[Interview] NASA Wants to Make Mars Less Toxic with This Clever Idea

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Mars is full of toxic perchlorates that can be very harmful for future human missions. So, when people go to Mars, they will need to fix it. NASA has awarded a NIAC grant for a project that can help solving this problem. It's called Detoxifying Mars: the biocatalytic elimination of omnipresent perchlorates.

👉 More about the NIAC project:

https://www.nasa.gov/general/detoxifying-mars/

🟣 Guests: Dr. Lynn Rothschild, Dr. Garrett Roberts Kingman

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  • 00:00 Intro

  • 02:31 Perchlorates on Mars

  • 10:48 The NIAC proposal

  • 35:09 What's next

  • 49:18 Current obsessions

  • 53:35 Final thoughts

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Mars is full of toxic perchlorates that can be very harmful for future human missions. So, when people go to Mars, they will need to fix it. NASA has awarded a NIAC grant for a project that can help solving this problem. It's called Detoxifying Mars: the biocatalytic elimination of omnipresent perchlorates.

👉 More about the NIAC project:

https://www.nasa.gov/general/detoxifying-mars/

🟣 Guests: Dr. Lynn Rothschild, Dr. Garrett Roberts Kingman

🦄 Support us on Patreon:

https://patreon.com/universetoday

📚 Suggest books in the book club:

https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club

  • 00:00 Intro

  • 02:31 Perchlorates on Mars

  • 10:48 The NIAC proposal

  • 35:09 What's next

  • 49:18 Current obsessions

  • 53:35 Final thoughts

📺 VIDEO VERSION

https://youtu.be/GitfDWpm6UU

📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER

Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads.

Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter

🎧 PODCASTS

Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/

Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/

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2024-06-17 55 min
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