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so opportunities been wildly successful

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mission I don't think any of us ever

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guessed it would explore the myriad of

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different terrains and surprises that we

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found we landed right in Eagle crater

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that was most of our prime mission or

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good fraction of it we then drove over

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to endurance crater which was a slightly

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larger crater we then spent a better

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part of a couple years if I recall

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correctly driving down to Victoria

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crater and we explored that and that was

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yet even larger crater and now we're

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taking this this is real challenge to

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get to endeavour crater which is you

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know so much further than we ever

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thought the rover would be able to drive

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an endeavour crater is a very large

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impact crater that much older than any

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of those we've seen and so we still have

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approximately 12 to 14 kilometres to get

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we were simply driving along we looked

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at the images that we had acquired and

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we saw this dark spot out and we said

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well wow that's different let's go there

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and so we drive to it and investigated

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amazingly we found you know three or

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four of these meteorites you know

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gigantic chunks of iron to sitting on

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the surface of Mars two of them are

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almost they have but what we call a

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cavernous weathering where the interiors

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look like they've been eaten out which

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is quite common here on the earth when

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you have water that infuses and weathers

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out the interior have they been buried

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and exhumed was there liquid water when

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it was buried or was there water at the

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surface and these are all the kinds of

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questions that we're asking then just

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recently we found another large rock

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that was completely different called

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Marquette Island we've gotten rid of the

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weathering rind and measured as

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composition and it's a very olivene rich

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basalt so it's a rock and it has big

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crystals so it probably cooled slowly

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from some site some depth and this was

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some some other piece of Mars that had

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probably gotten blasted off from a

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meteorite strike so you know here's a

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whole other piece of this the planet

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somewhere that they can analyze and try

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to figure out how it fits into the whole

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I think everybody's stunned that the

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Rovers are still going I mean you know

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it's it's been repeated if you know so

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many times well this was a 90-day

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mission that were six years into a

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90-day mission its exploration and its

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truest form you you know that's what's

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so wonderful about having a rover if you

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don't like where you are go out and go

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to someplace else it's just like if I

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was walking around somewhere on earth

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except everything tastes a little bit

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longer but but at the end of the drive

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you get images and you look and you say

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well what's the same what's different

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what have we discovered and what's

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better than having a rover that can do