Building Our Future on Mars
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2020
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
How will we build the structures, roads and landing pads humans will someday need on Mars? Civil engineer Peter Carrato has been building grand structures on Earth for decades. He says the skills we’ve learned over thousands of years are well-suited for the much more challenging Martian environment. Planetary Society CEO Bill Nye the Science Guy returns with a message of care, hope and vision for our troubled times. And a bacon asteroid is just one of the absurdities Bruce Betts and Mat Kaplan discover on the way to a new What’s Up space trivia contest. Learn and explore more at https://www.planetary.org/multimedia/planetary-radio/show/2020/0318-2020-pete-carrato-mars-civil-engineering.html
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| 0:00.0 | Building our future on Mars, this week on planetary radio. |
| 0:09.0 | Welcome, I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society, |
| 0:12.0 | with more of a human adventure across our solar system and beyond. |
| 0:16.9 | I hope you're all staying safe and healthy. |
| 0:19.9 | Want to spend a few months or a lifetime on the red planet you're going to need a home |
| 0:24.4 | a garage a place for rockets to land and take off maybe a few roads sounds to me like you could use a |
| 0:31.5 | civil engineer and I've got just a guy for you. |
| 0:34.7 | Peter Corrato will tell us how will build that future. |
| 0:38.5 | Bill Nye is here too. He'll join me right after we get a few space headlines from the downlink. |
| 0:43.6 | A bacon asteroid and other absurdities are also ahead when we're joined by |
| 0:49.2 | Bruce Betts for What's Up. |
| 0:51.4 | You probably know by now that the Downlink has entered a new era. |
| 0:55.6 | Planetary Society editorial director Jason Davis has been joined by other colleagues to create |
| 1:01.1 | this weekly collection of news, fascinating facts, and updates about the |
| 1:05.8 | Planetary Society itself. |
| 1:08.2 | You'll always find the latest edition at planetary.org slash downlink, which is also where you'll find a link to get the free newsletter |
| 1:16.4 | version delivered to your inbox each week. |
| 1:19.8 | Here are those headlines I promise, beginning with one last mission heading to Mars this summer. |
| 1:25.0 | Europe and Russia's Exomars won't be ready for launch in time for the window that opens in July. |
| 1:31.0 | It will be two years before Earth and the Red Planet are again in the |
| 1:36.4 | right spots. NASA's 2020 Mars rover, now known as Perseverance, a Chinese mission |
| 1:42.4 | and one from the United Arab Emirates are all on track. |
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