Beautiful photo taken by HiRISE of an anonymous crater in the northern sub-tropical belt of Mars during late summer.Take a good look at the morphology of the crater floor, certainly shaped by collapsed and/or leaked material from the top of the inner wall…. This post has been automatically translated. See the original post here.
Using official data from the REMS weather station on board Curiosity (see http://cab.inta-csic.es/rems/marsweather.html), I drew this graph that shows us the trend of temperatures before and during the dust storm raging on Mars.The colors of the curves shown here are divided into groups blue (minimum), green (medium) and red (maximum), where the darker shade represents the ground temperature and the lighter one the air temperature.As… Read More »Dust storm on Mars: where are we?
New photo taken by the CaSSIS camera on board the Russian-European probe TGO!See it in detail…. This post has been automatically translated. See the original post here.
A sequence of photos taken between 9:18 and 14:37 GMT, allowed Tom Harradine to realize this Timelapse animation, in which we can observe almost a quarter of the planet’s rotation.As you can see, the dust storm seems almost completely dissolved and details reappear as if nothing had happened! This post has been automatically translated. See the original post here.
Both the ChemCam (at 01:39:01 UTC) and the Mastcam Right (at 02:19:47 UTC) have captured this “object” as thin as a sheet of paper, of uncertain size but certainly less than 2-3 centimeters.At the moment I have no news about its nature; it could be “something” blown away by Curiosity itself, as well as a mineral deposit exfoliated and carried by the wind.I am surprised… Read More »Curiosity Sol 2139, Aug. 13, 2018
At 20:13:05 UTC the Mastcam Right photographed the Stoer hole two days after the first shot (see https://www.facebook.com/PianetaMarte.MdM/photos/a.1625578140858706.1073741828.1612043482212172/1823375761078942/). As you can see there are many differences between the first and second photo, probably due to the wind still present!This photo has been processed to allow for a better view of the colors, balancing the white and increasing the color saturation slightly. HD processed image: https://image.ibb.co/imL9wU/Curiosity_Sol2138.jpg… Read More »Curiosity Sol 2138, Aug. 11, 2018
At 21:45:03 UTC the Mastcam Right photographed the last drilling attempt, this time a successful one. Two other previous attempts failed due to the extreme hardness of the rock; in this case the rock named “Stoer” turned out to be sufficiently “soft” to allow adequate drilling to collect samples for mineralogical analysis.This photo has been processed to allow a better view of the colors, balancing… Read More »Curiosity Sol 2136, Aug. 9, 2018
The formation of minerals in the bottom of an ancient lake could have enhanced the greenhouse effect of the Martian atmosphere. Magnetite in particular could release molecular hydrogen during its formation, a gas capable of greatly increasing the greenhouse effect by maintaining a temperature useful for the stable presence of liquid water… This post has been automatically translated. See the original post here.
You can recognize many areas even if “blurred” by the sandstorm of these months. The photographed area is Arabia Terra, Schiaparelli Crater and Meridiani Planum. The polar caps are clearly identifiable. Best resolution at the link: https://www.astrobin.com/full/360192/E/?nc=user InstrumentationOptics: Meade LX200 EMC 10″Mount: SkyWatcher EQ8 PROCamera: ZWO ASI290MCCelestron X-Cel LX Barlow 3xBaader UV/IR cut filter SoftwareCapture: FireCaptureProcessing Autostakkert!3, RegiStax, WinJupos, Photoshop. – with Aagc Oagc. This… Read More »Mars taken by Massimiliano Veschini on August 2, 2018
Elon Musk doesn’t accept defeat and presses on stating that NASA is lying about the amount of CO2 on Mars! Provocative question: Elon Musk is a conspirator? This post has been automatically translated. See the original post here.