NASA's Curiosity Rover Sends a Picture Postcard From Mars

[turbinetree]

NEWS | November 23, 2021



An artistic interpretation of Curiosity’s view high up on a Martian mountain was created by mission team members who were stunned by the sweeping landscape.

NASA’s Curiosity rover captured a remarkable image from its most recent perch on the side of Mars’ Mount Sharp. The mission team was so inspired by the beauty of the landscape, they combined two versions of the black-and-white images from different times of the day and added colors to create a rare postcard from the Red Planet.






Curiosity captures a 360-degree view of its surroundings with its black-and-white navigation cameras each time it completes a drive. To make the resulting panorama easier to send to Earth, the rover keeps it in a compressed, low-quality format. But when the rover team saw the view from Curiosity’s most recent stopping point, the scene was just too pretty not to capture it in the highest quality that the navigation cameras are capable of.

https://mars.nasa.gov/news/9080/nasas-curiosity-rover-sends-a-picture-postcard-from-mars/?site=mal

[littlemissmartypants]

1. Thank you. ❤

[turbinetree]

6. Your welcome....................

[Tom Kitten]

2. It looks like what I pictured

In my mind when I read John Carter of Mars. I wonder what the temperature is.

[leftstreet]

3. DURec

Thanks for posting

[Hortensis]

4. That picture really looks like another planet. Tom Kitten,

you made me curious too. It's currently mid winter. On Nov 22 when Curiosity was at Gale Crater, the high was 10 degrees Fahrenheit and low -105. (!)

[LiberatedUSA]

5. So beautiful for a place...

…that if you went for a stroll without a protective suit, your skin and organs would rupture in about two minutes.