#BESTOF2022: GREATEST SUCCESS ON MARS TO DATE: 2/2: #HotelMars: MOXIE onboard Perseverance makes oxygen that can sustain explorers indefinitely. Michael Hecht, Principal Investigator, NASA. Haystack Observatory, MIT. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com
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🗓️ 3 October 2023
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| 0:00.0 | Sarah, where's the car? It's gone. It's not gone. It's with fixer. Since you never got |
| 0:04.6 | round to MOTing it, I took care of it. Fixed up. Fixed up. Fixed is great. They pick |
| 0:08.8 | up your car, drive it to the garage, handle the MOT, then drive it straight back to you. |
| 0:12.4 | Sounds expensive. Don't worry. They negotiate their prices with their partner |
| 0:15.6 | garages and the car pickup services included. So since that's all handled, how about you |
| 0:19.6 | take a look at that leaky tab or do you need me to fix that too? |
| 0:22.5 | For easy car maintenance, head to fixter.co.uk. We'll pick up your car and take care of |
| 0:27.4 | all the rest. Fixed up and you're back on track. |
| 0:35.4 | This is Hotel Mars Episode n. I'm John Bacher with David Livingston, Doctor Space, of |
| 0:40.9 | the Space Show, also of Hotel Mars and we're visiting with Michael Hecht, who is a genuine |
| 0:47.2 | leader to Hotel Mars. Hotel Mars is a construction in my imagination. I do not believe I'll reach |
| 0:55.5 | the planet Mars. I'm not certain. I'll see man and woman reach the planet Mars. |
| 1:01.0 | But oxygen is the hook that we have. And Michael, as the principal investigator on the |
| 1:08.4 | experiment, Moxie, that is on board Perseverance right now and Jezero Crater, has given |
| 1:14.2 | us to understand that making oxygen is something that's imaginable. The chemistry is |
| 1:20.0 | very straightforward. You need power to do it and you need scale to provide for human |
| 1:24.8 | beings. However, Michael, I come to you on this puzzle. You have an unlimited budget now. |
| 1:32.0 | And the question of producing oxygen for a four or six person mission is a challenge |
| 1:38.4 | that's frontier thinking. You know, first you have to get there and see how you can |
| 1:43.9 | survive, not on the surface, probably under the surface. What I'm imagining is a Mars |
| 1:50.3 | colony that uses lava tubes because they're hollowed out underneath that would protect |
| 1:55.9 | you from the dangers of the surface of Mars because the very thin atmosphere doesn't |
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