"Life on Mars in Hawaii" at 2013 Ignite STEM Week Hawaii
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Life on Mars in Hawaiʻi Brian Shiro @brianshiro University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa UH NASA Astrobiology Institute
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Presentation given on March 2, 2013 at the Ignite STEM Week Hawaii event held at the Imaginarium. Fast-paced Ignite format requires 20 auto-advancing slides for 15 seconds each for a 5-minute presentation. Video recording here: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/29686064
Transcript of "Life on Mars in Hawaii" at 2013 Ignite STEM Week Hawaii
Life on Mars in Hawaiʻi Brian Shiro
@brianshiro University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa UH NASA Astrobiology Institute
Mars: Earth’s Neighbor
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Missions to Mars 2018?
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Exploring Mars
Curiosity Rover
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Life on Mars?
Martian meteorite ALH 84001 5
Water on Mars
6 credit: LANL
What is Permafrost?
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Permafrost on Mars
Permafrost on Earth
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Permafrost could enable human settlement.
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MarsOne
Provides drinking water, oxygen, rocket fuel.
Permafrost microbes on Earth survive conditions similar to those on Mars
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Mauna Kea
What’s an Analog?
Mauna Kea Summit Puʻu Wekiu
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Apollo astronauts Lovell and Haise training on Mauna Kea (credit: NASA)
It gets cold up there!
13 February 2013
Cold enough for glaciers in the past
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Mauna Kea was one of the few places in the tropics that was repeatedly covered by glaciers during the ice ages. (Anslow et al. 2010)
And still has permafrost today
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Summit craters offer shade
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Puʻu Makanaka
And create microclimates that harbor permafrost on north-facing walls
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Thermal Infrared Image of the Crater Wall
elevation 4,200 m (13,800 ft)
PISCES http://pisces.hilo.hawaii.edu/
Robotic field tests in 2008, 2010, 2012.
Looking for subsurface water.
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HI-SEAS: Hawaii Space Exploration Analog & Simulation
A crew of six will spend 120 days living and
working here in 2013. http://hi-seas.org/
19 MDRS (Utah)
