Uploaded July 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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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: tinyurl.com/1rvi50gu

Other Mars 2020 Videos:
Mastcam-Z - Looking For Life on Mars - Coming Soon!
MEDA - Analyzing Weather on Mars - tinyurl.com/ybyvwtdb
Meet Perseverance, the 2020 Mars Rover - tinyurl.com/y7c9zdw5
MOXIE - Making Oxygen on Mars - tinyurl.com/yal79d4w
How Will We Breathe in Space? - tinyurl.com/y8t589ra
Naming the NASA 2020 Rover - tinyurl.com/yakwaq7n

Video credits:
Mars Rocks Life - NASA mars.nasa.gov/resources/24694/mars-science-teams-investigate-ancient-life-in-australia
Mars 2020 Rover - NASA mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/videos/?v=319
Mars 2020 - NASA
Curiosity launch - NASA mars.nasa.gov/resources/20034/curiositys-launch
Mars Sample Collection - NASA mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/videos/?v=423
Mars Sample Return - NASA mars.nasa.gov/resources/24767/nasa-advances-plans-to-bring-samples-back-from-mars
Building NASA’s Mars 2020 Rover - NASA mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/videos/?v=420

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.
spacetelescope.org/images/heic1909a
Mars Hubble - NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team spacetelescope.org/images/opo0124a
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, commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6215197
Chroococcidiopsis thermalis T. Darienko space.com/40898-low-light-bacteria-mars-colonization.html
PIXL location - NASA mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/spacecraft/instruments/pixl
Diagram of the perseverance rover-instruments - NASA jpl.nasa.gov/news/press_kits/mars_2020/assets/images/04_mission/04C_science/rover-instruments@2x.jpg
Abby Allwood outside of Nuuk, Greenland.
IMAGE CREDIT: MIKE TOILLON/NASA ASTROBIOLOGY.
astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/pixl-a-new-nasa-instrument-for-ferreting-out-clues-of-ancient-life-on-mars
Stromatolithe Paléoarchéen - Didier Descouens, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stromatolithe_Pal%C3%A9oarch%C3%A9en_-_MNHT.PAL.2009.10.1.jpg
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. commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:X-ray_fluorescence_simple_figure.svg
Willemite-rich zinc ore fluorescing under ultraviolet light by James St. John commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zinc_ore_fluorescing_(32240547152).jpg
MarsPerseveranceRover-PixlStudiesRock by NASA/JPL-Caltech photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA23719.jpg
Mars2020-PIXL-Chart-Sample by NASA commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mars2020-PIXL-Chart-Sample-figure2-full.png
PIXL-Breadboard-Maps-Paleoarchean by NASA/JPL commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mars2020-PIXL-Breadboard-Maps-Paleoarchean-figure1-full.png
Jezero crater on Mars NASA/Tim Goudge - https://news.utexas.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Goudge_Jezero_Basin.jpg
Jezero crater lake billions of years ago NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona - photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA22907.jpg
Minerals (green=carbonates; red=olivine sand eroding from carbonate-containing rocks) NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/JHU-APL/Purdue/USGS - photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA23380.jpg
Mars 2020 Rover-SHERLOC NASA/JPL-Caltech jpl.nasa.gov/images/mars/2020/20140731/SHERLOC.jpg

Music: Flames by Dan Henig, The New Order by Aaron Kenny

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