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PREVIEW: From a longer conversation with Bob Zimmerman about space engineering and discovery: speaking of a panorama in sharp detail taken by Perseverance of Jezero Crater -- the red dust of Mars accumulated like 3 billion year-old talcum powder over the

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

Society & Culture, Arts, News, Books

4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2023

⏱️ 3 minutes

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PREVIEW: From a longer conversation with Bob Zimmerman about space engineering and discovery: speaking of a panorama in sharp detail taken by Perseverance of Jezero Crater -- the red dust of Mars accumulated like 3 billion year-old talcum powder over the eroded rocky features.

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2023 Jezero Crater

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0:00.0

Kitchen Dreamers, we're Wren, and we've changed the kitchen world so you can change your kitchen.

0:08.1

Welcome to affordable luxury. Finally, you can have the integrated dishwasher and go all in on the pull out pantry.

0:17.0

Come on Britain. This is luxury for all.

0:21.0

Affordable for all. We were Wren and this is the great renovation. Visit your

0:28.7

nearest showroom. This is John Batcher, conversation with my good friend Bob Zimmerman behind the black, about perseverance

0:35.9

on the surface of Mars, taking photographs, a marvelous 360 photograph of the horizon of to Zero Crater. This was while Mars was behind

0:47.0

the sun and out of communication with NASA. The picture now downloaded Bob has it

0:52.3

up on his site. You click through it and you get

0:55.3

overwhelming detail of rocks and dust of Mars, billions of years of dust. It's a fascination

1:02.0

to stare at another planet. Someday it will be

1:05.9

part of the Earth Mars system, but right now it's just prospective. And I

1:11.6

recommend contemplating where we cannot go, but our forebears dreamed of and our children

1:22.1

will go.

1:24.0

Thanks to Bob Zimmerman and Perseverance and NASA and

1:28.0

and the wonders of modern technology.

1:32.0

Here's Bob.

1:34.0

Yes, this is perseverance.

1:36.0

During the solar conjunction when the sun was between the earth and the moor and

1:41.0

Mars, no communications could go on on but they had programmed perseverance

1:45.1

while it sat there out of touch with Earth to take a high resolution 360

1:51.1

degree panorama of its location the entire looking across the horizon of all of

1:57.4

G0 crater and so I've posted a part of that a lower resolution version of part of that, a lower resolution version of part of that panorama,

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