Rafael Navarro-Gonzalez and Chris McKay Say the Vikings Probably DID Discover Organics on Mars
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
The Planetary Society
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🗓️ 24 January 2011
⏱️ 29 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Flash, organics found on Mars 35 years ago. That's this week on planetary radio. |
| 0:17.0 | Welcome to Public Radio's travel show that takes you to the final frontier. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Matt Kaplan of the Planetary Society. |
| 0:23.4 | The paper in the December issue of the Journal of Geophysical Research ended with this line. |
| 0:29.2 | Considering that the Viking Landers did detect the presence of organics in the soil, we suggest that an |
| 0:35.7 | in situ life detection mission to Mars is essential in the near future. We'll talk with the lead author of that paper, Raphael Navarro-Gonzales, and co-author Chris |
| 0:46.7 | McKay about their team's rewrite of the first attempt to find life on the Red Planet |
| 0:51.8 | three and a half decades ago. |
| 0:53.7 | Emily Lachowala is also studying Mars this week. |
| 0:56.7 | She'll explain how a venerable camera circling that planet |
| 1:00.2 | captures beautiful images, including a new one of Mars's moon Fobos. |
| 1:05.0 | Bruce Betts has his head up in the stars again. |
| 1:08.0 | He'll take us on a guided tour of the night sky and send a new space trivia contest our way. |
| 1:13.5 | Somewhere above the earth a sail is circling. |
| 1:16.7 | On Thursday night January 20, NASA's nanosail D |
| 1:20.8 | unfurled its 100 square meters of shiny ultra-thin polymer. |
| 1:25.4 | Here's what Hank Hamouin of the Netherlands heard when he tuned into the |
| 1:29.8 | nanosail radio beacon on his amateur radio receiver. |
| 1:33.6 | Enk was lucky to find the nanosail signal. |
| 1:46.0 | The experimental probe has no solar cells and its batteries are now dead. |
| 1:51.0 | While not really a solar sail and with no means of changing its course, |
| 1:55.8 | Nannosail D has still demonstrated that a fairly large sail can be deployed from a very |
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