NASA’s Curiosity Has Been On Mars For More Than 7 Years And Here Are Its 30 Best Photos

Poisson Volant 5 years ago

* whoa1

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DogLady 5 years ago

That's amazing!

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Leodavinci 5 years ago

I wish my tires looked that good after 7 years of traveling paved roads.

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Mildred Thompson 5 years ago

Beautifil!

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Mildred Thompson 5 years ago

Beautiful!

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Leslee Feinsod 5 years ago

Mars!

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Leslee Feinsod 5 years ago

M

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dino 5 years ago

😯😯😯

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Sarah Hearn 5 years ago

It looks like the ocean.

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Darrell Plank 5 years ago

Are those clouds? If so, this is the only pic I’ve seen them in.

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Poisson Volant 5 years ago

Mars does have clouds but this pic appears to be only show its surface.

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Curiosity is approaching its 8 year anniversary on Mars and while it is currently the only functional rover on the planet (after we all, unfortunately, had to say goodbye to Oppy), NASA has plans to send it some company in the shape of Mars 2020 rover. The 2020 mission is scheduled to start on 17 July to 5 August 2020 when the rocket carrying the rover will be launched. NASA also announced a student naming contest for the rover that was held in the fall of 2019. The final name will be announced in early March 2020, so we definitely have something to look forward to!

#2

Sunset Sequence In Mars' Gale Crater

Final score:

85points

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Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago

Th sun look so tiny!

23points

Martha Meyer 5 years ago

Mars nay be the next planet over from us, but this picture also struck me. It shows how far away Mars actually is.

12points

Bill Taylor 5 years ago

Look at it through a filter here on Earth and it is about the same size.

6points

Kris Grauel 5 years ago

It's only two thirds of the size we see it from Earth!

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Sunzilla 5 years ago

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Shannon Turner 5 years ago

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XxInstantKarmaxX 5 years ago

if we go to live on mars there will be no more big beautiful sunsets #Savetheplanet

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Himanshu Raj 5 years ago

That's a COLD sunset.

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Väinö-Oskari Astala 5 years ago

The red colour of Aresian sky comes from iron oxide dust but the atmosphere is so thin that no proper Rayleigh scattering happens. Until the sunset that is. As the sunlight has go through more atmosphere, we get this nice blue tint.

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K Lane 5 years ago

You can make the sun look tiny on a photo on Earth: just zoom out!! You can also make it look bigger by zooming in or cropping the image. #mind:blown

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John Zwiers 5 years ago

Incredible?

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John Zwiers 5 years ago

Incredible!

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Maggie Dougherty 5 years ago

I like the color from this angle. Pretty cole there!!

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Geraldine Murphy 5 years ago

Wow!!!

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Mildred Thompson 5 years ago

WOW!

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#3

Curiosity Rover Finds And Examines A Meteorite On Mars

Final score:

84points

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Ctirad Macháček 5 years ago

It looks like the head from Roman statue.

79points

JD Cassavaugh 5 years ago

Or a bust of Beethoven.

2points

Trash Panda 5 years ago

I wouldn't have seen that if I didn't read your comment. I have to agree with you on that!

1point

dino 5 years ago

Yes it actually really does

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Chris Anderson 5 years ago

That’s exactly what I was thinking

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Sergio Gonzalez 5 years ago

Probably an angry liberal with a serious case of TDS kicked it off from it l’s statue ..

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Ron Richards 5 years ago

the white caulk adds interest for me?

2points

Jeff Mason 5 years ago

Come on people, did you MISS the 5 white dots on the face of the statue? Nobody mentioned that. That does not happen randomly! They are too perfectly and evenly placed and spaced. They resemble the Big Dipper or Little Dipper.

1point

Jon Mullen 4 years ago

Sadly, nobodies listening Jeff. Interesting though, isn't it. It actually reminds me of The Pleiades.

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May Day 5 years ago

The white in the cracks could be pegmatite, or an equivalent of it. When the magma cools off as the bedrock is forming, parts of it hardens while some remains liquid a little longer. That part fills in the small gaps between the bigger chunks. The difference in colour and texture is due to a different composition of the atoms in the rock. A meteorite often splits into smaller parts at impact, causing tiny bits to be thrown back up into space where they cool off and then fall down and land far away from the impact crater. That might be why we don´t see any signs of impact. Just some thoughts from an amateur geologist... who is delighted to see some real Mars rock! With possible pegmatite!

1point

Marcelo Toniolo 5 years ago

Julius Caesar's head statue in Mars !!!!

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Earl Lovell 5 years ago

I wonder what it is that fills the cracks ? That is the only white I see ?

1point

Jardar Olsen 5 years ago

This is common here on Earth too. Most likely it is quartz or calcite.

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Jeromy Rodolph 5 years ago

wheres the impact. looks like some one just set it there

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Ron Richards 5 years ago

What's left of Elon's sports car.

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danielw 5 years ago

nah. teslas are all plastic. those lipos catch and there won't be nothing left.

1point

Willie Senekal 5 years ago

What would the size of the meteorite be? Pity there is no scale on the photos.

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Judy Tarchalski-Banks 5 years ago

Looks like a statues have

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#4

Curiosity's Color View Of Martian Dune After Crossing It

Final score:

76points

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NWB 5 years ago

It is so amazing that we can get these amazing images now!

30points

Aahzmandus Pervect 5 years ago

This is very Earthlike.

6points

CrunChewy McSandybutt 5 years ago

Honestly, it looks like the majority of Nevada.

5points

Podunkus 5 years ago

(Shhhhhh... you’re revealing NASA’s little secret.)

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AzKhaleesi 5 years ago

Mars? Looks like my home state of Az

3points

May Day 5 years ago

Makes you feel like you´re actually standing there!

2points

Dorothy Cloud 5 years ago

It's sad that it looks like we're messing up the landscape!

2points

Maggie Dougherty 5 years ago

Incredible shots.thank NASA!!

1point

Joyce Abbott 5 years ago

It looks so earthy.

1point

Carol Roeder 5 years ago

Okay, Ralph, who was here last night while I was gone????

1point

Roman Belkin 5 years ago

Looks like Egypt

1point

#5

Martian Rock 'Harrison' In Color, Showing Crystals

Final score:

72points

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Jeff 5 years ago

I love rocks! I want one of these!

27points

Nena Sinclair 5 years ago

You just wanna be a rock star Jeff! Lol

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Riz Leslie 5 years ago

That’s the issue with humans, Jeff. Lol

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David Jeu 5 years ago

Rocks rocks!

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Maggie Dougherty 5 years ago

Me too, please! I don't care which color!!

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Jon Mullen 4 years ago

It reminds me of the side of a disused road.

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Danny Shannon 5 years ago

That is the indentation gamora made after thanos threw her.

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Nisarali Momin 5 years ago

Looks like it’s Gold

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John Zwiers 5 years ago

Just amazing! Do not know what to think but, ...love to know!

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Mildred Thompson 5 years ago

I don't know much about rocks!

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Kris Steel 5 years ago

I see blue sapphire, Black Diamond, and Gold🤔

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Kris Steel 5 years ago

Left bottom is Gold

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Jay Roberson 5 years ago

uh Gold, mid left

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Ron Richards 5 years ago

tubeworm fossil or those of prehistoric grass?

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#6

Curiosity's Dusty Selfie At Duluth

Final score:

68points

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Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago

How does he take a pic of himself..

55points

Giedrė Vaičiulaitytė 5 years ago

It takes multiple pictures and what we see is a composite! Imagine if you took two pictures of yourself, one holding the camera with the right hand and the other with your left one, then combined the halves of two pictures to make one where you can't see your extended arms! Voila!

71points

Robert Lund 5 years ago

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/12/121204-curiosity-mars-rover-portrait-science-space/

7points

Eric Ollier 5 years ago

Big selfie stick

3points

kytetiger 5 years ago

Here is an explanation. We can actually only see the shoulder. https://youtu.be/4tqLk-Wl0Fo

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qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm 5 years ago (edited)

the camera arm it uses is edited out at NASA

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jimmy pop 4 years ago

One of the martians was kind enough to take one.

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Roshan Dash 5 years ago

It uses a 360 camera

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Kristina Oak 4 years ago

With a selfie stick lol

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Sunzilla 5 years ago

I've been trying to figure that out too. Maybe it carries around a mirror and places it against a rock every now and then? 😉

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Nena Sinclair 5 years ago

Selfie stick lol

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Akash GG 5 years ago

Just one question triggers a whole new subject for conspiracy theorists altogether...

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Thomas Ewing 5 years ago

You can see the Martian's shadow that took the picture--oh, wait a minute. NASA edited the shadow out. Clever!

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Kathi Keegan Chang 5 years ago

Hmmmm.... a good question. Maybe there is a second robotic camera, that does the job?

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Elizabeth Mellisa 5 years ago

i was thinking the same thing

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Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago

Pandas have no I can't reply to u. Giedre is saying it raised left hand took pic raised right hand took pic then combined but only use the opposite side that the hand was in so you can't see hands. Left hand use right side, right hand left side of pic. Combined you get no hands.

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mermaidgirl960 5 years ago

Oh lol I always imagined curiosity as a girl even though obviously robots have no gender

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Caco Cacovski 5 years ago

with selfie stick

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danielw 5 years ago

Curiosity had a selfie stick.

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May Day 5 years ago

Hi there Curiosity!

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Id row 5 years ago

I got such an overwhelming sense of isolation looking at that. Reminds me of an old Twilight Zone ep.

1point

David Nunemaker 5 years ago

if I built the rover for Mars it would have an on board compressor and air gun to blow itself off

1point

Clifford Sayer 5 years ago

Where would you get the air?

1point

Toll Tolladay 5 years ago

Amazing that Curiosity is on a whole other planet, and he SO should be called Number 5.

1point

Gerard Vautour 3 years ago

Who or what took the phooto?

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Terry Tinker 5 years ago

How exactly does the rover take a photo like this? Very curious.

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Denver Risley 5 years ago

who's holding the camera?

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John Sampson 5 years ago

Not possible!

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Earl Lovell 5 years ago

NASA The Pie shape rock beside the rover has writing on it

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#7

Jake Matijevic Rock

Final score:

68points

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Chuck Donaldson 5 years ago (edited)

There’s a lot going on here - and a lot has happened here. Look it up! It’s not just another rock. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Matijevic_(rock)

33points

Storm Rise 5 years ago

Thant's fascinating! Thanks for the link Chuck Donaldson :-D

3points

Id row 5 years ago

What if Mars is inhabited by a race of microscopic intelligent beings and that's their Great Pyramid?

5points

Richard Hickman 5 years ago

Lmao

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Carol Derks 5 years ago

Oddly symmetrical

2points

Carmen Sita 5 years ago

Beautiful!

2points

Ellory Potter 5 years ago

Is it big? Or regular sized

2points

danielw 5 years ago

25cm high, 40 wide. still a very heavy rock.

3points

Ron Richards 5 years ago

Looks like a meteorite to me. Or volcanic.

2points

Richard Hickman 5 years ago

Bullseye

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Kendra Williams 5 years ago

Amazing!!

1point

Ashley Nell 5 years ago

That looks AMAZING!!!! it's so cool because blue's my favorite color!!

1point

Kelly Reynolds 5 years ago

That looks like someone shaped it

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Patricia Najhawan 5 years ago

Wow!!!! I wonder what the lue color comes from.

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#8

Multiple Layers Of Mount Sharp

Final score:

64points

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Aahzmandus Pervect 5 years ago

This almost looks like Earth.

31points

Nelson Bryan 5 years ago

Yeah but without the O2.

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Crystal Sulik 5 years ago

It looks like there are remnants of fluted columns, like the ones in Greek ruins

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Christy Smith 5 years ago

Minus any color or anything remotely alive.

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Markus Reignwar 5 years ago

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Yamini Mahendran 5 years ago

And some people will still have the audacity to say that Mars is flat! lol

2points

Leslee Feinsod 5 years ago

Mars!!!

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AzKhaleesi 5 years ago

that looks like there was water

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qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm 5 years ago

water?

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Bill Dudley 5 years ago

Earth in 500 years

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John Davis 5 years ago

It sure looks wet back there on the ridge

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John Davis 5 years ago

The sand sure looks wet on the ridge in the back

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Mildred Thompson 5 years ago

Interesting!

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The Cute Cat 5 years ago

Very much look like stones in rain pond..

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#9

First Sampling Hole In Mount Sharp

Final score:

63points

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MrTir 5 years ago

It just looks.. like if you planted something it grows, like it could be from the woods close by, but it is literally millions of miles away

20points

Erin S 5 years ago

No, it's about 239,000 miles away.

-3points

Genevieve Gates 5 years ago

That no human or human made object has ever been on the planet, but now there's trace of "human" movement there is just astounding. It's amazing

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Sunzilla 5 years ago

Uhm...Where do the samples go? Does Curiosity analyse it herself?

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Ikram Mahyuddin 5 years ago

Amazing

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Mildred Thompson 5 years ago

Perfect circle.

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Anton Kider 5 years ago

Just imagine a rabbit come out

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Jon Doe 5 years ago

Matt Damon's poop potatoes grow here!

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Gabi 5 years ago

Erich von Däniken might be right, after all.

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Ron Richards 5 years ago

Needs to be deeper - same stuff in the hole.

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M Dream 5 years ago

you should email and inform nasa

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Chad Allen 5 years ago

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Roman DeJesus 5 years ago

suck a d**k r******d loser

1point

#10

Curiosity Took Dozens Of Mast Cam Images To Complete This Mosaic Of A Petrified Sand Dune

Final score:

63points

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Ray Heap 5 years ago

Petrified sand dune? Well Curiosity does look badass.

27points

danielw 5 years ago

the little rover that could. I cried a little when it was finally confirmed it wouldn't be coming back. It's happened before.

4points

Brian Zemach 5 years ago

How, exactly, does a sand dune petrify? I had always understood petrification to be the process by which organic matter exposed to minerals over a long period is turned into a stony substance. Is this related to Curiosity's discovery of organic molecules in sedimentary rocks dating to three billion years old.

2points

danielw 5 years ago

Not to be a downer, but organic chemicals are just a class of carbon based chemicals. yes, they're intricately linked with biological processes, but there's no need for life to have ever existed to create it. That said, yes petrification is technically limited to organic material becoming mineralized (aka fossilized), but the term is also commonly used for sand that fuses into stone. For example the Petrified Dunes in Arches Nat. Park.

1point

Jon S. 5 years ago

Stratigaraphy pleases me in ways no lover can

2points

Mary Zirkle 5 years ago

Does anyone else see the square opening at the bottom right of this picture?

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Sunzilla 5 years ago

How does sand get "petrified"? I thought that was reserved for trees....

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Leslee Feinsod 5 years ago

Mard

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dino 5 years ago

This is so freaking cool it’s weird

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Roxy Eastland 5 years ago

Doesn't petrified basically mean the same as fossilised? How can a sand dune be fossilised?

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Darrell Plank 5 years ago

This does look similar to the petrified sand dunes in Snow Canyon near St George, Utah.

0points

#11

Remnants Of Ancient Streambed On Mars

Final score:

61points

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Grumble O'Pug 5 years ago

Amazing.

12points

Elias Barbieri 4 years ago

nhthgyjukljjjjjjjjjjjjhlllll;jgyuuuuuuuudtrfhjuklm;;;;;;;;;dgtrrrrrrrrrrfhyjuuuuuuuuuugdtrrrrrrfsccccccccmbhhhhhc

1point

Elizabeth Gardner 5 years ago

Look at some of the very old original river beds on Earth hardly any difference

1point

Pauline Kelly 5 years ago

Is this how Earth will look if we do nothing to combat climate change?

1point

James Moore 5 years ago

Lots of strange things in this photo, But it looks like the edges of the's rocks look like whey melted by extreme heat and that tank it has three different colors on it?

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Earl Lovell 5 years ago

NASA half way up left side see the Black object that has grooves cut around it and the look upward from that there is a Gate latch close to it.

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Rachel Cervoni 5 years ago

Ancient what?

0points

Sarah Hearn 5 years ago

Wow 😯!

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Dorothy Cloud 5 years ago

Isn't that an assumption that it's an old river bed?

-2points

Logan Harris 5 years ago

The patterns of erosion on the top of this streambed are consistent with that of a f*****g streambed.

2points

Amanda Hunter 5 years ago

There were probably humans inhabiting it, and this is the result.

-2points

#12

Outcrop In The Murray Buttes Region Of Lower Mount Sharp

Final score:

61points

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Madison Feehan 5 years ago

Am I the only one Sphinx in the bottom right of the rocks? Certainly amazing formations!

27points

Marilyn Martin 5 years ago

Looks very Egyptian

2points

Alan Hulme 1 year ago

Have a close look at where the sphinx's nose should be. Seems like there could be Arabs on Mars these days

0points

Frances Riley 5 years ago

Looks like two faces on the rocky mountain like Egypt...

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Aila Cinar 5 years ago

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Tommy Hellberg 5 years ago

Um, that looks like sedimentary rock to me...

1point

Jim Ahl 5 years ago

Climbers are looking at this for routes

1point

Elias Barbieri 4 years ago

IMG_202101...5af9d2.jpg

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Danny Shannon 5 years ago

Tatooine

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Nelson Bryan 5 years ago

Does anyone see any rock paintings.

0points

Doug Kitts 5 years ago

I'm likening the layers..

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Patricia Najhawan 5 years ago

Its really looking like some civilization started here! Very Egyptian!!!

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Arlene Poupart 5 years ago

Look closely betwwenrocks ..there are footprints from something..they are right where the shadow line begins..what made those I wonder.

0points

Sunzilla 5 years ago

That arch looks artificial. Where can I get more pics of this Murray Buttes Region?

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#13

Mount Sharp Comes In Sharply

Final score:

59points

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rai mei 5 years ago

aptly named

8points

Eric Nelson 5 years ago

Looks like a scene from Star Wars, lol

2points

AzKhaleesi 5 years ago

So please don't attack me for this comment, but the sky is blue in this picture. Isn't that conducive of an atmosphere (oxygen and such?)

1point

Poisson Volant 5 years ago

Any gas that scatters light will color the sky. Mars' atmosphere is mostly carbon dioxide.

1point

Rick Quest 5 years ago

Blue skies and tan sand...

1point

Id row 5 years ago

I wish we could get these images for other planets, too. I would love to see what Saturn and Jupiter terrain looks like.

1point

Aaron McCormick 5 years ago

Saturn and Jupiter do not have terrain. They are made of gas.

2points

John McGinn 5 years ago

Looks like Arizona

0points

Richard Caruso 5 years ago

Still haven’t heard an answer to why the blue sky? There’s no water to reflect on the atmosphere so...

0points

Michelle Scheiman 5 years ago

Curiosity isn't exactly killing me, but I'm wondering how the sky is blue, with no oxygen in the atmosphere? Also, how is it different colors, in different pictures?

0points

May Day 5 years ago

Beautiful

0points

Elizabeth Gardner 5 years ago

very Earth like

0points

#14

Curiosity Self-Portrait At Martian Sand Dune

Final score:

56points

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MrTir 5 years ago

He's so alone. Just like Wall E

53points

Myra Groenewegen 5 years ago

I notice the resemblance too. Intentional probably, eh?

2points

Zach Robinson 5 years ago

Imagine being completely alone on a planet just to take pictures with little chance of seeing earth ever again

0points

Riz Leslie 5 years ago

He’s so cute!

0points

Joe Morphew 5 years ago

How does it take selfies?

3points

Edward Paredez 5 years ago

can someone explain who snapped the picture of the rover cause obviously it wasnt the rover

3points

Mario Paral 5 years ago

here it is :) https://www.universetoday.com/122883/why-dont-we-see-the-curiosity-rovers-arm-when-it-takes-a-selfie/

4points

Romualdo Barillaro 5 years ago

I am asking the same question, does the rover have a drone LOL

1point

Sarah Stalder 5 years ago

I was wondering the same thing

0points

Ron Randolph 5 years ago

How does it take a picture of it self from a distance without another camera ????

2points

Jardar Olsen 5 years ago

The rover has many cameras actually, including a true color device on the robotic arm. The picture above is put together using dozens of images as the robotic arm camera is meant for highly detailed images of relatively small areas.

1point

Elias Barbieri 4 years ago

poor dude.

1point

Philippa Sivan 5 years ago

How did it take a picture of itself while nothing holds the camera? Serious query not conspiracy hunt

1point

Jardar Olsen 5 years ago

The answer was posted in the comments above: https://www.universetoday.com/122883/why-dont-we-see-the-curiosity-rovers-arm-when-it-takes-a-selfie/

0points

Samuel Sucre 5 years ago

How does he take a picture of the camera?

1point

Jardar Olsen 5 years ago

It has several cameras.

1point

Jerome Goodwin 4 years ago

How?

0points

Adam Bivins 5 years ago

Who is taking the picture of the rover??

0points

Dennis Hiley 5 years ago

How did it take a selfie? there is no camera arm visible..

0points

#15

Curiosity Visited An Area Named "Fracture Town" Which Contains Many Pointed, Layered Rock Formations

Final score:

53points

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Bob 2.0 5 years ago

The interesting thing here is that, if there was life on mars, stuff like this would probably be collapsed from the weight moving around on it. It's fascinating to see how things form on a completely lifeless, mostly-dry planet.

23points

Chuck Donaldson 5 years ago

Well, Mars’ gravity is pretty low. And if life forms were small, didn’t move around a lot, or just didn’t live near these rocks...

7points

Shima Gyoh 5 years ago

The layers look as if they were formed by seasons that included rainy ones.

1point

Joyce Abbott 5 years ago

What about gravity?

0points

Susie Swearingen-Kamachi 5 years ago

Looks like slate.

1point

Jon Mullen 4 years ago

Top left of the photo resembles a dried out puddle, with 5 equidistant spots where the 'fluid' was

0points

Doug Kitts 5 years ago

Anyone see the overlapping smiley faces at the top left?? The "eyes" look very symmetrical to me. Two layers down from that, is a small round hole. Round...

0points

Genevieve Gates 5 years ago

So am I looking at someone that would fit in my hand or something that is the size of grand canyon?!?!

0points

TomiSmith 5 years ago

Very cool looking.

0points

Christina Uhlir 5 years ago

People ask, is there life on other planets? Maybe there is, or was, now there are just craters and dead deserts. That's how Planet Earth will eventually look like? Exaggerated? I think not.

0points

Elizabeth Gardner 5 years ago

We have some fractured layers like that in Australia

0points

Lex Ellyss 5 years ago

Alright, who hired the 7 year old to name this area?!

0points

Leodavinci 5 years ago

Looks like shale.

0points

#16

Having Reached The Base Of Mount Sharp, Curiosity Captured This Image Of Its Rocky Surroundings

Final score:

53points

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N G 5 years ago

I've seen this set before on an episode of star trek.

27points

Grumble O'Pug 5 years ago

Yeah, Kirk fighting the Gorn.

6points

Pusfarm 5 years ago

Vasquez Rocks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasquez_Rocks

3points

Sunzilla 5 years ago

Was that where a Red Shirt died?

0points

Fergus O'Byrne 5 years ago

Is that where kirk fought the Gorn with the homemade bazooka?

0points

Leslee Feinsod 5 years ago

Mars!!!!

1point

Sue Knerl 4 years ago

I see a jawa back there in the cave and a guy with a bat.

0points

Rhonda DeFrees 5 years ago

Edge of the Pyramid Mine with the alien reactor inside?

0points

Kathi Keegan Chang 5 years ago

Wow! It also appears to look like a great camp site, if you have alternative camping equipment... for the MOON!

0points

May Day 5 years ago

I want climbing boots and a magnifying glass.

0points

Elizabeth Gardner 5 years ago

Looks like parts of the outback in the Western side of the territory and WA

0points

Eric Nelson 5 years ago

Now it kinda looks like Arizona, haha

0points

Eric Miner 5 years ago

With a little tweeking, sure looks like ...Earth?(Where's Kirk?) mars-curio...e361bc.jpg

0points

Eric Miner 5 years ago

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#17

Wheel Scuff Mark At 'Rocknest'

Final score:

52points

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rai mei 5 years ago

i thought at first it was an astronaut's footprint

26points

Hamlets twin 5 years ago

I'd love to see a picture of an astronauts footprint next to this one :) Maybe some day

6points

Erin O'Quinn 5 years ago

It kind of is...It's just that the astronaut is a robot. :)

4points

Richard Hickman 5 years ago

rai mei , that's what I thought too!! Lol, I think we'd all be having a different conversation if that was the case!!

0points

Trash Panda 5 years ago

Wouldn't it be utterly fascinating if Curiosity came across a footprint, of any sort?

0points

Eric Nelson 5 years ago

Me too! Lol!

0points

Hellysal 5 years ago

huh, now it kinda is.

0points

Grumble O'Pug 5 years ago

why?

0points

Kate Johnson 5 years ago

It's incredible to me that at first glance, the ground looked wet... how often do you see dust so dry and still that it would take an imprint like that?

1point

May Day 5 years ago

When the wind is not blowing?

0points

Gwen Grimke 5 years ago

Eerily looks like a footprint

0points

Nelson Bryan 5 years ago

Aliens

0points

May Day 5 years ago

That´s one step for robot, one giant leap for humanmade technology...

0points

#18

Focusing The 100-Millimeter Mastcam

Final score:

49points

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M O'Connell 5 years ago

@Chrsty, Why must everything be "useful" to humanity, and all things which are not "useful" be ignored and declared useless? Stop asking "What can this do for me?" and start asking "What can I learn from this?"

49points

James 5 years ago

I learned that I love our Planet Earth most of all.

2points

jimmy pop 4 years ago

Well, that's basically what science is.

0points

Patricia Najhawan 5 years ago

Beautiful reply! It's so very intriguing!

0points

Kathi Keegan Chang 5 years ago

I wouldn't mind a poster of this in my office. The perspective is fascinating. Beautiful layers of rock and color.

0points

Grumble O'Pug 5 years ago

...is rack focusing

-1point

Brett Connor 5 years ago

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#19

Curiosity Arrived At This Active Sand Dune Named "Gobabeb", Which Is Part Of A Larger Dune Field Known As "Bagnold"

Final score:

48points

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ju Hel 5 years ago

I'm curious how they come up with the names

24points

Monja Gerber 5 years ago

Gobabeb is a research institute in the Namib Desert. Some of the other dunes on "mars" are also named after dunes in the Namib

12points

malcolm mann 5 years ago

Bagnold is named after a British soldier named Ralph Bagnold who explored the Western Desert in Egypt in the 1920s-30s. He also wrote a book called The Physics of Blown Sand about how the wind moves the sand about which NASA used in its Martian research.

9points

Alasdair Cruickshank 5 years ago

They play a game of boggle.

1point

Patricia Najhawan 5 years ago

Why such strange names? I would love to know! Glory

0points

Kathi Keegan Chang 5 years ago

As I began to look at this one, I stopped in my mind to ask the same question as Ju Hel. What an odd bunch of formations we get to see, thank to some astronauts!

0points

Alin Bora 5 years ago

Who the hell gives these names????

-1point

#20

View From Mars Orbiter Showing Curiosity Rover At 'Shaler'

Final score:

47points

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Rae 5 years ago (edited)

Aww you can see its little footprints

19points

carolgallasz 5 years ago

wall.e

4points

Riz Leslie 5 years ago

He’s so cute

0points

Chuck Borg 5 years ago

ok I see two blue circles possibly water to the left. why dont you land or go there??

0points

Patricia Najhawan 5 years ago

Where?!!! Patricia Najhawan

1point

Myra Groenewegen 5 years ago

So this is some kind of shine shell-like rock, like pearlized seashells?

0points

Carol Derks 5 years ago

Seriously looks like an image of the side of a face left hand side and another, right hand side

0points

Earl Lovell 5 years ago

TRUST ME NASA --Here you have great images of people on the right dressed heavily BUT! sort of a let down The images are earth images I see that now there is a horse with a Bridle on it . Has to be earth images and it does happen I could teach you. My eyes can't be that special I guess it is from so many years doing this.

0points

Todd Weiler 5 years ago

Cool pic of Curiosity’s tracks across Mars and seen from above! Wow!

0points

Ruth Leonie 5 years ago

what are those little blue spots

0points

#21

Mars Rover Curiosity In 'Buckskin' Selfie

Final score:

45points

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L McN 5 years ago

SO CLOSE...you can ALMOST see the entire arm for the camera that takes it's self portraits. I don't know about you, but I would love to see a few stills without them editing anything, leave the arm in place.

35points

Felix Rothschild 5 years ago

the unedited images are all accessible via nasas website, its literally thousands. Its obvious they use aesthetically pleasing composites for communication on social media tho.

5points

danielw 5 years ago

you wouldn't see much. Because it's a composite picture, and you only see bits an pieces in the raw pictures, it would actually be fairly confusing. which is why they take it out.

2points

Caroline Driver 5 years ago

Careful, there'll be people saying that Curiosity being on Mars is fake because the shadow doesn't match the robot above..

1point

Qrama Sörensen 5 years ago

Curiosity has sent over 460 000 pictures from Mars back to earth. Don't worry about a few selfies Rahul. That amazing rover has earned the right to take some kick a*s pictures of itself with another world as a background.

5points

Pensive 5 years ago

Well said!

1point

Patricia Najhawan 5 years ago

Very sassy, Rover!

0points

Jim Prendergast 5 years ago

If this is actually a selfie of the rover I have 1 question.....WHO TOOK IT?

0points

Shannon Turner 5 years ago

That's because it's not real.

0points

Gary Armijo Sr. 5 years ago

Where is the selfie stick? In other words who took this pic?

0points

Qrama Sörensen 5 years ago

I've read anwers in other comments here. Copy paste: "It takes multiple pictures and what we see is a composite! Imagine if you took two pictures of yourself, one holding the camera with the right hand and the other with your left one, then combined the halves of two pictures to make one where you can't see your extended arms! Voila!"

0points

Dan Wolfgram 5 years ago

Is the arm holding the camera photo shopped out? How is it taking a "Selfie" if there is no arm?

0points

Qrama Sörensen 5 years ago

I've read anwers in other comments here. Copy paste: "It takes multiple pictures and what we see is a composite! Imagine if you took two pictures of yourself, one holding the camera with the right hand and the other with your left one, then combined the halves of two pictures to make one where you can't see your extended arms! Voila!"

1point

Rahul Eluri 5 years ago

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#22

Layers At The Base Of Mount Sharp

Final score:

44points

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Vicki Wizard 5 years ago

ok - I'm officially besotted by Mars. What a glorious planet!

1point

May Day 5 years ago

Fantastic

0points

Grumble O'Pug 5 years ago

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#23

Getting To Know Mount Sharp

Final score:

44points

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Karen Lund 5 years ago

Rust and indigo.

8points

Nicole Crandall 5 years ago

Doesn't look very "sharp"... Looks more like a gentle rolling hills at best.

0points

Ronald Lee 5 years ago

Its named after "Robert P. Sharp" a geomorphologist.

7points

#24

Curiosity Tracks In 'Hidden Valley' On Mars

Final score:

42points

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Andrei Luiz Marques 5 years ago

Very very fantastic!

8points

Tyler Scott 5 years ago

It seems the topical layer is vastly a different color than what’s beneath, seems to almost give off an assumption of wetness...

0points

Sunzilla 5 years ago

Why such a huge difference in sand colour?

0points

Dennis Hiley 5 years ago

looks damp

0points

Денис Гусаков 5 years ago

There was an lod Russian song: "На пыльных тропинках далеких планет останутся наши следы" — "On the dusty trails of distant Planets we're going to leave our footprints"

0points

Logan Harris 5 years ago (edited)

God damn... That's amazing, how they predicted this.

1point

Oscar Guerrero 5 years ago

Woah

0points

Raul Castellanos 5 years ago

WHY IS THIS BLACK AND WHITE WHILE OTHER PICTURES ARE IN COLOR?

-2points

Cindy Johnston 5 years ago

Why not? Do you not like B&W photos? And quit shouting.

2points

#25

Curiosity Rover's View Of Alluring Martian Geology

Final score:

41points

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Nea 5 years ago

These pictures suddenly make me feel Mars is not that far or different.

15points

danielw 5 years ago

Not so different and yet completely alien. There is, after all, no place like home.

6points

Horst Klaus 5 years ago

there are skeptics out there saying that is all fake, pix are from our planet, makes me mad! Such idiots! i find it remarkable how similar that planet seems to be to our Earth.

0points

Genevieve Gates 5 years ago

alluring? That is not the word I would use

0points

Donnie Pabalate 5 years ago

Why are there no rocks or pebbles in parts of the dunes in the foreground?

0points

Pippa Runs 5 years ago

It really does look like the Atacama Desert.

0points

Ana Vernick 5 years ago

dolmens!

0points

#26

Curiosity Self-Portrait At 'Windjana' Drilling Site

Final score:

41points

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Roland Sturbelle 5 years ago

how is this picture taken ?

7points

Chelsea Hughes 5 years ago

https://www.universetoday.com/122883/why-dont-we-see-the-curiosity-rovers-arm-when-it-takes-a-selfie/

8points

Randy Carlough 5 years ago

Where is the camera’s arm?

0points

Logan Harris 5 years ago

Just to put it simply, it's a composite photo where they basically cut the arm out.

0points

Fernando Porrales 5 years ago

How does it do self portrait without extending the camera?

0points

Shannon Turner 5 years ago

None of it is real

0points

Evgeny Gorzhaltsan 5 years ago

Absolutely ! Were can we see the "selfie-camera" holding "hand"s" shadow on all "selfie-pictures ?

0points

Evgeny Gorzhaltsan 5 years ago

Absolutely !!! Were can you see the "selfie"-camera holdings "hand's" shadow on the picture ???

0points

Bronwyn Dillon 5 years ago

How is it taking photos of itself when nothing can be seen hanging off , all a bit sus

0points

Guitar Man 5 years ago

Where's the selfie pole? Invisible or what?

0points

Ape Man 5 years ago

No stick because you don't understand that it is edited out and the shot is taken from 2 views, left and right. You could do the same, but I doubt you are clever enough to figure out how. ;)

0points

Nick Lewis 5 years ago

Everyone knows how 360 degree photos work. The real question is why are you such an a*****e about something so small?

7points

Dimitris P 5 years ago

where is the shadow of selfi stick? ha?

-3points

danielw 5 years ago

Nope. Curiosity found some locals to help with this photo. very friendly, but you have to communicate through robotic arm gestures.

4points

M O'Connell 5 years ago

The multiple images taken by the robotic camera create an interference pattern which eliminates the elements that differ between the two photos, such as the robot arm itself, and its shadow. It's basically photoshopped out.

0points

Stellar Spas 5 years ago

You got em! Because surely even though they're able to edit out the selfie stick, they couldn't edit out (by simple Photoshopping) a shadow.

0points

#27

A Mudstone Rock Outcrop At The Base Of Mount Sharp

Final score:

41points

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Jim Hi 5 years ago

pay no attention to the ufo ... look at the rocks...smdh

17points

Chad Olshavsky 5 years ago

There’s actually two, I saved the photo and zoomed in. There’s a second one in the “clouds”.

1point

Anna Elizabeth Fox-Eagleston 5 years ago

i think that is nasa's orbiter.

1point

Mark Feury 5 years ago

There is something in the sky

1point

Willy Micco 4 years ago

Maybe a tiny spot of dirt attached in front of the lens

0points

Lynn Morello 5 years ago

Oops, nearly missed it.

0points

Anthönyy CheSnüt 5 years ago

haha good one.

0points

Rod Lander 5 years ago

Oops. LOL

0points

John Davis 5 years ago

Well there can’t be 2 orbiters

0points

Chad Olshavsky 5 years ago

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0points

gangaram pujari 5 years ago

It's very nice

0points

Blakkur Sverrir 5 years ago

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Aahzmandus Pervect 5 years ago

Mudstone, a type of mudrock, is a fine-grained sedimentary rock whose original constituents were clays or muds. This just means that there was water on Mars at one point in time, not that there's liquid water now.

15points

Giovanni 5 years ago

That's why they say that there was a lot more water on mars in the past.

5points

Väinö-Oskari Astala 5 years ago

Yes, and it isn't so much about trying to find liquid water as finding evidence of past liquid water and present solid water (ice) in soil.

3points

Prince Maroochy 5 years ago

Mud means wet dirt, but I'm sure mudstone is dried wet dirt, or else it wouldn't be a stone at all.

2points

earringnut 5 years ago

They know that there's water on Mars.

2points

#28

Bone Up On Mars Rock Shapes

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39points

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Becca Gizmo the Squirrel 5 years ago

Bone?

10points

Dynein 5 years ago

I think what is meant is that a bone-shaped rock was found (slightly above the middle of the image).

14points

Kris Grauel 5 years ago

Almost looks like broken pottery!

0points

Kathi Keegan Chang 5 years ago

Maybe we could pull the pieces together, and form a foot, and ankle or even use our imagination! What great photos of such an interesting planet. I'm a moon child, so enjoy all I can see from others' views in a very expensive camera lolling around!

0points

Jon S. 5 years ago

It does indeed resemble a human clavicle. But as someone who literally has the job to distinguish rocks from bones, I am definitely in the rock camp.

2points

Nella Saint Felix 4 years ago

avec toutes ces vues,je me suis vue en promenade dans un desert,un vallon un peu sec,mais pour moi Mars c'est la Terre dans pas mal d'annees si nous continuons a l'abimer!!j'ai beaucoup aime ces vues!!

0points

Terri Hunt 5 years ago

is it a bone?

0points

TomiSmith 5 years ago

Some of them do look like bones don’t they.

0points

Earl Lovell 5 years ago

Half way up right side then over to the coin There is some markings on it Did you leave it there ?

0points

cal adell 5 years ago

whoa..looks like broken pottery,...even the color......

0points

Lynn Morello 5 years ago

Crime scene, something has been removed.

0points

Elizabeth Gardner 5 years ago

I would say that is a femur bone going on its basic outline probably animal because of the wider top than its base.

0points

Marcelo Toniolo 5 years ago

It does look like a femur

0points

#29

Strata At Base Of Mount Sharp

Final score:

38points

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Jim Eberle 5 years ago

Absolutely huge amount of sedimentary rocks on Mars. Such abundance could only form if there had been a vast amount of water on the surface. Differential erosion suggests that sedimentation was episodic. Studying similar photos in the past, I have proposed that Mars experiences "atmosphere ages", not unlike Earth's "ice ages", whereby the orbit of Mars moves into a sustained pattern permitting huge quantities of CO2 ice to sublimate into the atmosphere, raising the atmospheric pressure above the triple point for water to exist in liquid form. The subsequent greenhouse effect then begins melting subsurface water ice, filling the basins, and beginning anew another episode of erosion and sedimentation.

34points

Richard Hickman 5 years ago

Uhhh...could you simplify that comment for those of us that don't possess a doctorate in language!?? Lol

0points

Angela Morse 5 years ago

Or the fact that theres reflection from glass in the sky .

0points

Leroy Green 5 years ago

"Blue sky on Mars? That's a new one!"

0points

Josh Bjerke 5 years ago

Mars actually can have blue skies. Also, depending on how the image was processed and how the colors were balanced, colors can change hues.

3points

Susanne Rechner 5 years ago

That`s what I thought right now seeing this ...

0points

Poisson Volant 5 years ago

Mars has a thin atmosphere composed mostly of carbon dioxide. There's enough to scatter light, producing a light blue color the same way earth's (very different) atmosphere scatters light to make a darker blue.

0points

#30

Resistant Features In 'Pahrump Hills' Outcrop

Final score:

37points

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Gabi 5 years ago

Resistant Features... sounds like a trash metal band.

15points

jimmy pop 4 years ago

The genre is called thrash metal, not trash.

0points

Akash GG 5 years ago

Eh, you wrote what I had in mind! Bravo, dude!

0points

danielw 5 years ago

... wait.. is 'trash' a sub-genre, or... a description? either way, it makes more sense than some other band names. well, most other band names.

0points

Dave Doepner 5 years ago

The look like "Moki Marbles" or concretions found all over the Colorado Plateau.

1point

Sunzilla 5 years ago

Petrified coral?

0points

Earl Lovell 5 years ago

Those images that look like a gasket must be Magnetic and attract that color.

0points

Raymond McConnell 5 years ago

Thank U sooooo much do we have real close-ups magnified? just asking"

0points

Shadowpuppy_123 5 years ago

IT LOOKS LIKE CORAL!!

0points

BobbyK 5 years ago

At last, a name that makes sense!

0points

Jalil Isa 5 years ago

Its surreal to see how similar earth and another planet are, theres so much out there and we keep fighting for so little down here

0points

#31

Routine Inspection Of Rover Wheel Wear And Tear

Final score:

6points

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Anton Swanepoel 5 years ago

Fun fact: the spaced holes in the wheels (not the jagged tears) spell JPL in morse code.

2points

Logan Harris 5 years ago

Possibly marking it for "when we finally get there" or for when another rover comes across the same area.

0points

Jon S. 5 years ago

I hear that wear on the wheels has been a huge problem for the rover. The martian rocks are a lot sharper than was expected. The next probe they send is likely to be a hover drone.

0points

Nora Ask 5 years ago (edited)

Why does the one wheel have holes in it?

0points

Jon S. 5 years ago

Some of the holes were punctured by martian rocks. The regular ones (at the back) may be weight reduction or where the rocks took off the skin but left the scaffold, if I had to guess.

0points