Life on White Mars, and a new space

About this episode

The episode discusses how Antarctica helps us understand living on other planets and features insights from various experts on space exploration and cleanup efforts.

One of the most isolated places on Earth is helping us understand how to live on a moon or another planet. Space Boffins Sue Nelson and Richard Hollingham spoke to Nina Purvis, at the Concordia Station in Antarctica, about life on 'White Mars'. Former ESA advisor Mark McCaughrean discusses his new book, 111 Places in Space That You Must Not Miss, and companies ClearSpace, Astroscale and Orbit Fab explain their plans to clean up in space... Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists

People in this episode

Hosts: Sue Nelson, Richard Hollingham

Guest: Nina Purvis

Topics covered

• life on other planets
• space exploration
• Antarctica
• space debris
• new books about space

Keywords

• White Mars
• Concordia Station
• ESA
• space cleanup
• Mark McCaughrean
• Antarctica
• space exploration
• life on other planets

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: ESA, ClearSpace, Astroscale, Orbit Fab

Places: Concordia Station, Antarctica

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