PREVIEW: #MARS: #CURIOSITY: Excerpt from a long conversation with colleague Bob Zimmerman about the surface of Mars and the two successful NASA/JPL rovers; however we spend most of our time with Perseverance and its Sancho Pannza, Ingenuity, it is welcome
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 9 February 2024
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| 0:21.0 | The other rover on the surface of Mars, perseverance in ingenuity getting all the attention because of the end of ingenuity's adventures. |
| 0:29.0 | However, curiosity, you will recall, climbing, climbing, climbing climbing Mount Sharp and Bob Zimmerman has some |
| 0:36.4 | fresh observations about what we're seeing from the photographs for and aft of |
| 0:42.0 | curiosity this is terrain never photographs before and aft of curiosity. |
| 0:43.0 | This is terrain never before experienced on Mars, |
| 0:47.0 | as Bob makes the case you blend where there's flat Mars. |
| 0:51.0 | This is rocky and steep Mars. This is Rocky and Steep Mars. Curiosity, Mount Sharp, here's Bob Zimmerman to explain. |
| 0:58.6 | The Wonders of Mars. |
| 1:00.0 | It's clogged. |
| 1:01.0 | So, so periodically I'll tell you show I'll grab some pictures that they take of around it because it's |
| 1:07.1 | this spectacular scenery it's it is climbing Mount Sharp which is the central peak |
| 1:11.8 | inside Gail Crater. It's a very very large |
| 1:14.6 | central peak. It's kind of like this giant table mountain and almost fills the |
| 1:18.4 | entire crater. That's one of the reasons they picked it. And so curiosity is moving across this really rough ground. They've |
| 1:24.2 | released the panorama and a zoom in of the distance and so I posted this because |
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