national forest in a stock pond. and this jogged their memory. they remembered that janice dodson s clothes had been covered in mud on the day of her husband s murder. janice s muddied clothing had been kept in evidence for the past three years. jacqueline battle scraped some of the mud from the clothing and ground it to a fine powder. battle sifted and weighed the samples. and then examined them under a polarizing microscope. the mud from janise s clothing contained bentonite. bentonite is a clay-like material comprised of minerals of aluminum silicates, magnesium and iron oxides. ranchers would add bentonite as a sealant so that the water would be retained in the watering hole versus seeping through into the ground.
the middle of the uncompahgre national forest in a stock pond. and this jogged their memory. they remembered that janice dodson s clothes had been covered in mud on the day of her husband s murder. janice s muddied clothing had been kept in evidence for the past three years. jacqueline battle scraped some of the mud from the clothing and ground it to a fine powder. battle sifted and weighed the samples. and then examined them under a polarizing microscope. the mud from janise s clothing contained bentonite. bentonite is a clay-like material comprised of minerals of aluminum silicates, magnesium and iron oxides. ranchers would add bentonite as a sealant so that the water would be retained in the watering hole versus seeping through into the ground.
they remembered that janice dodson s clothes had been covered in mud on the day of her husband s murder. janice s muddied clothing had been kept in evidence for the past three years. jacqueline battle scraped some of the mud from the clothing and ground it to a fine powder. battle sifted and weighed the samples. and then examined them under a polarizing microscope. the mud from janise s clothing contained bentonite. bentonite is a clay-like material comprised of minerals of aluminum silicates, magnesium and iron oxides. ranchers would add bentonite as a sealant so that the water would be retained in the watering hole versus seeping through into the ground. the bentonite on janice s clothing was identical to the sample from the pond behind her
much about the atmospheric conditions. we thought that the dust would filter down and coat the solar panels such that eventually after about 90 days, no power would be able to run the rover and it would die. it has made news even on the anniversary date. the fact that it has been giving us incredible information about ancient mars, stuff you didn t know about before. absolutely. what we are finding out now that the atmosphere blows the dust off and it keeps going, that mars actually was quite a bit wetter than we imagined. one of the things it found were these little hematite nodules. we first called them blueber blueberries. what they are are iron oxides that form in water. these are beautiful little nodules. that is an earth one that came from utah. but just like this.