Credit: IHMC

Credit: IHMC

 

Check out an up-close, podcast interview with Pascal Lee, co-founder and chairman of the Mars Institute, director of the NASA Haughton-Mars Project at NASA Ames Research Center, and senior planetary scientist at the SETI Institute.

This summer marks Lee’s twentieth summer field trip on Devon Island, the largest uninhabited earth with geological evidence similar to what Lee suspects would be found on Mars.

Extending human capabilities

This STEM-Talk discussion is offered by the Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC), a group that pioneers technologies aimed at leveraging and extending human capabilities.

Phobos encampment. Credit: NASA/Langley Research Center

Phobos encampment.
Credit: NASA/Langley Research Center

Lee talks about preparing for the exploration of Mars and its moons: Phobos & Deimos.

Lee is also noted for his Mars research in the upcoming National Geographic book – Mars: Our Future on the Red Planet — to be released October 25th.

Resources

To listen in on this special STEM-Talk interview with Lee, hosted by Dawn Kernagis (in 2016, Dawn was selected as one of six crew members to join NASA’s 21st undersea mission, NEEMO) and IHMC senior research scientist Tom Jones, a veteran NASA astronaut, go to:

https://www.ihmc.us/stemtalk/episode-17/

For more information on this soon-to-be-released volume, go to:

https://shop.nationalgeographic.com/product/books/books/new-books/mars

Also go to Amazon at:

http://www.amazon.com/Mars-Our-Future-Red-Planet/dp/1426217587/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1464284512&sr=8-1&keywords=leonard+david+mars

 

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