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so we will be able to do wide

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shoulder and all that kind of stuff now

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we can't get the data back the way he

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zealand because mars is unfortunately

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rather far away but we will get pieces

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and he will make mars the movie in 3d

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as part of his job to bring mars to you

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and the other reason for that imaging

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system is by having that wide field of

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view we can better plan where we want to

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go mer is like looking like this

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and hoping once a day to get a picture

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back we plan this will look at the room

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the way we see it and we can dial in 10x

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so i could look back and see what the

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camera guy back there is doing make sure

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he's not making fun of me it's okay and

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check it out we can do that with this

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vehicle so msl is our first mission to

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search for the building blocks of life

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sometime in the next 10 or 15 years the

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next part of the legacy of getting to

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mars will happen before we send you to

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mars most engineers and scientists

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believe we have to go to mars and bring

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back a piece of mars to earth

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intentionally the right piece safely

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that it will be the most complicated

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robotic mission ever done by women and

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seriously it's tougher than hubble and

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this is what it might look like the mars

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sample return mission is a favored

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mission in the planning for what we do

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to planets robots for the next 15 years

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we will land a vehicle that will descend

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to mars in a place where we think the

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materials the rocks will tell us things

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about whether mars was ever alive

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it will land using a sky crane on a big

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lander the lander in this case will

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carry a small vehicle to sample the

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rocks and then uh basically a cruise

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missile like rocket to blast the samples

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back out of the mars atmosphere

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forty percent the gravity of the earth

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incredible mission you can see

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is a solar-powered mission we hope to

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save some money a little fetch rover to

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go get the thing and then the rocket to

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bring the thing back

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this will be an amazing mission we have

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this is an artist rendering of what we

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hope it will look like

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you guys will see the results of that

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class of mission now someday and i can't

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vouch for the day someday the first

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human mission to mars will occur whether

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it looks like this international mission

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here coming in on this kind of vehicle i

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design it for you today you guys can

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have to design it but our president said

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on april 15th mars is the goal

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and while these guys look a little

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unhappy and they're landing um i think

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time as people of planet earth i think

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you'd be rather excited because it's a

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gilligan's island if you get to mars

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of women and men wandering around the

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surface but needless to say getting

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people there will increase the pace of

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how fast we learn about living off

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planet and going to other worlds beyond

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anything i can tell you about seriously

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but i thought i'd finish in my last two

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minutes if you give me one more second

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to show you what it might be like

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if you or i were to go to mars so mars

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is rising this was a program on

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discovery channel and other channels as

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bring mars on earth to you

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this is the newest land on earth the

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island of cersei off the coast of

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iceland formed in the 60s from volcanic

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make new land here's what it looks like

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coming in we actually had a cameraman

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hanging out the window of the helicopter

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not the safest thing um here's gullies

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that formed in the rocks that formed

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gullies just like we see on mars this is

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what they would look like so imagine

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space suit where you don't want to fall

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lot of time you got to do a lot of work

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kind of gullies we might find on mars

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every one of these layers where you see

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bomb sags and all kinds of volcanic

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you see even here there's me

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showing the signs of life yeah i know

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you're laughing it was actually a warm

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day this is what we hope to find this

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little zone this steam vent with this

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green smudgy stuff

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astrobiologists think life could have

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crusty things here are actually colonial

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in one little area a microcosm in other

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places in iceland which are amazingly

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accessible as a place to think about

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mars on earth you can wander right up to

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a place where the geothermal energy that

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000 kilometers of mid-ocean ridges comes

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places that would be roped off with

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chains and guns and other places walked

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hot springs we find in places like

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some scientists believe life could get

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its cradle it's warm it's wet it's full

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of energy it's full of nutrients there

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finger going over it

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all of these are interesting minerals

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that on mars today from orbit so if that

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then what's it like when you go up close

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they're harder to get to but msl has the

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tools and there i am sampling a big

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colony of cyanobacteria my name on my

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this is billions of single-celled

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organisms growing in a slime across a

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in the azores and other places so let me

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with a little bit of art history

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moon from her house in taos new mexico

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skulls of cows dying in the desert she

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formation of nasa very interesting she

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organization you guys are all young a

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her vision for that painting a ladder to

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the moon by people was resolved within a

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decade within a decade americans flew in

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apollo 8 and within another year we

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landed on the surface of another world

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no human being has been back since

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so we she left a legacy in art and the

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question to you all to think about

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as many of you

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embrace your careers and your interests

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over the next 30 or 40 years where do

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you want to go where do you want your

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generation to take the people of planet

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earth lots of places to go

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the legacy in space is an interesting

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thing we live in space our planet is

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pummeled by cosmic collisions by the

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effect of the sun

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by how our planet was even potentially

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seated with the building blocks of life

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we don't know the answers but there will

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be a new ladder by some new artists and

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group of engineers and scientists like

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you that will take us somewhere there's

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the moon seen at

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half phase from new mexico in 1958 a

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long time ago what will be next our

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president on april 15 said that's your

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goal it's a hard goal it's a worthy goal

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the first nation or group of nations

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that get there will have boldly changed

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the way technology's done and i don't

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know how you'll go but if you choose to

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go i promise you because i've studied

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mars my full life japan i promise you

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you will find something literally earth

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shattering so

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it's a big solar system we started with

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our own planet and looked at a lot of

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these worlds enigmatic venus tempting

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mars our own world a lot to learn but i

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think now is the time in this time of

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scientific revolutions on these worlds

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to think about where you're going to go

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so the science is ready i hope you're