Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Mars once had a magnetic field—can we bring it back? Learn what new seismic data reveals about the Red Planet’s heart and whether nuclear power could restart its spin.

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Credits:
Could We Nuke Mars’ Core to Restart Its Spin
Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur
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Music by Chris Zabriskie

Chapters
0:00 Intro
0:12 The Dream of a Living Mars
1:50 What We’ve Learned About the Martian Core
4:55 Why Mars Lost Its Heartbeat
6:28 The “Nuke the Core” Concept
8:15 The Energy Problem
9:46 New Insights from Seismic Science
10:43 Alternative Ways to Reignite a Planet
14:04 The Ethics and the Long View