Spotlight on SETI ep 3: Pascal Lee

Big Picture Science

Science, Technology

4.6 • 986 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

How do we know where to look for life on other planets? SETI scientists use analog sites on Earth, not only to study how life has evolved here, but the geological conditions that made it possible. Devon Island in Canada is one such analog. It's been called Mars on Earth. In this third episode, Gary Niederhoff talks with planetary scientist Pascal Lee, co-founder of The Mars Institute, and principal investigator of the Haughton-Mars Project at NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California. They discuss how a remote arctic island offers clues about how liquid water once flowed on Mars, why the moons of the Red Planet are so mysterious, and Pascal’s discovery of a heretofore unrecognized Martian volcano in 2024. Music by Jun Miyake You can support the work of Big Picture Science by joining us on Patreon. Thanks for your support! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:57.0	Welcome to Spotlight on SETI, produced by Big Picture Science.
1:08.0	I'm Gary Niederhoff.
1:09.0	In this series, we explore the work of the
1:11.3	SETI Institute in celebration of its 40th anniversary through interviews with SETI scientists
1:16.6	and staff. Today's guest may not have ever been to Mars, but he has been to Mars on Earth.
1:21.6	I'm Pascal Lee. I'm a planetary scientist, and I work at the SETI Institute. We're also direct the Help Mars Project, which is a planetary analog field research project in the Arctic.
1:35.3	Pascal starts by explaining how he and his team decided that the remote Arctic landscape of Devon Island
1:40.3	appealed to them as a Mars Earth analog.
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