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| Piú votate - Curiosity and the Exploration of Gale Crater |
SOL3344.jpgSol 3344 - Panorama179 visitenessun commentoMareKromium
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SOL0174-PIA16804.jpgSutton Inlier - Sol 174 (Absolute Natural Colors; credits for the additional process. and color.: NASA/JPL)104 visiteThe Mast Camera (MastCam) on NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity showed researchers interesting internal color in this rock called "Sutton_Inlier," which was broken by the Rover driving over it. The Mastcam took this image during the 174th Martian day, or sol, of the rover's work on Mars (Jan. 31, 2013). The rock is about 5" (12 cm) wide at the end closest to the camera. This view is calibrated to estimated "Natural" Color, or approximately what the colors would look like if we were to view the scene ourselves on Mars. The inside of the rock, which is in the "Yellowknife Bay" area of Gale Crater, is much less red than typical Martian dust and rock surfaces, with a color verging on grayish to bluish.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project and the mission's Curiosity rover for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The rover was designed and assembled at JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.MareKromium
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SOL3060-pia24543-1-16.jpgMount Sharp - Sol 306098 visitenessun commentoMareKromium
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SOL0486-EB-MF-LXTT-IPF-00.jpgBad Wheel, Bad Luck... - Sol 486 (CTX Frame - HighDef3D - Natural Colors - Credits for the additional process. and color.: Elisabetta Bonora and Marco Faccin/LXTT/IPF)82 visiteCome risposta ai quesiti arrivati da qualche Amico Lettore nei giorni scorsi, ecco un esempio - piuttosto eloquente... - dello stato di una delle ruote del Rover "Curiosity". Certo, la "fissurazione" (anche se questo dettaglio sembra rappresentare addirittura una "contusione con lacerazione", se adottassimo il linguaggio Medico-Legale) è ovvia, ampia e palese. Ma, sinceramente (ed a meno che questo stato di deterioramento non si estenda esponenzialmente a tutta la ruota in questione e poi a tutte le ruote del Rover), non ci sembra che un simile danno possa mettere addirittura in dubbio - come si sussurra alla NASA - la funzionalità relativa al movimento dell'intero Rover. Non dimentichiamoci che il MER Spirit ha lavorato - per anni! - con una ruota bloccata e su un terreno assai più impervio del Pavimento del Cratere Gale... Comunque sia, questa è un'immagine eloquente (seguirà un EDM). A Voi il commentare....MareKromium
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SOL0027-PIA16803-PCF-LXTT-IPF.jpgOn the Floor of Gale... - Sol 27 (Absolute Natural Colors; credits for the additional process. and color. Dr Paolo C. Fienga/Lunar Explorer Italia/Italian Planetary Foundation)151 visiteThis frame, taken by the Mast Camera (MastCam) onboard the NASA - Mars Exploration Rover (MER) - Mars Laboratory "Curiosity", shows to Planetary Researchers some very interesting colors, patterns and textures in this Unnamed Rock imaged during the 27th Martian Day, or Sol, of the Rover's work at Gale Crater - Mars (such as September, 2, 2012 on Earth). The Unnamed Rock is about 2,4" (such as approx. 6,096 centimeters) across and it shows a relatively dark gray-blue color overall, with lighter, whitish tones which are organized in patterns that may indicate/suggest the presence of distinct Crystals made of different Materials (---> Minerals) inside it.
Several Patches of very thin Dust, showing the usual (and let's say "dominant", on the Floor of Gale Crater) light brown-orange color, can also be seen all over the Rock and, in particular, on its very top as well as on to its, relatively, flat right side. Last, but not least, after a very careful observation of the lower Features of the Rock, we believe, as IPF, that the possibility where the Rock itself might be (even partially) empty (thus making it look like an irregular "bowl" or an "helmet", once it is turned upside-down) should also be considered.
This picture (which is an Original NASA - Mars Exploration Rover - Mars Laboratory "Curiosity" natural color frame published on the NASA - Planetary Photojournal with the ID n. PIA 16803) has been additionally processed and then re-colorized in Absolute Natural Colors (such as the colors that a human eye would actually perceive if someone were near the NASA - Mars Exploration Rover (MER) - Mars Laboratory "Curiosity" and then looked ahead, towards the Rock dubbed "Sutton Inlier", which is located in front of the Rover), by using an original technique created - and, in time, dramatically improved - by the Lunar Explorer Italia Team. Different colors, as well as different shades of the same color, mean, among other things, the existence of different Elements (Minerals) present on the Surface of Gale Crater, each having a different Albedo (---> Reflectivity) and Chemical Composition.MareKromium
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SOL0174-PIA16804-PCF-LXTT-IPF.jpgSutton Inlier - Sol 174 (Absolute Natural Colors; credits for the additional process. and color.: Dr Paolo C. Fienga/Lunar Explorer Italia/Italian Planetary Foundation)150 visiteThis frame, which was taken by the Mast Camera (MastCam) onboard the NASA - Mars Exploration Rover (MER) - Mars Laboratory "Curiosity", shows us some very interesting colors which were found inside a Rock called "Sutton Inlier": a relatively small Rock that was broken by the Rover itself, while driving over it.
The MastCam took this image during the 174th Martian Day, or Sol, of the Rover's work at Gale Crater - Mars (such as January 31, 2013 on Earth). The Rock is about 5" - inches - (such as 12,7 centimeters) wide at the end closest to the camera. The inside of the Rock, which is found in the "Yellowknife Bay" area of Gale Crater, shows us a color that lies in between from a light gray to a very pale blue, and without traces of orange or red (the colors that, as you know, are the typical ones that characterize almost all the exposed - to the Martian Open Environment - Dusty and/or Rocky Materials and Surfaces).
This picture (which is an Original NASA - Mars Exploration Rover - Mars Laboratory "Curiosity" natural"color frame published on the NASA - Planetary Photojournal with the ID n. PIA 16804) has been additionally processed and then re-colorized in Absolute Natural Colors (such as the colors that a human eye would actually perceive if someone were near the NASA - Mars Exploration Rover (MER) - Mars Laboratory "Curiosity" and then looked ahead, towards the Rock dubbed "Sutton Inlier", which is located in front of the Rover), by using an original technique created - and, in time, dramatically improved - by the Lunar Explorer Italia Team. Different colors, as well as different shades of the same color, mean, among other things, the existence of different Elements (Minerals) present on the Surface of Gale Crater, each having a different Albedo (---> Reflectivity) and Chemical Composition.MareKromium
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SOL0198-MR1007056000E1_DXXX-1-GB-LXTT-IPF-1.jpgExtremely unusually-looking Surface Features on the Floor of Gale Crater - Sol 198 (Calibrated Natural Colors; EDM: Absolute Natural Colors - Credits: Dr Gianluigi Barca/LXTT/IPF)113 visiteIndicate dalla freccia di color rosso, altre due straordinarie Features che "appaiono" sulla Superficie del Cratere Gale: la prima (quella più in alto), sembra (è) una sorte di "Proboscide" che sembra sbucare da una crepa o un foro; la seconda, ricorda tanto il corpo sinuoso di un Sauro, la cui "pelle" ha esattamente lo stesso colore della Superficie su cui giace. Ed anche in questo caso, un GRANDISSIMO COMPLIMENTO al nostro Vice-Presidente e Partner Storico, Dott. Gianluigi Barca (alisa Big "G"). Non possiamo "spiegare", perchè non ne abbiamo i mezzi. Possiamo solo invitarVi a GUARDARE e, se ci riuscite, a VEDERE...MareKromium
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SOL0188-EB-MF-LXTT-IPF.jpgHorizons... - Sol 194 (an Image-Mosaic in Enhanced Natural Colors; credits for the additional process. and color.: Elisabetta Bonora and Marco Faccin/Lunar Explorer Italia/Italian Planetary Foundation)86 visitenessun commentoMareKromium
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SOL0194-MF-EB-LXTT-IPF.jpgHorizons... - Sol 194 (an Image-Mosaic in "White Balanced" Colors; credits for the additional process. and color.: Elisabetta Bonora and Marco Faccin/Lunar Explorer Italia/Italian Planetary Foundation)106 visitenessun commentoMareKromium
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SOL0182-PIA16728-PCF-LXTT-IPF.jpgDrilling Time! - Sol 182 (Absolute Natural Colors; credits for the additional process. and color.: Dr Paolo C. Fienga/Lunar Explorer Italia/IPF)93 visitenessun commentoMareKromium
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SOL0173-GB-LXTT-IPF-CTX+EDM_ivana_p3_(1).jpgMartian Oddities - Sol 173222 visiteAs we wrote in yesterday's, February 4th, 2013, APOD, nobody knows for sure what this bright and metal-looking Feature that shines in the Sun right in front of the NASA - Mars Exploration Rover - Mars Laboratory "Curiosity" - and highlighted by a red circle that we drew around it - can be. As a matter of fact, the texture of the whole Feature (that looks extremely smooth) and the color of its upper portion, are completely different from the texture and color of the Rocky Paving that the Feature appears to be part of, and which characterizes the area currently explored by the Rover, and known as Yellowknife Bay. Maybe, if the NASA People will decide to get closer to this intriguing Feature and so take a better look at it, we may know more. But for now, we can only draw your attention on what it seems to be one of the greatest oddities ever discovered on the Red Planet.
And that is not all! Look at the Feature highlighted by the yellow square that we drew around it and then take a careful look at what seems to be hiding in an horizontal crack of the huge boulder that is only a few meters away from the Rover... Is that an optical illusion? A very oddly-shaped rock? Or - maybe - we are really looking at something that looks like a small rodent that can perfectly "hide in plain sight"? Of course, we do not know. What we do know is that this second Feature is not just a a light-trick (actually, it casts a small shadow on the wall of the crack behind it), but something real. Something that, in our opinion, as IPF, should really be investigated...
This picture (which is an image-mosaic obtained from several Original NASA - Mars Exploration Rover - Mars Laboratory "Curiosity" b/w frames taken during the 173rd Sol of the Rover's exploration of Gale Crater) has been additionally processed, calibrated and colorized in Natural Colors (such as the colors that a perfect human eye - or an Electronic Eye - would actually perceive if someone were near the NASA - Mars Exploration Rover (MER) - Mars Laboratory "Curiosity" and then looked ahead, towards the Rocky Paving located in front of and around the Rover), by using an original technique created - and, in time, dramatically improved - by the Lunar Explorer Italia Team. Different colors, as well as different shades of the same color, mean, among other things, the existence of different Elements (Minerals) present on the Surface of Gale Crater, each having a different Albedo (---> Reflectivity) and Chemical Composition.MareKromium
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SOL0126-2-GB-LXTT-IPF.jpgFeatures of Yellowknife Bay - Sol 127 (an Image-Mosaic in RAW Natural Colors; credits for the additional process. and color.: Dr Gianluigi Barca/Lunar Explorer Italia/Italian Planetary Foundation)88 visitenessun commentoMareKromium
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