Watch our Hangout: Ring in the Mars Rover

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Watch our Hangout: Ring in the Mars Rover

Sunday, August 05, 2012 - 07:00 PM

By Brenna Farrell

Deceleration of Mars Science Laboratory in Martian Atmosphere, Artist's Concept (NASA/JPL-Caltech/NASA)

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Recommended Links
- More on the Mars rover Curiosity from NASA including some of the first images sent back!

We hosted our first-ever Google Hangout on our brand-new Google+ page Sunday night.

The evening's special guests included:

Mary Roach (author of Packing for Mars)
Astrophysicist and writer Janna Levin (author of A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines)
Andrew Kessler, author of Martian Summer
The Washington Post's Marc Kaufman, author of Mars Landing 2012: Inside NASA's Curiosity Mission
A collection of reporters and scientists who'll buzz in throughout the night to fill us in on different aspects of the mission.

Thanks to everyone who tuned in and helped us get our sea legs!

Guests:

Jad Abumrad, Ellen Horne, Marc Kaufman, Robert Krulwich, Janna Levin, Lulu Miller and Mary Roach

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Brenna Farrell

Brenna is a writer, radio fiend, and filmmaker who lives in Brooklyn. She studied History and Literature at Harvard, took her love of roustabouting on the road as a travel writer, and came home to New York as a public radio producer and independent filmmaker. She hails from the Adirondack Mountains, where she makes frequent getaways for ice-fishing, hunting, and chopping wood.

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Lisa danna from Fort worth Texas

Radio lab and the mars landing... 30
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Aug. 05 2012 10:59 PM

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