1 00:00:03,040 --> 00:00:14,000 hi I'm Jim Green better known as Lunak and this is ask NASA 2 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:22,630 are we ready for the first question let's see I'm getting a sense of it yes we're going to the 3 00:00:22,630 --> 00:00:27,009 moon and we're doing it for many important reasons is because we want to 4 00:00:27,009 --> 00:00:31,930 practice on going to Mars things that we want to do is to learn to 5 00:00:31,930 --> 00:00:40,630 live and work on a planetary surface of course it's got to be about the water 6 00:00:40,630 --> 00:00:45,190 how are we gonna use it we're gonna drink it that's the first thing the 7 00:00:45,190 --> 00:00:50,829 second thing is we can take those two elements apart and use them for rocket 8 00:00:50,829 --> 00:00:57,130 fuel or we can just simply use the oxygen to breathe we want to be able to 9 00:00:57,140 --> 00:01:04,299 look at this water tease it out through cores and understand the water history 10 00:01:04,320 --> 00:01:08,800 of the moon just that will be fantastic 11 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:16,800 ah yes the South Pole it's fascinating 12 00:01:16,800 --> 00:01:24,060 let's see what it looks like here's some LRO data and it shows us all the areas 13 00:01:24,070 --> 00:01:29,500 that have sunlight and all those areas that never receive any sunlight these 14 00:01:29,500 --> 00:01:34,510 are the areas that have the water what equipment are we going to take to the 15 00:01:34,510 --> 00:01:38,770 mound well this is going to be done with the commercial groups that are planning 16 00:01:38,770 --> 00:01:43,180 to have Landers and Rovers and we're gonna ride along we're gonna take 17 00:01:43,180 --> 00:01:48,770 scientific instruments with us and tease out the impact history of the Moon 18 00:01:48,770 --> 00:01:54,000 that will tell us how the earth and the moon evolved together 19 00:01:56,869 --> 00:02:03,829 let's find out what else is going on at Mars ah yes marnik knows the answer to 20 00:02:03,829 --> 00:02:09,280 that and it's right here this is one of our fantastic Rovers it's called 21 00:02:09,280 --> 00:02:15,140 curiosity and it's currently roving on Mars today we need to know what that is 22 00:02:15,140 --> 00:02:22,099 because it will tell us if Mars is like earth all right back it to me why is 23 00:02:22,099 --> 00:02:28,370 Mars red Mars is red because it's been oxidized that means it has material on 24 00:02:28,370 --> 00:02:32,870 the surface that grabs that oxygen and turns it red 25 00:02:32,870 --> 00:02:37,730 how are the Moon and Mars similar well that's our plan we're gonna go to both 26 00:02:37,730 --> 00:02:41,630 how are the moon of Mars different well one's bigger than the other 27 00:02:41,630 --> 00:02:49,040 do you know Bruno Mars plays real well he's the one that wants to go to Mars 28 00:02:49,040 --> 00:02:54,170 too we ought to take him do sound waves travel on Mars sound waves do travel on 29 00:02:54,170 --> 00:03:00,080 Mars but not on the moon oh cool what's your favorite planet I love all my 30 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:04,940 children equally have you ever named a NASA science mission well a couple I was 31 00:03:04,940 --> 00:03:09,890 involved in the image mission so I helped name that the curiosity was the 32 00:03:09,890 --> 00:03:14,810 one I helped name I didn't put in the essay but I knew it when I saw it that 33 00:03:14,810 --> 00:03:20,230 was the name that needed to be can you describe the solar system in one word 34 00:03:20,230 --> 00:03:23,230 massive