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Sep 14, 2026
Leah BelskyGUEST
And I remember handing it to her and said, "Why don't you try this out? Maybe you can learn about the world through this." And she-- I remember talking to ChatGPT, and she used like please and thank you, and she was like, "Hey, my, my mom wants me to learn about current events.
Leah BelskyGUEST
Can you help me?" And Chat replied and said, you know, "What are you interested in learning?" And she started saying she was interested in astronauts, in space, and the next thing I know, Chat was talking to her about the Mars Rover and the history of the space, um, program.
Leah BelskyGUEST
And it was just a complete unlock, and I realized, you know, I no longer had to worry about her ability to access the world's information and to sort of get that information in a way that was tailored to her interests and passions.
Leah BelskyGUEST
Um, and it blew me away.
Leela HutchisonGUEST
They're called extremophiles and NASA's all about that.
Leela HutchisonGUEST
They look for them on Mars and they have a database of the Mars Rover and they input these particular extremophiles in that database.
Leela HutchisonGUEST
And so when they were checking those microbes against that database, there was nothing, nothing in the database that NASA had that matched these microbes that were in these caves.
Debbi DachingerHOST
That's so exciting.
AllieHOST
And I think it was Bixler Zavala and he really likes space.
AllieHOST
And so they just picked Mars because, and that was like, Mars was big at that time, you know? So I don't, I don't even remember what year the Mars Rover landed.
AllieHOST
It's a hoax anyway.
AllieHOST
So they just chose Mars because it was synonymous at the time for exploration in new lands, which I thought was really fun.
Sarah Al-AhmedHOST
He's walked the halls of Congress advocating for NASA science.
Sarah Al-AhmedHOST
He's stood in the control room at JPL during Mars Rover landings, and he's still playing the Doctor all of these years later.
Sarah Al-AhmedHOST
If anyone is proof that Star Trek's mission doesn't end when the cameras stop rolling, it's Bob.
Sarah Al-AhmedHOST
Hey, Bob.
TedHOST
Mm-hmm
BillHOST
... did you see the videos on X of the latest one of the Mars rover cruising?
TedHOST
Uh, no.
TedHOST
I didn't.
TedHOST
What, what's happening there?
BillHOST
W- we're on Mars.
BillHOST
That's the Mars rover.
BillHOST
It's traveling.
Ghanim Al-JumailyGUEST
doing was of interest to NASA.
Ghanim Al-JumailyGUEST
So my job was to build the lenses and the mirrors, and it was the first Mars rover.
Ghanim Al-JumailyGUEST
90% of the European countries have heard of the
Ahmed SafiHOST
laser, but they haven't seen it.
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Ibrahim SafiHOST
Fresh minds.
Ghanim Al-JumailyGUEST
Fresh minds.
Ghanim Al-JumailyGUEST
And it was the first Mars rover.
Ghanim Al-JumailyGUEST
Wow.
Zoe Lerner-PonterioGUEST
If it makes you feel better, I had that moment along this whole path when I was finishing my undergraduate and applying to grad schools.
Zoe Lerner-PonterioGUEST
And when I got the call from Cornell telling me that they wanted to offer admission, I asked, well, what would I work on if I went there? And it was Steve Squires, the PI, the whole head of the Mars rover mission.
Zoe Lerner-PonterioGUEST
And he said, well, we're about sending these Mars rovers.
Zoe Lerner-PonterioGUEST
Would you like to be part of that? And the only thought I remember was don't drop the phone because...
Zoe Lerner-PonterioGUEST
I was just like, what? What did I just hear?
Zoe Lerner-PonterioGUEST
And that was the offer.
Zoe Lerner-PonterioGUEST
And I was like, oh, well, wait.
Zoe Lerner-PonterioGUEST
I, at one point, just looked at the Harvard dean and said, do you have a Mars Rover mission?
Randy RandallHOST
And, you know, you can get a, get a hot dog and sit on the lawn and, and, you know, let you walk around where they want.
Randy RandallHOST
What they want to show you is a lot of Mars Rover, you know, workshops for the kids.
Randy RandallHOST
Yeah.
Waverly GrovesGUEST
Growing up, not that far from Langley.
Georgia HardstarkHOST
Let's go to camp.
Georgia HardstarkHOST
We had a little campy kind of event- Oh, yeah ... because on the podcast I said I wanted to take a tour of Jet Propulsion Laboratories, which is a place here in, um, very close to where we are right now in Pasadena, um, where they build things like the Mars Rover and things that they put on Mars and other planets.
Georgia HardstarkHOST
[laughs] That's, Mars is the only one I know.
Georgia HardstarkHOST
But- [laughs] So in saying that on the podcast, we got some responses from people who actually worked at JPL- Ooh ... who were like, "I can give you a tour." And the person that I guess e- either Steven picked or seemed the most credible- [laughs] ...
PaulHOST
I think it points to all sorts of things in the current world of space exploration and NASA in particular.
PaulHOST
So this is a plan to turn the Mars rover engineering model...
PaulHOST
Into an active platform and send it to the moon.
JennyHOST
Yeah, it is.
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