Finally, some aesthetically pleasing terrain to add to the scrapbook. All the other photos we've received from the red planet's surface were, to put it mildly, dull. Now, if we could only come up with a wider spectrum of colors other than shades of red, tan and light brown. ________________________________ From: Daniel Holmes <danielh@holmesonics.com> To: Utah Astronomy <utah-astronomy@mailman.xmission.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2012 9:56 AM Subject: Re: [Utah-astronomy] Favorites so far Since it was taken with an iPhone in Arizona, probably. Looks like it was run through an Instagram filter. I blame the guy with the mohawk--he looks hipsterish. :-) The layering is fascinating. Is there a scale to see how big each of those layers are, and exactly how far away that mountain is? I hope there are plans to go over there. I didn't realize that all the other rovers were purposely landed nowhere near a mountain because they had rudimentary guiding systems. Curiosity had active guidance, and could land in an area that was considered dangerous for the other rovers. We've never had a rover get this close to a mountain with geological formations like that yet. Thanks for sending those, Patrick. Dan On Aug 29, 2012, at 9:06 AM, Siegfried Jachmann <siegfried@jachmann.org> wrote:
Was the layering expected/predicted?
Sig
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 3:57 AM, Patrick Wiggins <paw@wirelessbeehive.com>wrote:
I'm watching the replay of yesterday's NASA news conference and I saw these images that I'm calling my favorites so far: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/images/PIA16105u_malin04MAINIMAGE-br2.jpg http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/images/PIA16104_malin03m100focus-br2.jpg
Somehow I get the feeling that geologists (Rodger?) will salivate when they see them. :)
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