[Interview] NASA Wants to Make Mars Less Toxic with This Clever Idea
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Mars is full of toxic perchlorates that can be very harmful for future human missions. So, when people go to Mars, they will need to fix it. NASA has awarded a NIAC grant for a project that can help solving this problem. It's called Detoxifying Mars: the biocatalytic elimination of omnipresent perchlorates.

👉 More about the NIAC project: https://www.nasa.gov/general/detoxifying-mars/)

🟣 Guests: Dr. Lynn Rothschild, Dr. Garrett Roberts Kingman

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• 00:00 Intro

• 02:31 Perchlorates on Mars

• 10:48 The NIAC proposal

• 35:09 What's next

• 49:18 Current obsessions

• 53:35 Final thoughts

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