Posted on 08/08/2015 4:23:39 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Explanation: By planet Earth's calendar, the Curiosity Mars Rover reached its 3rd anniversary on the surface of the Red Planet on August 6. To celebrate, gaze across this dramatic panoramic view of diverse terrain typical of the rover's journey to the layered slopes of Aeolis Mons, also known as Mount Sharp. Recorded with Curiosity's Mast Camera instrument, the scene looks south across gravel, sand ripples, and boulders toward rounded buttes. In the background, higher layers at left are toward the southeast, with southwest at panorama right. The individual images composing the view were taken on Curiosity's mission sols (martian days) 952 and 953 since the rover's landing on August 6, 2012.
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[Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, MSSS]
Looks like a good place for Islamists to live.
The simularity to the American southwest is uncanny
I was thinking of some place a “little warmer” if you know what I mean.
Now that you mention that it’s kind of creepy.
Yeah. They probably don’t even need spacesuits.
I’d quibble and say, there’s no *good* place for them to *live*. ;’) Also, it mostly resembles the aftermath of a place where they *used to* live. They desertify every landscape they touch.
Well, there's a simple basis for it ... aeolian erosion. Even the layers that are being eroded on Mars were, for the most part, deposited by dust storms. The processes there are almost unimaginably slow, and most of the erosion takes place during those planet-wide dust storms every ten years or so ... whatever it is.
The ability of the ultra-thin Martian air to carry dust is due to a famous paradox of fluid physics: That the viscosity of a gas is independent of density. The wind there cannot "drive" larger particles by its pressure, but it can suspend the fine dust by drag, and it is this that accounts for the character of the landscape there.
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