NASA Wants to Make Mars Less Toxic with this Clever Idea

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.

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

👉 More about the NIAC project:
https://www.nasa.gov/general/detoxify...

💊 Lynn's other NIAC project interview, On-Demand Pharmacy for Space Missions:
   • On-Demand Pharmacy for Space Missions [NIA...  


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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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