MARS: CURIOSITY u krateru GALE Vol II.

Ne mislim da je ova zadnja  Philova lokacija baš previše točna.
Moj rezultat je ipak malo drugačiji.

sol 1582

Gore sam malo fulao...

This view of a Martian rock slab called "Old Soaker," which has a network of cracks that may have originated in drying mud, comes from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover.
The location is within an exposure of Murray formation mudstone on lower Mount Sharp inside Gale Crater. Mud cracks would be evidence of a time more than 3 billion years ago when dry intervals interrupted wetter periods that supported lakes in the area. Curiosity has found evidence of ancient lakes in older, lower-lying rock layers and also in younger mudstone that is above Old Soaker.
Several images from Mastcam's left-eye camera are combined into this mosaic view. They were taken on Dec. 20, 2016, during the 1,555th Martian day, or sol, of Curiosity's work on Mars.
The Old Soaker slab is about 4 feet (1.2 meters) long. Figure 1 includes a scale bar of 30 centimeters (12 inches). The scene is presented with a color adjustment that approximates white balancing, to resemble how the rocks and sand would appear under daytime lighting conditions on Earth.
Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, built and operates MAHLI. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Washington, and built the project's Curiosity rover.

Sol 1583: Driving and remote sensing

17 January 2017

The 4-sol weekend plan went well, and Curiosity drove ~ 44 m further to the south.  I was the GKOP today and it was a fairly straightforward plan focused on driving and remote sensing. We’re in late slide sols this week, which means that today we started 2 hours later than usual to wait for critical images to come down.  The plan starts with two ChemCam observations of the target “Benner Hill” to investigate the chemistry and color variations around a vein.  We also planned a small Mastcam mosaic to document the bedrock as we continue climbing Mt. Sharp.  Then Curiosity will drive, and we’ll take post-drive imaging for context and targeting.  We’re also planning some workspace imaging to prepare for possible APXS and MAHLI in tomorrow’s plan.  Later in the afternoon ChemCam will take an autonomously selected AEGIS observation, and MARDI will take a systematic image to document the terrain beneath the rover.  We’ll also use Mastcam to monitor atmospheric opacity.  I’ll be on duty again tomorrow, so I’m hoping for some interesting outcrop in the workspace after today’s drive.
By Lauren Edgar 
--Lauren is a Research Geologist at the USGS Astrogeology Science Center and a member of the MSL science team.

Pređeno samo cca 15.9 m, SE 148 °  (približno pod 58° lijevo od sadašne pozicije.
Phil Stooke će sutra objavit update. Nadam se.

"Dust devil" (pijavica)  uhvaćen okom kamere. 

...pijavica. Mislim da se radi o istoj kao gore, samo što je uhvaćena na drugoj lokaciji.

sol 1584..

sol 1584 ...šira slika terena

Još jedan dust devil, snimljeno na sol 1568. 

sol 1585