Curiosity rover staat voor zijn zwaarste klim tot nu toe op Mars

Op 5 augustus zal de Curiosity zijn 11de jaar op Mars noteren door te doen waar de rover het beste in is: het oppervlak van de Rode Planeet bestuderen. De onverschrokken robot onderzocht onlangs een locatie met de bijnaam “Jau” die pokdalig is met tientallen ins

https://www.kuuke.nl/curiosity-rover-staat-voor-zijn-zwaarste-klim-tot-nu-toe-op-mars/

#curiosity #Jau #mars #MarsReconnaissanceOrbiter #MountSharp #MRO #nasa

A #model of #Gale #crater, with the #landing zone of the #Mars Science Laboratory #rover, #Curiosity, which was present as a visual aide in the #NASA #Press Center. The #LandingZone is the white #ellipse.
The central peak of the crater, known as both Mount Sharp and #Aeolis #Mons, is believed to hold many clues to the past of Mars.
The crater also holds features that may be evidence of being formed by flowing, liquid water.
Curiosity landed on August 6, 2012.
#GaleCrater, #MarsRover, #MountSharp, #AeolisMons, #Photography, #Photograph, #Photo
https://heronfox.pixels.com/featured/gale-crater-model-2-heron-and-fox.html

This is cool!
"The rocks near these attempted drill holes have a rippled texture that was created billions of years ago as waves flowed upon a shallow #lake. Despite having climbed through thousands of feet of lake deposits, #Curiosity had never previously seen evidence of #water and waves this clear. The #discovery came as a surprise because this region of #MountSharp – the 3-mile-tall (5-kilometer-tall) mountain Curiosity is climbing – is thought to have formed as #Mars’ climate was growing drier."
https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/27294/curiositys-360-degree-view-of-marker-band-valley/
#science #MarsRover #panorama #MarkerBandValley

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The #Curiosity rover took a photo of the "#Kimberley" formation on #Mars from a distance, which shows the strata in the foreground sloping towards the base of #MountSharp. This indicates that there was a body of water present before Mount Sharp was fully formed. The photo was taken using the Mast Camera on 580th #Martian day, or #Sol, of the mission and has been modified to adjust the lighting so that the sky appears light blue.

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This artistic scene was captured by the #Curiosity #Mars rover on November 16, 2021. Curiosity took two sets of composite images, one at 8:30 AM and the other at 4:10 PM local Mars time. The #Curiosity rover traveled to the side of #Mars' #MountSharp, or #AeolisMons, a mountain that forms the central peak of #GaleCrater. There, mission team members captured the beauty of the natural #Martian landscape with Curiosity's navigation cameras.

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#astronomy #GaleCrater #MountSharp #sulfate #NASA has released the results of data analysis recently collected by its Mars Rover Curiosity during its ascent of Mount Sharp on #Mars.

https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2022/06/23/the-mars-rover-curiosity-is-exploring-an-area-of-mount-sharp-on-mars-where-there-is-a-transition-from-a-clay-rich-region-to-one-full-of-sulfate-salt/

#astronomy #NASA #Mars #MarsRoverCuriosity #GaleCrater #MountSharp An article published in the journal "Science" reports a clever use of the Mars Rover Curiosity's accelerometers and gyroscopes to estimate the density of rocks under Gale Crater. https://english.tachyonbeam.com/2019/02/03/the-rocks-around-mount-sharp-on-mars-are-more-porous-than-expected/