Harold Connolly Jr.

Silicates being the most abundant minerals that we see on Earth, like quartz is a silicate mineral, for example.

Olivine or peridote, the gemstone peridote is another one.

So these grains predate the origin of the solar system and they provided the nutrients, if you will, for the beginning of the formation of rocky materials and minerals in this solar system because everything got crunched as the gas began to collapse to form the sun and things heated up and then they cooled down and stuff came out.

But these grains survived that process.

So they're actually older than our solar system, which is really, really cool.

And there are people who spend their whole life studying these pre-solar grains, and it's incredible.

Oh, and just one more point about the pre-solar grains is that these, we find them in the meteorites.

That means they survive the geologic processes, such as the water moving through or heat beginning to generate.

And many of them survive to different degrees depending on where we're getting the sample from and what was the original paragraph.

Wow.

Well, you can talk to us about it as you do.

Yeah, that's a great – I like the way you drew that.

So from lessons learned from analyzing Bennu, for example, and Rugu, and there's several more papers coming out in the near future from the OSIRIS-REx mission that are going to detail even more interesting results about prebiotic compounds.

So keep to the literature for that.

Look for that very soon.

So, yeah.

So, on that area of Mars, what was it called?

I forgot.

Sheena Falls?

Is that what it was?