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David Blake: My name is David Blake.

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I'm from Ames Research Center and

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I'm the Principal Investigator of the

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CheMin instrument on the Curiosity rover.

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And this is my Martian Moment!

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David Blake: When we landed on Mars, the very

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first observation that was made by CheMin,

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together with the SAM instrument, found two

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percent water contained in the Mars global soil.

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And this would be very useful for astronauts,

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once they arrive there.

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This is the very first time we've been able to do

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quantitative, real mineralogy

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on the surface of Mars.

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Every time we do analysis, we find

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something that we didn't know before.

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In my view, the most exciting technology on Mars

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is actually the Curiosity rover itself, which has

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11 instruments, which gather a whole suite of data

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that allow us to decide what's going on,

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on the surface.

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And if you want to follow along, you can just use

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your search engine and go to Mars Science

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Laboratory and see the latest images,

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which are just outstanding!

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