Wow 300 images captured by Curiosity to build a panoramic survey at her Sol 4175 location, ten days ago. This video show them at a rate of 10/second. It took about 50 minutes for the rover to complete this scan with her left mast camera.
This discovery shows that these #sediments were formed in a river, a delta or near the shore of an ancient lake. It raises questions about #oxydation processes on Mars... and reinforces the hypothesis of past #habitability...
"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.