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1/2: #Bestof2022: Clues: 2/2: #HotelMars: The organics found on Jezero Crater lakebed. Sunanda Sharma, JPL. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com (Originally posted October 28, 2022)

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1/2: #Bestof2022: Clues: 1/2: #HotelMars: The organics found on Jezero Crater lakebed. Sunanda Sharma, JPL. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com (Originally posted October 28, 2022)

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This is CBS Eye on the World. Here's John Batchler.

0:41.0

David Livingston, Dr. Space of the Space Show, my colleague, co-host and co-pilot,

0:46.0

as we head to the planet Mars, and we're very pleased to welcome a guide,

0:51.0

an interdisciplinary scientist supporting Sherlock instrument on Perseverance, Mars 2020.

0:59.0

Meet Sonanda Sharma, postdoctoral fellow at JPL, part of the Planetary Geosciences Group.

1:06.0

Sonanda, it's wonderful to have you here to interpret some of these spectacular reports,

1:11.0

what they all mean. I read from most recently Perseverance, Exploring Jiserro Crater,

1:17.0

collected his 13th drilled out rock core in recent days.

1:22.0

A beautiful site for collecting Lucky Rock Core 13, said JPL officials,

1:28.0

currently nerding out over this fine grain sample. All right, stop there.

1:33.0

You're collecting samples on the surface of Mars. The theory is that someday they'll be returned.

1:38.0

We want to speak about what you're hoping to find in those samples.

1:42.0

But I begin with a word that is used in many of the headlines about Perseverance now.

1:48.0

Perse has found organics. What does that mean, Sonanda?

1:52.0

Is that something that squirms? Is that something that could squirm good evening to you?

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