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The recording has started. Well, now. Always remember. Super Dave Bistula. The tall, white, gothic vampire. Coming to you from Tim Hortons. The same one, you know. St. Dorothy Mall. Benny and company. The chicken place is right beside us. On the other side. Sports experts at Naviosphere. Dessert Street. On the service road of Highway 13. Here in the area of St. Dorothy Laval. Super Dave Bistula of Chamonix Laval, Quebec, Canada. So. Seems to me. I think it's NASA or the EO or Space Agency. Maybe it's SpaceX. We didn't see for sure. But they're sending a probe. Another one. To Mars. And they're gonna try to experiment on a soft landing. In place. And also to take pictures. And take pictures. Maybe sample some soil. Maybe see if there's any gas. Natural gas on Mars. You know. The usual probing stuff. Anyways. My digital host David is gonna take over. He's gonna read from EOS. Which is EOS.org. EOS is the Greek goddess of the dawn. I guess it's natural. Whoops. So without further ado. David. Take over. And you could read from the magazine. And as usual you'll give your own opinion. Yeah. I guess they're gonna see if they could terraform Mars. If they're gonna terraform Mars. Well that could take a long time. I don't know. Unless they have technology to actually make it. Make it so. Reduce myself to a little blip. And I'm gonna read from EOS. So here goes nothing. So. Menu. Camera. Has to refresh. Alright. EOS. Precision landing will be key to NASA's Mars 2020 rover. Landing robotics distinguish craft from past models. Allowing researchers to target smaller flat areas that are surrounded by rock. Okay. By 8 combs. 21st of July 2016. Oh boy. Did I read that right? Yeah. It's 2016. There's the rover. I guess this is a very, very, very early article. Computer generated rendition of NASA's Mars 2020. Okay. To scientists and engineers working on Mars rover. A rover's entry into the Martian atmosphere and descent into its surface are known as the 7 minutes of terror. Yeah. Because if it lands too... If there's parachuting too early, maybe the rover could get blown into the atmosphere and never land again. And if it's parachuted too late, crash. Bang. Goodbye. Anyways. Continue hurling at speeds of exceeding 17,700 kilometers per hour. Jesus Christ. The rover has to put on some serious brakes if it needs to land nimbly and delicately on the surface. Yeah. That's true. The process may be less terrifying during the next mission thanks to the new Mars 2020 rover. Designed that... Rover designed that gives the craft more control as it lands. The NASA team, the rover team announced plans for the craft on 1st of July. During a live Facebook question and answer Q&A session streamed from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. At the Q&A, managers highlighted how new robotic features distinguished the Mars rover named for its scheduled launch year from past models sent to explore the Martian surface. Oh, we've read that before. I've seen something like that before on TV one time when I used to watch TV. Now I watch things on YouTube because I don't even like looking at the Bluetooth. Anyways. The new craft will look much like Curiosity. Its six-wheel, one-ton predecessor launched November 2011. However, the Mars 2020 rover will have, among other features, a smarter parachute deployment system that will help it maneuver into an even tighter landing zone. A navigation system that uses pictures to guide landing and even equipment to record ambient sound on Mars. Okay. Will it be AI? Artificial Intelligence that's doing this? Let's see. Equipped for a rocky landing. Because Curiosity relied upon velocity to activate parachute deployment and because it could not make decisions based on position, the craft opened its chute after passing below the ideal altitude. Did it crash? The Mars 2020 rover aims to avoid this nail-biting entry, said Alan Chandler of the descent and landing team. By adding what's known as a range trigger, would that be artificial intelligence? We can specify where we want the parachute to open, not just what velocity we want it to open, said Chandler. In other words, certain altitudes could be programmed to trigger the chute. That shrinks our required landing area by nearly half. What's more about the Mars 2020 rover will be equipped with terrain relative navigation, which uses pictures of the ground for orientation during the entry and descent. The technique will help the rover avoid hazardous terrain by automatically comparing the photos the rover takes of the landing zone with an on-board map generated from images previously taken by Orbiter. Yeah, that's pretty cool. Oh, and by the way, I made a mistake. The Curiosity was an earlier... From what I just read, the Curiosity was an earlier mission... It was an earlier robot. Curiosity took pictures of the surface during landing, but they were not matched with the map to facilitate better navigation. Instead, Curiosity and other previous rovers were sent to spans of flat, rock-free terrain at least 20 to 25 kilometers across to ensure the landing location was safe. The craft then drove long distances to gather information and photograph rocky terrain. In contrast, the range trigger and navigation system will allow the craft to maneuver into higher landing zones, a flat space a mere 18 by 14 kilometers across, half the prior area surrounded by rocks, allowing the exact landing target to change in response to what the craft sees upon descent will help the Mars 2020 rover to immediately begin collecting samples. One of the key things for us to land on an environment that has a lot of rocks, and rocks are challenging for landing, said project scientist Kenneth Farley. A parking lot full of bedrock and red slab can be used to test-drive rover landings. Fortunately, we have new capabilities with the landing system that will allow us to get into this tricky terrain. Collecting Martian rocks. The Mars 2020 rover will land in any one of the eight potential locations thought capable of hosting microbes. Curiosity was sent to photograph areas that might have once been uninhabitable. And using these data, as well as information collected by other craft, researchers have now confirmed rock formations that appear to have been riverbeds, tsunami zones, and deltas. What happened to all the water? I remember seeing the documentary that maybe a comet landed on Mars, and the comet was so devastating that it destroyed Mars' atmosphere. Apparently Mars had trees and rivers and whatever, just like Earth. But somehow that has been destroyed, I don't know why. I wonder if it was punishment. But we're going to have to see. In addition to taking photos, Mars 2020 rover will collect 35 samples of rock for seven months after arriving on the red planet. The rover will leave samples in designated locations for a second craft to retrieve them. In contrast, Curiosity was equipped with gas analysis instruments and transmitted data about organic molecules, but no samples were returned to Earth. NASA is currently testing the new rover's drilling tunnels on a variety of Earth's rock types. In addition, scientists are conducting drilling tests in a chamber that emulates Martian atmospheric pressure, which is only about 1% of that found on Earth. According to Matt Robinson of the Mars 2020 sampling and catching team, Robinson gave a live tour of the testing chamber and drilling facility during the Q&A. Mars 2020 rover will have a five-jointed robotic arm and can retrieve some of the core samples for storage and transport, Robinson noted. Searching for water, creating oxygen, and more. You guys are going to start terraforming? In a press release sent after the conference, NASA announced that it has concluded an extensive review process and will now proceed with final construction designs. Several intriguing instruments made the cut. The Mars 2020 rover will be equipped with a ground-penetrating radar, called the Radar Imager for Mars, and a subsurface experiment, RIMFAX, which will be used to search for ice and brine beneath the rover. In addition, several microphones will record Martian sound for the first time. Or is it Martian music? Hmm. Because every planet apparently has sounds or music. Saturn? That's a scary sound that comes out of that. Maybe Saturn is... Remember what David Icke said? Anyways. A device that ingests carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and produces oxygen using solid oxide electrolysis will be included in the rover. If the device, the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment, MOXIE, is successful, it could pave the way for instruments that allow people to breathe on the Martian surface. The technology could also help overcome the need to transport oxygen for fuel. You're also going to have to do something about gravity, too. That's just it. Anyways, I'm digressing, let's move on. Because of these, and the new design, and other new designs such as thicker wheels that avoid punctures and damage, the Mars 2020 rover will weigh about 150 kilograms more than Curiosity. Oh, okay. I guess that shouldn't be too surprising. That's why, let's say, Toyota is here on Earth. Cars like Toyota, or Subaru, or Honda, which used to be small cars, have grown bigger. Because the technology in the engine probably requires it. But the thing is, in Japan you will never see those cars. The big ones, that is. Even though they're Japanese companies. But I'm digressing. Let's move on. The team affirmed that information transmitted by the Mars 2020 rover will appear immediately on an open access website, allowing the public to review information at the same time as NASA scientists. Images and data will travel at the speed of light and reach Earth from Mars in 20 to 25 minutes. Really. At the speed of light. I guess they're going to use LED, no, maybe laser technology to transmit the message. Depending on the position of both planets in their orbits. Amy Holmes editorial, blah blah blah. Okay. I guess that's about it. So, we're just going to close this. Close that. And there you have it in a nutshell. I guess the Mars 2020 rover is going to do a little more than what the Curiosity did back in 2011. Or rather, it's already been done, because this article was written in 2016. I'm wondering what they're doing now. Well, that's it. As Mr. Spock has said, it's fascinating. Anyways, that's it. Super there. Conclude? Close it up. Yes, David, it is fascinating. But we've done this before. We've explored other planets. You see, it's not my job to push them in any direction. Maybe sometimes, once in a while, us tall whites give advice. But it's up to the humans to take note, to give advice to our top. But I see succession happening with the human kind. I'm wondering what my colleague in Germany, the white alien, would say. That's it. Anyways, at this point, I'll bid you adieu, au revoir, adios, hasta mañana, hasta luego, arrivederci, shalom, salam aleichem, sayonara, dosvidaniya, auf wiedersehen, yiassas, parevtsas, goodbye. Also, merci beaucoup, muchas gracias, multi-mucho-gracie, tu daraba, shukriya, shukran, sheshe, spasiba, and the only other thing that I could say is, to NASA, SpaceX, and all the other space agencies, live long and prosper. And now, thank you very much.