| Piú votate - Curiosity and the Exploration of Gale Crater |
SOL0016-RLA_397504876EDR_F0010000AUT_04096M_.jpgUp-Sun with "Mistery" - Sol 16 (Absolute Natural Colors; credits for the additional process. and color.: Dr Paolo C. Fienga/Lunar Explorer Italia/Italian Planetary Foundation)100 visitenessun commentoMareKromium
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SOL0013-PIA16105PCF-LXTT-IPF.jpgThe "base" of Mount Sharp - Sol 13 (Absolute Natural Colors; credits for the additional process. and color.: Dr Paolo C. Fienga - Lunar Explorer Italia - Italian Planetary Foundation)88 visiteCaption NASA:"A chapter of the Layered Geological History of Mars is laid bare in this postcard from NASA's Curiosity Rover. The image shows the base of Mount Sharp, the Rover's eventual (---> final) science destination. This image is a portion of a larger image taken by Curiosity's 100-millimeter Mast Camera on Aug. 23, 2012".MareKromium
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SOL0002-NLA_397681339EDR_F0020000AUT_04096M-PCF-LXTT-IPF.jpgThe Inner Rim of Gale Crater - Sol 2 (Calibrated Absolute Natural Colors; credits for the additional process. and color.: Dr Paolo C. Fienga - Lunar Explorer Italia - Italian Planetary Foundation)107 visiteThis image was taken by the Left A NavCam (NAV_LEFT_A) onboard the NASA - Mars Rover Curiosity on Sol 2 (such as August, 8, 2012 at 07:04:32 UTC) of the Rover Mission to Gale Crater. The distant Rim of Gale Crater appears "fuzzy" (---> out of focus, blurred) because of the presence of a certain amount of Fog (mostly suspended Microscopic Dust Particles and, maybe, some Microscopic Water-Ice Cristals) in the air (Lower Atmosphere); right in front of the Left A NavCam, the Surface is heavily disturbed and that fact was due to the action of the retrorockets which allowed Curiosity to make (always relatively speaking) a "Soft Landing".
"...Thrust from the rockets actually dug a one-and-a-half-foot-long [0.5-meter] trench in the Surface. It appears we can see Martian Bedrock on the bottom. Its depth below the Surface is valuable data we can use going forward..." said Dr John Grotzinger, Project Scientist for the Mission from the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.MareKromium
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SOL0003-ML0000095000E1_DXXX-GB-LXTT-1.jpgExtremely unusually-looking Rock: "The Pregnant Rock" - Sol 3 (Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech; Research: Dr Gianluigi Barca - Lunexit Team/Italian Planetary Foundation)100 visiteUn plauso al Primo Lettore che azzarda una (almeno) ragionevole spiegazione sulla Geologia e la Morfologia di questa "roccia"!MareKromium
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SOL0003-ML0000076000E1_DXXX-GB-LXTT-2.jpgJust like Turtles (n. 2)! - Sol 3 (Natural Colors; credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech; Research: Dr Gianluigi Barca - Lunexit Team/Italian Planetary Foundation)82 visitenessun commentoMareKromium
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SOL0002-676027main_pia16052-color-43_946-710-PCF-LXTT-1.jpgThe very distant Rim of Gale Crater - Sol 2 (Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech; credits for the additional process. and Absolute Natural Color color process.: Dr Paolo C. Fienga - Lunexit Team)125 visiteSono i nostri stessi Amici di Pasadena a dire che le condizioni di illuminazione di Marte, Regione di Gale Crater, non sono ottimali (meno del 50% dell'Illuminazione Solare Diffusa rispetto alla Terra e TAU elevata), e questo il risultato della ricalibrazione di un'immagine NASA/JPL-Caltech - MER and Lab. "Curiosity", Original in Natural RAW Colors (il frame che segue).MareKromium
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SOL4887-PIA26724.pngAtacama - Sol 4877 (Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech)124 visiteNASAs Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this view of a rock nicknamed Atacama on May 6, 2026, the 4,877th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The rock had gotten stuck to the drill on the end of Curiositys robotic arm on April 25. Engineers spent several days repositioning the arm and vibrating the drill to try and get the rock loose, finally detaching the rock on May 1.
Atacama is estimated to be 1.5 feet in diameter at its base and 6 inches thick. It would weigh roughly 28.6 pounds (13 kilograms) on Earth (and about a third of that on Mars). The circular hole produced by Curiositys drill is visible in the rock.
This mosaic is made up of eight images that were stitched together after being sent back to Earth. The color has been approximately white-balanced to resemble how the scene would appear under daytime lighting conditions on Earth.
Curiosity was built by NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is managed by Caltech in Pasadena, California. JPL leads the mission on behalf of NASAs Science Mission Directorate in Washington as part of NASAs Mars Exploration Program portfolio. Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego built and operates Mastcam.MareKromium
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SOL4887-PIA26696_figA.pngNevado Sajama - Horizon114 visiteThe image was taken at a ridgetop site nicknamed Nevado Sajama, where Curiosity collected a rock sample using a drill on the end of its Robotic Arm.
Since May 2025, Curiosity has been exploring a region full of geologic formations called boxwork, which crisscross the surface for miles and look like giant spiderwebs when viewed from space.
The new panorama shows them as they really are: low ridges standing roughly 3 to 6 feet (1 to 2 meters) tall and about 30 feet (9 meters) across with sandy hollows in between.MareKromium
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SOL4887-NLB_831328705EDR_S1220000NCAM00593M_.jpgNevado Sajama - Horizon (Sol 4887)83 visiteThis image was taken by the Left Navigation Camera onboard NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity on Sol 4887 (2026-05-06 - 09:48:49 UTC).MareKromium
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SOL0369-RRB_430254757EDR_F0120870RHAZ00305M_.jpgImage Artifacts - Sol 369112 visiteSvariati "puntini" bianchi nel Cielo di Marte. Nulla di reale. Solo difetti nella trasmissione dei dati.MareKromium
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SOL0130-1-GB-IT-LXTT-IPF-00.jpgLook who's watching!... - Sol 130 (an Image-Mosaic in Calibrated Natural Colors; credits for the Research: Ivana Tognoloni/Lunar Explorer Italia/Italian Planetary Foundation)120 visiteSenza parole, o quasi: da dietro una roccia, posizionata (andiamo "a occhio"...) ad una trentina di metri da "Curiosity", SEMBRA (e sottolineiamo: SEMBRA!) che ci sia un volto "familiare" che spia i movimenti del Rover.
Il volto i chi? Ma di un "Grigio", naturalmente! Un Grigio il quale, per l'occasione, ha adottato un camouflage perfetto, ha cambiato colore e si neascosto benissimo tra le rocce di Yellowknife Bay. Ma i suoi grandi ed affusolati occhi neri, uniti al suo inconfondibile "testone", non sono sfuggiti all'occhio della nostra eccezionale Amica e Partner, Ivana Tognoloni.
Che cosa stiamo guardando, quindi? Un'ennesima illusione ottica? Un'ennesima distorsione dell'immagine derivata dall'eccessiva compressione del frame? O forse un Alieno che osserva Curiosity, cercando di non farsi notare?
Cari Amici, il dettaglio l, bello chiaro, e l'ingrandimento isolato del dettaglio nel prossimo frame. Giudicate Voi, ovviamente. Con benevolenza, equilibrio e, soprattutto, tanto acume. Perch su Marte, a quanto abbiamo imparato in anni di analisi ed investigazione, "qualcosa" (o "qualcuno"), in Superficie, che si muove e lascia tracce del suo passare, SEMBRA esserci davvero.....MareKromium
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SOL0163-EB-MF-LXTT-IPF.jpgThe "Paving" of Yellowknife Bay - Sol 163 (an Image-Mosaic in Calibrated Natural Colors; credits for the additional process. and color.: Elisabetta Bonora and Marco Faccin/Lunar Explorer Italia/Italian Planetary Foundation)161 visitenessun commentoMareKromium
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