Name: Will We Survive Mars? - Glad You Asked S1
Uploaded: 2020-09-18T18:05:04.000Z
Duration: 22 min 48 s
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is one of the most Martian places on Earth.

We're stuck here  because I had a question.

We've been dreaming about Mars for hundreds of years.

The word was mistranslated into English as "canals,"

implying deliberate construction and flowing water.

Other scientists published their own maps,

People were skeptical, but they sort of wanted it to be true.

And I just love this headline in the New York Times.

This article includes a bit of reasoning.

depict a Mars that's  not just habitable,

A couple of guys get to Mars  and, oh, surprise--

We got a spot like this three miles from my hometown.

This isn't so different  than sci-fi today.

there was still this  sense of possibility.

that Mars wasn't going to be the second home

But we never stopped obsessing about life on Mars.

That YouTube clip, David Bowie's music video for "Life On Mars,"

and wondering about life surviving there.

So let me show you what we actually now know about Mars.

We're about to head out into that desert,

because we're accompanying astrobiologist Kennda Lynch

which are microbial life that live in, well,

- Uh-oh. - Yeah, we're going to   have to stop.

Cleo: Since we're stuck, I'm going to tell you

This place is one of the closest analogs that we have

to the type of environment that Mars used to have.

Mars still had an abundance of groundwater that stayed liquid,

in the deep subsurface today-- very, very deep.

So this is a good model for us to understand

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Will We Survive Mars? - Glad You Asked S1

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