
tweet ups or nasa socials we did one at

1323
00:52:36,710 --> 00:52:34,079
launch and we did one at landing we had

1324
00:52:39,030 --> 00:52:36,720
invited members of the public to come in

1325
00:52:41,990 --> 00:52:39,040
here at jpl and also at other nasa

1326
00:52:44,549 --> 00:52:42,000
centers across the country for

1327
00:52:46,790 --> 00:52:44,559
an opportunity to interact directly with

1328
00:52:49,990 --> 00:52:46,800
the mission team members and to get a

1329
00:52:51,829 --> 00:52:50,000
tour and go see the mars yard and go see

1330
00:52:54,230 --> 00:52:51,839
the mission control areas it was really

1331
00:52:55,109 --> 00:52:54,240
exciting and you two also spoke at that

1332
00:52:57,670 --> 00:52:55,119
did you

1333
00:52:59,430 --> 00:52:57,680
sense also there that that was making a

1334
00:53:01,190 --> 00:52:59,440
difference

1335
00:53:02,870 --> 00:53:01,200
oh the tweet of itself oh it was

1336
00:53:04,069 --> 00:53:02,880
incredible yeah i mean the outpouring of

1337
00:53:05,750 --> 00:53:04,079
support we got from the public by our

1338
00:53:07,270 --> 00:53:05,760
twitter i mean it's it's immediate it

1339
00:53:09,349 --> 00:53:07,280
happens within a few seconds of every

1340
00:53:11,349 --> 00:53:09,359
single tweet that goes out but um i've

1341
00:53:12,710 --> 00:53:11,359
had wonderful experiences interacting

1342
00:53:13,990 --> 00:53:12,720
with people from around the country and

1343
00:53:15,990 --> 00:53:14,000
actually around the world because of

1344
00:53:17,990 --> 00:53:16,000
twitter and so i've been able to

1345
00:53:20,230 --> 00:53:18,000
interact with a lot of school children a

1346
00:53:21,829 --> 00:53:20,240
lot of teachers a lot of universities as

1347
00:53:23,030 --> 00:53:21,839
a result of twitter so it was a really

1348
00:53:26,790 --> 00:53:23,040
major impact

1349
00:53:28,390 --> 00:53:26,800
and you um again you were the parachute

1350
00:53:30,309 --> 00:53:28,400
systems engineer lead on this and we

1351
00:53:31,030 --> 00:53:30,319
have a picture of you um doing one of

1352
00:53:33,990 --> 00:53:31,040
your

1353
00:53:35,910 --> 00:53:34,000
tests out there in the field um

1354
00:53:39,190 --> 00:53:35,920
and i can imagine also that that mro

1355
00:53:40,710 --> 00:53:39,200
picture uh that was taken just after or

1356
00:53:41,990 --> 00:53:40,720
taken during landing and released just

1357
00:53:44,870 --> 00:53:42,000
after must have

1358
00:53:46,630 --> 00:53:44,880
had a huge uh impact on on on you just

1359
00:53:48,870 --> 00:53:46,640
seeing that for all of you in fact to

1360
00:53:51,030 --> 00:53:48,880
see that picture come down that night

1361
00:53:52,390 --> 00:53:51,040
um but back during the tweet up i

1362
00:53:53,990 --> 00:53:52,400
remember there was a gentleman who asked

1363
00:53:55,670 --> 00:53:54,000
you a question and that kind of set a

1364
00:53:56,470 --> 00:53:55,680
lot of things into motion explain what

1365
00:53:58,630 --> 00:53:56,480
happened

1366
00:54:00,150 --> 00:53:58,640
oh he had asked how can we get more

1367
00:54:01,750 --> 00:54:00,160
girls involved in engineering and

1368
00:54:02,950 --> 00:54:01,760
science and specifically his daughter he

1369
00:54:04,710 --> 00:54:02,960
wanted to know how that we can do that

1370
00:54:05,910 --> 00:54:04,720
and so as a result a lot of people kind

1371
00:54:07,510 --> 00:54:05,920
of picked up on that and there were

1372
00:54:09,910 --> 00:54:07,520
certain people actually in st louis

1373
00:54:11,190 --> 00:54:09,920
missouri who picked up on that who then

1374
00:54:13,190 --> 00:54:11,200
had a whole bunch of events that they

1375
00:54:15,589 --> 00:54:13,200
scheduled to support mars exploration

1376
00:54:17,750 --> 00:54:15,599
and curiosity as a result of that so and

1377
00:54:18,790 --> 00:54:17,760
i and now in my spare time i actually do

1378
00:54:20,230 --> 00:54:18,800
a lot of educational outreach

1379
00:54:22,150 --> 00:54:20,240
specifically talking about how to get

1380
00:54:23,670 --> 00:54:22,160
more science and women and girls

1381
00:54:25,349 --> 00:54:23,680
involved in engineering

1382
00:54:27,589 --> 00:54:25,359
we're showing a picture right now of

1383
00:54:29,510 --> 00:54:27,599
some of the women you've spoken to do

1384
00:54:31,430 --> 00:54:29,520
you remember what this group was uh

1385
00:54:32,870 --> 00:54:31,440
this was in boston um so i went out to

1386
00:54:34,230 --> 00:54:32,880
boston which is where i went and did my

1387
00:54:35,750 --> 00:54:34,240
undergraduate degree so i went and met

1388
00:54:37,589 --> 00:54:35,760
with all of the engineering students at

1389
00:54:39,030 --> 00:54:37,599
boston university and specifically the

1390
00:54:41,430 --> 00:54:39,040
engineering

1391
00:54:42,710 --> 00:54:41,440
university an opportunity to go to the

1392
00:54:44,630 --> 00:54:42,720
museum of science and talk about

1393
00:54:46,230 --> 00:54:44,640
curiosity and i do a lot of stuff in the

1394
00:54:47,670 --> 00:54:46,240
local la area as well specifically

1395
00:54:49,349 --> 00:54:47,680
talking about how to get more girls

1396
00:54:51,510 --> 00:54:49,359
involved in science and engineering

1397
00:54:52,790 --> 00:54:51,520
something we really need yes

1398
00:54:55,190 --> 00:54:52,800
adam what about you at the tweet up i

1399
00:54:57,030 --> 00:54:55,200
remember you announced uh you were

1400
00:55:00,069 --> 00:54:57,040
starting your twitter again that was my

1401
00:55:02,710 --> 00:55:00,079
first tweet was at the tweet up uh

1402
00:55:04,710 --> 00:55:02,720
trisha my wife strongly recommended that

1403
00:55:06,390 --> 00:55:04,720
i get a twitter account before i went go

1404
00:55:07,910 --> 00:55:06,400
to the tweet up i did

1405
00:55:10,230 --> 00:55:07,920
and uh

1406
00:55:11,349 --> 00:55:10,240
that was friday and by

1407
00:55:13,030 --> 00:55:11,359
by

1408
00:55:14,630 --> 00:55:13,040
the following monday i had eight

1409
00:55:15,910 --> 00:55:14,640
thousand followers

1410
00:55:18,470 --> 00:55:15,920
of course

1411
00:55:19,670 --> 00:55:18,480
nothing compares

1412
00:55:21,910 --> 00:55:19,680
we're gonna get to get

1413
00:55:24,950 --> 00:55:21,920
to to the followers that some of us have

1414
00:55:27,030 --> 00:55:24,960
picked up but um

1415
00:55:28,390 --> 00:55:27,040
i was kind of amazed you know it's an

1416
00:55:29,430 --> 00:55:28,400
interesting uh it's actually very

1417
00:55:31,349 --> 00:55:29,440
interesting

1418
00:55:33,190 --> 00:55:31,359
uh communication format the restriction

1419
00:55:35,349 --> 00:55:33,200
of the 140 characters is a little bit

1420
00:55:37,990 --> 00:55:35,359
like a haiku or something you sort of

1421
00:55:38,710 --> 00:55:38,000
condense it into uh into a small amount

1422
00:55:41,910 --> 00:55:38,720
of

1423
00:55:44,950 --> 00:55:41,920
very

1424
00:55:46,549 --> 00:55:44,960
fun for me to interact with uh with

1425
00:55:48,630 --> 00:55:46,559
a sort of a wide

1426
00:55:51,190 --> 00:55:48,640
variety of folks around the nation and

1427
00:55:54,150 --> 00:55:51,200
actually the world all via this small

1428
00:55:56,470 --> 00:55:54,160
little portal it's fun

1429
00:55:57,589 --> 00:55:56,480
so um since then

1430
00:56:00,789 --> 00:55:57,599
tell me a little bit more about your

1431
00:56:01,990 --> 00:56:00,799
role getting word out um since landing i

1432
00:56:06,710 --> 00:56:02,000
know you've actually done i've been

1433
00:56:12,630 --> 00:56:09,430
you know as you see some faces

1434
00:56:14,390 --> 00:56:12,640
sort of there's a big like uh it's

1435
00:56:15,670 --> 00:56:14,400
you know the lottery bowl where they've

1436
00:56:17,109 --> 00:56:15,680
got a whole bunch of numbers and a

1437
00:56:19,430 --> 00:56:17,119
couple of the ping pong balls with the

1438
00:56:22,390 --> 00:56:19,440
numbers come rolling out well some of

1439
00:56:23,349 --> 00:56:22,400
the faces come rolling out of the random

1440
00:56:26,630 --> 00:56:23,359
you know

1441
00:56:28,710 --> 00:56:26,640
societal interest bin and

1442
00:56:30,150 --> 00:56:28,720
and all of a sudden you're exposed to a

1443
00:56:31,910 --> 00:56:30,160
lot of folks a lot of people are looking

1444
00:56:33,910 --> 00:56:31,920
to you for for

1445
00:56:35,670 --> 00:56:33,920
for input about what this means what

1446
00:56:37,030 --> 00:56:35,680
this means for society

1447
00:56:40,549 --> 00:56:37,040
and uh

1448
00:56:42,829 --> 00:56:40,559
it's been very stimulating

1449
00:56:47,030 --> 00:56:42,839
sometimes a bit exhausting

1450
00:56:47,829 --> 00:56:47,040
but uh very moving for me uh to see how

1451
00:56:49,750 --> 00:56:47,839
how

1452
00:56:50,789 --> 00:56:49,760
curiosity has impacted

1453
00:56:53,829 --> 00:56:50,799
uh

1454
00:56:57,270 --> 00:56:53,839
our society

1455
00:56:59,910 --> 00:56:57,280
let's talk about you bobbik um

1456
00:57:02,309 --> 00:56:59,920
you were the internet's choice i would

1457
00:57:04,390 --> 00:57:02,319
say and if we had voted a person most

1458
00:57:06,789 --> 00:57:04,400
likely to become a meme before landing

1459
00:57:09,589 --> 00:57:06,799
we might have selected you only we were

1460
00:57:12,549 --> 00:57:09,599
a little bit used to your hairstyle um

1461
00:57:16,390 --> 00:57:12,559
but uh i went back and you know pictures

1462
00:57:18,230 --> 00:57:16,400
of you in mission control were on the

1463
00:57:20,950 --> 00:57:18,240
internet and circulating a couple of

1464
00:57:21,990 --> 00:57:20,960
hours before we even landed

1465
00:57:24,150 --> 00:57:22,000
did you

1466
00:57:26,390 --> 00:57:24,160
notice anything going on was your phone

1467
00:57:27,670 --> 00:57:26,400
going crazy i got a few texts from

1468
00:57:29,349 --> 00:57:27,680
friends saying hey there's like this

1469
00:57:31,349 --> 00:57:29,359
article about your hair

1470
00:57:33,430 --> 00:57:31,359
on the web

1471
00:57:35,030 --> 00:57:33,440
um but i don't think i really fully

1472
00:57:36,390 --> 00:57:35,040
understood uh what was going on until

1473
00:57:37,430 --> 00:57:36,400
the following i gotta point out one

1474
00:57:39,030 --> 00:57:37,440
correction though i was not flight

1475
00:57:41,349 --> 00:57:39,040
director on landing night keith come

1476
00:57:42,390 --> 00:57:41,359
over there that gentleman uh keith i

1477
00:57:44,230 --> 00:57:42,400
don't know if you mind standing up and

1478
00:57:45,290 --> 00:57:44,240
maybe reenacting your celebration from

1479
00:57:58,390 --> 00:57:45,300
landing

1480
00:57:58,390 --> 00:57:58,400
[Applause]

1481
00:58:02,069 --> 00:58:01,030
uh keith did a great job of of uh of

1482
00:58:04,069 --> 00:58:02,079
controlling the room that night and

1483
00:58:06,150 --> 00:58:04,079
making sure that uh we had adequate time

1484
00:58:09,270 --> 00:58:06,160
to go to the bathroom yeah also also

1485
00:58:10,870 --> 00:58:09,280
getting our jobs on yeah um but no so i

1486
00:58:13,030 --> 00:58:10,880
just you know it was yeah it was the

1487
00:58:14,710 --> 00:58:13,040
next morning when i woke up and i you

1488
00:58:16,549 --> 00:58:14,720
know did the morning routine of checking

1489
00:58:18,630 --> 00:58:16,559
my email and everything else

1490
00:58:19,829 --> 00:58:18,640
and realized my gmail just had thousands

1491
00:58:20,950 --> 00:58:19,839
of messages because i had never turned

1492
00:58:23,750 --> 00:58:20,960
off the feature or twitter says hey you

1493
00:58:25,510 --> 00:58:23,760
have a new follower um

1494
00:58:26,870 --> 00:58:25,520
because i had like 50 followers before

1495
00:58:29,030 --> 00:58:26,880
you know or maybe like 100 followers

1496
00:58:30,950 --> 00:58:29,040
before the the night of landing

1497
00:58:34,309 --> 00:58:30,960
um little did i realize what was going

1498
00:58:38,390 --> 00:58:36,069
and what was really interesting about

1499
00:58:40,150 --> 00:58:38,400
that though is uh the doors that that

1500
00:58:42,789 --> 00:58:40,160
opened for you now to become an

1501
00:58:44,390 --> 00:58:42,799
ambassador for the mission um and to go

1502
00:58:46,710 --> 00:58:44,400
out and talk to a lot of different

1503
00:58:49,270 --> 00:58:46,720
groups be invited to a lot of different

1504
00:58:51,270 --> 00:58:49,280
events like the national science fair

1505
00:58:53,109 --> 00:58:51,280
where you're doing a lot of work now

1506
00:58:54,870 --> 00:58:53,119
really encouraging and supporting

1507
00:58:57,030 --> 00:58:54,880
students to get involved in in

1508
00:58:59,190 --> 00:58:57,040
engineering and science tell us about

1509
00:59:00,390 --> 00:58:59,200
some of the great events you've done

1510
00:59:01,430 --> 00:59:00,400
yeah i mean it's been an incredible

1511
00:59:03,829 --> 00:59:01,440
experience and i think one of the

1512
00:59:04,789 --> 00:59:03,839
amazing things for me is just kind of

1513
00:59:06,390 --> 00:59:04,799
showing

1514
00:59:10,630 --> 00:59:06,400
kids and people that you can look

1515
00:59:13,589 --> 00:59:12,470
or a scientist and so this is this is a

1516
00:59:15,030 --> 00:59:13,599
picture of me it's mckinley it's

1517
00:59:16,150 --> 00:59:15,040
actually a local school here in pasadena

1518
00:59:17,349 --> 00:59:16,160
but it was just a kind of incredible

1519
00:59:18,390 --> 00:59:17,359
experience they built this whole lego

1520
00:59:19,910 --> 00:59:18,400
model of

1521
00:59:21,190 --> 00:59:19,920
missions to mars and everything and it's

1522
00:59:22,870 --> 00:59:21,200
really cool to see it and have their own

1523
00:59:24,950 --> 00:59:22,880
little curiosity like row where they can

1524
00:59:26,549 --> 00:59:24,960
drive around and things like that um

1525
00:59:28,069 --> 00:59:26,559
i've just yeah it's been such a

1526
00:59:29,589 --> 00:59:28,079
wonderful experience going out there

1527
00:59:30,789 --> 00:59:29,599
talking to kids seeing the excitement

1528
00:59:32,789 --> 00:59:30,799
they have and i think kids are all like

1529
00:59:34,230 --> 00:59:32,799
really naturally super excited but they

1530
00:59:36,630 --> 00:59:34,240
just don't have something to latch on to

1531
00:59:38,309 --> 00:59:36,640
always um so it's been it's been you

1532
00:59:40,230 --> 00:59:38,319
know just awesome for me to feel like i

1533
00:59:41,589 --> 00:59:40,240
can actually contribute that and uh you

1534
00:59:42,950 --> 00:59:41,599
know every once in a while some parent

1535
00:59:44,390 --> 00:59:42,960
will like tweet me or send me a picture

1536
00:59:46,870 --> 00:59:44,400
of their kid with a mohawk or tell me

1537
00:59:48,230 --> 00:59:46,880
that the kid wants to get a mohawk yes i

1538
00:59:49,910 --> 00:59:48,240
did it

1539
00:59:52,230 --> 00:59:49,920
um i hope that i'm not a bad influence

1540
00:59:54,710 --> 00:59:52,240
guys i'm trying yeah

1541
00:59:56,470 --> 00:59:54,720
um do you all feel that this public

1542
00:59:59,030 --> 00:59:56,480
interest and involvement is still as

1543
01:00:01,349 --> 00:59:59,040
strong today as it was back on landing

1544
01:00:04,630 --> 01:00:01,359
night i'm kind of amazed at the staying

1545
01:00:06,470 --> 01:00:04,640
power i can remember i worked on mer and

1546
01:00:09,670 --> 01:00:06,480
i can remember that we were

1547
01:00:12,150 --> 01:00:09,680
top on cnn's you know things going on

1548
01:00:14,230 --> 01:00:12,160
list for about 36 hours

1549
01:00:16,630 --> 01:00:14,240
and then britney spears got out of a

1550
01:00:18,390 --> 01:00:16,640
limousine wearing an unusual set of

1551
01:00:19,430 --> 01:00:18,400
clothing or not wearing an unusual set

1552
01:00:21,829 --> 01:00:19,440
of clothing

1553
01:00:22,870 --> 01:00:21,839
and all of a sudden we were no longer on

1554
01:00:24,710 --> 01:00:22,880
the top

1555
01:00:25,670 --> 01:00:24,720
things to to track

1556
01:00:30,789 --> 01:00:25,680
and i

1557
01:00:36,549 --> 01:00:33,270
maybe that came out wrong

1558
01:00:38,230 --> 01:00:36,559
but that uh i think it really is social

1559
01:00:40,069 --> 01:00:38,240
media you know

1560
01:00:41,349 --> 01:00:40,079
nightly news has four or five things

1561
01:00:43,030 --> 01:00:41,359
they're going to tell you

1562
01:00:44,549 --> 01:00:43,040
and if you're number six

1563
01:00:46,150 --> 01:00:44,559
you didn't happen

1564
01:00:47,589 --> 01:00:46,160
and so

1565
01:00:50,549 --> 01:00:47,599
i'm

1566
01:00:53,349 --> 01:00:50,559
constantly amazed that we

1567
01:00:54,549 --> 01:00:53,359
are out there still sticking i'm still

1568
01:00:57,829 --> 01:00:54,559
having people

1569
01:00:59,990 --> 01:00:57,839
tweet me and and and follow me and

1570
01:01:03,109 --> 01:01:00,000
uh and show up when i talk

1571
01:01:05,190 --> 01:01:03,119
i think that there's a a lot of

1572
01:01:06,950 --> 01:01:05,200
interest out there and and i think

1573
01:01:08,950 --> 01:01:06,960
social media has a lot to do with it i

1574
01:01:10,630 --> 01:01:08,960
agree well since we are talking about

1575
01:01:12,549 --> 01:01:10,640
social media we did put out the question

1576
01:01:13,990 --> 01:01:12,559
on twitter a few days ago asking people

1577
01:01:15,109 --> 01:01:14,000
to send us some questions because we're

1578
01:01:17,910 --> 01:01:15,119
going to talk about social media we

1579
01:01:22,630 --> 01:01:17,920
might as well do it right

1580
01:01:28,150 --> 01:01:25,030
i know dr astra which is anita's handle

1581
01:01:29,750 --> 01:01:28,160
on twitter is doing iss research um or

1582
01:01:31,670 --> 01:01:29,760
you're working on something that'll be

1583
01:01:33,430 --> 01:01:31,680
going to the iss soon and they ask what

1584
01:01:35,109 --> 01:01:33,440
what is everyone else up to so really

1585
01:01:37,270 --> 01:01:35,119
fast tell us what you're doing now so

1586
01:01:38,390 --> 01:01:37,280
i'm a project manager for a payload that

1587
01:01:39,990 --> 01:01:38,400
we're delivering to the international

1588
01:01:41,270 --> 01:01:40,000
space station called the cold adam

1589
01:01:43,829 --> 01:01:41,280
laboratory and it's going to demonstrate

1590
01:01:45,829 --> 01:01:43,839
laser cooling in space um and form an

1591
01:01:47,510 --> 01:01:45,839
ultra cold quantum gas

1592
01:01:49,349 --> 01:01:47,520
oh and let me just say that so spouse

1593
01:01:50,950 --> 01:01:49,359
monkey i met by a twitter and so last

1594
01:01:52,710 --> 01:01:50,960
time i was in houston we actually met up

1595
01:01:54,950 --> 01:01:52,720
in the flesh and had pizza and beer

1596
01:01:56,789 --> 01:01:54,960
together

1597
01:01:58,950 --> 01:01:56,799
that's great adam

1598
01:02:01,910 --> 01:01:58,960
i'm doing a variety of trying to help

1599
01:02:05,030 --> 01:02:01,920
out with edl related stuff and

1600
01:02:08,390 --> 01:02:05,040
and and thinking about how we might

1601
01:02:10,870 --> 01:02:08,400
collect samples uh for eventual return

1602
01:02:13,190 --> 01:02:10,880
to earth in our next expedition to the

1603
01:02:14,630 --> 01:02:13,200
surface of mars all right

1604
01:02:16,230 --> 01:02:14,640
i still i'm very fortunate to work with

1605
01:02:18,069 --> 01:02:16,240
a group of people who you know operate

1606
01:02:19,430 --> 01:02:18,079
this this rover on mars and

1607
01:02:20,950 --> 01:02:19,440
and uh you know the science team

1608
01:02:22,950 --> 01:02:20,960
everybody has been great about keeping

1609
01:02:24,309 --> 01:02:22,960
us in the loop and learning all the the

1610
01:02:25,510 --> 01:02:24,319
science i don't think i had a real

1611
01:02:26,789 --> 01:02:25,520
appreciation of everything that was

1612
01:02:27,750 --> 01:02:26,799
going to happen on this mission until we

1613
01:02:29,670 --> 01:02:27,760
actually went and they started

1614
01:02:32,470 --> 01:02:29,680
explaining it to us and it's been an

1615
01:02:35,589 --> 01:02:32,480
amazing uh experience just learning uh

1616
01:02:37,750 --> 01:02:35,599
actual actual science

1617
01:02:40,030 --> 01:02:37,760
uh let's see

1618
01:02:44,710 --> 01:02:42,710
pokerface36025s or chris sheldon taylor

1619
01:02:49,030 --> 01:02:44,720
he asks what is each person's favorite

1620
01:02:50,549 --> 01:02:49,040
picture sent back to earth and why

1621
01:02:52,150 --> 01:02:50,559
mine's obvious it's the parachute from

1622
01:02:53,349 --> 01:02:52,160
landing night because that means it

1623
01:02:55,510 --> 01:02:53,359
worked

1624
01:02:58,069 --> 01:02:55,520
so that was a relief

1625
01:03:01,109 --> 01:02:58,079
a mine is the very first image the rear

1626
01:03:02,710 --> 01:03:01,119
has cam image that we took back

1627
01:03:03,910 --> 01:03:02,720
while we were still have the have the

1628
01:03:06,870 --> 01:03:03,920
odyssey link

1629
01:03:08,630 --> 01:03:06,880
the first image of a new place on mars

1630
01:03:10,069 --> 01:03:08,640
i i mean i kind of i agree that that

1631
01:03:11,430 --> 01:03:10,079
picture is amazing and that was the

1632
01:03:12,870 --> 01:03:11,440
picture was like that from pathfinder

1633
01:03:15,270 --> 01:03:12,880
was some of the reasons why i work here

1634
01:03:16,789 --> 01:03:15,280
today um i think my favorite picture is

1635
01:03:19,109 --> 01:03:16,799
actually the the

1636
01:03:20,470 --> 01:03:19,119
zoom uh mass cam image of

1637
01:03:21,990 --> 01:03:20,480
the foothills of mountain shark and just

1638
01:03:23,670 --> 01:03:22,000
seeing the i mean it's the incredible

1639
01:03:25,029 --> 01:03:23,680
analogy in my head like that looks like

1640
01:03:26,390 --> 01:03:25,039
the grand canyon that looks like a place

1641
01:03:27,589 --> 01:03:26,400
that i could see on earth and that makes

1642
01:03:29,349 --> 01:03:27,599
it so much more

1643
01:03:30,870 --> 01:03:29,359
kind of interesting to me i guess like

1644
01:03:32,390 --> 01:03:30,880
now i can start seeing

1645
01:03:33,990 --> 01:03:32,400
you know why it's so exciting that we're

1646
01:03:35,109 --> 01:03:34,000
there

1647
01:03:37,029 --> 01:03:35,119
and you'll probably be able to answer

1648
01:03:40,150 --> 01:03:37,039
this one as well it is what has been the

1649
01:03:41,670 --> 01:03:40,160
most challenging of mars curiosity's

1650
01:03:43,670 --> 01:03:41,680
assignments during its first year on

1651
01:03:45,750 --> 01:03:43,680
mars and since you're still working on

1652
01:03:48,309 --> 01:03:45,760
the team i guess uh jessica's story

1653
01:03:51,029 --> 01:03:48,319
earlier of the challenge around saw 200

1654
01:03:53,109 --> 01:03:51,039
of our our computer anomaly was probably

1655
01:03:55,190 --> 01:03:53,119
one of the more exciting and scary

1656
01:03:56,150 --> 01:03:55,200
things but you know we've done a lot of

1657
01:03:57,270 --> 01:03:56,160
we've been fortunate that we've been

1658
01:03:58,549 --> 01:03:57,280
able to do a lot of homework and getting

1659
01:04:00,390 --> 01:03:58,559
ready for the other things like the

1660
01:04:01,510 --> 01:04:00,400
first drill was a tremendous effort from

1661
01:04:02,950 --> 01:04:01,520
the whole team

1662
01:04:04,630 --> 01:04:02,960
um and obviously a lot of effort went

1663
01:04:05,910 --> 01:04:04,640
into and work went into that but i yeah

1664
01:04:06,950 --> 01:04:05,920
i would say that the the biggest

1665
01:04:08,470 --> 01:04:06,960
challenge is probably been recovering

1666
01:04:11,270 --> 01:04:08,480
from that there's some folks right over

1667
01:04:13,270 --> 01:04:11,280
there who who are a big part of that

1668
01:04:14,470 --> 01:04:13,280
all right um so we've talked about

1669
01:04:16,630 --> 01:04:14,480
social media definitely has had this

1670
01:04:17,829 --> 01:04:16,640
huge impact with getting our word out

1671
01:04:19,750 --> 01:04:17,839
and not just getting our word out to the

1672
01:04:21,190 --> 01:04:19,760
public but to get them back in and to

1673
01:04:23,510 --> 01:04:21,200
get them involved and feel like they can

1674
01:04:24,630 --> 01:04:23,520
hold these conversations but adam why do

1675
01:04:26,549 --> 01:04:24,640
you think

1676
01:04:28,950 --> 01:04:26,559
what's what struck the chord why did

1677
01:04:30,950 --> 01:04:28,960
people start following

1678
01:04:32,630 --> 01:04:30,960
yeah that's a great question i i've been

1679
01:04:34,710 --> 01:04:32,640
actually asking that a lot of myself

1680
01:04:37,029 --> 01:04:34,720
even prior to landing i was asking this

1681
01:04:38,710 --> 01:04:37,039
question of why we do what we're doing

1682
01:04:42,230 --> 01:04:38,720
and why it might make

1683
01:04:43,910 --> 01:04:42,240
might be important for us um

1684
01:04:46,069 --> 01:04:43,920
i you know

1685
01:04:48,549 --> 01:04:46,079
earlier in the videos you saw an image

1686
01:04:50,870 --> 01:04:48,559
of uh of times square at 1 30 in the

1687
01:04:54,150 --> 01:04:50,880
morning on on monday

1688
01:04:56,309 --> 01:04:54,160
with thousands of people waiting to land

1689
01:04:57,589 --> 01:04:56,319
waiting to see if we could successfully

1690
01:05:00,230 --> 01:04:57,599
land

1691
01:05:01,750 --> 01:05:00,240
and although we go there for the science

1692
01:05:03,670 --> 01:05:01,760
questions i don't think they were there

1693
01:05:05,589 --> 01:05:03,680
at 1 30 in the morning because they're

1694
01:05:07,750 --> 01:05:05,599
dying to know about the ph and salinity

1695
01:05:09,270 --> 01:05:07,760
of the ancient aqueous environment on

1696
01:05:11,270 --> 01:05:09,280
the surface of mars

1697
01:05:13,109 --> 01:05:11,280
they're they're there maybe for that but

1698
01:05:16,789 --> 01:05:13,119
for more

1699
01:05:19,430 --> 01:05:16,799
um i think when we explore we're kind of

1700
01:05:24,150 --> 01:05:19,440
asking questions about ourselves as

1701
01:05:26,710 --> 01:05:24,160
individuals and as a society as a people

1702
01:05:28,789 --> 01:05:26,720
a neil armstrong i think hinted at that

1703
01:05:29,510 --> 01:05:28,799
with the words that he chose to say when

1704
01:05:34,950 --> 01:05:29,520
he

1705
01:05:40,069 --> 01:05:34,960
man

1706
01:05:42,549 --> 01:05:40,079
hinting at was that he was carrying us

1707
01:05:45,029 --> 01:05:42,559
with him in that exploration

1708
01:05:45,990 --> 01:05:45,039
i think curiosity carries us with

1709
01:05:48,390 --> 01:05:46,000
her

1710
01:05:51,910 --> 01:05:48,400
when she's on the surface of mars

1711
01:05:54,870 --> 01:05:51,920
and so she helps us ask questions about

1712
01:05:56,870 --> 01:05:54,880
who we are how grand we are what

1713
01:05:59,029 --> 01:05:56,880
questions might we dare ask and hope to

1714
01:06:00,230 --> 01:05:59,039
be able to answer

1715
01:06:05,029 --> 01:06:00,240
so

1716
01:06:06,230 --> 01:06:05,039
sticks is because this act of

1717
01:06:06,950 --> 01:06:06,240
exploration

1718
01:06:09,990 --> 01:06:06,960
is

1719
01:06:12,150 --> 01:06:10,000
sort of important to us

1720
01:06:14,630 --> 01:06:12,160
i think through it

1721
01:06:15,589 --> 01:06:14,640
we dream a little bigger

1722
01:06:20,470 --> 01:06:15,599
maybe

1723
01:06:23,430 --> 01:06:20,480
aspire a little higher and in some sense

1724
01:06:24,870 --> 01:06:23,440
we're a little better a teeny eatsy bit

1725
01:06:27,109 --> 01:06:24,880
better

1726
01:06:29,589 --> 01:06:27,119
so the idea

1727
01:06:32,630 --> 01:06:29,599
that 50 or 100 million people in this

1728
01:06:35,430 --> 01:06:32,640
country are a little bit better by the

1729
01:06:38,069 --> 01:06:35,440
acts that the people in this room

1730
01:06:41,270 --> 01:06:38,079
put our shoulders to to make happen

1731
01:06:42,150 --> 01:06:41,280
is uh it's a tremendous honor for me and

1732
01:06:42,870 --> 01:06:42,160
uh

1733
01:06:57,829 --> 01:06:42,880
i

1734
01:07:05,109 --> 01:06:57,839
what else can you say after that so

1735
01:07:09,670 --> 01:07:06,390
well thank you

1736
01:07:11,589 --> 01:07:09,680
veronica bobby adam and anita thank you

1737
01:07:13,349 --> 01:07:11,599
very much

1738
01:07:14,950 --> 01:07:13,359
so as we

1739
01:07:16,470 --> 01:07:14,960
come to the conclusion of our

1740
01:07:18,230 --> 01:07:16,480
celebration

1741
01:07:21,029 --> 01:07:18,240
i'd just like you to reflect for a

1742
01:07:23,190 --> 01:07:21,039
moment how fortunate we are

1743
01:07:25,670 --> 01:07:23,200
to be

1744
01:07:28,630 --> 01:07:25,680
part of the dawn of earth's adventures

1745
01:07:31,670 --> 01:07:28,640
of the solar system and beyond

1746
01:07:34,950 --> 01:07:31,680
it's truly incredible what we've seen

1747
01:07:37,430 --> 01:07:34,960
from curiosity alone in terms of the

1748
01:07:40,390 --> 01:07:37,440
development of the marvelous tools that

1749
01:07:43,029 --> 01:07:40,400
we now use to explore the planets

1750
01:07:44,309 --> 01:07:43,039
and what we've learned

1751
01:07:46,789 --> 01:07:44,319
so

1752
01:07:49,829 --> 01:07:46,799
i just like to thank you for

1753
01:07:51,589 --> 01:07:49,839
participating in our celebration

1754
01:07:53,349 --> 01:07:51,599
i hope that it's given you an

1755
01:07:56,630 --> 01:07:53,359
opportunity to

1756
01:07:59,190 --> 01:07:56,640
think about the scope and magnitude of

1757
01:08:00,390 --> 01:07:59,200
nasa's exceptional team of

1758
01:08:01,910 --> 01:08:00,400
dreamers

1759
01:08:03,990 --> 01:08:01,920
doers

1760
01:08:05,910 --> 01:08:04,000
and what they've accomplished so far and

1761
01:08:08,150 --> 01:08:05,920
what's ahead of us

1762
01:08:09,510 --> 01:08:08,160
so on behalf of

1763
01:08:13,510 --> 01:08:09,520
nasa's

1764
01:08:17,110 --> 01:08:13,520
and caltech's jet propulsion laboratory

1765
01:08:18,550 --> 01:08:17,120
i'd like to um again say thanks for

1766
01:08:19,430 --> 01:08:18,560
coming

1767
01:08:21,990 --> 01:08:19,440
there's

1768
01:08:24,870 --> 01:08:22,000
really something to be seen here in a

1769
01:08:27,349 --> 01:08:24,880
little short video we have to close

1770
01:08:29,990 --> 01:08:27,359
that sort of sends us off

1771
01:08:32,229 --> 01:08:30,000
looking at where we've been on mars with

1772
01:08:35,430 --> 01:08:32,239
curiosity by viewing

1773
01:08:36,470 --> 01:08:35,440
mars through the navigation camera

1774
01:08:37,669 --> 01:08:36,480
so

1775
01:08:39,349 --> 01:08:37,679
thanks again

1776
01:08:41,490 --> 01:08:39,359
the adventure of exploring mars

1777
01:08:49,490 --> 01:08:41,500
continues

1778
01:08:59,790 --> 01:08:49,500
[Applause]

1779
01:09:00,870 --> 01:08:59,800
[Music]

1780
01:09:02,019 --> 01:09:00,880
[Applause]

1781
01:09:15,599 --> 01:09:02,029
um

1782
01:09:25,820 --> 01:09:23,749
[Music]

1783
01:10:15,450 --> 01:09:25,830
so