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Stuck at home? Visit Mars with your kids
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When you鈥檙e stuck at home, Mars seems like a million miles away. Actually, it鈥檚 about 140 million miles.
What will it take to get there, and what happens to our bodies on the way?
Enter Life On (the way to) Mars, a live, weekly STEM-chat for students led by real-life space scientists from the Translational Research Institute for Space Health (TRISH) at 草榴社区入口. The 30-minute interactive and bite-sized talks will introduce the coolest ideas in space health for kids: What's it like to live in outer space? How long will it take to get to Mars? What鈥檚 鈥淧uffy-Face, Chicken-Leg鈥 Syndrome? How do you use the bathroom on a spaceship?
TRISH aims to inspire the next generation of scientists and astronauts, who might one day live and work on the Red Planet.
鈥淪imilar to astronauts en route to Mars, we鈥檙e all under a bit of isolation right now,鈥 said Dr. Dorit Donoviel, director of TRISH and associate professor at Baylor. 鈥淲e are happy to share some science with future space explorers and their parents, who are at home during challenging times.鈥
Join the MarsWednesday chats starting April 1, 2020 at 11:30 a.m. Central. The first episode will feature Donoviel. On April 8, TRISH scientist Dr. Emmanuel Urquieta delivers a bilingual talk in Spanish.
The chats are created in Periscope and posted on Facebook and Twitter. You can find the weekly chat on TRISH's or on . You can also search for #MarsWednesday via social media.