The Explorers Club - An Interview with Nina Lanza

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🗓️ 10 June 2022

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Today for our Explorers Club series, we are about to be hit by a meteorite of space knowledge as we have a wildly accomplished scientist and researcher entering our atmosphere, Dr. Nina Lanza. She is the Team Lead for Space and Planetary Exploration in Space and Remote Sensing at Los Alamos National Laboratory. She is also the Principle Investigator of the ChemCam instrument on the Mars Curiosity Rover (sadly not sponsored by us) and a team member for the SuperCam instrument on the Mars Perseverance rover. She’s an expert on Mars and does a lot of research on meteorites and minerals that can tell us about the interactions between rocks, soil, atmosphere, and water on the planet.

Nina Lanza Interview from 4/23/22
Dr. Nina Lanza - About Nina
- https://www.ninalanza.com/about-nina/
NASA's Curiosity Rover Measures Intriguing Carbon Signature on Mars
- https://mars.nasa.gov/news/9113/nasas-curiosity-rover-measures-intriguing-carbon-signature-on-mars/?site=msl
2020 Mission Perseverance Rover - SuperCam
- https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/instruments/supercam/
Mount Sinai - Manganese
- https://www.mountsinai.org/health-library/supplement/manganese#:~:text=Manganese%20is%20a%20trace%20mineral,clotting%20factors%2C%20and%20sex%20hormones.

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0:00.0	Hey Nate, have you ever held a meteorite?
0:02.0	Well, I've been able to hold pieces of one.
0:04.0	In fact, I made a knife out of a piece of meteorite.
0:07.0	That is awesome.
0:08.0	Well, today we have an incredible guest whose research explores how meteorites give us a wealth of information about space and particularly
0:14.8	for our guest about Mars.
0:16.8	But not all meteorites are from Mars, right?
0:19.0	So how does that work?
0:20.0	How do you even find them?
0:21.0	I've got so many questions.
0:23.0	How about I let our guest explain?
0:24.7	The reason that meteorites are so important
0:26.8	is because it's like we get to sample the solar
0:29.7	system without leaving home.
0:31.5	We're just sitting here and all these different
0:33.7	pieces of different worlds are just landing here waiting for us to pick them up.
0:38.0	So it's like the world's cheapest planetary science mission, right? You know, I was lucky enough to spend a season in Antarctica
0:45.2	as part of the Antarctic Search for Meteorites Project,
0:47.8	or Ansmet.
0:48.6	And this is a project that's been going for,
0:51.1	I think it's something like 44 years. it's actually slightly older than I am,
0:55.3	and people have gone to the Antarctic to recover meteorites.
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