pomarede, 9 hours ago to Kurzgesagt

Martian Cartography

Here is a 360° panorama captured by Curiosity at her current location, with North at center and South at both ends, on top of two large and small scale maps with her position.

There are many geological features in the panorama, can you find them in the maps?

#Curiosity #Mars #Sol4193 #Cartography #Map #Geology #rover #CuriosityRover #GaleCrater #crater #AeolisMons #MountSharp #GedizVallis #Martian #landscape #valley #mountains #quiz #space #science #Astrodon #STEM

pomarede, 1 day ago to Kurzgesagt

Some freshly processed Martian vistas captured by Curiosity at her Sol 4191 location

May 21, 2024
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk

with renewed thanks to @PaulHammond51 for his very useful advices and tips on Martian images!

#Curiosity #Mars #Sol4191 #rover #CuriosityRover #space #Martian #landscape #rocks #science #STEM

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pomarede, 5 days ago to Astro

A beautiful interlacing of dunes and rocks for the new Mars Perseverance Raw Image of the Week

This image was acquired on May 17, 2024 (Sol 1152).

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/multimedia/raw-images/ZR0_1152_0769215060_848EBY_N0522638ZCAM09188_1100LMJ

#Mars #Perseverance #Sol1152 #dunes #Martian #rock #rover #PerseveranceRover #NeretvaVallis #image #Astrodon #Space #science #STEM

pomarede, 7 days ago to Kurzgesagt

Craving for rocks with peculiar shapes? Mars will not disappoint.

Shot yesterday by the Curiosity rover

May 17, 2024 - Sol 4187
Credit images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk

#Curiosity #Mars #Sol4187 #rover #CuriosityRover #space #Martian #rock #rocks #photography #science #STEM #Astrodon

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pomarede, 7 days ago to Kurzgesagt

The Martian Art of sculpting and polishing a rock

Captured yesterday by the Curiosity rover.

May 17, 2024 - Sol 4187
Credit images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk

#Curiosity #Mars #Sol4187 #Art #Sculpture #sand #nature #artist #rover #CuriosityRover #space #Martian #rock #rocks #photography #science #STEM #engineering #Astrodon

pomarede, 9 days ago to space

How amazing is that? A Martian Dust Devil captured in Stereo3D by the Opportunity Rover, March 31, 2016 (Sol 4332)

To go 3D: eyes' lines of sight parallel/left image for left eye/right image for right eye

Credit images: NASA/JPL-Caltech

#Opportunity #Mars #DustDevil #Sol4332 #rover #OpportunityRover #MERB #space #KnudsenRidge #MarathonValley #MeridianiPlanum #Martian #dust #devil #science #STEM #3D #Stereo3D #steoroscopic #photography #blackandwhite #Astrodon

pomarede, 11 days ago to Kurzgesagt

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.

Credit images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk

#Curiosity #Mars #Sol4175 #rover #CuriosityRover #space #Martian #landscape #panorama #photography #science #STEM #engineering

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pomarede, 11 days ago to Kurzgesagt

Martian Memories

a Stereo3D view of Marker Band Valley, captured by Curiosity, 29-03-2023 (Sol 3783). Deepdale Hill at center, Gale Crater rim in the distance.

To go 3D: eyes' lines of sight parallel/left image for left eye/right image for right eye
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

#Mars #Curiosity #Sol3783 #rover #CuriosityRover #space #3D #Stereo3D #Stereoscopy #Martian #landscape #MarkerBandValley #valley #DeepDaleHill #hill #science #STEM #engineering #Astrodon #GaleCrater #crater

pomarede, 18 days ago to Kurzgesagt

Some Martian magic, from the Curiosity rover

Sol 4168 (April 27, 2024)
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/fredk
With thanks to @PaulHammond51 for the assist on deBayered images!

#Mars #Curiosity #Sol4168 #rover #CuriosityRover #space #Astrodon #martian #magic #landscape #rock #rocks #science #STEM

pomarede, 18 days ago to Futurology

The loneliness of a Martian robot

Captured today by Perseverance
Credit image: NASA/JPL-Caltech

#Perseverance #Mars #Sol1142 #Martian #robot #rover #space #loneliness #science #STEM #astrodon

pomarede, 18 days ago to space

Martian Memories

The Comanche and Algonquin outcrops, captured in Stereo3D by the Spirit rover, Dec 11, 2005 (Sol 689)

To go 3D: eyes' lines of sight parallel/left image for left eye/right image for right eye.

Credit images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell
With thanks to Michael Howard a.k.a. MidnightPlanets for his amazing archive of Martian raw images.

#Mars #Spirit #Sol689 #rover #SpiritRover #space #Martian #landscape #memories #3D #Stereo3D #stereoscopy #photography #science #STEM #astrodon

pomarede, 20 days ago to Kurzgesagt

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👇

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

#Curiosity #Mars #Sol4174 #rover #space #Martian #landscape #panorama #images #photographies #science #STEM #Astrodon

pomarede, 22 days ago to blender

Martian geometry

The Perseverance rover acquired this stereoscopic view with her Left and Right Mastcam-Z science cameras on May 1, 2024 (Sol 1137).

To go 3D: eyes' lines of sight parallel/left image for left eye/right image for right eye
Credit images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

#Mars #Perseverance #Sol1137 #Martian #geometry #rover #3D #Stereo3D #photography #photographies #stereoscopy #picture #pictures #image #images #Astrodon #Space #science #STEM #rock #rocks

forgottrek, 1 month ago to TheExpanse

More #theExpanse praise

It is so rich in symbolism of the universe its built, like having a #martian marine protecting a #unn official.

dance_along_the_edge, 1 month ago to illustration

Virgil Finlay illustrating ‘The Bird of Time’ by Wallace West from Thrilling Wonder Stories, October 1952. It was incorporated with three other stories into a fix-up novel by the same name and published by Gnome Press in 1959. #FinlayFriday

#VirgilFinlay #WallaceWest #Martian #WeirdTales Pulps #Illustration #ScienceFiction #SF #SFF @sciencefiction @scifi

sflorg, 2 months ago to science

Using impact #craters as a dating tool, #Planetary #Science Institute Research Scientist Alexander Morgan has determined maximum timescales for the formation of #Martian valley networks shaped by running water.
#PlanetaryScience #SpaceScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2024/03/ps03042401.html

mkwadee, 2 months ago to Astronomy

#MartianMoon #Eclipses #Martian #Moon
#Astronomy #Picture of the Day

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240226.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwQTH0IGrwE

#APOD

pomarede, 3 months ago to Engineering

We should have called her the Defiant.

The story of how our beloved martian copter faced opposition of scientists and mission managers, by Eric Berger @sciguyspace for @arstechnica

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/02/before-ingenuity-ever-landed-on-mars-scientists-almost-managed-to-kill-it/

#ingenuity #mars #ThanksIngenuity #martian #copter #helicopter #engineering #space #science #astrodon #nasa #jpl #flight #history #STEM #defiant #TheDefiant #StarTrek #DeepSpace9 #DS9 #popculture #arstechnica #news

spaceflight, 4 months ago to ArtificialIntelligence

#Spot #robots 🤖 may explore #Martian #LavaTubes autonomously https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTW-dbZr4U8

#SpaceRobot #NASA

theparson, 4 months ago to scifi

Sci-fi nerds are obsessed with the possibility of terraforming Mars in the future. Why? Have you seen projections of such a Martian landscape? The geopolitics of such a world would be horrendous.
#Mars #Martian #scifi #worldbuilding #terraforming #terraformingmars

spaceflight, 1 year ago to space

The #NASA #JPL got a nice #Juno 🛰️ video of the #Jupiter flyby, but it's got >200MB. So here's the 1MB version. Original : https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia25723-juno-offers-a-window-seat-for-a-jupiter-flyby

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