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: 💊 Lynn’s other NIAC project interview, On-Demand Pharmacy for Space Missions: 🦄 Support us on Patreon: 📚 Suggest books in the 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 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 70,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe for Free: 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: Astronomy Cast: 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Mastodon: @fcain Twitter: Twitter: Facebook: Instagram: 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@ ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) You are free to use my work for any purpose you like, just mention me as the source and link back to this video.