Has Perseverance found another bacon strip?
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- Episode 166
In its search for evidence of ancient microbial life on Mars, Perseverance collected the most promising samples early in the mission at a place affectionately known as the bacon strip. Now it may have come across another one.
So happy to hear a real geologist talking about the findings. Thank you thank you thank you!
So happy you appreciate this! Thanks much for showing your support for this channel. Thank you thank you thank you!
Finally! Some who cares about scale. It really helps with perspective and is appreciated. Thanks Mars Guy.
Great! Glad you appreciate this.
"But wait! There's more!" That is a perfect motto for the weekly Mars Guy reports. Thanks, as always.
Ha, there's always more!
Ah, it's Sunday again, time to watch a new episode of "Mars Guy"!!
Thanks so much for it. 👍💪✌
Glad you're watching!
Fantastic episode. Tying so much together to build a more complete picture adds so much to the educational value of this content.
Absolutely Chris, absolutely, I'll see you on Mars in 2053 my friend
So glad you appreciate this content!
I really appreciate this channel. Your analysis is fascinating and I can’t think of where else I could find information like this. Thanks! 5:00
Thanks for the encouraging feedback!
Sunday mornings. The best time to visit Mars.
This episode makes me think that if I were a geologist, which I absolutely am not, it would be sooo hard not being able to get my hands on those samples. Even harder to not being able to explore the planets geology first hand. We need to retrieve those samples!!!!!! Thank Mars Guy. As ALWAYS, your videos are the best!
as a geologist im FUMING at not being able to be there in person and look at the rocks closely
It would definitely be nice to have real geologists on Mars, not just robotic ones, but I'm still really happy they're there!
@@tornadomash00 at the moment it's a one-way ticket going to Mars, so you'd be out of options once you would get there. Think we're not ready to stay, yet. But at 66 I won't be going, that's for sure.
Timely! I'm sitting here eating bacon and eggs watching your video on Martian bacon strips! 😆
Perfect!
I hope that a return sample mission gets a go sooner than later.
Thanks for the weekly update.
Me too! And thanks for watching.
Sunday am. Mars guy time. I’m here for it. Thanks
Thanks for being there!
Total wonderfulness.
Organic Bacon yum.
I dunno. It sounds like "veggie bacon"; whatever that may be. Perhaps a tree leaf that spent a couple of days in the sun?
Now I'm hungry!
🙂
To each his own. 😎
Come on Martian trilobites! You can't hide forever!
Those light colored stones look like granite. Thanks for showing us more of them. Now let’s move on to the next round of stones.
“We can see in this picture the entrance to a massive ancient underground city. Just beside this alien corpse seen in the foreground is an interesting piece of rock similar to one I saw in Colorado.”
@vasari9198 wow
Heinlein did write those things in his great Sci-Fi books.
Pretty sure we'll now have bacon for breakfast. Thanks for another informative and interesting episode, Mars Guy.
Ha, Sunday morning bacon for brunch in my house!
Thanks for your work, Mars Guy.
Thanks again for watching.
Organic goodness is delicious!♥ #YUM
Is there anything random , elderly foreigners can do to encourage Congress to fund the pickup of those samples?
Fund ESA to do more of it? They've been a partner on the Mars sample return portion of the mission from the beginning.
I'm afraid the way things are headed here, someone else is going to have to do it. China seems to be pretty good at sample return...it would be a colossal international scandal, but this American would have a grin on his face. 😆
@@Firebuck I didn't think of anyone else except NASA doing the pickup. That would be quite a symbolic passing of the torch.... wonder if the Indians would be up for it?
If we have bacon strips, we have pork.
Life on Mars discovered!!!
Percy is munching on some bacon bits before moving on to the big piece. The HIRISE folks should try to cover this area with the full color.
Most interesting MG, keep `em coming, thx jpm ⛏️👍🇬🇧😎
Will do, keep watching!
Was hoping they'd take a closer look at that white rock.
Organic Goodness > Creamy Nougat
It's appreciated that you use objects for scale.
Glad you do, thanks.
My favorite channel. Thanks
Nice, thanks!
Granite boulders from Canada were transported thousands of miles south to Pennsylvania. My parents have a couple on their property.
There is no reason that something similar could have happened on Mars. Glacier’s could have carried it into the river channel which in turn transported it to where it sits.
Thx for clarifying the light colored rocks. I was leaning twds felsic but you gave a closeup view and mentioned hornblende, which made me put a small piece of diorite (from my garden's landscape rocks! 😊) under the handlens and I again appreciated the beautiful hornblende crystals. Thx much! 😎
Ah, a true rockhound! Diorite is just my interpretation based on limited information. Hopefully more will be forthcoming from any spectral measurements that were made.
@@MarsGuy thx. Not yet knowing is part of the excitement! 😎
Yum yum! Thanks Mars Guy!
Ha, glad you enjoyed it!
"Treasure Island" - good name. Hope Astronomical Union approves.
Could the new bacon strip outcrop be a younger/older exposed member of one regional bacon strip? Perhaps the bacon strip is the shoreline of interconnected regional lakes or one large evaporated quiet water waterbody. I keep thinking of bacon and Oolites (eggs) for breakfast this morning.
Ha, may be the first time that phrase has ever been used! There's a substantial range in elevation (10s to maybe a 100+ m) between the bacon strip at the delta front and the Bright Angel feature, so it's not yet clear how (or if) they're related.
Thanx again for this great video. Does mudstone mean, Bright Angel are solidified remnants of the mud, that aggregated in an slow flowiing river bed?
I like your hypotheses of the white rock on treasure island. But therefore the team hast to go back and do some abrasion do clarify the crystal character of the black spots. Have a nice week!
It's still TBD whether Bright Angel is a mudstone. And this term is a reference to the size of the sedimentary particles (
Another amazing episode. I have to admit, seeing Ingenuity’s pin made me miss her a little! Is her secondary mission progressing? You may have covered it and I missed it. Thanks again for an amazing episode!!!
Thanks. And there's been no update about Ingenuity. My last episode on it is here: czcams.com/video/VHTJR3UxxgM/video.htmlsi=rFHkYgwwAvyk6O-A
Very interesting once again. So nice you explain so much more than just a picture 😊
Thanks again!
You had me at bacon
Ha ha!
Thank You Mars Guy! Does it suggests that what we can find in Bacon Strip is short period of time with small microbial life before it was (most likely) killed by change in harsh Martian environment?
The environmental conditions that led to the formation of the bacon strip might have been habitable, but we can't really say anything beyond that at this point.
great episode
Given the size and width of the "Bright Angel" formation, it is reasonable to assume that it is in fact a Canadian Bacon Strip.
Ha, good one!
Great video as always. If we do find microbial life on mars then I hope it has some weird quirks and isn't just more or less the same.
That would be cool, but to me, even finding life comparable to that of Earth would be revolutionary.
As a vegetarian I consider these features to be more like tempeh bacon strips
If you're a vegetarian, I'd like to know how you mustered the strength to type your comment? 😁
@@ge2623Try beating a gorilla in a strength competition.
Kind of gives a whole new meaning to "bring home the bacon". I'd love to know if some eggs could be found to round out the meal.
...but it's made of rock... It's a fossilized bacon strip. The Martians that used to eat them must have been huge.
Ummmm, yum. Bacon strips filled with "organic goodness". Makes me want to go and make a BLT sandwich :)
Ha ha!
The 71st flight landing spot changed of position. Were the rotor blades damaged there? 🔎
So much BS in this episode! 😂
Such a fascinating recap of Perseverance's journey thus far, from the OBS (original bacon strip) OBServatons to its next target. The combination of strips of deposits (bacon) and boulders with cracked shells (eggs?), Mars is serving up a sizzling geological platter.
This Mars Guy episode is educational, enjoyable and very rememorable.
Ha, that is some clever wordplay in your comment! So glad you appreciate Mars Guy content.
I'm here for the Bacon. Strips of bacon where is it?
It's like searching for life in Sahara Desert.
I love the Bacon Strip and to have another?? That's fantastic, maybe cause I love bacon or the scenery or both?! 😆
Ha ha!
If the other strip was bacon then this one must be the eggs? Le gars de Mars est vraiment toujours intéressant et surprenant avec toutes ses trouvailles! Was that hard to earn your PhD?
Je suis heureux que vous appréciiez Mars Guy!
A planet made of bacon. Humanity is saved.
Perseverance will not explore the bacon strip since it is well know it is a vegetarian.
"Took 20 minutes to answer my requests. bacon tasted like dusty rock. don't recommend! 2/5"
1:46 not even a sample or a closer look 😦
Amazing 🤩 🎉
I just noticed something about your stadium for scale. If you're showing an American football stadium it probably should be in feet, not meters. But if you really want it in meters, it should be 91.44 meters.
109.728 meters if you include the end zones. ( 120 yards ) An often overlooked dimension of an American football field. 😀
I hope it's an American football field and not a soccer field. We Americans prefer a sport where something actually happens.
The stadium shows a scale bar that's 100 m (properly scaled), so it's independent of the kind of stadium.
I we are able to develop cheaper and reliable ways to bring back samples
The potential to retrieve a wide range of samples to be examined by our best laboratories
This is how we will really confirm life
Bacon on mars ! Im there ! 🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓🥓
River channel or plasma/electrical discharge?
Can we talk about Cydonia?
We the mars observers again here to view more rocks
Mars your so far away from me i just cant S@@ . . . your so far . . . away
I don't understand the urge to find out whether there was life on Mars. If there was, it would have been many millenia ago. It can wait for human arrival in a century or so.
If there is or was life, we need to know how similar it is to life on Earth.
@@twonumber22 Why would we need such knowledge? Afraid of contagion? Only forms of life that have coevolved with each other for millions of years could infect us. Earth life has evolved many barriers, from the simplest to the most complex, that only most familiar strains can surpass.
@@wafikiri_ My first reply got disappeared. If you are interested in the Fermi paradox and the question of life, read the waitbutwhy article on the Fermi paradox. It explains very well on the implications of finding another lifeform.
If microbial life got started on Mars would it be found in many places? Would finding those fossils be easier for geologists walking around on Mars?
Hard to say. It depends on how long conditions remained habitable. Human geologists certainly would help the search.
...and bacon shtripsh and bacon shtripsh, and bacon shripsh...
Mars guy, you did not answer my question. Anyway, you have a PhD or not, you are a great scientist as the remarkable quality of your "lectures" attest. Votre ami Canadien.
Oh, sorry, yes I have a PhD in geology from Arizona State University. Thanks for your kind words.
I swear, Earth is what Mars was millions of years ago. I hope before my time is up, we can maybe fined a fossilized animal bone or something. Those rocks are definitely pretty good evidence.
My opinion is the water was never there long enough for life to form. Unfortunately.
Mars was never as wet or as warm as earth. It never had a thick atmosphere either.
👏👏👏
Bro, get into a cave. Don't just fiddle with boulders
"Mmmmmmmmmm........ baaaaaacon........... " ;)
Isn’t it odd that they haven’t done a mission to the moon to capture similar detailed pictures from Apollo remnants? All these pictures from Mars are BS.
No
I just watched a video about Chang'e 6's rover's new photographs from the far side of the moon. Lots of boulders, and I was thinking this: "Where's Mars Guy for scale??"
czcams.com/video/BB09kTX1Kv4/video.html
Ha, maybe someone should be doing a Moon Guy channel!
There is no life, nor was there ever life in this freeze dried, rusted, dead rock. Mars is the biggest waste of time ever.
oh you've been there?
That’s not a river valley - no outflow. They’re electrical discharge marks.
rule Brittania
This entire mission is a poorly planned disaster that offers zero new insights than Curiosity has already provided. Why is their no microscope on the rover instead of counting on these ridiculously complicated follow-up missions to return samples to Earth? I know a working, high-powered microscope to study the samples on site is totally doable. The landing site sucks and their are literally hundreds of more interesting and inspiring landing sites in Mars to have chosen from. They will never get the funding to return those samples to earth. The entire thing was a stupid idea other than the helicopter.
fourth!
spot on, right you are!
talking about stuff that's never coming back
is getting a little silly
Like my virginity.
What, its not edible? Stopped watching. ;)
Boring
👍🏻. Thank you Mars Guy.
Thanks as always for watching.