sands production which is the other area that the companies are moving aggressively into and that's the tar sand regions of Alberta now shale and
Sands , New Mexico, and the story behind this image is we got really lucky with the weather.
sandstorms, you know, sand just etches stuff. The tiniest bit of moisture, particularly in winter, gets into the cracks. Bones are incredibly
White Sands missile base in the United States--
The sandstorm at the beginning that causes all the problems in "The Martian" could not actually happen.
had tar sands , following it to a refueling station, and then seeing corporate semis come in and refuel there, thus linking them to the tar sands .
And he sands off all the ones that don't sound like Jimmy in my chapter.
This is Marina Bay Sands , one of the new, very large, integrated resorts that recently opened in Singapore.
That's what tar sands are.
It was hauling gold out of the sands out of Nome.
Kai wasn't padding the sands down now, just digging it, tossing it up, and hoping.
to drive all the way around White Sands Missile Range to get to the Texas border, basically, to buy dry ice and get back.
Now you're looking at the tar sands , but if you look to the east here you'll see something that kind of catches your eye.
So they handed off from White Sands to Table Mountain.
The first time I went to White Sands to photograph seriously, I spent an evening and a morning, shot 24 rolls of film.
forms of oil like the tar sands in Alberta and so on.
two weeks later through a sandstorm-- through a snowstorm, and arrived on Christmas Eve.
So the astronauts walking through the sandstorm and stumbling around and stuff like that-- they were stumbling around, because they had these huge freaking fans pointed at them blowing sand
And there were natural grains in the sandstone that he could follow.
The mission is designed to handle sandstorm gusts of up to 150 KPH.
But his answer is obscured In a sandstorm of flashbulbs Rowdy reporters
know, comic sands FW FWD FDW FWD re you know and uh there's a lot of that
And you've been funding this huge tar sands project.
to track ships in Puget Sound that were carrying tar sands oil.
And so they drilled deep into the desert sands .
So they had their main ground terminal in White Sands , New Mexico which had the most capability.
non-conventional sources of fossil fuel such as tar Sands and natural naturally occurring bamans and oil shells or
if you look at the in Alberta which is the tar sands you're looking at let's
fossil bone is quite a lot tougher than the sandstone that it's embedded in.
Had this pretty clean design with this little new sandstone thing going on.
The doubling time for cells that are living in sandstones in the Antarctic dry valleys probably
So if you were standing out in a sandstorm on Mars, it would feel like a very gentle breeze.
properties that there's a biolayer that exists on the top of wet Sands that can kill many types of bacteria including
the middle of the Mojave Desert but you can still explore the sands loft
There's a desert, White Sands .
And then in an instant, a sandstorm came through the desert, enveloped him in a haze of yellow smoke, and I never
So maybe a volcano erupted over a beach and that turned into sandstone and granite.
On Mars, they do get sandstorms of 150 kilometers an hour, but the density of the atmosphere is less than 1% of Earth's.
What went on? And it's sandstorms and all this cataclysmic stuff.
On Mars, it's the sandstorm.
"Shifting sands dust its cheeks in powdered beauty."
And eventually, we got all these companies to agree to get off of using tar sands oil to fuel their fleets.
And you had to make such a cosmic jump in suspension of disbelief to buy that these kids were fighting on the sands of Iwo Jima that the score--
And what was so awesome about it is that they believed us because they work next to White Sands Missile Range, where rockets happen.
If I told you that President Obama is weighing up whether to build that pipeline between the tar sands of Canada and the Gulf of Mexico and then I said,
And is the logical conclusion of this that kind of the shores lick at more and more and more of the sands IT leaving us a smaller and smaller
British ships the ins and outs of the islands and marshes of the Chesapeake their folk dying on the Sands from fever
days of War for months when I closed my eyes I saw the abandoned Soviet tanks and endless gray Sands of Northern
And when you're lucky, that's a foot of sandstone, and you shovel it out in an hour.
ceramic back and how tough it is. But it turned out only the sandstone colorway of this phone had the specific ceramic