"Simple" #curiosity : What makes a good #community ? Do you have a personal take on it? Anything you learned from a relevant resource (please share the link)? #boostswelcome
Check out this Martian panorama, captured by Curiosity two days ago, on Sol 4174. It is made of 50 adjacent images, each 1328x1184 pixels. Let's go for some zooms👇
NASA’s Curiosity has recently discovered that Mars may have been habitable billions of years ago. The rover found rocks in Mars' Gale Crater that contain a surprising amount of manganese oxide — a mineral commonly found in lakes on Earth. Science Alert has more: https://flip.it/7pv1_R #Science#Mars#NASA#Curiosity
The most surprising revelation from NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover — that methane is seeping from the surface of Gale Crater — has scientists scratching their heads.
Nope, that's not Mars. That's the Quisquiro salt flat in South America’s Altiplano region which represents the kind of landscape that scientists think may have existed in Gale Crater on Mars, which #NASA’s #Curiosity Rover is exploring.
Gale Crater is the only place on the surface of Mars where methane has been detected thus far. Its likely source are geological mechanisms that involve water and rocks deep underground.
Curiosity finds odd rocks with "dragon scales" texture.
"We have seen a lot of layered rocks over the last 12 years on Mars, but these ones really stand out by the dizzying pattern they trace on the rock surfaces."
Absolutely fascinating Stereo3D view of this Martian landscape.
Many thanks to @PaulHammond51 for finding the right-eye view from the rover's R-Nav Cam.
To get the Stereo3D effect, just let your eyes' line of sight be parallel (not cross-eyed) with left eye in front of left image and right eye in front of right image.
How much does a solar eclipse dim daylight on Mars?
The animation shows #Curiosity's capture of a solar eclipse by Phobos on March 25, 2019 (Sol 2358). Phobos is small and does not fully cover the disk of the sun, so dimming is noticeable but not comparable to that of a total eclipse on Earth.