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...
Les paysages qui entourent Perseverance sont vraiment majestueux ces temps-ci. Le rover remonte le lit asséché de la rivière Neretva, qui perce le rempart du cratère Jezero, rempart qu'on voit ici en arrière-plan. Il s'élève à plusieurs centaines de mètres de haut !
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Le rover Perseverance continue de longer le lit asséché de la rivière Neretva, qui alimentait autrefois le lac du cratère Jezero. Les rides d'eau ont été remplacées par des dunes de sable, où repose Ingenuity 🚁.
Image acquise aujourd'hui sur Mars à 13h45 heure locale. https://www.flickr.com/photos/thomasappere/53710547890/in/dateposted-public/
Some mind-boggling details of a Martian impact crater taken by NASA's HiRISE camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. This image has everything: layers, boulders, dunes, and maybe some polygonal terrain, too. The blue filter is used here to learn about morphologies, textures, and composition.
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👇
https://discover.lanl.gov/news/0501-ancient-mars/
A research team using the ChemCam instrument onboard NASA’s Curiosity rover discovered higher-than-usual amounts of manganese in lakebed rocks within Gale Crater on Mars, which indicates that the sediments were formed in a river, delta, or near the shoreline of an ancient lake. The results were published today in Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets.
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
Let me disabuse you of the idea that a Martian colony is the way to save mankind.
Survival on Mars is 1000x more difficult with no free flowing water, no atmosphere, no ozone, no magnetosphere, much less solar radiation to power anything including biological life.
Choosing Mars is picking the absolute worst probability to beat gambler's ruin.
Even a 3' warmer Earth is better.
The first IQ test is to stop pursuing stupid ideas as a magic bullet.
This is Alyssa Carson, a 19-year-old astronaut who has become the youngest person in history to pass all NASA's aerial tests and is preparing to become the first human to travel to Mars.
Spread this far and wide ... boost it!
Make her a household name!
#PPOD: The final resting place of the Mars Ingenuity helicopter, imaged on 25 February 2024 by NASA's Perseverance rover's SuperCam Remote Micro-Imager. The helicopter flew for its 72nd and final time on 18 January 2024. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/IRAP/Paul Byrne
This Is the sound of Mars from 140 million miles (www.infoterkiniviral.com)
The rover's pictures and the lander's recordings of the first sounds of Martian winds are helping us learn more about our friend in space