[FPSPACE] FW: [lunar-update] EXPEDITION WEEK: Mars: Making the New Earth - Thursday, November 19 at 9PM ET/PT

Mon Nov 2 22:00:59 EST 2009


 
> Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 15:05:36 -0800
> From: larry.kellogg at gmail.com
> To: lunar-update at news.altair.com
> Subject: [lunar-update] EXPEDITION WEEK: Mars: Making the New Earth - Thursday, November 19 at 9PM ET/PT
> 
> EXPEDITION WEEK: Mars: Making the New Earth - Thursday, November 19 at 9PM ET/PT
> 
> Corrie Oberdin - Social Media & Digital PR Consultant, sent me a note
> about some upcoming shows on the National Geographic Channel.
> 
> One of them has to do with making the environment on Mars more
> habitable should we ever get around to going there.
> While I was at NASA Ames I attended one of the work shops that talked
> about terraforming Mars.
> It might be interesting to see what Dr. Chris McKay has to say about
> the subject.
> - LRK -
> 
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> http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/expedition-week/4588/Overview
> 
> The notion of bringing Mars to life -- transforming a cold, dry,
> uninhabitable desert into a living planet -- called terraforming, has
> been around for almost a century. Initially just a science fiction
> concept, it has become a subject of serious scientific investigation.
> NASA astrobiologist Dr. Chris McKay has spent 30 years researching
> extreme environments to understand the potential of such planetary
> engineering. On the surface, the red planet's freeze-dried world of
> rocks, ice and dust looks like an unlikely place to plant a garden.
> But rocks and minerals found by the Mars rovers show it must once have
> had warmer, habitable living conditions. Now, using photorealistic
> CGI visualizations, we'll make a science fiction dream of Mars -- a
> world of trees, rivers and blue skies -- a plausible future, bringing
> it to life after three and a half billion years in a deep freeze.
> snip
> 
> http://channel.nationalgeographic.com/series/expedition-week/4588/Videos/07257_00#tab-Videos/07257_00
> Video "Preview: Mars: Making the New Earth" - An 18,500 foot volcano
> in Mexico is a living laboratory for NASA scientist Chris McKay as he
> investigates how to transform Mars from a cold, dead planet into a
> living world like planet Earth.
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> 
> A bit about Dr. McKay.
> - LRK -
> 
> -------------------------------------------
> http://spacescience.arc.nasa.gov/people/mckay/
> Principal Scientific Interests and Brief Background:
> 
> Dr. Christopher P. McKay, Planetary Scientist with the Space Science
> Division of NASA Ames. Chris received his Ph.D. in AstroGeophysics
> from the University of Colorado in 1982 and has been a research
> scientist with the NASA Ames Research Center since that time. His
> current research focuses on the evolution of the solar system and the
> origin of life. He is also actively involved in planning for future
> Mars missions including human exploration. Chris been involved in
> research in Mars-like environments on Earth, traveling to the
> Antarctic dry valleys, Siberia, the Canadian Arctic, and the Atacama
> desert to study life in these Mars-like environments. His was a co-I
> on the Titan Huygen's probe in 2005, the Mars Phoenix lander misson
> for 2007, and the Mars Science Lander mission for 2009.
> snip
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> 
> Dr. McKay on YouTube.
> Hmmm, I remember him with a beard, clean shaved here.
> - LRK -
> 
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> Tiny URL for some YouTube clips found with Google search for
> Dr. Chris McKay NASA Ames
> http://tinyurl.com/yc654sc
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> 
> Thanks for looking up with me.
> 
> Larry Kellogg
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming_of_Mars
> 
> The terraforming of Mars is the hypothetical process by which the
> climate, surface, and known properties of Mars would be deliberately
> changed with the goal of making it habitable by humans and other
> terrestrial life, thus providing the possibility of safe and
> sustainable colonization of large areas of the planet.
> Based on experiences with Earth, the environment of a planet can be
> altered deliberately; however, the feasibility of creating an
> unconstrained planetary biosphere is undetermined. Several of the
> methods described below may fall within humanity's current
> technological capabilities, but at present the economic resources
> required to execute such methods are far beyond that which any
> government or society is willing to allocate.
> 
> snip
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_trilogy
> 
> The Mars trilogy is a series of award-winning science fiction novels
> by Kim Stanley Robinson that chronicle the settlement and terraforming
> of the planet Mars through the intensely personal and detailed
> viewpoints of a wide variety of characters spanning almost two
> centuries. Ultimately, more utopian than dystopian, the story focuses
> on egalitarian, sociological, and scientific advances made on Mars,
> while Earth suffers from overpopulation and ecological disaster.
> The three novels are Red Mars (1992), Green Mars (1993), and Blue Mars
> (1996). An additional collection of short stories and background
> information was published as The Martians (1999). The main trilogy won
> a number of prestigious awards.
> 
> snip
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> http://www.astrobiology.com/terraforming.html
> The Astrobiology Web: Your Online Guide to the Living Universe TM
> Terraforming
> [Some links broken but enough to give you some information. - LRK -]
> 
> http://www.astrobiology.com/
> http://www.astrobiology.net/
> snip
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> WHAT THE MIND CAN CONCEIVE, AND BELIEVE, IT WILL ACHIEVE - LRK
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