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11 – Mad About Manganese (feat. Nina Lanza)
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Length:
36 minutes
Released:
Aug 23, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
The Mars Curiosity Rover has an impressive suite of instruments, but none incite as much excitement as ChemCam, a laser/camera combo that vaporizes rocks and analyzes their components. ChemCam is firing more than it ever has before, and Nina Lanza, a staff scientist on its team, is helping make some pretty remarkable discoveries with it. On this episode, Nina tells us about a high concentration of manganese recently uncovered that tells us a lot about Mars’ past, and suggests that it might have been complete with a lot more oxygen than we initially thought.
Links
Press Release for Nina Lanza’s paper
Nina’s Twitter Account
ChemCam’s website
Video showing ChemCam in action
Curiosity’s website
Los Alamos National Lab
WeMartians Theme Song is “RetroFuture” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Links
Press Release for Nina Lanza’s paper
Nina’s Twitter Account
ChemCam’s website
Video showing ChemCam in action
Curiosity’s website
Los Alamos National Lab
WeMartians Theme Song is “RetroFuture” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Released:
Aug 23, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode
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