Episode 109: Preparing for Perseverance

Guest: Eva Scheller On February 18, 2021, NASA's Perseverance rover will touch down on Mars. Eva Scheller, a planetary scientist at Caltech, previews the strange new terrain that Perseverance will explore and prepares us for some of the experiments that the robotic astrobiologist will perform. She also shares what it's like to grow up with Star Trek in her native Denmark and her new hypothesis for what happened to Mars's water. Eva's scientific paper on the geological context of Perseverance's landing site: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2019JE006190 Follow us on Twitter! Mike: https://twitter.com/Miquai Eva: https://twitter.com/EvaLScheller