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Astronomy Picture of the Day - Perseverance in Jezero Crater's Delta
APOD.NASA.gov ^ | 17 Sep, 2022 | Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, MSSS, ASU

Posted on 09/17/2022 1:55:05 PM PDT by MtnClimber

Explanation: The Perseverance rover's Mastcam-Z captured images to create this mosaic on August 4, 2022. The car-sized robot was continuing its exploration of the fan-shaped delta of a river that, billions of years ago, flowed into Jezero Crater on Mars. Sedimentary rocks preserved in Jezero's delta are considered one of the best places on Mars to search for potential signs of ancient microbial life and sites recently sampled by the rover, dubbed Wildcat Ridge and Skinner Ridge, are at lower left and upper right in the frame. The samples taken from these areas were sealed inside ultra-clean sample tubes, ultimately intended for return to Earth by future missions. Starting with the Pathfinder Mission and Mars Global Surveyor in 1997, the last 25 years of a continuous robotic exploration of the Red Planet has included orbiters, landers, rovers, and a helicopter from planet Earth.


TOPICS: Astronomy; Astronomy Picture of the Day; Science
KEYWORDS: alwaysdry; astronomy; dry; dryasabone; jezerocrater; mars; nasa; science; stilldry
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1 posted on 09/17/2022 1:55:05 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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2 posted on 09/17/2022 1:55:22 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: 21stCenturion; 21twelve; 4everontheRight; abb; AFB-XYZ; AFPhys; America_Right; AZ .44 MAG; ...
Pinging the APOD list.

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3 posted on 09/17/2022 1:55:56 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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Looks a lot like parts of Arizona.


4 posted on 09/17/2022 2:06:30 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain

A bit, but it doesn’t have the atmosphere.


5 posted on 09/17/2022 2:08:09 PM PDT by null and void (Can't hear the Rod Serling narration? You are not in the audience. You are a part of the story.)
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To: MtnClimber

The rock on the left is an iPad that was crushed by a mumakil.


6 posted on 09/17/2022 2:23:12 PM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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7 posted on 09/17/2022 2:23:50 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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Jezero has been looking for that.


8 posted on 09/17/2022 2:44:16 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: MtnClimber

Looks like Nevada.


9 posted on 09/17/2022 2:47:38 PM PDT by VTenigma (Conspiracy theory is the new "spoiler alert")
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10 posted on 09/17/2022 3:37:58 PM PDT by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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Nice!!


11 posted on 09/17/2022 4:17:39 PM PDT by DannyTN
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I suspect we will not find any civilization on Mars.

“Another one of them new worlds. No beer, no women, no pool parlors. Nothin’. Nothin’ to do but throw rocks at tin cans, and we gotta bring our own tin cans”.

It is a Forbidden Planet.....


12 posted on 09/17/2022 9:43:12 PM PDT by minnesota_bound (Need more money to buy everything now)
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