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- [Scientist 1] So this is the kind of botryoidal texture
that it would be great to get a piece of.
And it's relatively free of sediment, which is good.
- [Scientist 2] Yeah.
Rotate your jaws,
rotate your wrist to the right, just a little
and open up, yeah, that's a good bite there.
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Nice!
- [Scientist 4] Look at that.
- [Scientist 1] Good chunk.
- [Scientist 3] Ooh, bye-bye.
- [Scientist 4] And, there goes the boulder.
Or do we wanna do a...
- [Scientist 1] Do you got a good grip on it?
- [Scientist 4] Yeah.
- [Scientist 2] Two-finger grip.
- [Scientist 1] All right, let's just stow it.
- [Scientist 3] Okay.
- [Scientist 2] If you hold it
with the rock up, make it rotate left a little more, maybe.
Yeah, beauty, I might stop there.
- [Scientist 3] Nice.
- [Scientist 1] Very altered, but still a good crust,
it looks like.
- [Scientist 2] Okay, let me get my ducks in a row here.
- [Scientist 5] So, this area I think has a really,
either, high sedimentation rate
or it's just been collecting for such a long time
that these are quite the sedimentary layers
that we're looking at here.
But then on top of it, is that just a crust or?
- [Scientist 4] Can we get a zoom on these layers?
- [Scientist 5] Look at all that sand, interesting.
- [Scientist 3] So, is the crust
on the sedimentary rocks the same
as the crust that forms on the volcanic rocks,
or does it depend on the chemical composition of each?
- [Scientist 6] I'd like to keep moving along if that's okay.
- [Scientist 4] Yeah, go ahead.
- [Scientist 5] Sure thing, Gabby.
- [Scientist 6] I mean, I actually don't wanna keep moving along.
I wanna stay here, but that's just not the way it is.
- [Scientist 4] Yeah, that's fine.
- [Scientist 3] That's fine, let's keep moving.
- [Scientist 5] Let's go.
- [Scientist 6] Ooh, this is a different, shark?
- [Scientist 3] Ooh, is that a shark?
- [Scientist 1] I think it's a shark.
Yeah, it looks like, maybe a cat shark.
- [Scientist 5] No, come back.
- [Scientist 7] Come back.
- [Scientist 1] Yeah, looks like a cat shark.
- [Scientist 7] Not a dog shark, but a cat shark?
- [Scientist 1] I mean, there are dogfish, right?
But not dog sharks, is there a dog, there's no-
- [Scientist 7] But, isn't the dogfish, cartilaginous fish?
I think it is.
- [Scientist 1] Yeah, it is.
- [Scientist 6] Gonna try to get the arm out?
- [Scientist 2] No, not yet.
- [Scientist 1] Very nice, cat shark.
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- [Scientist 1] What about this one?
- [Scientist 2] I'll circle that again.
- [Scientist 8] Yeah, I see it, you're looking for.
All right, Jake, get in there and get that thing!
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- [Scientist 2] Might be a little big.
- [Scientist 8] What about that one just to the left?
- [Scientist 3] Yeah, this one?
Yeah, that one might be better, yeah.
- [Scientist 8] Perfect.
- [Scientist 5] Nice.
- [Scientist 3] Cool beans.
- [Scientist 5] We can put that in Ford Bio Box A.
- [Scientist 1] Okay, you wanna get a zoom on it first?
- [Scientist 8] Porch lights?
There, gonna be porch lights.
- [Scientist 5] I think we should probably put the rocks
on the starboard side.
- [Scientist 6] Can you some screen caps of this?
- [Scientist 5] So, we can leave the Ford boxes for bio stuff.
- [Scientist 2] Yeah, especially with the jumpy arm.
- [Scientist 4] So, while they're picking up one
of these rocks, someone in the science chat said
that they were hunting
for them a while back out in Coral Sea.
When they brought up the rocks
that they were looking for small corals attached
to the rocks
but they found really small,
a few millimeters tall, carnivorous sponges on these rocks.
And, they're wondering if we'd find anything
like that on our rocks.
And actually, we did!
We did bring up a rock yesterday
and we were able to find some carnivorous sponges on them.
Two of them actually.
- [Scientist 5] That's very cool.
- [Scientist 1] And, just to let you know, there's parts
of this sponge that are dead
and parts that alive, we're gonna want the kind
of whiter portion.
The darker, more opaque portion is probably dead.
If you can get, some of that coral too on there
that wouldn't be all that bad either,
but, may require a deeper grab.
Yeah, those polyps, they're a part of a coral attached
to the sponge.
- [Scientist 4] Can you zoom in there, Jimmy?
- [Scientist 1] If you can't grab the coral it's okay too,
the sponge is the primary target.
- [Scientist 3] FYI, this is gonna be really crunchy.
It's gonna break very easy.
- [Scientist 4] Okay.
- [Scientist 8] Let's divide it once, right about there.
- [Scientist 4] Right there?
- [Scientist 8] Happy with that, Steve?
- [Scientist 3] It's right there?
- [Scientist 8] I think so.
- [Scientist 1] Yeah, that's fine, yeah.
That's for the coral bit.
- [Scientist 8] Nicely done.
- [Scientist 5] So is this going
in the forward box, you said?
- [Scientist 1] Yeah, actually, you know what,
you could probably slurp that.
- [Scientist 5] Okay.
- [Scientist 8] Let's loose.
- [Scientist 1] Yep, let's do it.
- [Scientist 8] You ready for a sample?
- [Scientist 1] Yep.
- [Scientist 4] Wait, turn it.
- [Scientist 2] Somewhat flat.
- [Scientist 4] Yeah.
All right.
- [Scientist 2] Nice and dark.
- [Scientist 4] Ooh, and a brittle star.
Wait, is that a brittle star?
- [Scientist 5] Oh, I didn't see it.
- [Scientist 4] There.
- [Scientist 5] Nice.
- [Scientist 4] We'll take it, we'll see what happens.
- [Scientist 1] Where's it going, Starboard box?
- [Scientist 5] Starboard Delta.
- [Scientist 1] Okay.
- [Scientist 5] That box is full.
- [Scientist 8] Snip and slurp?
- [Scientist 2] Yeah, maybe that's best, yeah.
It's a small piece, so.
And these are, proteinaceous
so, it's gonna be a little tricky to snap off, huh?
- [Scientist 8] Yeah, it's gonna be like nylon line.
- [Scientist 5] It might end up breaking off.
- [Scientist 8] Yeah, we might end up with the whole thing.
- [Scientist 5] Oh, probably keep some away.
- [Scientist 8] Yeah, they're all jumping off.
- [Scientist 2] I think you mighta got it.
- [Scientist 5] I think you got it, yeah.
(males chuckling)
- [Scientist 2] It looks like
the base snapped back, yeah, beautiful.
- [Scientist 4] Wow, good job.
- [Scientist 1] All right, popping out.
- [Scientist 2] Yeah, the starboard side there.
Jeremy Horowitz is a scientist
at shore, says it might be a little (indistinct) Rita Marie.
- [Scientist 8] Okay.
Go that way.
- [Scientist 2] There you go.
Go, go, go.
Gravity, gravity, gravity.
- [Scientist 5] There it goes, woo-hoo!
- [Scientist 2] Stay.
Okay, good collect.
- [Scientist 5] That was sample 98.
- [Scientist 8] Man, that thumb just wants to go
for that blue bug.
(group laughing)
- [Scientist 4] Do any of these samples
say how big they are in the descriptions?
- [Scientist 5] The first one is a small, black one.
- [Scientist 4] Okay, let's try and put it in that box first.
- [Scientist 5] Okay.
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- [Scientist 2] That's encrusted.
- [Scientist 4] Yep.
- [Scientist 5] You have about a medium-size rock.
- [Scientist 4] Looks good.
- [Scientist 8] All right, going in the starboard box?
- [Scientist 4] Yep.
- [Scientist 5] We're gonna try
to put it in A, there's a small rock in there already.
So, we're hoping this one fits inside with that one.
- [Scientist 8] Yep, five.
- [Scientist 2] It's rock number seven.
- [Scientist 4] Yes.
- [Scientist 5] Rock seven.
Oh my goodness, this rock formation is amazing.
I do not think this is volcanic.
- [Scientist 4] Oh, no?
Interesting.
- [Scientist 5] Just, looking at the arch that's on top.
- [Scientist 4] Wow.
- [Scientist 7] What do you think it is, Amber?
- [Scientist 4] You can go just like half zoom now.
- [Scientist 5] I'm just going to go
with a, you know, ah, goodness, a calcite,
a calcium carbonate, I mean.
I don't know, I really don't know, it's just-
- [Scientist 7] That's beautiful, all of those right there.
- [Scientist 5] The weathering feature
of that is just kind of...
- [Scientist 4] It's magnificent.
- [Scientist 5] Very unusual.
- [Scientist 7] Really interesting with these.
- [Scientist 5] So many holes.
- [Scientist 4] This is definitely my favorite stuff
to fly around, these very dramatic rock features,
that you just go up and over and around and through.
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