I'm John Bachelor. The favorite part of Hotel Mars is when we give an unlimited budget to scientists such as Ian

Parmalo at Purdue University, a PhD candidate in planetary science, specializing in

geophysics of icy bodies.

You've got a whale of an icy body here, Ian, series.

It looks like a planet, acts like like a planet but it's not what

do you want to do next any probe you want to build what does it look like we've got we

have a few minutes thank you thank you so in addition to a minutes. Thank you. Thank you.

So in addition to a probe, one thing I'd really like to do with an unlimited budget is have more

laboratory studies on how ice moves as a solid because it's not as easy to do as you know

figuring out how rock moves as a solid because it's we were on earth it a little bit harder for to keep ice.

So one part of the budget would go to more laboratory studies on how ice flows as a solid

over geologic time. But as far as another mission to series, there's actually some thoughts about what there's been some proposed mission concepts and I would just like to fund those.

Basically the a really cool mission to series could be a lander going to the

dwarf planet and it would fall I would land on Occator crater which is that

picturesque crater on series with those bright deposits in the center and it

would either do some it would itself have the instruments to look at those, look at the surface and look at the

bright deposits and the normal dark deposits on series in on series and kind of report that data back to us similar to the Mars Rovers

or it's easier to it could be a little bit easier to get sample returns back from series because it's so small,

it doesn't have as big as a gravitational pull as Mars does.

So it could be a little bit easier to get sample returns of those the dark material that makes up most of series and the bright spots that come from the deep interior series and have it erupted onto the surface.

Both of those would be very interesting to get samples back and look at in a laboratory here

on Earth.

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