Certain details of the Martian surface can look strange, unless you take a look at the context to which they belong.This image, in particular, shows us a detail of a crater located at about 28 ° south latitude in mid-winter.The interior of this crater shows clear signs of glacial flows, very frequent at mid-latitudes of Mars, demonstrating the abundant presence of water just below the… Read More »Formations in context (or what?)
At the Mars section of the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC), held on March 20 of this year, an afternoon was devoted to as many as six speakers who focused their talks on Martian protolagos and all the associated river structures.The surprises are remarkable and numerous and rewrite the hydrogeological history of Mars in a very interesting way.It is really worth to download for… Read More »LPSC 2018:Studying young Mars by analyzing river structures
Between 18:57:49 UTC and 19:01:11 UTC the Pancam of Opportunity takes three images with narrow band filters in the three basic colors, from which it was possible to obtain this extraordinary true color image of the Martian soil.Also in this photo, as in the one of the previous Sol (see https://www.facebook.com/PianetaMarte.MdM/photos/a.1625578140858706.1073741828.1612043482212172/1658008487615671/), you can see very interesting colorations between green and green-blue looking very similar to… Read More »Opportunity Sol 5042, March 31, 2018
It is one of the most intriguing question, so much to have become object of bitter diatribes between many people belonging to the conspiracy and anti conspiracy bangs. Every now and then we too are targeted in these ridiculous infighting when we dare to open our mouths on this fascinating topic. Recently, a passing user has brought to our attention the following official NASA document… Read More »I share a post of Pianeta Marte.net by Matteo Fagone with great pleasure: “Martian atmosphere rarefied or not?
In the post devoted to a recent image taken by Opportunity https://www.facebook.com/PianetaMarte.MdM/photos/a.1625578140858706.1073741828.1612043482212172/1658008487615671/?type=3 ), I mentioned green spots observed during the Viking mission.This is the 1978 article by Dr. Gilbert Levin cited in the post indicated above…. This post has been automatically translated. See the original post here.
A most interesting study of the traces left by massive amounts of water that shaped the surface of Mars! This post has been automatically translated. See the original post here.
Between 18:01:22 UTC and 18:02:48 the Pancam of Opportunitytakes three images with narrow band filters in the three basic colors, from which it was possible to derive this extraordinary true color image of the Martian soil.Personally, I was extraordinarily impressed by the greenish spots clearly visible on the larger rocks. They remind me very much of a similar phenomenon described by Dr. Gilbert Levin who… Read More »Opportunity Sol 5041, March 30, 2018
A great press conference held last night at 11pm, with a beautiful presentation of the capabilities of the InSight probe and much more… Speakers:– Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington, D.C.– Bruce Banerdt, InSight principal investigator at JPL– Tom Hoffman, InSight project manager at JPL– Jaime Singer, InSight instrument deployment lead at JPL This post has been automatically translated. See… Read More »InSight: Digging Deep into Mars
For the next European mission to Mars in 2020, new techniques will be applied to ensure a good landing.Two parachutes instead of just one, in particular the second will be the largest parachute ever used for a landing on Mars, well 35 meters in diameter.This first test was carried out releasing everything from 1.5 km altitude, but is planning a second test starting from 30… Read More »Successful first test of the largest parachute ever used in a mission to Mars
Combining two other shots taken by the Microscopic Imager at 14:42:20 UTC (for the left eye) and 14:41:21 UTC (for the right eye) I obtained this fantastic 3D image to observe the special glasses with red and blue lenses.This image takes an area adjacent to the image of the previous post (see: https://www.facebook.com/PianetaMarte.MdM/photos/a.1625578140858706.1073741828.1612043482212172/1654805961269257/). The original images have been rotated 90° clockwise to allow a correct… Read More »Opportunity Sol 5036, March 25, 2018