How Mars Could Kill its First Visitors

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Correction: 3:30 It’s the low atmospheric pressure, not temperature, that causes blood to boil.

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Sources:
Thumbnail refurbishes material from SpaceX
0:13 Elon Musk photo: AP PHOTO/JAE C. HONG, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
0:34 XPRIZE Foundation interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN88HPUm6j0&t=827s
3:18 Hassell + EOC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIrH01N9AsE