PREVIEW: #MARS: SULFUR: Conversation with colleague Bob Zimmerman re: the Curiosity discovery of rock crystals on the surface of Mars (Gale Crater) that NASA hails as "pure sulfur." More tonight.
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🗓️ 24 July 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch. |
| 0:10.0 | He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection. |
| 0:15.0 | Well, they call him a dreamer. And now they're right. |
| 0:19.0 | All aboard, Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge. |
| 0:26.0 | Piando Ferries, there is another way. |
| 0:29.0 | This is John Bachelor, conversation with my good colleague Bob Zimmerman about rocks discovered by curiosity. |
| 0:37.0 | NASA holds a press conference Bob points out that he spotted this months ago for behind the black. The rocks are pure sulfur. What |
| 0:46.8 | that means is we're looking at the revelations that were expected from curiosity as it climbs through the layers of Mars, pure |
| 0:56.7 | sulfur, crystal rocks. |
| 0:59.4 | Bobsite has a picture of them. |
| 1:01.5 | You smash them with rocks and their crystals in all places. |
| 1:04.4 | Sulfur left behind by eroding water, a glacier, unknown. Bob Zimmerman on his discovery several months ago and now NASA is featuring |
| 1:16.7 | it in press conferences. |
| 1:18.7 | Sulfur. |
| 1:20.1 | More of this later. |
| 1:21.1 | This is really unusual looking. So I posted it and I noticed that they |
| 1:24.7 | that what the rocks themselves were the rover had rolled over some rocks and |
| 1:29.7 | broke them and so they went back and wanted to get close up looks of those rocks because they |
| 1:34.6 | looked like interesting yellow crystals and that was really unusual and you know when you |
| 1:39.7 | break a rocky getting to see the inside of it and you see more. The rock towns always bring a rock town's always bring a rock hammer because they want to break the rocks. |
| 1:47.0 | So I notice this in June and posted it. |
| 1:50.0 | Well, this week, the JPL Curiosity team had a press release in which they said, |
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