Posted on 03/25/2021 3:21:06 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Before Perseverance there was Curiosity. In fact, the Curiosity rover accomplished the first sky crane maneuver touchdown on Mars on August 5, 2012. March 2, 2021 marked Curiosity's 3,048th martian day operating on the surface of the Red Planet. This 360 degree panorama from sol 3048 is a mosaic of 149 frames from Curiosity's Mastcam above the rover's deck. It includes 23 frames of icy, thin, high clouds drifting through the martian sky. The cloudy sky frames were recorded throughout that martian day and are digitally stitched together in the panoramic view. Near center is a layered and streaked Mont Mercou. The peak of central Mount Sharp, rising over 5 kilometers above the floor of Gale Crater, is in the distant background on the left.
For more detail go to the link and click on the image for a high definition image. You can then move the magnifying glass cursor then click to zoom in and click again to zoom out. When zoomed in you can scan by moving the side bars on the bottom and right side of the image.
It looks like everything is sedimentary rock.
what do ya reckon the blue/green sand is comprised of?
I have no idea!
that’s a cool pic right there!
elements are elements so I’d throw out its probably something high in Copper or Bronz...
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Guess What,
Mars looks exactly the same as it did the first time we launched the rovers to explore it.
Nothing has changed except the price to get there.
What? It appears they landed in Barstow Calif.
Check out this humongous high-resolution geologic map of Mars! The map is very similar to earthly geologic maps, with rock types and geologic periods.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1f/USGS-MarsMap-sim3292-20140714-crop.png
Blue green algae?
That is interesting information. Will have to look again to match photos and travel route with terrain type.
If Bronze, that would be interesting since it is man-made.
In that last photo the material in the foreground looks sort of bluish green. HOWEVER, I think all of these images have various filters applied, so I’m not sure how accurate they are when it comes to color.
I know there was that old photo from the Russian lander on Venus that was enhanced recently to give a really good image. But, people were complaining that it wasn’t “real” due to the filters that had been applied.
Filters or not, that “new” image from Venus looked far better than the choppy and split mosaic of the original.
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On a visit to the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in 2005, Jackson Lee made embarrassing news by asking if the Mars Pathfinder had taken an image of the flag planted there in 1969 by Neil Armstrong.[2]
Prior to the 110th Congress, Jackson Lee served on the House Science Committee and on the Subcommittee that oversees space policy and NASA.
http://web.archive.org/web/20100409095818/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Jackson_Lee
"Yes, you're right, kids. No astronaut has yet been to Mars.
Democrat Congresswoman Lee doesn't know what she's talking about."
Yes, it did. Could it have been digitally enhanced?
Were the tracks made in china? The one at the bottom near the right side of the photo has holes and cracks in it already. Bet it doesn’t have one mile on it yet.
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