At 16:37:01 UTC the Mastcam Right captured this ridge of stratified rocks, from which some flows, probably of water, originate, furrowing the smoother part of the ground immediately below the larger rocks on top of the ridge itself.
This detail has already been photographed before, but unfortunately from unfavorable angles, so I hope to see this area again in future photos to observe any changes.
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 a reduction in noise 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.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/msss/02786/mcam/2786MR0145950031202779C00_DXXX.jpg
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