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#MARS: Theory of Liquid Water on Mares. Bob Zimmerman

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🗓️ 8 November 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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#MARS: Theory of Liquid Water on Mares.  Bob Zimmerman 

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0:00.0

This is CBSI on the world.

0:05.5

Behind the Black, Bob Zimmerman is here, and we're going exploring.

0:09.0

Europa Clipper is launched on its way.

0:11.3

However, Bob, you tell me that JPL has given us something really cool.

0:15.2

What is it?

0:16.1

Yeah, this is really cool, actually.

0:19.2

What JPL has done is it's put together a website.

0:22.9

It calls it the Europa Trek Portal.

0:25.5

And I've got a link to it on behind the black.

0:27.1

And what this does is it gives anyone a very easy access to every single high-resolution picture

0:34.2

that the past Jupiter orbiters, Voyager, Galileo, and Juno. These are the

0:42.1

past spacecraft that went past or orbited Jupiter. Every image they took of Europa while they

0:49.1

were there. And what's interesting is not just a list of images, it's linked to a global image, a map

0:56.1

of the planet.

0:57.6

And so you not only can see the image and a detailed description of what the image is about,

1:05.1

but you can also see where it is in the context of the planet.

1:07.9

It's very, very cool.

1:09.3

And this is, of course, an anticipation of when Europa clip gets there in 2030 or so. They will, of course, begin adding, I think,

1:17.1

Europa Clipper images to this website when the time comes. But for anyone who's interested,

1:21.6

this is really cool. This is the ice skater, Bob. This is what the surface looks like. The

1:26.4

ice skater in the northern hemisphere. What are those craters, Bob. This is what the surface looks like. The ice skater in the northern hemisphere.

1:28.8

What are those? Are those craters, Bob, or punches through the ice? What are we?

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