WeMartians Podcast

135 - A Farewell to InSight (feat. Bruce Banerdt)

NASA's InSight mission landed in 2018 and completed its primary mission two years later. From there it pursued an extended mission, gathering as much scientific data as i

Goodbye, for now

After seven years of exploring the solar system, Jake is ready to move on to new projects. Hear his final thoughts on WeMartians. Stay in TouchPatreon (https://www.wemar

134 - Blood, Sweat, and Rockets (feat. MG Lord)

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory has a storied history of exploration, but if you go back far enough the stories get pretty wild. Its early days feature a gutsy team of r

133 - The State of the Moon (feat. Brendan Byrne and Emilee Speck)

Last year saw a successful Artemis 1 flight, the launch of multiple lunar robotic missions, and the continued development of the CLPS program. What's ahead for 2023? Will

132 - Artemis Ahead (feat. Eric Berger)

The Artemis I Orion capsule splashed down in the Pacific this week, a triumphant finale to a mission that faced so many challenges getting to launch. With Artemis I behin

131 - Juno at Europa (feat. Scott Bolton)

Juno has been exploring the Jupiter system since 2016, and has taught us a lot about the clouds, the magnetosphere, and the origin of the largest planet in our solar syst

130 - Voyager at 45 (feat. Linda Spilker)

Voyagers 1 and 2 have been exploring our solar system for over 45 years now. Despite the age of their instruments and computers and power source, they continue to deliver

129 - Sailing the Clouds of Venus (feat. Paul Byrne)

The clouds of Venus have long been a dream of humans to explore, and at last a mission concept called Phantom could be here to do it! But the road ahead for this idea is

128 - Time Travelling

NASA's SLS rocket has been in development for over a decade and at last was ready to take off from the Space Coast. But leaks and other technical problems thwarted it on

127 - Checking in on CLPS (feat. Anthony Colangelo)

The Commercial Lunar Payload Services Program (CLPS) began in 2018 with the promise of bootstrapping a new, inexpensive lunar delivery economy; it was to be a pathway for

126 - Ten Years of Being Curious (feat. Abigail Fraeman)

Curiosity landed on Mars ten years ago and has been exploring Gale Crater ever since. After achieving its primary mission, it's embarked on a series of extended missions

125 - Spiralling Down to Mercury (feat. Lina Hadid)

BepiColombo, a joint mission between ESA and JAXA, is on a long meandering journey to Mercury. Last month, it made its 2nd of six flybys of the innermost planet, spiralli

124 - The Future of the Mars Program (feat. Scott Hubbard)

For two decades, the modern Mars program has been sending spacecraft almost every launch window to Mars, and we have Scott Hubbard to thank for much of that. As the first

123 - A Moon-Sized Opportunity (feat. Brett Denevi)

NASA is headed to the Moon in more ways than one. A coalition of human spaceflight, planetary science, and commercialization advocates stand to make an exciting decade of

122 - Uranus Awaits (feat. Amy Simon)

Last month, the new Planetary Science Decadal Survey was released and recommended as its top flagship mission a Uranus Orbiter and Probe. It's been 36 years since we last

121 - The Decadal Survey Part 2 (feat. Casey Dreier)

Every ten years, the National Academies convenes an extraordinary survey of the planetary science community to produce a recommendation for NASA on what to prioritize in

120 - The Decadal Survey Part 1 (feat. Casey Dreier)

Every ten years, the National Academies convenes an extraordinary survey of the planetary science community to produce a recommendation for NASA on what to prioritize in

119 - Cryovolcanism on Pluto (feat. Kelsi Singer)

New Horizons flew past Pluto in 2015 but work continues on discovering its secrets. One area of study is the activity of so called cryovolcanoes, icy mounds spewing liqui

118 - Planetary Exploration at Rocket Lab (feat. Peter Beck)

Rocket Lab is about more than just rockets. With their Photon bus, they can provide an end to end platform service to enable low-cost planetary exploration to multiple de

117 - Back to Venus (LPSC 2022)

Since the last time the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference was held in person, the Venus community went from 0 to 3 missions on the books. Their energy at the confere