122: #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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122: #Bestof2022: Clues: 2/2: #HotelMars: The organics found on Jezero Crater lakebed. Sunanda Sharma, JPL. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com (Originally posted October 28, 2022)
https://www.sciencealert.com/perseverance-has-discovered-organic-molecules-in-mars-jezero-crater
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| 0:56.0 | It's a really fascinating. |
| 0:58.0 | She works at JPL, part of the Planetary Geosciences Group, especially on an instrument I've learned with a very long name, |
| 1:05.0 | called quickly Sherlock on perseverance, looking for evidence that is consistent with some hypothesis about Mars, |
| 1:14.0 | about our solar system, about how it was all put together. |
| 1:18.0 | So, Sonan, you're so generous, I want to play a game with you that we've played before, which is an unlimited budget, |
| 1:25.0 | not waiting years for a sample return to going now. |
| 1:29.0 | And other parts of Mars are available as well. |
| 1:32.0 | What do you want to know? |
| 1:33.0 | What are the questions that you would want answered with this unlimited budget? |
| 1:37.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:39.0 | Amazing question, and one that I thought about a bunch, because we had against the edges so much of what we can do. |
| 1:45.0 | But I would go under, I would go deep, I would want to go to the Mars subsurface. |
| 1:51.0 | So, we know that some things like UV radiation and different types of ionizing radiation and galactic cosmic rays will have effects on the surface of Mars. |
| 1:58.0 | But the deeper you go, we hope the more protected things like organic matter would be. |
| 2:03.0 | So, if I had an unlimited budget, I would say, this is crazy. |
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