#Mars: Zhurong results indicate a drier and less eroded planet than the moon. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
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#Mars: Zhurong results indicate a drier and less eroded planet than the moon. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/zhurong-found-mars-drier-than-expected-and-less-eroded-than-the-moon/
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| 0:00.0 | Sometimes running a business can feel like cycling uphill with square wheels. |
| 0:07.0 | But zero online accounting software can help predict the future cash flow of your business. |
| 0:15.0 | So you can stay one step ahead. Soon it'll feel more like free-wheeling downhill. |
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| 0:27.0 | Search zero with an X because healthy business is beautiful business. |
| 0:36.0 | I'm John Bass with Bob Zimmerman, the 13th anniversary behind the black. |
| 0:40.0 | We started with behind the black and Falcon 9 being an ambition. |
| 0:45.0 | Now we're looking at Mars because Mars is within the sites of Elon Musk and the other private space. |
| 0:51.0 | What the conditions in Mars are in Mars is critical if we're going to have man presence. |
| 0:58.0 | Bob, Zhurong is a Chinese probe. What is it discovered on the surface of Mars? |
| 1:04.0 | Yes, if the Mars rover is right now inactive, we don't know if it's dead or alive. |
| 1:09.0 | We'll have to wait and see. But it gathered and an enormous amount of data for it's more almost a year on Mars. |
| 1:17.0 | And the Chinese scientists have released the paper that I spotted and I thought it was really interesting. |
| 1:23.0 | They won. They confirmed once again that the radar data from this instrument found no real evidence of water or ice in this part of Mars. |
| 1:33.0 | And that wasn't a surprise but it's nice to get it confirmed. This isn't the dry equatorial region so they didn't expect to find any water. |
| 1:41.0 | But it's just there are features on the surface that look like they were maybe made by water once in the past. |
| 1:46.0 | Yeah, to make sure. So it found there was no water but the other part of this study was really interesting. |
| 1:51.0 | They found that the space and weathering effects on Mars are less than those found on the airless moon. |
| 1:59.0 | In other words, on the moon, everything gets smoothed out and kind of plowed around over many e-tons from impacts and the solar wind and directly infected from the Sun. |
| 2:10.0 | So things are softened and eroded out. But on Mars, which you'd think would have similar same effect, no. |
| 2:19.0 | Things are less eroded and that actually fits what we see from Curiosity as well. |
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