Cassie Stuurman's guest appearances

Cassie Stuurman

WeMartians Podcast

Chris Mason

Jeff Johnson

Mark Wallace

Andrew Jones

Michael Robinson

Tanya Harrison

Morgan Irons

Emily Lakdawalla

Ashwin Vasavada

Rick Davis

Ben Etherington

Nick Heavens

Amy Simon

Farah Alibay

Brendan Byrne

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Some call water the “oil of the solar system” because of its importance in our eventual exploration of other planets. Finding new sources and learning about how to access it plays a key role in our future. Using the SHARAD instrument on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Cassie Stuurman and a team at University of Texas at Austin discovered a massive deposit of ice in the northern plains of Utopia Planitia. Cassie joins us to tell the tale of its discovery, characterization and importance. Links  Cassie’s paper: “SHARAD detection and characterization of subsurface water ice deposits in Utopia Planitia, Mars” Cassie’s blog Cassie’s Twitter Account The SHARAD Instrument (courtesy of the Italian Space Agency) A SHARAD Radargram  WeMartians Theme Song is “RetroFuture” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Some call water the “oil of the solar system” because of its importance in our eventual exploration of other planets. Finding new sources and learning about how to access it plays a key role in our future. Using the SHARAD instrument on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Cassie Stuurman and a team at University of Texas at Austin discovered a massive deposit of ice in the northern plains of Utopia Planitia. Cassie joins us to tell the tale of its discovery, characterization and importance. Links <ul> <li><a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2016GL070138/abstract" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Cassie’s paper: “SHARAD detection and characterization of subsurface water ice deposits in Utopia Planitia, Mars”</a></li> <li><a href="https://planetarycassie.com/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Cassie’s blog</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/corginaut" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Cassie’s Twitter Account</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.asi.it/en/activity/solar-system-exploration/sharad" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">The SHARAD Instrument (courtesy of the Italian Space Agency)</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/space-images/charts/sharad-radargram-ground-ice.html" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">A SHARAD Radargram</a></li> </ul> WeMartians Theme Song is “RetroFuture” by Kevin MacLeod (<a href="http://incompetech.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">incompetech.com</a>) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/</a>

15 – The Frosty Plains of Utopia Planitia (feat. Cassie Stuurman)