Mars Panorama: Next Best Thing to Being There, page


Pages:
ATS Members have flagged this thread 8 times
Topic started on 7-7-2012 @ 04:09 PM by cranspace
NASA releases the most spectacular picture of Mars ever taken
Taken from the rover Opportunity the pictures show the terrain where the rover spent the martian winter





From fresh rover tracks to an impact crater blasted billions of years ago, a newly completed view from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the ruddy terrain around the outcrop where the long-lived explorer spent its most recent Martian winter.

The pictures mark two milestones: Opportunity completing its 3,000th Martian day on July 2, and NASA continuing past 15 years of robotic presence at Mars on July 4

www.jpl.nasa.gov...
www.dailymail.co.uk...
Nasa's new rover Curiosity lands in August so it should not be long before new material from this is released

Cran


reply posted on 7-7-2012 @ 05:44 PM by sirhumperdink
reply to post by freelance_zenarchist


hahaha yeah i saw that too maybe they found something interesting and had to loop around for another go


reply posted on 9-7-2012 @ 12:18 PM by six67seven
reply to post by cranspace


So they've finally stopped photoshopping their photos of the Mars atmosphere being "red"... one step at a time







reply posted on 9-7-2012 @ 04:01 PM by cranspace
reply to post by six67seven




Mars atmosphere being "red"... one step at a time


It would seem so

Cran


reply posted on 10-7-2012 @ 06:00 AM by Nicolas Flamel
Originally posted by cranspace
reply to post by six67seven




Mars atmosphere being "red"... one step at a time


It would seem so

Cran


The image is in false color, as the article states:

It is presented in false color to emphasize differences between materials in the scene.


Not sure why they would think we would prefer false color images. I would like to see how it would look to human eyes myself

You can find more awesome panoramas going back to 2004 here:

Spirit: marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov...
Opportunity: marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov...



reply posted on 10-7-2012 @ 06:47 AM by Nicolas Flamel
reply to post by MmmPie



When that rover's solar panels get too covered with dust/grime will it cease to work?


The more dust, the less effective the solar panels are. The only way to clean them off is to wait for some wind to blow off some of the dust. The Spirit rover got stuck and could not point it's solar panels to the sun during the martian winter and lost all power. Opportunity should keep on rocking until a mechanical failure or it too gets stuck.
Pages:     ^^TOP^^



Hubble\'s Hidden Treasures - Incredible views of the Universe
  Posted 17 days ago with 40 member flags
Mars curiosity Sol2 Anomalies
  Posted 11 days ago with 22 member flags
Curiosity Just Went Through Mud?
  Posted 0 days ago with 22 member flags
Mars: Fears Curiosity Will Contaminate Planet
  Posted 1 days ago with 21 member flags
Milky Way in detail.
  Posted 14 days ago with 13 member flags
Went to the moon, we never went, was scared off, still going!?
  Posted 15 days ago with 11 member flags