hi I'm Jim Green better known as Lunak
and this is ask NASA
are we ready for the first question let's see I'm getting
a sense of it yes we're going to the
moon and we're doing it for many
important reasons is because we want to
practice on going to Mars
things that we want to do is to learn to
live and work on a planetary surface of
course it's got to be about the water
how are we gonna use it we're gonna
drink it that's the first thing the
second thing is we can take those two
elements apart and use them for rocket
fuel or we can just simply use the
oxygen to breathe we want to be able to
look at this water tease it out through
cores and understand the water history
of the moon just that will be fantastic
ah yes the South Pole it's fascinating
let's see what it looks like here's some
LRO data and it shows us all the areas
that have sunlight and all those areas
that never receive any sunlight these
are the areas that have the water what
equipment are we going to take to the
mound well this is going to be done with
the commercial groups that are planning
to have Landers and Rovers and we're
gonna ride along we're gonna take
scientific instruments with us and tease
out the impact history of the Moon
that will tell us how the earth and the
moon evolved together
let's find out what else is going on at
Mars ah yes marnik knows the answer to
that and it's right here this is one of
our fantastic Rovers it's called
curiosity and it's currently roving on
Mars today we need to know what that is
because it will tell us if Mars is like
earth all right back it to me why is
Mars red Mars is red because it's been
oxidized that means it has material on
the surface that grabs that oxygen and
turns it red
how are the Moon and Mars similar well
that's our plan we're gonna go to both
how are the moon of Mars different well
one's bigger than the other
do you know Bruno Mars plays real well
he's the one that wants to go to Mars
too we ought to take him do sound waves
travel on Mars sound waves do travel on
Mars but not on the moon oh cool what's
your favorite planet I love all my
children equally have you ever named a
NASA science mission well a couple I was
involved in the image mission so I
helped name that the curiosity was the
one I helped name I didn't put in the
essay but I knew it when I saw it that
was the name that needed to be can you
describe the solar system in one word
massive
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