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about the consequences or life at home,
My husband, my cat,
my mom and dad...
My cat,
That'd be hard,
I think he'd say, "Go for it," I really do,
'Cause I think all of us, we're all human
and we all have that exploration bug,
and if somebody that we love
has the opportunity to go out there
and represent humanity and explore,
I think he'd push me and go for it,
When you've been on the "Keldysh" for almost a month,
it's very easy to pretend
that you're on your way to Mars.
You're far away
from everything you know,
in a small environment
with the same crew,
who are there for the same
professional interests that you are.
They're there to explore,
they're there to do science.
The Russians are very resourceful.
They were showing us
some of their sampling tools,
and they have a tool that can sample
just about anything you'd want to sample.
Some of the things are really clever.
Or as simple as the Nikolai pot,
which is basically a pot
we stole from the cook, Nikolai.
It's something that
I just love getting to be a part of.
You know, we get to be in their culture,
and look at how they do engineering
and how they do operations.
It's an incredible environment
to be working in.
I love it because of
the way it brings people together.
Victor,
Obed?
Your... Your lunch?
- Yeah,
- Yes, that's right,
Yeah? Yay!
This expedition
captured a lot of that spirit.
OK, all right,
The idea of doing something
that was really difficult,
and how people can come together
to make something like that happen.
Poyehaly.
The way they communicate
with each other.
No, forward,
Victor's been practicing,
Vitka, khorosho, khorosho.
One of the things
is the way that
you integrate play and work.
Vosem-pyaty.
I mean,
I've studied Russian in college,
because I always wanted to work
with the Russian space program.
And the "Keldysh" is a great analog for,
you know, a space launch complex.
And I understood what
all the astronauts are always saying,
when they say that the technicians
and the engineers on the pad
are the real heroes,
making sure that you're gonna be safe.
This expedition
captured a lot of that spirit.
Engines start.
While we were out at sea,
two incredible explorers
were already on their way to Mars.
"Spirit" got there first, blazing into the thin
Martian atmosphere at over 12,000mph.
"Opportunity" arrived
a few weeks later.
Landing for both
was a nerve-racking affair.
Current altitude approximately 25,000 feet.
Awaiting confirmation.
We're moving at a speed of 173 miles per
hour. We are near our terminal velocity.
Cleaner separation of end
has been detected.
No signal at the moment.
Deep-space network tracking stations at
Canberra searching for primary signal.
We're on Mars, everybody.
Equipped with
high-resolution stereoscopic cameras,
and a Swiss army knife's
worth of geological
and chemical science instruments,
the mission of
the Mars Exploration Rovers was clear:
Find evidence of water in Mars' past,
when conditions
may have been more favorable to life.
You can learn a lot from a rock,
if you know how to ask.
And you know where to look.
Of the two rovers,
"Opportunity" really hit the jackpot.
The ancient bedrock
was absolutely loaded with hematite,
an iron-bearing mineral that usually
forms from interaction with liquid water.
Then scientists detected jarosite,
a mineral that suggests the rocks may
have been soaked in acid ground water,
or in a hot springs environment,
like Yellowstone National Park.
Other clues included
empty cavities inside rocks,
where salt crystals
may have dissolved away,
and rippled sediment patterns,
hinting at the presence of free-flowing
water over thousands of years.
And then there were the "blueberries."
Tiny spheres of hematite,
eroded out of the rocks
and spilled out all over the surface.
On Earth, spheres like this form
in the presence of water over time.
Both "Spirit" and "Opportunity" helped
confirm where the water was on Mars,
but they were not equipped
to tell us where the water is now.
That job fell to
the Mars Odyssey Orbiter,
which detected what is believed
to be massive quantities of water ice,
just a few feet below the surface, with
the highest concentrations at the poles.
In 2008, "Phoenix" will rise
from the ashes of the Mars Polar Lander,
and, using many of that
failed mission's spare parts,
will land near the Martian north pole.
And, for the first time ever,
a Martian probe will do more
than scratch the surface.
"Phoenix" will dig deep
into the permafrost
and sample Martian water
for the very first time.
Everything we learn about Mars
makes the story more exciting.
There's evidence of past water,
there's evidence of past volcanism,
All the ingredients for life are there.
That's why we keep searching.
Of course, that's not the only way
we're searching for life in the universe.
- Look at this, he's computer coordinated,
- I know,
It says, "SETI Institute"
on your shirt and on your laptop,
- It's a little over the top,
- That's impressive,
- You're putting the message out there,
- Well, you know, they gave it to me,
One of the groups
I'm affiliated with
is the Search for Extraterrestrial
Intelligence Institute.
And what the SETI Institute does
is try to detect intelligent signals
from distant civilizations
around another star.
To do this, Frank Drake,
one of the founders of the SETI Institute,
wrote down just a set of factors
known as the Drake Equation.
And it includes factors such as the fraction
of stars around which planets form,
the fraction of habitable planets
on which life emerges,
and the fraction of life
that then evolves to intelligence,
and eventually to becoming
tool-using civilizations
that can communicate with
other civilizations in the galaxy.
The last factor is the lifetime of the
intelligent communicating civilization.
At the same time
that we develop the technology
to communicate
with beings on a distant planet,
we also develop the technology
to annihilate ourselves.
And if that's standard
for intelligent civilizations in the galaxy,
we're not going to have much luck
searching for life elsewhere.
Let's say that my
kind of modified Drake's Equation
says that life was possible on any planet,
any distance from a sun,
or not even anywhere near a sun,
or any planetarylike body,
like a moon of Jupiter or whatever,
that had ice around it, OK?
And had some kind of tidal pumping
from some other gravity source near it,
so that it had a liquid core
and it was generating heat,
and it was making heat like these
hydrothermal vents that we're seeing,
If we said there were maybe ten or twenty
or fifty times as many worlds like that,
isn't it logical to assume that when we get
a call from one of your buddies out there,
when SETI Institute
finally picks up a signal,
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