Posted on 09/14/2021 2:41:33 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Explanation: Which way up Mount Sharp? In early September, the robotic rover Curiosity continued its ascent up the central peak of Gale Crater, searching for more clues about ancient water and further evidence that Mars could once have been capable of supporting life. On this recent Martian morning, before exploratory drilling, the rolling rover took this 360-degree panorama, in part to help Curiosity's human team back on Earth access the landscape and chart possible future routes. In the horizontally-compressed featured image, an amazing vista across Mars was captured, complete with layered hills, red rocky ground, gray drifting sand, and a dusty atmosphere. The hill just left of center has been dubbed Maria Gordon Notch in honor of a famous Scottish geologist. The current plan is to direct Curiosity to approach, study, and pass just to the right of Gordon Notch on its exploratory trek.
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.
Here’s a better view https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTBEzovhQ-c
Hahaha! That’s simply fantastic .
NASA’s Curiosity Rover landed on Mars 9+ (Earth) years ago on 6 August 2012. It is the oldest ACTIVE rover of the 3 currently exploring Mars. Its newer NASA sibling, Perseverance, landed on Mars on 18 February 2021, so it is only beginning its work. China (PRC) beat both Russia and the ESA (European Space Agency) in a successful landing of their Zhurong Rover on 15 May 2021.
The longest operation of any Mars rover was the NASA Opportunity which landed on 25 January 2004 and remained working for 14.3 (Earth) years. Its demise was due to a massive dust storm that reduced its solar panels to uselessness. Although NASA put it into a precautionary hibernation mode on 12 June 2018 before the storm got bad, no further contact was made and NASA declared ‘Mission Complete’ on 13 February 2019.
Astronomy paid my wages for ten years or so, so I’m not an enemy of it. I’m as curious as anybody.
But it pretty obvious Mars is dead.
Even if life was there once, it isn’t there anymore.
If rich Democrats want to farm that planet let them.
I’d rate get Fusion power, and cancer problems solved first.
Our sun increases output every year so much so we probably will not have oceans in a Billion years or so. We are gone by then.
Well be inside the sun in about 5 billion years( red giant stage) plus we wiil be crashing into the Andromeda galaxy that will be a mess.
And you Democrats are worried about my personal car and its emmissions.
A 5 minute long video of a still shot with creepy music?
People post a lot of strange stuff on youtube...
It’s a 360 degree video... you can use your mouse to scroll around on the image. I like it.
I can’t wait to view it through my VR headset later. It’s almost like being there.
There’s an astronomer named Dr Becky with an interesting youtube channel. She did an episode about galactic collisions and how the chances of any two stars actually colliding is miniscule. There is that much space between stars. If our sun were the size of a pea the nearest star would be 125 miles away. The galaxies look nearly solid in photos but the distances are beyond immense. I guess as long as you don’t go near the central black hole the vast majority of stars will survive.
I think it is a shame we cannot get more rich deocRATs on a one way rocket to be farmers on Mars.
You can pan around with your mouse.
Isn’t it the same 360 degree still image from the Astronomy Picture of the Day
from the posted article?
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https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2109/MarsPan360_Curiosity_6144.jpg
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turned into a 5 minute video with creepy music?
Maybe the user can scan side-to-side but not zoom in and out like in the image above.
To each his own, I guess.
se la vie.
de gustibus non est disputandum.
Yes, but it goes a full 360 around and down and up, too. It’s not the same as looking at a still photo.
Wow. Bleak, but being able to pan 360 is almost like being there. Turning to see what was behind and seeing that very dark almost scorched-looking area is intriguing. Volcanic?
Try to zoom in...nope...
Different strokes for different folks...
~Sly and the Family Stone-Everyday People-1969
Great Song
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmooIolK0mY
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And so on and so on and scooby dooby dooby...
It is very cool on a cell phone screen...the view changes as you sweep your hand, like you are standing in the very spot the rover is.
Shuush! You can’t scare Democrats if you are honest.
Space cameras always get the sharpest photos.
My last photo of Bigfoot getting on board the alien spacecraft was too blurry again.
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