Welcome to Mars
Houston We Have a Podcast
Katie Konans
4.7 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Houston, we have a podcast. |
| 0:01.8 | Welcome to the official podcast of the NASA Johnson Space Center, |
| 0:04.9 | episode 177. |
| 0:06.7 | Welcome to Mars. |
| 0:08.5 | I'm Gary Jordan, and I'll be your host today. |
| 0:10.4 | On this podcast, we bring in the experts, scientists, engineers, astronauts all to let you know what's going on in the world of human spaceflight. |
| 0:17.0 | We continue our Mars monthly series on first Fridays. |
| 0:21.0 | Last month we chatted with Doug Trent and Alicia Dwyer Sienciolo to discuss |
| 0:27.2 | landing on the Red Planet. Just before that, we had a trio of scientists to discuss living on |
| 0:32.4 | Mars from the human perspective. |
| 0:34.4 | We were able to chat in depth about the challenges of landing and living on Mars |
| 0:39.2 | because Mars itself is well a challenging place to land and to live. So this episode is all |
| 0:45.8 | about Mars. What is it about Mars that makes a human mission so challenging? So on |
| 0:51.1 | this episode we're exploring the geology, the weather, the atmospheric pressure, the environment that humans can be expected to live in for a human mission to Mars. |
| 1:01.0 | Joining us to discuss the planetary science of Mars is Dr. Paul Niles, planetary geologist and analytical |
| 1:07.1 | geochemist based at NASA Johnson Space Center. |
| 1:10.6 | You want to know all about Mars? |
| 1:12.0 | This is your guy. |
| 1:13.0 | So let's get right into it. What you need to know about the red planet on your next visit |
| 1:17.0 | with Dr. Paul Niles. |
| 1:19.0 | Enjoy. B |
| 1:24.4 | B minus 5 seconds to |
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