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this beautiful mosaic is the most

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detailed image ever taken on the surface

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of mars it captures some of the

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sedimentary rocks that scientists came

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to the red planet to study

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only the very edges of the rover are

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visible in this mosaic

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nasa's perseverance mars rover is now

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exploring a really important part of

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jezreel crater

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around 3.5 billion years ago a river

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flowed into lake jezreel depositing mud

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and sand on the crater floor forming an

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ancient delta what you see are some of

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the hills and cliffs at the edge of that

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delta

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here you can see some of perseverance's

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wheel tracks showing where we came from

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on the crater floor where we spent the

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take a look at the darker gray layered

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rocks that make up the roughly 32 foot

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tall cliff in front of the rover you can

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see very clear horizontal layers in

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these rocks and you'll also notice

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pieces of the cliff have broken off and

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tumbled downhill

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one of the more interesting ones is the

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three foot tall boulder called betty's

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rock which perseverance was able to get

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these rocks have been sitting on the

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surface of mars for billions of years

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and over that time

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wind erosion has shaped the surface into

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pretty interesting forms like this

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balanced rock

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immediately surrounding the rover is an

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area called hog wallow flats

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previously known as the bacon strip

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based on its appearance in orbital

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images

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take a look at the bright rocks the

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rover is sitting on we think these are

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some of the finest grained sedimentary

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rocks deposited in the delta

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fine grain rocks are important because

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they're typically really good places to

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look for signs of ancient life

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we'd plan to do up to five abrasions on

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the rocks in this area that's where we

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use our drill to expose a fresh surface

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which allows us to analyze the chemistry

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and mineralogy

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but mars threw us some curve balls and

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these softer rocks didn't always

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cooperate

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here you can see the result of one of

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our abrasion attempts the rock crumbled

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during the abrasion preventing us from

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analyzing the spot

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we had two unlucky abrasion attempts in

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this area before achieving success at

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the skinner ridge outcrop

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here we collected our first two rockcore

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samples from the delta and since then

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we've collected two more

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perseverance drove to the delta because

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it is a very promising place to look for

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signs of ancient life we hope to learn

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more when a future mission brings these

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samples back to earth