Extending humanity to other worlds in the Solar System is at the very limits of our modern technology. And unless there are dramatic discoveries in new propulsion systems or we learn how to build everything out of carbon nanotubes, the future of space exploration is going to require living off the land.
The technique is known as In-Situ Resource Utilization or ISRU, and it means supplying as much of your mission from local resources as possible.
And many of our future exploration destinations, like Mars, have a lot to work with. Let’s look at the raw materials on Mars that missions can use to live off the land and the techniques and technologies that will need to be developed to make this possible.
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did anyone else click the play button on the screenshot? #whoops
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This is awesome! Maybe you could get Neil Degrasse Tyson on the show sometime too, and bring on some research scientists.
Neil just needs to join Google+
Amy Mainzer!!! lol!
Professor Stephen Hawking has reached another milestone, his 70th birthday occurs at this time. To mark the event an exciting line-up of speakers will be making presentations at a symposium in Cambridge, U.K. The conference is being streamed live 2-4pm GMT on Sunday the 8th next. You can obtain details by clicking here:
http://www.ctc.cam.ac.uk/hawking70/multimedia.html
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After MONTHS of friends of mine clawing and scratching to get me to join G+, this SINGLE entity had me clamor to create a profile! Kudos UT!! I’m there!