June 23, 2017 at 11:53 am
Picture of the Day: The Pale Blue Dot (Mars Edition)
Using the most powerful telescope ever sent to Mars, NASA’s Reconnaissance Orbiter catches a view of the Curiosity rover on Mars’ surface
Using the most powerful telescope ever sent to Mars, NASA’s Reconnaissance Orbiter catches a view of the Curiosity rover on Mars’ surface
In an incredible feat of technology and timing, the HiRISE camera captures an avalanche from above as it was occurring
“Creating a self-sustaining civilization on Mars would be the greatest adventure ever” – Elon Musk
“The reason I am personally accruing assets is to fund this. I really have no other purpose than to make life interplanetary” – Elon Musk
Views from the final frontier
Sand dunes cover much of this terrain, which has large boulders lying on flat areas between the dunes. It is late winter in the southern hemisphere of Mars, and these dunes are just getting enough sunlight to start defrosting their seasonal cover of carbon dioxide. Spots form where pressurized carbon dioxide gas escapes to the surface
An imaging spectrometer on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has detected signatures of hydrated minerals on slopes of the Red Planet.
The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter acquired this closeup image of a “fresh” impact crater in the Sirenum Fossae region of Mars on March 30, 2015.
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover recorded this view of the sun setting at the close of the mission’s 956th Martian day, or sol (April 15, 2015), from the rover’s location in Gale Crater.
[NASA JPL] NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, working on Mars since January 2004, passed marathon distance in total driving on March 24, 2015, during the mission’s 3,968th Martian day, or sol. A drive of 153 feet (46.5 meters) on Sol 3968 brought Opportunity’s total odometry to 26.221 miles (42.198 kilometers). Olympic marathon distance is…
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