There's a big group of people that want to send a rover back to the same spot where spirit is, which is kind of acute thought in some way. I think that it may not go like, to that exact precise spot, but it could be possible. It should even be considered, cause e're like, thit's a big planet. We should go somewhere near you, right? Ye. So, day to day, jenifer works on the computer. She looks at images she gets beamed from another fucking planet, totally normal. Or she looks at how light hits the surface of certain materials and what they're composed of. And then, of course, fulfilling b
The Red Planet. A mysterious dusty orb millions of miles away. Our emergency escape bunker. Alie sits down with Dr. Jennifer Buz to talk about what Mars’s DEEEEAL is, why we send rovers there, good science fiction, so-so science fiction, double egg yolks, the poetry of the moon Phobos and some of the best science dreams perhaps ever recorded. Jennifer is maybe the chillest areologist on this planet and an absolute gem.
You're going to want to look at Dr. Jennifer Buz's website JNNFR.BZ
Info on the 2020 rover workshop via JPL
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