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MARCH 16, 2022
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announce the release of "Space
on the Page
a new
podcast that
explores the universe not with
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In six episodes; hosts David Baron
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and Lucas Mix will interview
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exploration and the search for life
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connection between science and humanity.
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In the first three episodes, available today; the subject Is Mars and our society's
fascination with the red planet
past; present and future 
The first episode describes the Mars "craze" that struck Earth at the start of the 20th
century; leading humans to run wild with speculation that the red planet might
harbor an advanced civilization. Historian of astronomy and affiliate of the Lowell
Observatory William Sheehan explains the science that spawned this imaginative
idea
and the optical Illusion that caused some astronomers to believe Mars was
covered with irrigation canals_
In the second episode, Georgetown University blologist Sarah Stewart Johnson jolns
Baron to explain how new discoveries about Mars, missions like NASA's
Perseverance Rover; and
better
understanding of Ilfe on Earth have propelled the
quest to find microbial life on Mars_
and Johnson ponders what the answers might
say about life elsewhere in the universe_
In the third episode_
science
ournalist David Whitehouse discusses the dream of
sending human missions to Mars
looking at the concrete steps forward being taken
by NASA, other space agencies and private entrepreneurs,
as well as the many
constralnts and risks
biological, technological, and soclal
that must be
overcome before we see the first footprint In red Martian soil.
In the next three episodes, which will be released on April 13, Mix brings science
fiction writers Nnedi Okorafor, Becky Chambers and John Scalzi into conversation
with scientists Betul Kacar of the University of Wisconsin; Rika Anderson of Carleton
College and Frank Rosenzwelg of Georgia Tech: Together they examine how the
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