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Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

Earth Microbes! Welcome to Mars

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

The Planetary Society

Science, Technology

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2017

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

University of Arkansas grad student Rebecca Mickol and her team have demonstrated that some Earth bacteria can survive in the extremely thin atmosphere of Mars. Could Martian bacteria thrive under the same conditions?Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey podcast listeners got a special programming note for you on the evening of

0:05.9

Thursday February 16th we're gonna do another planetary radio live it's been a while

0:11.7

we're going back to KPCC, Southern California Public Radio to talk

0:16.5

about Neos, near-Earth objects. And we're going to have a fantastic time with a great panel, Paul Chotis, who runs the NASA Center for

0:25.7

Neo Studies at JPL. Paul's colleague Amy Meinzer, senior research scientist there, head of the

0:31.7

Neo Wise Mission.

0:33.6

Linley Johnson is going to join us from NASA Headquarters.

0:37.0

He's the NASA Planetary Defense Officer,

0:40.1

and a guy named Bruce Betts will also be on stage.

0:43.4

If you can't join us in person at KPCC,

0:45.6

and I think, at least as I speak,

0:48.0

there are a few free tickets left for this Thursday,

0:52.4

February 16, 7.30 PM show. Anyway, if you can't join us in person,

0:57.0

there will be a live webcast. Now, I'll turn it into a planetary radio episode very soon after, maybe the following week,

1:06.0

but if you want to see us on stage, you can tune in, you can watch the live stream.

1:11.2

Easiest way to get there is go to

1:13.4

sCPR dot o'r g and just look for events and will be listed right there.

1:21.0

All right hope you can join us one way or another.

1:23.0

It's going to be a lot of fun as we talk about Armageddon.

1:27.0

Thanks for listening.

1:28.0

Here's this week's show.

1:30.0

Microbes of Earth.

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