At 19:04:32 UTC the Mastcam Right photographed this group of stratified rocks, some with a smooth surface and others particularly “rough”.The rock just below the center of the photo even seems to defy gravity, while it is probably simply a single body with the part below on which it seems only leaning. I think the impression that these are two separate rocks is due to… Read More »Curiosity Sol 2717, March 28, 2020
At 16:18:23 UTC the Mastcam Right has filmed the new excavation in the rock made by the Curiosity’s driller.This drilling, named “Edinburgh”, is 1.6 centimeters wide and shows us the true color of the rock apart from the reddish layer that covers it.Part of the excavated material will be analyzed inside the rover, expanding the mineralogical information collected in the Gale crater. It is clear… Read More »Curiosity Sol 2711, March 22, 2020
At 10:56:59 UTC Mastcam Left captured this beautiful Martian hillock, against the background of a clear blue sky.It’s 08:50:10 LTST (local solar time) and it really seems that in the early morning the sky tends to be quite clear, at least in this period.Also notice the turquoise hues on the rocks in the foreground, extending all the way to the hillside.The original image is a… Read More »Curiosity Sol 2711, March 22, 2020
At 15:57:23 UTC the Mastcam Left has taken again the inner rim of the Gale crater as in the previous photo of twelve days ago (see https://www.facebook.com/PianetaMarte.MdM/photos/a.1625578140858706/2775275522555623/). It is 14:20:58 LTST (local solar time) and the Sun has been soaring for a while at its maximum height above the horizon. No temperature data are available yet for this Sun, but until a few days ago… Read More »Curiosity Sol 2710, March 21, 2020
Researchers Jacob Heinz of the Technische Universität Berlin and Dirk Schulze-Makuch of the German Research Center for Geosciences (GFZ) in Potsdam recently published a study based on data collected by the NASA Curiosity rover that assesses the presence of thiophenes on Mars, not excluding the possibility of their biological origin. Full article: https://www.astronautinews.it/2020/03/i-tiofeni-un-approfondimento-sui-possibili-biomarcatori-su-marte/ This post has been automatically translated. See the original post here.
At 08:22:05 UTC and 08:22:21 UTC the Mastcam Right took two adjacent photos of stratified rocks in which the same detail has been blatantly censored!In the upper right corner of the left photo and in the upper left corner of the right photo, you can see a sort of double inverted L-shaped rectangle in which detail has been totally blurred in a blatantly malicious manner.Initially,… Read More »Curiosity Sol 2700, March 11, 2020
It is today the announcement that the European Space Agency and the Russian Roscosmos Space Corporation have decided to postpone to 2022, between August and October, the launch to Mars of the second ExoMars mission. Postponement made inevitable, due to the outbreak of corona virus, to complete all the necessary tests to ensure the success of the mission. Maria Cristina De Sanctis (INAF): “Although not… Read More »ExoMars, the Red Planet can wait LAUNCH POSTPONED FOR OVER TWO YEARS
Your browser does not support HTML video. At 02:11:09 UTC (08:37:40 LTST, local daylight time) and 06:47:56 UTC (13:07:04 LTST, local daylight time), Mastcam Left filmed the inner rim of Gale crater, showing us obvious meteorological changes that occurred over a period of about four and a half hours.During this Sol, the ground reached a maximum temperature of +5°C, although only three days earlier the… Read More »Curiosity Sol 2698, March 9, 2020: a morning in the Gale crater
At 06:47:56 UTC the Mastcam Left has taken again the inner rim of the Gale crater as in the previous photo (see https://www.facebook.com/PianetaMarte.MdM/photos/a.1625578140858706/2775064539243388/). It is 13:07:04 LTST (local solar time) and the Sun has been soaring for a while at its maximum height above the horizon. The ground has reached its maximum temperature which in this Sol was +5°C, although only three days earlier the… Read More »Curiosity Sol 2698, March 9, 2020
At 02:11:09 UTC the Mastcam Left filmed the inner rim of the Gale crater with a clear blue sky.It is early morning, it is 08:37:40 LTST (local time) and the Sun has already risen for a couple of hours, thus beginning to warm the environment… Although the sky is clear, there is a slight haze that veils the green hills in the distance (see https://www.facebook.com/PianetaMarte.MdM/photos/a.1625578140858706/2737796982970144/).… Read More »Curiosity Sol 2698, March 9, 2020