Humans orbiting Mars, this week on planetary radio.

Welcome to the Travel Show that takes you to the Final Frontier.

I'm at Kaplan to the Final Frontier.

I'm at Kaplan of the Planetary Society.

We can do this thing, and it can be done by 2033 without an increase in the NASA budget.

Three leaders of the Humans

orbiting Mars Workshop will tell us why and how their just

release report backs this conclusion. Bill 9, Bruce Bats,

are also coming up, but the big news from Mars this week came in a

NASA press conference just hours before I spoke to our senior editor and planetary evangelist

Emily Loch Duwala.

Emily, little did we know when we had a... planetary Evangelist Emily Loch Duwala.

Emily, little did we know when we had a curiosity update on last week's show that we would

have very good reason to talk about Mars once again.

Tell us what happened, what was announced during the

press conference just this morning. NASA discovered water on Mars again. Once

again. Once again. But no this one is is cool and you know we mock the fact that NASA keeps discovering water on Mars, but the reason that they keep discovering water on Mars is because water is central to most of our investigations of the planet.

We're interested in questions of, is there or was there ever life on Mars?

And we believe that water and a habitable environment

are necessary for that kind of life.

So that's exactly, that's the focus of all

our research so it's natural that we keep talking about water on Mars so to get to

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