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