[Interview] NASA Funded This Crazy Project To Search For Life On Mars

NASA selected the Agnostic Life Finder (ALF) for Phase 1 in 2024. It will be studying a possibility to search for existing and past life on Mars alongside the in situ resource utilization process. How will this device work and what potential implications could it have? Finding out with Dr Jan Spacek. 👉 Dr Jan Spacek: https://www.alfamars.org/team/jan-spacek/ 🦄 Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/universetoday 📚 Suggest books in the book club: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/1198440-universe-today-book-club 00:00 Intro 02:23 The NIAC Proposal for ALF 17:25 Life as we don't know it 23:31 What's next for the NIAC project 27:45 The Morning Star mission to Venus 35:37 IMPRESS mission to Mars 43:55 Europa and Enceladus 50:19 Finding life 53:50 Current obsessions 55:33 Final thoughts 📺 VIDEO VERSION https://youtu.be/dcf87fYciXM 📰 EMAIL NEWSLETTER Read by 60,000 people every Friday. Written by Fraser. No ads. Subscribe. It's FREE: https://universetoday.com/newsletter 🎧 PODCASTS Universe Today: https://universetoday.fireside.fm/ Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/ 🤳 OTHER SOCIAL MEDIA Twitter: https://twitter.com/fcain Twitter: https://twitter.com/universetoday Facebook: https://facebook.com/universetoday Instagram: https://instagram.com/universetoday 📩 CONTACT FRASER frasercain@gmail.com ⚖️ LICENSE Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)