[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. šŸ‘‰ More about the NIAC project: https://www.nasa.gov/general/detoxifying-mars/ šŸŸ£ Guests: Dr. Lynn Rothschild, Dr. Garrett Roberts Kingman šŸ¦„ Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday šŸ“š Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 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 šŸ“ŗ VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/GitfDWpm6UU šŸ“° EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter šŸŽ§ PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ šŸ¤³ OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday šŸ“© CONTACT FRASER [email protected] āš–ļø LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)Support Universe Today Podcast