The Mars Curiosity Rover

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As a 10 year old girl seeing the very first pictures from the surface of Mars from the Viking missions way back in the 70s. I grew up in Arizona and there was just something about that landscape that really spoke to me. And all these years later I get to we're working right now to bring rocks back for more. So it's not a very good advertisement for Arizona. I think it's beautiful. Every day I get to look at new pictures from Mars and they are inspiring. Exactly. Of course I'm going to end up probably after I retire in Sedona which is about as Mars like as you can get.

Could there be life under the icy surface of Europa? Neil deGrasse Tyson and comic Chuck Nice explore interplanetary missions, asteroid mining, and other exciting launches with the Director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Laurie Leshin.

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Photo Credit: NASA / Jet Propulsion Lab-Caltech / SETI Institute, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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