Die könnte auf der #Erde interessant werden, wenn der #Klimawandel weiter fortschreitet. Auch wenn das Sprichwort lautet, dass Du #Geld nicht essen kannst, vielleicht klappte es mit Steinen.
Ingenuity’s mission ended after the helicopter experienced a hard landing on its last flight, significantly damaging its rotor blades. Image taken by Perseverance on Feb. 24.
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."
NASA is seeking future innovative methods that could help retrieve rock samples collected by the Perseverance rover on Mars. Gig work apps, like Uber and Grubhub, offered to pick up the rocks, but NASA’s no wage-theft policy killed that plan.
Engineers at JPL today monitored a final transmission from the disabled Mars helicopter Ingenuity.
Mars rover Perseverance is ready to move on west for exploration of the Jezero crater rim.
Ingenuity will no longer be able to communicate with earth, but newly loaded software will allow it to make and store measurements every day, to be retrieved by a future robotic or human mission. Ingenuity’s memory could potentially hold about 20 years’ worth of daily data.
Few more pics from the Ingenuity control room at JPL, posted by Laurie Leshin, Director of JPL, including a pic of the team enjoying some “Final Comms” chocolate cake.
Kudos to the team, NASA and JPL where they "Dare Mighty Things Together."
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.
Planets directly influence one another, and the more massive they are, the larger their gravitational pull. Mars is a lot smaller than Earth, but new research says it has enough clout to create swirling vortices in our planet's oceans. Atlas Obscura explains: https://flip.it/R.5Vmk #Science#Space#Earth#Mars#Gravity
Since the Ingenuity Marscopter worked so well, NASA's come up with a new concept for a flying machine on Mars: it's a solar-powered VTOL fixed-wing aircraft called MAGGIE.
See the sundial and color swatches of Perseverance in Stereo3D, like if you were on board the #rover. 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.
Next #SETILive: Giant Volcano Discovered on Mars
TODAY, 11 April, 2:30pm PDT / 5:30pm EDT
Join Dr. Pascal Lee as he talks with communications specialist Beth Johnson about the recent discovery of a deeply eroded giant volcano on Mars and its potential impact on the search for life beyond Earth.
I reprocessed the Sol 1110 Ingenuity image with AI-upscaling to improve visual fidelity.
As @65dBnoise already noted, there seems to be disturbed sand on the other side of the sand ripple. We are still hoping for SuperCam images of the area to get a better understanding of what happened. https://mastodon.social/@65dBnoise/112219066878951407
#PPOD: Though #Mars is the Red Planet, false-color images can help us learn about its weather and geology. This image shows various wind-related features on the Red Planet near the center of Gamboa Crater. Larger sand dunes form sinuous crests and individual domes. There are tiny ripples on the tops of the dunes, only several feet from crest to crest. These merge into larger mega-ripples about 30 feet apart that radiate outward from the dunes. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona