Amazed by the vast landscape, NASA’s Curiosity rover mission team has created an artistic rendering of a robotic car landscape on top of a Martian mountain.
Image taken from its most recent location on the slopes of Mount Sharp on Mars. The mission team was so inspired by the beauty of landscapes that they combined two black and white copies of photos from different times of the day and added color to create Rare postcards from the red planetAccording to NASA.
Curiosity captures a 360-degree view of your surroundings using the black and white navigation camera every time you complete a journey. To make it easier to transmit the resulting panorama to Earth, the rover retains it in a low-quality compressed format. But when the investigators looked at the view from Curiosity’s newest stop point, it was too beautiful to be captured at the highest quality for a navigation camera, the space agency explained in a statement.
Greetings from the heights of Mount Sharp on Mars! My team combined two black and white photos from different times of the day and added color to create this art scene. There is beauty all around us if we allow ourselves to be inspired.
Sincerely your curiosityhttps://t.co/VEjQhuBjFy pic.twitter.com/JxLregYifY
– Curiosity Rover (MarsCuriosity) 23 November 2021
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Many of the rover’s most impressive panoramas come from the color Mastcam, which has a much higher resolution than the navigation camera. That’s why the team added their own color to this final photo. Blue, orange, and green are not what the human eye sees; Instead, they represent sights seen at different times of the day.
What can we see in this image taken by the Curiosity rover on Mars?
On November 16, 2021, engineers ordered Curiosity to take two sets of mosaics, or composite images, and capture the scene at 8:30 a.m. and again at 4:10 p.m. local Martian time. Two hours of the day present contrasting lighting conditions that reveal various details of the landscape. The team then combined the two scenes into an artistic recreation that included elements of a morning scene in blue, a night scene in orange, and a mix of the two in green.
In the center of the image is a view of Mount Sharp, a 5,000-meter mountain that Curiosity has been climbing since 2014. The rolling hills can be seen from a distance at center right; Curiosity took a closer look at them in July, when the rover began to notice interesting changes in the landscape. The sandy wave field known as the “Furfi Sand” stretches from 400 to 800 meters.
That’s right, it’s cold in here. Winter must be on my part!
My REMS, or Rover Environmental Monitoring Station, provides daily weather reports and conducts dust surveys to measure changes in seasons over time. This is just one of many tools used to study the Martian weather. pic.twitter.com/tgDDMZ1xWj– Curiosity Rover (MarsCuriosity) 15 November 2021
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On the far right of the panorama is the rugged Mount Rafael Navarro, named after the Curiosity team scientist who died earlier this year. Looking behind him was the peak of Mount Sharp, high above the area Curiosity was exploring. Mount Sharp lies within Gale Crater, a 154-kilometer-wide basin formed by an ancient impact; The farthest edge of Gale Crater is 2,300 meters high and can be seen on the horizon for about 30 to 40 kilometers.
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