Levity Salon 08: A New Era of Mars Exploration with Dr Bruce Damer and Alex Longo
Channel: Dr. Bruce Damer
Date: 2020-08-01

Join Dr. Bruce Damer and special guest Alex Longo for this presentation and discussion hosted on Tuesday July 28th at 7pm PDT. They presented a fresh and exciting update on the upcoming missions of exploration to Mars, with NASA’s Mars2020-Perseverance launching that very week and the Chinese and the UAE’s missions already en route to the Red Planet. Damer and Longo served on one of the finalist landing site teams for Mars2020 making the case to NASA that their next life-detection rover should seek out old hot springs, where life could start on Mars and where its “last outpost” of detectable presence at the surface might have been. Lastly Dr. Bruce's work on the SHEPHERD asteroid capture & extraction concept was presented. This innovation could provide a future sustainable way to go to Mars with repeatable human exploration. Take a look at Humanity’s growing understanding and relationship with the only other Earthlike planet in the solar system where life could have arisen.