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#Mars: Climbing with Curiosity. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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🗓️ 3 June 2023

⏱️ 6 minutes

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#Mars: Climbing with Curiosity. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/curiosity-looks-back-again-as-it-climbs-higher-onto-mount-sharp/

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0:00.0

Did you know choosing the train can take up to 500 cars off the road? Just one train at a time.

0:07.0

One gig at a time, one last minute plan, one festival, one going then, why not at a time?

0:18.0

One train journey at a time can help create a greener future.

0:23.0

So when will you take your next trip? Find out more at nationalrail.co.uk for what's last greener?

0:30.0

This is CBSI in the world. I'm John Batcher with Bob Zimmerman. He keeps the website behind the black.

0:39.0

We're going exploring the surface of the moon, a particular part of the moon, the sputus crater.

0:45.0

Bob, what is Shadowcam and what is it looking for? Good evening again.

0:50.0

Good evening John. Shadowcam is a camera designed, optical camera designed and built by the Arizona State University.

0:58.0

And it's installed on South Korea's Denari, orbital, lunar orbit. It's right now in lunar orbit.

1:05.0

It's designed, even though it's an optical camera, it's designed to do very low-light exposures.

1:13.0

In fact, not to take any exposures in direct sunlight, but instead use the reflected light, very dark reflected light in shadowed areas.

1:23.0

And have the ability to actually expose and reveal details. It's really a clever design.

1:30.0

And so, you know, it can do this with LEDs because I'm not LED DCC-D's because they have an extremely good response to a low-light situation.

1:40.0

And so it's been in orbit now for months. And this is the third good image that's gotten of a permanently shadowed crater at the South Pole of the moon.

1:49.0

And these are all the craters that they're aiming for where they think there might be ice and they're in their interior,

1:55.0

in places where there's always shadowed. And so today, they released a third image of the interior of Sputus Crater,

2:05.0

which is only about 10 miles from the South Pole. And in fact, the ridge line between it and Shacklfin is one of the prime landing spots for orbit, the Art of this program.

2:14.0

And Sputus is also one of those craters that the interior is thought to be permanently shadowed.

2:19.0

And there's evidence that they detect eye hydrogen in this area, which they scientists assume has got to be tied up in a molecule and water is the most likely molecule.

2:28.0

And so this third picture of the interior of the crater with low-light conditions, but we can now see details, doesn't show any obvious ice.

2:37.0

And this is the third one in Shacklfin and in more than craters, which aren't either side of Sputus at the South Pole.

2:43.0

The images also showed no obvious ice in the interior floor of these craters. This particular crater shows what they call the Scalp-to-Boundary,

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