Credit & Copyright: NASA,
JPL-Caltech,
MSSS;
Compilation & Processing :
Kenneth Kremer, Marco Di Lorenzo
Explanation:
What is this unusual mound on Mars?
NASA's Curiosity rover rolling across
Mars
has come across a group of these mounds that NASA has labelled
Murray Buttes.
Pictured is a recently assembled mosaic image of one of the
last of the buttes passed by
Curiosity on its way up
Mt. Sharp -- but also one of the most visually spectacular.
Ancient
water-deposited
layers
in relatively dense -- but now dried-out and crumbling --
windblown sandstone
tops the 15-meter tall structure.
The rim of
Gale crater
is visible in the distance.
Curiosity continues
to accumulate clues about how
Mars
changed
from a planet with areas wet and hospitable to
microbial
life to the
dry, barren,
rusted landscape seen today.
1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 |
Yanvar' Fevral' Mart Aprel' Mai Iyun' Iyul' Avgust Sentyabr' Oktyabr' Noyabr' Dekabr' |
NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers
NASA Official: Jay Norris. Specific rights apply.
A service of: LHEA at NASA / GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
|
Publikacii s klyuchevymi slovami:
Mars - Mars - marsohod
Publikacii so slovami: Mars - Mars - marsohod | |
Sm. takzhe:
Vse publikacii na tu zhe temu >> | |
