At 05:44:30 UTC the Mastcam Right captured this colorful ridge of stratified rocks with a clear blue sky and wonderful flows (of water?) on the sand below.
I am sincerely ecstatic to observe closely these dark “flows” that look very similar to the famous RSL (acronym for Recurring Slope Lineae, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasonal_flows_on_warm_Martian_slopes) but smaller.
The variety of colors is truly amazing!
Even with all the good will, I can not imagine anything but water leaking from under the rocks and promoting the formation of lichens or similar.
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”. In addition, the photo has undergone noise reduction due to Jpeg compression, white balance and a slight increase in microcontrast and color saturation in order to make the colors more similar to what the human eye would see.
Original image: https://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/msss/02659/mcam/2659MR0139250151104005C00_DXXX.jpg
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