Does Mars Need "The Cloud"?

Earlier this year, scientists pitched a mission to bring "the cloud" to Mars. While this proposal may seem expensive and risky, it s a legitimate idea that could fundamentally change how we plan space missions! Hosted by: Reid Reimers SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, KatieMarie Magnone, D.A. Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Scott Satovsky Jr, Sam Buck, Avi Yashchin, Ron Kakar, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, charles george, Greg ---------- Like SciShow? Want to help support us, and also get things to put on your walls, cover your torso and hold your liquids? Check out our awesome products over at DFTBA Records: http://dftba.com/scishow ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576519314249 https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/cloud/what-is-the-cloud/ https://www.space.com/24701-how-long-does-it-take-to-get-to-mars.html https://mars.nasa.gov/mro/mission/communications/ https://mars.nasa.gov/mars-exploration/missions/historical-log/ https://www.wired.com/2012/08/martian-computing-is-light-on-ram-heavy-on-radiation-shielding/ https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/space-flight/did-bad-memory-chips-down-russias-mars-probe https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/JB095iB09p14497 https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/28/15706756/lunar-reconnaissance-orbiter-nasa-micrometeoroid-moon https://mars.nasa.gov/mer/mission/rover/temperature/ https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/05/040520062226.htm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kLvNH28Tgc https://hub.jhu.edu/2015/07/17/new-horizons-data-transmission/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0019103572901455 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180927105612.htm https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/1571198 https://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/2556 https://nerdfighteria.info/v/JrgTJgIMZqc/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0094576515004774 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/B:AURO.0000025790.37415.83 https://www.wired.com/2017/04/marsupial-robots-aint-cuddly-totally-brilliant/ https://www.astrobio.net/robotics-a-i/swarms-of-nano-nauts/ https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5231068 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11662 Image Sources: https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/futuristic-data-center-server-room-gm1180684429-330859323 https://www.videoblocks.com/video/concept-animation-cloud-server-flexibility-sucure-future-technnology-hkypw61 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/it-engineers-team-workers-character-and-data-center-concept-vector-flat-graphic-gm1152003787-312385557 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/space-poster-gm1162370062-318806222 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/radio-telescope-and-milky-way-galaxy-gm471451629-21191711 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/ISS-31_SpaceX_Dragon_commercial_cargo_craft_approaches_the_ISS_-_crop.jpg/2048px-ISS-31_SpaceX_Dragon_commercial_cargo_craft_approaches_the_ISS_-_crop.jpg https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA03479 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12084 https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/images/activities/cassini_satellite_diagram.jpghttps://www.videoblocks.com/video/wide-movement-shot-of-a-long-hallway-full-server-racks-in-a-modern-data-center-sxoezrknxjnp7ua3q https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/mars-mission-gm514647210-88213417 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EFF_photograph_of_NSA%27s_Utah_Data_Center.jpg https://www.videoblocks.com/video/big-data-cloud-computing-internet-of-things-iot-ai-network-technology-bqziwv0nvjrzj6x5b https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/lines-of-cpu-micro-controllers-gm481084756-69254487 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/sunrise-in-mars-gm490343848-75156119