{"id":11490,"date":"2015-09-30T02:48:41","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T06:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11490"},"modified":"2015-09-30T02:48:41","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T06:48:41","slug":"video-perchlorate-salts-and-the-availability-of-water-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11490","title":{"rendered":"Video: Perchlorate salts and the availability of water on Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this brief video,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Doug Archer, Planetary Scientist at NASA Johnson Space Center, talks about perchlorate salts, a compound that absorbs water on Mars. Archer addresses how perchlorate can serve as a valuable resource for human exploration missions to Mars in the future.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fxnEKi7ItW4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this brief video, Doug Archer, Planetary Scientist at NASA Johnson Space Center, talks about perchlorate salts, a compound that absorbs water on Mars. Archer addresses how perchlorate can serve as a valuable resource for human exploration missions to Mars in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mars","category-space-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2Zk","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10368,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10368","url_meta":{"origin":11490,"position":0},"title":"Curiosity data allows for brine water on Mars surface at night","author":"TopSpacer","date":"April 14, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The extremely low atmosphere on Mars (about 1% the pressure on earth) means that liquid water will quickly evaporate. 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