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the type of research

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i like to do for mars specifically is

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studying

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the near surface water cycle

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specifically i look at

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what's called atmosphere regolith

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interactions that's basically looking

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into

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how the regolith breeds the little water

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vapor that's

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on the surface of mars and what happens

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to that water vapor once it's inside the

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regolith

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so is that water vapor joining with

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salts and making liquids

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and are those liquids habitable to life

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as we know it

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the perseverance rover is taking along

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with it two really cool instruments i'll

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be able to help answer these type of

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questions

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one of those instruments is called the

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mars environmental dynamics

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analyzer or meta and the other one's

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called the radar imager of mars

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subsurface experiment or rimfax the type

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of data that those instruments are going

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to give us

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on the environment the near surface

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environment

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help us understand

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for me the most exciting

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discovery that the perseverance rover

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could give us

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is actually in situ evidence of liquid

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formation

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on mars today we've had some tantalizing

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evidence of this occurring

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by the phoenix lander we saw liquid

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droplets maybe forming on the struts

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but they didn't form there naturally

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they formed there after the phoenix

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landed and it was all nice and warm

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right

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as the perseverance rover is trucking

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along the rimfacts experiment will be

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sending radar waves into the subsurface

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and those radar waves

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will be able to detect naturally

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occurring liquid on mars

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and if it finds that that's going to

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revolutionize what we think about the

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present day habitability of mars