The Curiosity rover transmits new color images from Mars.
The National Aeronautics and Space Agency (National Aeronautics and Space Agency) has published new images from the surface of Mars taken from the Curiosity rover. The photo data below reflects new detailed images of rocks and other geological features near Mount Sharp.
Filming began on September 8, 2016 at the bottom of Mount Sharp, specifically in the Murray Butts area. These pictures are a preliminary version of the project that they want to implement in the agency. The team behind the Curiosity mission is reportedly planning to create some sort of 3D model of the area, as well as a detailed color map. This will be implemented in the near future.
“Studying these rock formations and their formations will give us insight and a better understanding of the ancient sand dunes that were formed/buried/subject to groundwater chemistry, etc. After all, this is how this landscape that we can observe with you today was formed, ”said Ashwin Vasavada, a scientist at the Curiosity project.
The rover has been in the area for more than a month. As part of one of the latest operations, namely on September 9, 2016, Curiosity began drilling. After this action is completed, he will travel further south and higher into the highlands of Mount Sharp.
Mars' layered geologic past is revealed in stunning detail in new color images sent by NASA's Curiosity rover on September 8, 2016, which is currently surveying the Murray Buttes Hills in the lower region of Mount Sharp. Photos can compete with views of US national parks. The team of scientists plans to assemble several large, colorful mosaics from a large number of images taken in one place on Mars.
The multilevel geological past of the Red Planet is revealed remarkably in detailed photos taken by the rover on September 8.
"The Curiosity science team was excited to tour the 'American desert' on Mars," said Curiosity project scientist Ashwin Vasawada of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
In the transmitted images, you can see the Martian hills and layered mountains, which are gradually getting rid of the remnants of ancient sandstone.
Exploring these hills at a close distance allowed us to learn more about ancient sand dunes that were buried, chemically altered by groundwater, resurfaced from underground, and then collapsed to make the landscape we see today, Vasavada said.
The new images illustrate Curiosity's final stop in the Murray Buttes Hills, where the rover has been for just under a month. On September 9 of this year, the rover began its last drilling campaign. Once this drilling is completed, Curiosity will continue south and up Mount Sharp, leaving these spectacular structures behind. Curiosity landed near Mount Sharp in 2012 and reached its base in 2014 after successfully confirming the existence of microbes in Martian lakes. The layers that form the base of Mount Sharp have accumulated from the deposits of ancient lakes that existed billions of years ago.
On Mount Sharp, Curiosity investigates how and when the positive climate of Mars gave way to dry and uninhabitable conditions.
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August 6, 2012 back Curiosity rover after an eight-month journey. The device covered 567 million kilometers on its way to the Red Planet.
During this time, the Curiosity rover made discoveries that indicate the existence of favorable conditions for the life of microbes billions of years ago, made countless works with various tools, drilled, fired a laser, photographed, sent 468,926 images to Earth.
Images from the Curiosity rover and news from the Red Planet over the past few years.
2. From a distance, the surface of Mars looks reddish-red due to the red dust that is contained in the atmosphere. Close up, the color is yellowish-brown with an admixture of golden, brown, reddish-brown and even green, depending on the color of the planet's minerals. In ancient times, people easily distinguished Mars from other planets, and also associated it with war and composed all kinds of legends. The Egyptians called Mars "Har Decher" which means "red". (Photo by JPL-Caltech | MSSS | NASA):
3. The Curiosity rover loves to take selfies. How does he do it, because there is no one to remove him from the outside?
The rover has four color cameras, all of them differ in a different set of optics, but only one of them is suitable for. The automatic arm called MAHLI has 5 degrees of freedom, which gives the camera considerable flexibility and allows it to “fly around” the Martian rover from all sides. The movement of this hand-camera is controlled by a specialist from the Earth. The main task is to follow a certain sequence of movement of the automatic arm so that the camera can take a sufficient number of shots for the subsequent panorama stitching. The scenario for the preparation of each such selfie is first worked out on Earth on a special test module, which is called Maggie. (Photo by NASA):
4. Martian sunset, April 15, 2015. At noon, the sky of Mars is yellow-orange. The reason for such differences from the color scale of the earth's sky is the properties of the thin, rarefied atmosphere of Mars containing suspended dust. On Mars, Rayleigh scattering of rays (which on Earth is the cause of the blue color of the sky) plays a minor role, its effect is weak, but it appears as a blue glow at sunrise and sunset, when the light passes through a thicker layer of air. (Photo by JPL-Caltech | MSSS | Texas A&M Univ via Getty | NASA):
5. The wheels of the rover September 9, 2012. (Photo by JPL-Caltech | Malin Space Science Systems | NASA):
6. And this is a snapshot of April 18, 2016. You can see how the “shoes” of the hard worker have worn out. From August 2012 to January last year, the Curiosity rover traveled 15.26 km. (Photo by JPL-Caltech MSSS | NASA):
7. We continue to look at the pictures of the Curiosity rover. The Namib Dune is an area of dark sand made up of dunes northwest of Mount Sharp. (Photo by JPL-Caltech | NASA):
8. Two-thirds of the surface of Mars is occupied by light areas, called continents, about a third - by dark areas, called seas. And this is the foot of Mount Sharp.
Sharp is a Martian mountain located in Gale Crater. The height of the mountain is about 5 kilometers. On Mars, there is also the highest mountain in the solar system - the extinct volcano Olympus 26 km high. The diameter of Olympus is about 540 km. (Photo by JPL-Caltech | MSSS | NASA):
9. Photo from the orbiter, here the rover is visible. (Photo by JPL-Caltech | Univ. of Arizona | NASA):
10. How did this unusual Ireson Hill on Mars form? His story has become the subject of research. Its shape and two-tone structure make it one of the most unusual hills that an automated rover has driven around. It reaches a height of about 5 meters, and the size of its base is about 15 meters. (Photo by JPL-Caltech | MSSS | NASA0:
11. This is how the “traces” of the rover on Mars look like. (Photo by JPL-Caltech | NASA):
12. The hemispheres of Mars are quite different in the nature of the surface. In the southern hemisphere, the surface is 1-2 km above the average level and is densely dotted with craters. This part of Mars resembles the lunar continents. In the north, most of the surface is below average, there are few craters and the main part is occupied by relatively smooth plains, probably formed as a result of lava flooding and erosion. (Photo by JPL-Caltech | MSSS | NASA):
13. Another masterful selfie. (Photo by JPL-Caltech | MSSS | NASA):
14. In the foreground, about three kilometers from the rover, is a long ridge teeming with iron oxide. (Photo by JPL-Caltech | MSSS | NASA):
15. A look at the path that the rover has taken, February 9, 2014. (Photo by JPL-Caltech | MSSS | NASA):
16. The hole drilled by the Curiosity rover. This rock color under the red surface is not immediately obvious. The drill of the rover is capable of making holes in the stone with a diameter of 1.6 cm and a depth of 5 cm. Samples mined by the manipulator can also be examined by the SAM and CheMin instruments located in front of the rover body. (Photo by JPL-Caltech | MSSS | NASA):
17. Another selfie, the most recent, taken on January 23, 2018. (Photo by NASA | JPL-Caltech | MSSS):
Fine-layered rocks in the Murrey formation layer of Mt. Sharpe (Mount Aeolis, Aeolis Mons). Credit: NASA.
Since its deployment in 2012 to the surface of Mars, it has sent back many spectacular images of the Red Planet. In addition to photographing the Earth from the surface of Mars, not to mention a few wonderful ones, the rover has also taken countless photographs showing the geological structure and features of the surface of Mars in great detail.
And with the latest photos released by NASA, the Curiosity rover has given us a great view of the "Murrey Buttes" region at the bottom of Mount Sharp. These images were taken by Curiosity on September 8th and provide an excellent insight into the geological history of the region.
With these photos, the Curiosity team hopes to put together another colorful mosaic that gives a detailed look at the region's rocks and desert landscape. As you can see from the photographs provided, the region is characterized by plateaus (measles) and remnants, which are the eroded remains of ancient sandstone. Much like other locations around Mount Sharp, this area is of particular interest to the Curiosity team.
Rolling hills and layered rock outcrops in the Murray Formation of Mount Sharpe. Credit: NASA.
Over the years, scientists have realized that the layers of rock that form the base of Mount Sharp are accumulated as a result of sediment deposited on the bottom of the ancient lake billions of years ago. In this regard, geological formations are similar to those found in the desert regions of the southwestern United States.
Alvin Vasawada, Curiosity Program Scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said:
The "Murrey Buttes" region of Mars is reminiscent of areas of the US Southwest due to its remnants and mesas. In both areas, thick sediment layers were carried by winds and water, eventually creating a "layer cake" of rock that was then subjected to erosion when conditions have changed. In both places layers of more stable sandstone cover the mesas and remnants, as they protect the more easily eroded, fine-grained rock beneath."
"Like Monument Valley near the border between Utah and Arizona, Murrey Buttes has only small remnants of these layers that once completely covered the surface. Both places had sand dunes driven by the wind, the same that now appears like criss-cross layers of sandstone. There are, of course, many differences between Mars and the American Southwest. For example, there were large inland seas in the southwest, while lakes existed in the southwest."
These sedimentary layers are believed to have been laid down over 2 billion years, and may have completely filled the crater one day. Since lakes and streams are believed to have existed in Gale Crater 3.3-3.8 billion years ago, some of the lower sedimentary layers may have originally been deposited at the bottom of the lake.
A finely bedded hillside outcrop in the Murray Formation at the bottom of Mount Sharp. Credit: NASA.
For this reason, the Curiosity team also collected drill samples from the Murrey Buttes area for analysis. It started on September 9 after the rover finished photographing the surroundings. As Vasavada explained:
"The Curiosity team drills regularly while the rover climbs Mount Sharp. We drill into the fine-grained rock that occurred in the lakes in order to see how the chemistry of the lake, and therefore the environment, has changed over time. Curiosity drilled coarse-grained sandstone , forming the upper layers of the remnants as the rover crossed the Naukluft Plateau earlier this year."
Once drilling is completed, Curiosity will continue south and up Mount Sharp, leaving these beautiful formations behind. These photos show Curiosity's last stop at Murrey Buttes, where the rover has spent the past month.
By September 11, 2016, Curiosity had spent only 4 years and 36 days (1497 days) on the planet Mars since .
One has to wonder how people with the help of pareidolia are going to interpret all this? After "seeing" a rat, a lizard, a donut, a coffin, etc., what is left? May I assume that the photo above looks like a column statue?
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