On Episode 129 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik speak with Dr. Pascal Lee about his Mars Simulation Base within the Arctic.
Devon Island, a polar desert within the Excessive Arctic, is likely one of the most convincing Mars analogs on Earth. That is why Pascal Lee constructed his NASA-affiliated analysis base there.
On this episode he returns to debate his summer season area work, Martian volcanoes, and to debate attainable options to NASA’s plans for the Artemis lunar base.There’s quite a bit to know, and he brings deep ardour—and a few controversy—to the dialog!
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About This Week In Area
This Week in Space covers the brand new area age. Each Friday we take a deep dive into an interesting matter. What’s taking place with the brand new race to the moon and different planets? When will SpaceX actually ship folks to Mars?
Be part of Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik from Area.com as they deal with these questions and extra every week on Friday afternoons. You’ll be able to subscribe immediately in your favourite podcatcher.
Rod Pyle is an writer, journalist, tv producer and Editor-in-Chief of Ad Astra magazine. He has written 18 books on area historical past, exploration, and improvement, together with Area 2.0, Innovation the NASA Means, Interplanetary Robots, Blueprint for a Battlestar, Wonderful Tales of the Area Age, First On the Moon, and Vacation spot Mars
In a earlier life, Rod produced quite a few documentaries and brief movies for The Historical past Channel, Discovery Communications, and Disney. He additionally labored in visible results on Star Trek: Deep Area 9 and the Battlestar Galactica reboot, in addition to numerous sci-fi TV pilots. His most up-to-date TV credit score was with the NatGeo documentary on Tom Wolfe’s iconic e-book The Proper Stuff.
Accountable for Area.com’s editorial imaginative and prescient, Tariq Malik has been the Editor-in-Chief of Area.com since 2019 and has lined area information and science for 18 years. He joined the Area.com crew in 2001, first as an intern and shortly after as a full-time spaceflight reporter protecting human spaceflight, exploration, astronomy and the evening sky. He turned Area.com’s managing editor in 2009. As on-air expertise has introduced area tales on CNN, Fox Information, NPR and others.
Tariq is an Eagle Scout (sure, he earned the Area Exploration advantage badge), a Area Camp veteran (4 instances as a child, as soon as as an grownup), and has taken the last word “vomit comet” journey whereas reporting on zero-gravity fires. Earlier than becoming a member of Area.com, he served as a workers reporter for The Los Angeles Occasions protecting metropolis and training beats. He has journalism levels from the College of Southern California and New York College.
