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.
Congrats to Curiosity and her entire team who are celebrating the 11th ladiversary today! 🥳
I used the occasion to reprocess the first of many amazing rover selfies which was taken on Sol 84.
Curiosity Has Spent Three Years Trying to Reach this Spot on Mars
About three billion years ago, rushing water on Mars carried mud and boulders down a steep slope and deposited them into a vast fan-shaped debris pile. NASA's Curiosity Rover has been trying to reach a ridge overlooking the region, and it finally reached its vantage point after three years of climbing. NASA released a 360-degree view image of the region, showing the jumble of rocks strewn about by the rushing water, and now Curiosity can reach out and touch them.
Started work on my abstract for #LPSC2024 today! I've been slowly mosaicking frames from the MARDI drive videos #Curiosity collected while exploring #MarkerBandValley. Once they're georeferenced, I hope they'll be of major use to scientists working to piece together the environmental transitions taking place on Mars when the Marker Band was deposited! Here's a roughly 4 m x 1 m segment of the drive performed on Sol 3648 (November 10, 2022).
The #Curiosity rover has been on Mars for more than 4000 sols, and has seen 6 Earth solar conjunctions in the 11+ Earth years of its life on the Red planet. It's still going strong, as is its team, who produce wonderfully detailed reports on what the veteran rover has been or plans to be working on.
Currently assigned target names, like Cobra Turret, Fang Turret, Gorge of Despair, Brittle Bush, come from the area near Bishop, CA.
One of my favorite photos from the MARDI Marker Band Valley campaign, taken on Sol 3648. We got beautiful lighting during this video sequence, and I really like how this still was framed. #MSL#Curiosity
#Curiosity is currently doing science in an eerie looking environment up on Mount Sharp inside Gale Crater, where rocks frequently appear having lace-like structures, as the one seen in this image:
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.
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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