Wemartians Podcast

For years, the NASA Curiosity Rover has been quietly sniffing the atmosphere in Gale Crater with its SAM instrument. Today, scientists are finally getting a handle on that vast dataset, and they're turning up some crazy results, especially an unexplained oxygen spike! Dr. Melissa Trainer from NASA Goddard, lead author on a paper covering the results, joins Jake to talk about this peculiar behaviour. We talk Oxygen, Curiosity, and Atmospheres Melissa's Paper on Atmospheric Composition (Open Access)NASA press release on the paper Follow Melissa Trainer The Curiosity Rover Home PageMelissa's Wikipedia EntryMelissa's Profile on NASA Goddard's site Follow Jake & WeMartians Website (www.wemartians.com)Patreon (www.patreon.com/wemartians)Featuring a limited time special offer! Click through or see below!WeMartians Shop (shop.wemartians.com)Free shipping if you buy 2+ items until the end of the year!Twitter (@we_martians) Jake’s Twitter (@JakeOnOrbit)Off-Nominal PodcastMost Recent Episode: "Jim-Adja