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All statements about Mars

89 statements about Mars in 43 videos, by upload date.

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2007

  • 2007-02-16 · Brotherhood 2.0: February 16th — Hank: Quick answers: Hank is an 'absent-minded kid in a candy store' online, loves science fiction, would live anywhere his friends were, and his first concert was the B-52s. (playful) — 00:02:15

Also named in: November 5th: John's Not Happy about Pakistan

2008

  • 2008-04-01 · Please Google, Take Me to Mars — Hank says Google is apparently going to Mars and asking for videos on why one should be among the first hundred colonists; he makes his. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2008-04-01 · Please Google, Take Me to Mars — Hank lists his qualifications: prime condition, having read Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy many times, green-technology expertise and the vlog habit of non-conversational family contact. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2008-04-01 · Please Google, Take Me to Mars — Hank says a Mars colonist lives 40 light minutes away from everything they have known. (playful) (doubtful: 40) — 00:00:24
  • 2008-04-01 · Please Google, Take Me to Mars — Hank says the first thing he ever had published in print was 'Let's Go to Mars', in Space Times Magazine, and reads an excerpt about Mars calling to us. (playful) — 00:00:53
  • 2008-04-01 · Please Google, Take Me to Mars — Hank: Asked whether he is a founding member of the Mars Society, Hank says yes. (playful) — 00:01:23
  • 2008-04-01 · Please Google, Take Me to Mars — Hank: After biting the head off the Peep version of John that has sat on his desk for about six months, Hank thinks his digestive problems are what would keep him from Mars. (playful, hedged) — 00:01:52
  • 2008-06-24 · Questions Answered! — Hank insists there has always been ice on Mars and it has been known for about 50 years, so it is not news. — 00:00:02
  • 2008-06-24 · Questions Answered! — Hank: Mars has ice caps, sometimes coated with carbon dioxide dry ice, but both are water ice at the core. — 00:00:25
  • 2008-06-24 · Questions Answered! — Hank says the real news is only that the lander landed on ice, which is great for people who want to study the ice. — 00:00:34

2011

  • 2011-04-27 · NASA: Increasing Awesome — Hank: NASA is launching a remote-controlled laboratory, 'pretty much a remote-controlled SUV', to Mars with ten times the payload of any interplanetary mission, to ask whether Mars once harbored life. — 00:02:00
  • 2011-04-27 · NASA: Increasing Awesome — Hank: NASA is flying the final two Space Shuttle missions while developing a multipurpose crew vehicle that could reach Earth orbit, possibly the Moon, Mars, Venus and beyond. — 00:03:09

2012

  • 2012-03-09 · The Future of Manned Space Exploration — Hank says Ceres, a spherical dwarf planet 600 miles wide in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, may contain a subterranean ocean, and an unmanned probe will reach it in 2015. (hedged) — 00:02:23
  • 2012-03-09 · The Future of Manned Space Exploration — Hank calls Mars the juiciest scientific fruit in the solar system: a third the size of Earth, with an atmosphere and a day of 24-point-something hours. (doubtful: a third the size of Earth) — 00:02:52
  • 2012-03-09 · The Future of Manned Space Exploration — Hank says astronauts took about three days to reach the Moon while Mars takes about seven months; such missions are difficult, dangerous and expensive, so we proceed with caution. — 00:02:52
  • 2012-06-01 · Adorable Squirrel and Table Topics — John says that if money were no object he wouldn't throw a party, since he likes to be by himself with only family invited; then he jokes he'd throw one on Mars. (playful) — 00:01:55
  • 2012-08-31 · Why The Rich Pay Lower Taxes — Hank: In Hank's opinion, money in the stock market isn't doing anything: companies can't use it to build cars, go to Mars or make video games. — 00:01:53

2013

  • 2013-06-07 · How To Be a Baby Properly — Hank: if all goes well, in Alice's lifetime humans will walk on Mars, computers become intelligent, the paralyzed walk again, absolute poverty all but end, and she may live past 100; or technological society may implode. It could go either way. (hedged) — 00:00:12

2014

2015

  • 2015-05-05 · Reunions! Birthdays! Podcasts! Mountains! Happy 35th Birthday, Hank — both: They plan segments on their own interests: John would do 'This Week (week of 4 May 2015) in AFC Wimbledon' on fourth-tier football and Hank would do Mars, which he has cared about forever. (playful) — 00:01:56
  • 2015-05-05 · Reunions! Birthdays! Podcasts! Mountains! Happy 35th Birthday, Hank — both: Hank says Mars is more interesting so AFC Wimbledon must come first; John disagrees: Mars is uninhabitable while AFC Wimbledon is made of humans, the most interesting thing. (playful) — 00:02:11
  • 2015-05-05 · Reunions! Birthdays! Podcasts! Mountains! Happy 35th Birthday, Hank — ask: John asks viewers to tell them what the podcast should be about, whether Sydneys and Jesses, which Sydneys and Jesses to discuss, who has the best Blue Steel, and whether AFC Wimbledon or Mars matters more. — 00:03:01
  • 2015-05-26 · Sixteen Parts — announcement: John announces the brothers' podcast will be called Dear Hank and John (he thinks of it as 'Dear John and Hank'), answering Nerdfighters' questions with second-rate advice plus news from AFC Wimbledon and Mars. — 00:00:22
  • 2015-06-08 · Monday Bonus Video! — announcement: John: This week's (week of 8 June 2015) episode asks whether bowling can heal a broken heart and whether people have peed on every square inch of earth, plus news from Mars and AFC Wimbledon. (playful) — 00:00:53
  • 2015-09-29 · Writing, Walling, Racing, and Wizard Schooling — John notes there is, apparently, occasionally flowing water on Mars; the SciShow people got so excited they made shirts and posters. (hedged) — 00:01:03
  • 2015-09-29 · Writing, Walling, Racing, and Wizard Schooling — John is vicariously happy for Hank about Mars news but says we haven't taken a second lately to be psyched about flowing water on Earth: 'What a planet!' (playful) — 00:01:11
  • 2015-10-16 · Post-NerdCon Haze — announcement: Hank plugs the brothers' podcast Dear Hank and John: they answer viewer questions, give dubious advice and bring the week's news from Mars and AFC Wimbledon. — 00:00:23
  • 2015-11-11 · Watch This If You Want To Smile (Pizzamas Day 3) — Hank: The last time Hank felt that level of uncontrollable excitement was in 2012, when the Curiosity rover was safely on the surface of Mars. — 00:03:08
  • 2015-11-27 (said on 2015-11-26, implied) · Never Satisfied: The Story of Humans ¦-/ — announcement: Hank: A bobblehead skit introduces Dear Hank and John, a comedy podcast in which the brothers answer questions, give dubious advice and bring news from Mars and AFC Wimbledon. (playful) — 00:03:36

2016

Also named in: P4A 2016 Hilarity Reprise - OVER $2M RAISED!!

2017

2018

2020

  • 2020-02-07 · GET BUSY WITH THE FIZZY — Hank says he just can't right now, so instead he will indulge in three things he likes: home soda carbonation, Mars and pedantic overanalysis. — 00:00:00
  • 2020-02-07 · GET BUSY WITH THE FIZZY — Hank says liquid water on Mars is physically impossible: the temperature is too low, and with such low pressure it would immediately evaporate. — 00:00:58
  • 2020-02-07 · GET BUSY WITH THE FIZZY — Hank says we are probably never going to find liquid water on Mars, and there is already enough confusion about the water situation there. (hedged) — 00:00:58
  • 2020-02-07 · GET BUSY WITH THE FIZZY — Hank says the streaks on very steep Martian slopes might be water seeping through soil, but if they exist they are extremely saline, with super toxic perchlorate salts. (hedged) — 00:00:58
  • 2020-02-07 · GET BUSY WITH THE FIZZY — Hank: Noting an Earth image captioned 'Great Pacific Plastic' on the mission-control wall, Hank says ocean plastic is a big deal, but not one to monitor from Mars. (playful) — 00:01:27
  • 2020-02-07 · GET BUSY WITH THE FIZZY — Hank: Against the ad's 'Water on Mars' headline, Hank says people are excited to maybe find water on Mars, but it has lots of water, known for decades; melted, it would make oceans. — 00:02:26
  • 2020-02-07 · GET BUSY WITH THE FIZZY — Hank says we know from the Curiosity rover that Mars once had oceans. — 00:02:26
  • 2020-03-03 · Consciously Experiencing Human Dignity — John: Through photography and art you have seen what you'll never see (Mars's surface, deep-ocean bioluminescent fish, a 17th-century girl with a pearl earring); through empathy, felt what you'll never feel. — 00:02:55
  • 2020-03-10 · A Strong but Fleeting Flavor: A Reunion Video — Hank: Asked how boxed cake directions would differ on Mars, Hank guesses you would need a different mix: with lower pressure and more oxygen in the hab, the cake would rise fast and big like a giant muffin. (speculative) — 00:00:55
  • 2020-06-19 · Only Shooting Stars — Hank says 0.2% of meteorites, meteoroids that land on Earth, come from the Moon or Mars, thrown up when big meteorites hit those bodies. — 00:01:30
  • 2020-08-25 · Somebody once told me… — In a comment John guesses SpaceX might send a rocket to Mars in 2026, assuming it is still solvent and growing, and notes even SpaceX has stopped saying 2022. (speculative) — creator comment
  • 2020-08-25 · Somebody once told me… — John: Against the TikTok's claim that SpaceX sends its first ship to Mars in 2022, John says SpaceX is not sending a ship to Mars in 2022. — 00:01:56
  • 2020-08-25 · Somebody once told me… — John says that even knowing the video is fake, Noah's predictions will sit in his mindscape when he thinks of chip implants, Mars or Trump, so Noah is real whether he exists or not. — 00:03:24
  • 2020-09-18 · They Say it Gets Colder — Hank says Mars and Venus were probably habitable for a long time; Mars is in the habitable zone, Venus is not. (hedged) — 00:00:29
  • 2020-09-18 · They Say it Gets Colder — Hank says the search for life in the solar system focused on Mars not because it is the best candidate but because it is much easier to work with. — 00:00:58

2021

2024

  • 2024-03-01 · Flyana Boss Asks Hank Anything — Hank says water is common in the solar system: Mars has lots, the Moon has some, and some of Jupiter's moons hold more water than Earth. — 00:10:22
  • 2024-04-05 · Two Reasons Why This Eclipse is So Dangerous — Hank says any danger has two parts, the risk and the number of people exposed: going to Mars is very dangerous but not a public-health concern; this eclipse is dangerous because so many can reach it. — 00:02:02

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2025

  • 2025-07-15 · LLAMAS Are NOT What You Think — John tells new viewers about the podcast Dear Hank and John, which brings the week's news from Mars and AFC Wimbledon while answering questions. — 00:00:29
  • 2025-09-12 · This Might Actually be Happening — Hank says he doesn't feel up to the moment, one where everything seems possible and there are no good answers, so instead he wants to talk about life on Mars. — 00:00:00
  • 2025-09-12 · This Might Actually be Happening — The description names the Nature paper, 'Redox-driven mineral and organic associations in Jezero Crater, Mars', and says it could go down in history as a pretty important moment. (hedged) — video description
  • 2025-09-12 · This Might Actually be Happening — In a channel comment, Hank says some water (ice) on Mars has been known since the 70s, but a long wet period only became consensus in the mid-2000s. — creator comment
  • 2025-09-12 · This Might Actually be Happening — Hank reports that NASA and a paper announced that after a year of work Perseverance found things on Mars that we do not know how to explain without past life there. — 00:00:30
  • 2025-09-12 · This Might Actually be Happening — Hank stresses that this is very different from saying there definitely was life on Mars, and even more different from saying there is life there now. — 00:00:30
  • 2025-09-12 · This Might Actually be Happening — Hank says the first spacecraft sent to the surface of Mars, Viking 1 and 2 in the 1970s, carried a little biology lab with experiments designed to detect life. — 00:01:00
  • 2025-09-12 · This Might Actually be Happening — Hank says that in 1996 the Martian meteorite ALH 84001, found in Antarctica, looked under an electron microscope like a fossil of a bacterium, which was very big news. — 00:02:33
  • 2025-09-12 · This Might Actually be Happening — Hank recalls that in 1996, at 16, he was at summer camp when the Mars meteorite news broke, and was frustrated that he had no computer to blog about it. — 00:03:02
  • 2025-09-12 · This Might Actually be Happening — Hank says a huge amount of planetary science has proved that Mars once had a lot of running water, something not known when he was a kid. — 00:03:48
  • 2025-09-12 · This Might Actually be Happening — Hank says the Mars sample return mission is definitely not going to happen in the 2020s. — 00:11:14
  • 2025-09-12 · This Might Actually be Happening — Hank says that if the rock's leopard spots are really biosignatures, Mars was inhabited, but accepting that brings new mysteries, not closure. — 00:12:02
  • 2025-09-12 · This Might Actually be Happening — Hank says an independent origin of life on Mars would be the most exciting version: it would mean life, though not necessarily complex life, is extraordinarily common in the universe. — 00:12:02
  • 2025-09-12 · This Might Actually be Happening — Hank says planets swap material through impact ejecta, so life might have moved from Earth to Mars, Mars to Earth, or from elsewhere to both. (speculative) — 00:13:00
  • 2025-09-12 · This Might Actually be Happening — Hank says Earth's oldest life evidence is limited by its oldest rocks; Mars could preserve early steps Earth erased and help explain how chemistry became biology. (hedged) — 00:13:37
  • 2025-09-12 · This Might Actually be Happening — Hank says Mars still has internal heat: its most recent volcanic eruption was millions of years ago or less, not billions; there is probably still subsurface water. — 00:14:06
  • 2025-09-12 · This Might Actually be Happening — Hank says that if Mars once had life and has warm subsurface water, it seems entirely possible that living microbes are still in Mars, which would be so cool. (hedged) — 00:14:37
  • 2025-09-12 · This Might Actually be Happening — Hank says that if the question of life on Mars is answered yes, it becomes a trillion exciting new questions. — 00:15:45
  • 2025-09-12 · This Might Actually be Happening — Hank says the scale is starting to tip toward there having once been life on Mars; it could tip back, but to him, after long interest, it feels like it's going one way. (hedged) — 00:18:43
  • 2025-09-12 · This Might Actually be Happening — Hank admits he wants there to be life on Mars, so that bias is there. — 00:18:43
  • 2025-12-05 · Why Don't Rockets Melt Themselves — Irwin: The guide hints that Mars, a place with a lot of red dirt, has quite a bit of methane. — 00:03:15
  • 2025-12-09 · Hank Green, from A to Z — John: Trying to recall the name of Hank's 1990s Mars website, John scrolled past a completely wrong Google AI response and learned from Wikipedia it was Hank Green's Mars Exploration Page. — 00:00:00
  • 2025-12-09 · Hank Green, from A to Z — John says Dear Hank and John, a weekly podcast, has dispensed advice plus the news from Mars and AFC Wimbledon for over 10 years. — 00:00:58

2026

  • 2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 2! — Hank says one of his very first websites was about a planet: Mars. — 00:47:56
  • 2026-04-03 · I Had a Hallucination This Week — Hank: When Orin was little, Hank talked with him about three kinds of things: made by the universe (Mars, stars, mountains), by life (birds, pine cones, butterfly eggs) and by people (houses, TV shows, jokes). — 00:01:20

Also named in other years (nothing said): On Iran, Islam, and Amazingly Stupid Comments (2009-07-12), Project for Awesome 2019 Recap (BUTT IS LEGS) (2019-12-31)