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At 11:47:20 UTC the Mastcam Right shot an area adjacent to, but more to the left of, the layered knoll shown in the previous photo (see https://www.facebook.com/PianetaMarte.MdM/photos/a.1625578140858706/2557308307685680/). Again we note a nice variety of colors and brightness, as well as streaks of sand darker than the adjacent terrain that seem to spring from the crevices of some rocks.Simple darker sand or small water flows?The original… Read More »Curiosity Sol 2597, Nov. 26, 2019

At 07:58:36 UTC Mastcam Right imaged these conglomerate-like looking rocks.The conglomerates or clastic sedimentary rocks or even detrital rocks derive from sediments whose constituent elements in turn derive mainly from the accumulation of lithic fragments of other altered rocks transported generally by different exogenous agents such as river courses, sea currents, winds, etc… (see https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roccia_sedimentaria_clastica). In the sand between the rocks one can also see… Read More »Curiosity Sol 2592, Nov. 21, 2019

Your browser does not support HTML video. …then they affirm that on Mars there is no water! Full article: https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/ames/a-cloudy-martian-night-through-the-eyes-of-a-supercomputer This post has been automatically translated. See the original post here.

At 18:47:08 UTC the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) captured this very close detail of a very interesting rock.The photo was taken from a distance of 46.03 cm with a definition of 0.171 mm/pixel, thus covering an area of 26.86 cm X 20.01 cm.The complex structure of this layered rock is decidedly singular if one considers the right side of the image where the rock… Read More »Curiosity Sol 2582, Nov. 10, 2019

“Researchers still haven’t figured out what the seasonal spikes in methane concentrations on Mars depend on, and Curiosity has now served them a new mystery: Every year there are repeated unexplained spikes in the concentration of oxygen in the air at Gale Crater. For now, scientists are groping in the dark.” Struggling in the dark?Are you kidding me?But it really takes a genius to understand… Read More »Mars: with the mystery of methane still unsolved, Curiosity serves scientists a whole new one: oxygen By Massimo Zito

I present a substantial article on the possibility of the existence of life on Mars. Great scientists and researchers at work to demonstrate how the conditions on the Martian surface are not so hostile to the presence of bacterial life or even multicellular.Finally we face also the problem of radiation, not only the radiation present on the surface but the direct comparison with the amount… Read More »Evidence of life on Mars?

At 21:04:18 UTC the Mastcam Left has captured this suggestive hillock of stratified rocks with a beautiful blue sky in the background, slightly veiled by haze.We are slightly east of the mound we know well, towards which Curiosity is heading.The original image is a black and white encoding of the Bayer mask that has been converted to color through a process called “debayering” or “demosaicing”.… Read More »Curiosity Sol 2575, November 3, 2019

At 00:57:42 UTC the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) captured this very close detail of a rock just partially cleaned by Curiosity’s rotating wire brush (see https://www.facebook.com/PianetaMarte.MdM/photos/a.1625578140858706/2506023692814142/). The photo was taken from a distance of only 3.68 cm with a definition of 0.020 mm/pixel, thus covering an area of 3.19 cm X 2.37 cm.Apart from the obvious concentric circular scratches, due to the abrasive action… Read More »Curiosity Sol 2574, November 3, 2019

At 00:48:40 UTC the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) captured this detail of a rock just partially cleaned by Curiosity’s rotating wire brush.The photo was taken from a distance of 25.52 cm with a definition of 0.102 mm/pixel, thus covering an area of 16.21 cm X 12.05 cm.Note how the cleaned area has a much bluer coloration than the uncleaned rock. Note also how the… Read More »Curiosity Sol 2574, November 3, 2019

At 23:51:11 UTC Mastcam Left captured these decidedly intriguing looking rocks.In addition to the usual layered and finely laminated structure, the rock in the upper left shows a spongy detail almost “coral-like” in the upper part.In the part exposed to the sun, you can see detail regular layers in the lower part have the intrusion of something complex even if not identifiable with the forms… Read More »Curiosity Sol 2572, Oct. 31, 2019