Mars is full of toxic perchlorates that can be very harmful for future human missions. So, when people go to Mars, they will need to fix it. NASA has awarded a NIAC grant for a project that can help solving this problem. It's called Detoxifying Mars: the biocatalytic elimination of omnipresent perchlorates.

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https://www.nasa.gov/general/detoxifying-mars/

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• 02:31 Perchlorates on Mars

• 10:48 The NIAC proposal

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• 49:18 Current obsessions

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