Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20180616:08:54:00
Good visibility, you can see the individual craters on the planet. this is what it looks like now. this is a global dust storm encircling the entire planet. we are talking about 18 million square kilometers or roughly 7 million square miles. this is larger than the entire size of north america. so we take kind of a time line of what has happened to the sun over the past, well, let's say 15 days or so. early june, the sun was visible from the opportunity rover, but as the dust storm got stronger, it started to blot out the sun before it plunged thein darknes. so it has gone into complete darkne...