{"id":110984,"date":"2020-08-07T05:02:56","date_gmt":"2020-08-07T12:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/episode-10-the-case-for-mars-polar-science"},"modified":"2020-08-07T05:02:56","modified_gmt":"2020-08-07T12:02:56","slug":"episode-10-the-case-for-mars-polar-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/episode-10-the-case-for-mars-polar-science","title":{"rendered":"Episode 10 \u2014 The Case for Mars Polar Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"420\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/3t5e8-e6004f?mix=1&vjs=1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Great interview with planetary scientist Isaac Smith, an expert on Mars polar science at York University in Toronto. Well worth a listen.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Three spacecraft are currently en route to Mars, but none will visit the poles. Yet Mars\u2019 poles drive much of the Martian climate. And their understanding is key to deciphering what might have been happening on the Red planet some 3.5 billion years ago when it had lakes, deltas, rivers, and perhaps even transient oceans. I\u2019m very pleased to welcome planetary scientist Isaac B. Smith of York University in Toronto \u2014 an expert on Mars polar science and exploration \u2014 to discuss the need for a Martian polar lander as well as a broader look at Mars science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great interview with planetary scientist Isaac Smith, an expert on Mars polar science at York University in Toronto. Well worth a listen. Three spacecraft are currently en route to Mars, but none will visit the poles. Yet Mars\u2019 poles drive much of the Martian climate. And their understanding is key to deciphering what might have [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":380,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,224,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-science","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110984\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}