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According to a recent study just presented at the 52nd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC), Mars would have retained between 30% and 99% of the water it originally possessed trapped in the crust.Also according to this study, the Red Planet initially had enough water to cover the entire globe with a deep layer between 300 and 1500 meters, equivalent to a volume of water… Read More »Mars’ water would not have dispersed into space, but would have been almost totally trapped in the crust!

At 03:35:27 UTC the Mastcam Right captured a rock with an unusual appearance.It is certainly a sedimentary rock, but furrowed by a myriad of limestone veins, sometimes branched, that seem to converge towards the right side of the rock itself.Note also the amount of detail present; truly spectacular!The original image is a black and white encoding of the Bayer mask that has been converted to… Read More »Curiosity Sol 3057, March 13, 2021

At 03:42:35 UTC the Mastcam Right resumed the excavation of “Nontron”.You can already clearly see the first changes, as well as the onset of greenish spots in the upper part of the image (see https://www.facebook.com/PianetaMarte.MdM/posts/3750913184991847). We will see in the coming days…The original image is a black and white encoding of the Bayer mask that has been converted to color through a process called “debayering”… Read More »Curiosity Sol 3057, March 13, 2021

At 05:53:39 UTC the Mastcam Right has filmed the new excavation in the rock made by Curiosity’s driller.This drilling, called “Nontron”, is 1.6 cm wide and shows us the true color of the rock apart from the reddish layer that covers it.The excavated material appears turquoise mixed with areas more prone to pink. It will be very interesting to observe its evolution in color and… Read More »Curiosity Sol 3056, March 12, 2021

At 05:01:15 UTC the Mastcam Left has captured a beautiful white cloud standing out in a clear blue Martian sky!This is not the only cloud photographed, actually between Sol 2049 and Sol 3050 several clouds have been shot (see https://mars.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw-images/? order=sol+desc%2Cinstrument_sort+asc%2Csample_type_sort+asc%2C+date_taken+desc&per_page=50&page=0&mission=msl&begin_sol=3049&end_sol=3050&af=MAST_LEFT%7CMAST_RIGHT%2C%2C), but I chose this photo because it seemed the most representative.It is evident that this is a cirrus made of water ice crystals; one… Read More »Curiosity Sol 3049, March 5, 2021

At 15:25:46 LMST the Mastcam-Z Right took a view of the south side of the landing site.The hills in the distance show us a slight blurring of the air, probably due to dust in suspension as the sky also shows reddish clouds on a blue background.All in all I would say that the environment seems very similar to that of the Gale crater, but let’s… Read More »Perseverance Sol 3, February 24, 2021

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