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🗓️ 13 February 2019
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0:00.0 | Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in. |
0:05.8 | Researchers at Yachtolt have been delving into the secrets of probiotics for 90 years. |
0:11.0 | Yacold also partners with nature portfolio to advance gut microbiome science through the global grants for gut health, an investigator-led research program. |
0:19.6 | To learn more about Yachtolt, visit yawcult.co.j.p. |
0:23.9 | That's y-A-K-U-L-T dot-C-O-J-P. |
0:28.4 | When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on Yacolt. |
0:33.5 | This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science. |
0:37.2 | I'm Steve Murski. |
0:39.2 | You know, when this little rover landed, the objective was to have it be able to move 1,100 yards and survive for 90 days on Mars. |
0:50.8 | NASA administrator Jim Bridenstein. |
0:53.7 | And instead, here we are 14 years later, after 28 miles of |
0:58.7 | travel, and today we get to celebrate the end of this mission. Bridenstein spoke at a press |
1:04.0 | conference at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory today, February 13, 2019. The media event was |
1:10.7 | called to officially mark Opportunities' demise. |
1:14.1 | The rover has been quiet since last June when a severe dust storm covered its solar panels. |
1:20.5 | Only about 140th of the typical amount of solar radiation was getting through to power the rover, |
1:25.7 | and it's been silent since. |
1:27.9 | Opportunities very close to the equator, so there's lots of solar power. |
1:31.2 | Cornell University astronomer Stephen Squires, talking to Scientific American back in March 2006, |
1:37.9 | he was the principal investigator for the science payload of the Mars Exploration Rover |
1:42.5 | Project, better known as the two rovers' spirit and opportunity. |
1:46.8 | They landed on Mars three weeks apart in January 2004. |
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