Episode 23: Matteo Borri on Alien Life (Plus All about the Odysseus Moon Landing)

Feb 24, 2024

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A perfect backgrounder on the Odysseus Moon landing by Matteo Borri, an open source roboticist and inventor of a chlorophyll detecting laser that was included on the Mars Perseverance Rover.

We start off with a brief rundown of yesterday’s Odysseus Moon landing by Intuitive Machines, which is not only the first US moon landing in 50 years and the first commercial moon landing ever, but it is also the first time that liquid methane and liquid oxygen have been used for a lunar lander rocket motor, which, as Matteo points out, is interesting because those are all gases that are easy to make with an automated factory.

Then we cover the very exciting news that NASA’s rover Perseverance has confirmed the presence of ancient lake sediments in Mars’ Jezero Crater. Ground-penetrating radar observations by the rover’s RIMFAX (Radar Imager for Mars’ Subsurface Exploration) radar system have provided substantial evidence that water once filled the basin, meaning there is a potential for life to have existed there.

We also cover how Apophus is NOT GOING TO HIT EARTH! (Even though people seem to want to keep pretending we don't know that now.)

#moon #odysseus #apophus

About Matteo Borri:
Matteo Borri is an inventor and engineer in San Rafael, California who is currently working with NASA and the Mars Society. He invented a chlorophyll detecting laser prototype design that was included on NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover.

Matteo and his company, Robots Everywhere LLC provides expertise in lasers, antbots, drones, 3d laser cutting, 3d printing, solar panel and battery tech and more, and has implemented autonomous vehicles and home manufacturing tools all over the world: https://www.robots-everywhere.com/

Matteo has many videos demonstrating many things on his Robots Everywhere YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@RobotsEverywhereVideos

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