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The Curiosity On Mars Thread.
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Looking back on a fair bit of a drive! Taken at 01:56 UTC this morning apparently...
Heres more or less the same view but more to the right. That dark sand is what Curiosity is having to pass before reaching a point where it can cross.
And here's a traverse map showing the drive so far.
Emily Lakdawalla over at the Planetary Society has a goot traverse map showing the route Curiosity hopes to take to the Entry Point at a place called Murray Buttes. Stop sniggering down the back please!
http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2014/05301651-curiosity-update-sols-631-644.html0 -
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NASA put up this gorgeous picture of Dingo Pass:I'm quoting a previous poster, sorry I couldn't quote your post (messed up), I don't want took like I'm stealing yours without a word of thanks
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This is easily the most impressive picture of Mars I've ever seen, endless sand dunes (upper left almost makes me want to run up them) and it looks like something out of Frank Herbert, but it's real!
Pics like this deserve to be plastered in children's mind and across the news!
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Opportunity and spirit found that too.Regarding the large picture what is that flourescent glowing mineral where the tracks end in the dark sand and you can see it again in the more recent tracks.
I'd love to find out!
Is this what you're referring to?:
http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/newsroom/pressreleases/20071210a.htmlSAN FRANCISCO - Researchers using NASA's twin Mars rovers are sorting out two possible origins for one of Spirit's most important discoveries, while also getting Spirit to a favorable spot for surviving the next Martian winter.
The puzzle is what produced a patch of nearly pure silica -- the main ingredient of window glass -- that Spirit found last May. It could have come from either a hot-spring environment or an environment called a fumarole, in which acidic steam rises through cracks. On Earth, both of these types of settings teem with microbial life.
"Whichever of those conditions produced it, this concentration of silica is probably the most significant discovery by Spirit for revealing a habitable niche that existed on Mars in the past," said Steve Squyres of Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., principal investigator for the rovers' science payload. "The evidence is pointing most strongly toward fumarolic conditions, like you might see in Hawaii and in Iceland. Compared with deposits formed at hot springs, we know less about how well fumarolic deposits can preserve microbial fossils. That's something needing more study here on Earth."
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Curiositys ears must have been burning because here she is using APXS, i think, on a dug out sandy bit.
Theres a hazcam view from a day or two ago and the wheel looked awfully deep. Careful now!:P
There's the hazcam view:
There were a load of nice shots from the other day that had nice dune patterns too. No colour mastcam ones though. Still, here's a look back over some dune buggying tracks:
Getting close to Murray Buttes now so i expect driving progress to slow while science gets done. I saw a traverse map the other day but i can't seem to find it. It looks as though Curiosity is in line with the dark sandy bit it's been passing this past while. Real good progress and the wheels held out great!0 -
Curiosity Finds Iron Meteorite on Mars
This rock encountered by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is an iron meteorite called "Lebanon," similar in shape and luster to iron meteorites found on Mars by the previous generation of rovers, Spirit and Opportunity. Lebanon is about 2 yards or 2 meters wide (left to right, from this angle). The smaller piece in the foreground is called "Lebanon B."
This view combines a series of high-resolution circular images taken by the Remote Micro-Imager (RMI) of Curiosity's Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument with color and context from rover's Mast Camera (Mastcam). The component images were taken during the 640th Martian day, or sol, of Curiosity's work on Mars (May 25, 2014).
More...
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