SciShow's video: The Rock That s Helping Us Find the Origin of Life

Epidote might just look like a pretty little crystal, but it has a secret. thanks to the high-pressure circumstances where it forms, we can use it to help us uncover the origins of life on our planet, and maybe even find signs of life on Mars. Hosted by: Hank Green (he/him) ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Alex Hackman, Ash, Benjamin Carleski, Bryan Cloer, charles george, Chris Mackey, Chris Peters, Christoph Schwanke, Christopher R Boucher, DrakoEsper, Eric Jensen, Friso, Garrett Galloway, Harrison Mills, J. Copen, Jaap Westera, Jason A Saslow, Jeffrey Mckishen, Jeremy Mattern, Kenny Wilson, Kevin Bealer, Kevin Knupp, Lyndsay Brown, Matt Curls, Michelle Dove, Piya Shedden, Rizwan Kassim, Sam Lutfi ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? SciShow Tangents Podcast: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow ---------- Sources: https://www.britannica.com/science/epidote https://www.mindat.org/min-1389.html https://www.mindat.org/glossary/epidotization https://www.unsw.edu.au/newsroom/news/2017/05/oldest-evidence-of-life-on-land-found-in-3-48-billion-year-old-a https://www.researchgate.net/publication/248554154_Early_traces_of_life_investigations_in_drilling_Archean_hydrothermal_and_sedimentary_rocks_of_the_Pilbara_Craton_Western_Australia_and_Barberton_Greenstone_Belt_South_Africa https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265384118_The_Pilbara_Drilling_Project_c272_Ga_Tumbiana_Formation_and_c_349_Ga_Dresser_Formation_Pilbara_Carton_Western_Australia https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2012JE004145 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/238448421_Epidote_in_Geothermal_Systems Image Sources https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/epidote-crystals-cluster-360-rotation-in-4k-isolated-on-stock-footage/1789298388?adppopup=true https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Epidote_in_gneiss_(Precambrian;_Rt._93_roadcut_next_to_the_New_River,_Mouth_of_Wilson,_Virginia,_USA)_5_(30704037470).jpg https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/illustration/illustration-of-plate-movement-royalty-free-illustration/96168517?phrase=plate+tectonics&adppopup=true https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/photo/several-ancient-limestone-fossils-royalty-free-image/123461870?phrase=fossil+rocks&adppopup=true https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/video/pseudomonas-aeruginosa-bacteria-stock-footage/1487338845?adppopup=true https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Archean.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antiperthitic_feldspar.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World_Distribution_of_Mid-Oceanic_Ridges.gif https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blacksmoker_in_Atlantic_Ocean.jpg https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fauna_on_hydrothermal_vents.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mt_Eissenger_gabbro_epidote_veins_(o%27exp%27d).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mining_operations_paraburdoo_mine.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Stromatolites_in_Sharkbay.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MarsCuriosityRover-Drilling-Sol170%2B%2B-2.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:NASA_Mars_Rover.jpg