PIXL - Looking for Ancient Life on Mars
This video focuses on the PIXL instrument of the #Mars2020 rover #Perseverancerover. This component of the rover will use x-ray fluorescence to learn more about rocks on Mars that may possibly contain evidence that Mars was once inhabited by microbial life forms.
Watch the MARS 2020 landing live: https://tinyurl.com/1rvi50gu
Other Mars 2020 Videos:
Mastcam-Z - Looking For Life on Mars - Coming Soon!
MEDA - Analyzing Weather on Mars - https://tinyurl.com/ybyvwtdb
Meet Perseverance, the 2020 Mars Rover - https://tinyurl.com/y7c9zdw5
MOXIE - Making Oxygen on Mars - https://tinyurl.com/yal79d4w
How Will We Breathe in Space? - https://tinyurl.com/y8t589ra
Naming the NASA 2020 Rover - https://tinyurl.com/yakwaq7n
Video credits:
Mars Rocks Life - NASA https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/24694...
Mars 2020 Rover - NASA https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multim...
Mars 2020 - NASA
Curiosity launch - NASA https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/20034...
Mars Sample Collection - NASA https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multim...
Mars Sample Return - NASA https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/24767...
Building NASA’s Mars 2020 Rover - NASA https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multim...
Image credits:
Hubble's Spectacular Wide View of the Universe - NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth and D. Magee (University of California, Santa Cruz), K. Whitaker (University of Connecticut), R. Bouwens (Leiden University), P. Oesch (University of Geneva), and the Hubble Legacy Field team.
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images...
Mars Hubble - NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team https://www.spacetelescope.org/images...
Microfossils from a sediment core of the Deep Sea Drilling Project (DSDP), Sediment sample with microfossils
By Hannes Grobe (talk), Alfred Wegener Institute - Own work, CC BY 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index...
Chroococcidiopsis thermalis T. Darienko https://www.space.com/40898-low-light...
PIXL location - NASA https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacec...
Diagram of the perseverance rover-instruments - NASA https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/press_k...
Abby Allwood outside of Nuuk, Greenland.
IMAGE CREDIT: MIKE TOILLON/NASA ASTROBIOLOGY.
https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/pi...
Stromatolithe Paléoarchéen - Didier Descouens, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
MK-08245 Hamelin Pool Stromatolites Image: Martin Kraft (photo.martinkraft.com)
License: CC BY-SA 3.0
via Wikimedia Commons
Schematic representation of X-ray fluorescence. By Calvero. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Willemite-rich zinc ore fluorescing under ultraviolet light by James St. John https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
MarsPerseveranceRover-PixlStudiesRock by NASA/JPL-Caltech https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpe...
Mars2020-PIXL-Chart-Sample by NASA https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
PIXL-Breadboard-Maps-Paleoarchean by NASA/JPL https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Jezero crater on Mars NASA/Tim Goudge - https://news.utexas.edu/wp-content/up...
Jezero crater lake billions of years ago NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona - https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpe...
Minerals (green=carbonates; red=olivine sand eroding from carbonate-containing rocks) NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/JHU-APL/Purdue/USGS - https://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpe...
Mars 2020 Rover-SHERLOC NASA/JPL-Caltech http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/mars/2...
Music: Flames by Dan Henig, The New Order by Aaron Kenny
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