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Duolingo Spanish Podcast

De México a Marte (From Mexico to Mars)

Duolingo Spanish Podcast

Duolingo

Education

4.514.9K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2019

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Ever since she was a little girl, Carmen Félix knew she wanted to work on something related to space. So she defied cultural expectations, became one of the first Mexican scientists to work for NASA, and helped create and participate in some of the first simulations of missions to Mars.

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0:00.0

At the door of the habitat,

0:02.2

Garmin Phelix puts on her red-space suit.

0:05.8

She adjusts her giant helmet

0:08.4

and moves through the pressurization room.

0:11.2

Astronauts go through every time they have to go outside.

0:18.3

Clearly, Garmin is not in Mexico anymore.

0:30.0

In an experiment,

0:31.9

I had to try the autonomy of a robot

0:36.2

in a Martian environment.

0:38.8

My mission was to determine

0:41.8

how far the robot could reach

0:45.3

and see if it could extract samples from the surface.

0:51.4

Muestras are samples.

0:54.0

Outside, it's nothing but sand and a few hills

0:57.9

for as far as the eye can see.

1:00.2

This place has all the characteristics necessary

1:02.9

for life on the planet Mars or Marthe.

1:07.0

Almost.

1:08.4

Because while it might look a lot like the red planet,

1:11.4

this is actually a red desert in Utah.

1:27.8

I had to run through all the models

1:32.8

to be a specialist in space exploration

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