Curiosity takes high resolution panorama of the canyon it will soon enter
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Using its high resolution camera, the Curiosity science team has now released a November 2022 panorama looking south into Gediz Vallis, the Martian slot canyon that the rover will be entering in the near future.
The panorama above, cropped and reduced to post here, shows that canyon. The red dotted line indicates Curiosity’s approximate path since the panorama was taken, circling around behind Chenapua.
The mosaic is made up of 18 individual images that were stitched together after being sent to Earth. The color has been adjusted to match lighting conditions as the human eye would see them on Earth.
Not only should you definitely look at the original, at full resolution, but also compare it with the black and white mosaic I posted in December 2022, taken by the rover’s navigation camera looking in the same direction though from a slightly different position. The color definitely underlines the spectacular nature of the landscape.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
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Click for original image.
Using its high resolution camera, the Curiosity science team has now released a November 2022 panorama looking south into Gediz Vallis, the Martian slot canyon that the rover will be entering in the near future.
The panorama above, cropped and reduced to post here, shows that canyon. The red dotted line indicates Curiosity’s approximate path since the panorama was taken, circling around behind Chenapua.
The mosaic is made up of 18 individual images that were stitched together after being sent to Earth. The color has been adjusted to match lighting conditions as the human eye would see them on Earth.
Not only should you definitely look at the original, at full resolution, but also compare it with the black and white mosaic I posted in December 2022, taken by the rover’s navigation camera looking in the same direction though from a slightly different position. The color definitely underlines the spectacular nature of the landscape.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
The detail is amazing. The lack of atmospheric density allows distant objects to be seen so clearly. Any idea of the distance to where the projected track markers end? A few hundred meters or a mile?
Looks like the desert in western China just before the Pakistan border.
Jerry Greenwood: Go to my December 2022 panorama, link in this post. I have an overview map there with scale, and yellow lines that indicate the area covered by the panorama pretty closely.
looks like across the street, in Arizona
To all: I must emphasize that in Arizona or western China there will always be some life. There is almost no spot on Earth that has not been shaped by biology in some way.
In this picture there has been and there is no life. While it remains unknown whether life once existed on Mars, if it did it was a very long time ago (likely billions of years), and it was never there in the quantity we see on Earth. Thus, its impact on the geology was minimal, at best.
Curiosity is giving us the first close-up detailed look at the landscape of an alien and lifeless planet.
Pray that it is lifeless, so that there are fewer crazies to shout that we can’t use and populate Mars.
If you look in the far distance near the center of the picture, zoom in, you’ll see the face of desperation.
a pleading expression in dead lifeless stone… a face on Mars looking to the heavens to give it life…
Someone should copy and post that unusual iconic ”face of Mars” as a meme of a golem expressing emotion and hopelessness.
I think it is haunting in appearance.