SciShow Tangents is the lightly competitive knowledge showcase from the geniuses behind the YouTube series SciShow. Every other Tuesday, join Hank Green, Ceri Riley, and Sam Schultz as they try to one-up and amaze each other with weird and funny scientific research... while not getting distracted. There will be tangents about video games, music, weird smells, surprisingly deep insights about life, and of course, poop, but it always comes back to the science.
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episode 27: Mars
From countless stories of little green men to colonization plans and endless rover and satellite missions, humans are sort of obsessed with Mars. One of those obsessed humans is Hank Green! This week he finally gets to put all his knowledge about his favorite planet to good use: winning fake points on a game show he made up!
Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!
And if you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
https://docs.google.com/document/d/12swg6fcCIZYuQh4q9vmW6SBwMoLwnb7jq3s2qT9_Djg/edit?usp=sharing
[Fact Off]
First Mars image:
The picture: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA14033
Plutonium-238:
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mbyz4v/scientists-are-automating-plutonium-production-so-nasa-can-explore-deep-space
https://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/plutonium-production-space-exploration/
https://www.greenwichtime.com/technology/businessinsider/article/NASA-s-deep-space-nuclear-power-crisis-may-soon-13530374.php
[Ask the Science Couch]
Earth tectonics:
https://geomaps.wr.usgs.gov/parks/pltec/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/science/plate-tectonics-continents-earth.html
https://phys.org/news/2018-09-plate-tectonics-earth.html
Mars (lack of) tectonics:
https://marsed.asu.edu/mep/tectonics
https://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/exploring-the-planets/online/solar-system/mars/surface/volcanoes/
[Butt One More Thing]
Poop-eating bacteria:
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/02/03/582968023/making-space-food-with-space-poop