[Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech; Additional Mosaic Processing: Kenneth Kremer & Marco Di Lorenzo]
Looks a little bit like Kilamanjaro
Fascinating picture. Thank you for the post.
In a “desolate beauty” sort of way, it’s like “the moon but with mountains”.
The “life” of the “Red Planet” so far, seems limited to the macro-level “life of the whole planet” as in the dynamics of what changing wind, sunlight, and other cyclical conditions produce, moving and reshaping the seemingly barren soil, and not much else.
Amazing. Add in some pine trees and some sagebrush and it would look amazingly like where I live.
They’re blocking out the camera crew...I need to contact Alex Jones.
Those little electric motors on the robotic arm are a long way from a stocking distributor.
I want color pics and I want audio. I want to hear what the red planet sounds like. Is there audible wind on Mars? Even its silence would be interesting. I’d also like to hear the sounds Curiosity makes, the sound of its motors and the sand crunching under its tires. The audio component has been completely absent on all of the Mars missions, at least that I’m aware of. Anybody know if Curiosity is outfitted with mics?
As Carl Sagan once said: on this day Mars went from mystery to becoming just “a place”.
We’re lucky to be the generation this happens to.
Going off road.....zapping rocks with lasers.....hill climbing.....there’s a lot of kid left in those people at NASA.