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August 17th, 2016The NASA Curiosity Mars rover is studying the stratigraphy of the Murray Buttes – and it’s quite the scenery.
New imagery from the robot visitor from Earth:
Images taken by the rover’s Mastcam Left on Sol 1432, August 16, 2016, include:
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Curiosity Navcam Left B image taken on Sol 1432, August 16, 2016.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Also, check out this impressive tour of the buttes courtesy of Roundme.com at:
https://roundme.com/tour/68083/view/167100/
Credit: NASA/JPL/MSS/Justin Cowart
Posted in Space News
From an article about planetary protection, Wired Magazine August 7 2016: “The closest dark streaks to Curiosity that NASA had previously found were about 2 miles away, up the steep slopes of Mount Sharp. These new ones were a few feet from the rover—Conley could see its tire tracks imprinted on the sand nearby. She picked up the phone. She and the Curiosity team needed to talk.”
In your fourth image there’s an interesting active subsidence feature. In the lower right corner a newer trench cross-cuts a wind ripple. This isn’t a particularly obvious example, not one I’d use to introduce skeptics to this subject, but some examples of slope and trench disturbance will turn up by accident in images posted for other reasons, just because native activity is so common at Gale. (There’s a more obvious new trench just one navcam pair to the right.) There are literally hundreds of good examples in images already acquired. The slides and streaks on slopes are most impressive.
It would be interesting maybe to readers of this site if more images of the indigenous Martian activity at Gale were included. The rover’s activities aren’t the only game in town.