{"id":119185,"date":"2021-02-05T02:22:33","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T10:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/episode-36-nasa-aims-for-the-geophysical-heart-of-mars"},"modified":"2021-02-05T02:22:33","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T10:22:33","slug":"episode-36-nasa-aims-for-the-geophysical-heart-of-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/episode-36-nasa-aims-for-the-geophysical-heart-of-mars","title":{"rendered":"Episode 36 \u2014 NASA Aims For The Geophysical Heart Of Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"420\" height=\"420\" src=\"https:\/\/www.podbean.com\/media\/player\/figcp-f9c67a?mix=1&vjs=1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Fascinating new episode with NASA planetary geophysicist Bruce Banerdt, the principal investigator for the Mars InSight lander which is changing the way scientists now view Mars\u2019 interior dynamics and inner workings. Please have a listen.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>I welcome Bruce Banerdt, the principal investigator for NASA\u2019s Mars InSight lander, which has been operating on the Martian surface for two years now. Although it\u2019s had some technical issues, it\u2019s offered a sea change in how geophysicists are interpreting the dynamics and makeup of the Martian core. In this episode, we talk about what we currently understand about Mars\u2019 geophysical makeup and, among other things, whether it ever had plate tectonics which was so crucial for the evolution of sentient life here on Earth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fascinating new episode with NASA planetary geophysicist Bruce Banerdt, the principal investigator for the Mars InSight lander which is changing the way scientists now view Mars\u2019 interior dynamics and inner workings. Please have a listen. I welcome Bruce Banerdt, the principal investigator for NASA\u2019s Mars InSight lander, which has been operating on the Martian surface [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":380,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119185","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=119185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}