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Lori Glaze

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Gravity Assist

Third Pod from the Sun

Space Time by SpaceExplored.com

The Millennial Way Show

Thomas Zurbuchen

Jim Green

Andy Weir

Heather Graham

Susan Schneider

Amy Shira Teitel

Linda Spilker

Jim Bridenstine

Michael Meyer

Alan Stern

Anthony Rapp

Gavin Schmidt

Avi Loeb

Amy Simon

Mariana Atencio

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NASA is sending two missions to Venus this decade and participating in a European Space Agency mission there, too. Lori Glaze, director of planetary science at NASA, discusses these missions and why she’s so excited about what we’re about to learn.

Gravity Assist: Onward to Venus, with Lori Glaze

Introducing Dr. Lori Glaze! American scientist, Director of NASA's Science Mission Directorate's Planetary Science Division.NASA’s Perseverance Launched THIS THURSDAY On an Epic Journey To The Red Planet To The Next Great Adventure To Mars.For decades now, NASA has been sending robotic emissaries to explore the planet Mars. The spectacular success of past missions has proved that Mars was once like our own planet Earth, with oceans and lakes, a thick atmosphere; in short, a good place to get life started. Perseverance is the most robust rover ever to be sent to the Red Planet. It will take the next step in Mars exploration by seeking to answer the question: Are there any signs that life once existed on Mars?

Introducing Dr. Lori Glaze! American scientist, Director of NASA's Science Mission Directorate's Planetary Science Division. NASA’s Perseverance Launched THIS THURSDAY On an Epic Journey To The Red Planet To The Next Great Adventure To Mars. For decades now, NASA has been sending robotic emissaries to explore the planet Mars. The spectacular success of past missions has proved that Mars was once like our own planet Earth, with oceans and lakes, a thick atmosphere; in short, a good place to get life started. Perseverance is the most robust rover ever to be sent to the Red Planet. It will take the next step in Mars exploration by seeking to answer the question: Are there any signs that life once existed on Mars?

Perseverance, NASA'S latest rover journey to Mars | Dr. Lori Glaze,American scientist, Director of NASA's Science Mission

Lori Glaze, Acting Director of the Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters, works with everything from understanding asteroid trajectories and material make up to the InSight mission which recently landed a rover on Mars. It’s no exaggeration to say Lori Glaze’s impact on our understanding of the relationships between Earth and our nearest neighbors is volcanic. In fact, eruptions fascinated her since she was a pre-teen learning about the destructive volcano which buried the Roman city of Pompeii or carefully scraping ash from the Mount St. Helens eruption off the hood of the family car in Seattle in 1980. Glaze’s early research on volcanoes was largely based on using remote sensing techniques – a skill she later realized could apply just as well to studying past volcanic eruptions on Mars and Venus. Even if the degree of remoteness was a little more exaggerated for these cases, models and fantastic image data could help reveal what past eruption conditions must have been like on these planets. A major mystery she hopes to resolve is whether volcanoes are still active on Venus. “If it’s still active today, it means Venus and Earth are even more similar than we think,” she says. This episode was produced and mixed by Shane M Hanlon. Special thanks to Jordana Schmierer for production assistance.

Lori Glaze, Acting Director of the Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters, works with everything from understanding asteroid trajectories and material make up to the InSight mission which recently landed a rover on Mars. It’s no exaggeration to say Lori Glaze’s impact on our understanding of the relationships between Earth and our nearest neighbors is volcanic. In fact, eruptions fascinated her since she was a pre-teen learning about the destructive volcano which buried the Roman city of Pompeii or carefully scraping ash from the Mount St. Helens eruption off the hood of the family car in Seattle in 1980. Glaze’s early research on volcanoes was largely based on using remote sensing techniques – a skill she later realized could apply just as well to studying past volcanic eruptions on Mars and Venus. Even if the degree of remoteness was a little more exaggerated for these cases, models and fantastic image data could help reveal what past eruption conditions must have been like on these planets. A major mystery she hopes to resolve is whether volcanoes are still active on Venus. “If it’s still active today, it means Venus and Earth are even more similar than we think,” she says. This episode was produced and mixed by Shane M Hanlon. Special thanks to Jordana Schmierer for production assistance.

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