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Post by Rareclan on Feb 16, 2020 22:40:54 GMT 10
New Mars Curiosity Rover Pictures
6 Feb 2020
We follow the Curiosity Rover on Mars as it climbs up a Martian mountain named Mount Sharp. We have selected only the clearest footage from Mars to give you a sense of actually being there alongside Curiosity. All the places that NASA has explored have been given nicknames, which you will see in the video. Some of the images have been 'white balanced' by NASA to give geologists a clearer view of the rocks.
A quick summary of the Journey:
Landing in the Gale Crater, Curiosity heads towards Yellowknife Bay, taking its first drive over 'Glenelg'. In Yellowknife Bay, Curiosity finds the first evidence that the Gale Crater was once filled with salty water.
Curiosity goes on to explore the Bagnold Dunes and crosses through the Naukluft Plateau into Murray Buttes where it begins to ascend Mount Sharp. Climbing on top of 'Vera Rubin Ridge' provides Curiosity with a magnificent view, from where we started in the Gale Crater.
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Post by brillbilly on Feb 17, 2020 4:45:17 GMT 10
yep they sure are!
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Post by Wes Gear on Feb 21, 2020 21:02:15 GMT 10
the Haughton-Mars Project base camp on Devon Island.
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Post by fossilnerd on Nov 3, 2020 22:22:44 GMT 10
New Mars Curiosity Rover Pictures 6 Feb 2020 We follow the Curiosity Rover on Mars as it climbs up a Martian mountain named Mount Sharp. We have selected only the clearest footage from Mars to give you a sense of actually being there alongside Curiosity. All the places that NASA has explored have been given nicknames, which you will see in the video. Some of the images have been 'white balanced' by NASA to give geologists a clearer view of the rocks. A quick summary of the Journey: Landing in the Gale Crater, Curiosity heads towards Yellowknife Bay, taking its first drive over 'Glenelg'. In Yellowknife Bay, Curiosity finds the first evidence that the Gale Crater was once filled with salty water. Curiosity goes on to explore the Bagnold Dunes and crosses through the Naukluft Plateau into Murray Buttes where it begins to ascend Mount Sharp. Climbing on top of 'Vera Rubin Ridge' provides Curiosity with a magnificent view, from where we started in the Gale Crater. Beautiful. One of the many reasons I love science. I enjoy looking at the evidence of geologic processes on Mars. And the dunes---amazing. I'm waiting, as are many others, to know Mars' history... although it'll probably not happen in my lifetime. Meanwhile, it's wonderful to keep enjoying the research.
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Post by Rareclan on Nov 9, 2020 5:03:11 GMT 10
New Mars Curiosity Rover Pictures 6 Feb 2020 We follow the Curiosity Rover on Mars as it climbs up a Martian mountain named Mount Sharp. We have selected only the clearest footage from Mars to give you a sense of actually being there alongside Curiosity. All the places that NASA has explored have been given nicknames, which you will see in the video. Some of the images have been 'white balanced' by NASA to give geologists a clearer view of the rocks. A quick summary of the Journey: Landing in the Gale Crater, Curiosity heads towards Yellowknife Bay, taking its first drive over 'Glenelg'. In Yellowknife Bay, Curiosity finds the first evidence that the Gale Crater was once filled with salty water. Curiosity goes on to explore the Bagnold Dunes and crosses through the Naukluft Plateau into Murray Buttes where it begins to ascend Mount Sharp. Climbing on top of 'Vera Rubin Ridge' provides Curiosity with a magnificent view, from where we started in the Gale Crater. Beautiful. One of the many reasons I love science. I enjoy looking at the evidence of geologic processes on Mars. And the dunes---amazing. I'm waiting, as are many others, to know Mars' history... although it'll probably not happen in my lifetime. Meanwhile, it's wonderful to keep enjoying the research. I would have to say that maybe water erosion is a thing of the past and dust sand has been the main factor for, , , quite some time. With spherical encompassing dust storms, I take It the rover shifted the excess dust not shown In the video by way of rovvering. Powder can become quite dense but that's Cosmetics for you !
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Post by fossilnerd on Nov 10, 2020 16:26:45 GMT 10
Beautiful. One of the many reasons I love science. I enjoy looking at the evidence of geologic processes on Mars. And the dunes---amazing. I'm waiting, as are many others, to know Mars' history... although it'll probably not happen in my lifetime. Meanwhile, it's wonderful to keep enjoying the research. I would have to say that maybe water erosion is a thing of the past and dust sand has been the main factor for, , , quite some time. With spherical encompassing dust storms, I take It the rover shifted the excess dust not shown In the video by way of rovvering. Powder can become quite dense but that's Cosmetics for you ! We won't know how the mountains, dunes, etc were formed until we do more research. Sure, there's no surface water, so any erosion currently happening would be from dust storms; however, I'm intrigued by the entire geologic history.
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