Tuesday, February 15, 2022 – 10:05 WIB
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VIVA – The European Space Agency or ESA releases new photos from the surface Planet Mars taken earlier this month using a CaSSIS camera (Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System) above the ESA Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter.
The picture shows the bluish shape left on the surface of the Red Planet by devil’s trail dustquoting from the site SputniknewsTuesday, February 15, 2022.
As the ESA describes in the image description, the scene seen in the image resembles what is known as the Martian chaos field, which is a swath of surface that shows groups of rocks of different sizes and shapes clumping together.
The photo shows part of Argyre Planitia, around Hooke Crater in the southern highlands of Mars. Although it has not been confirmed, but his appearance does look chaotic.
The thin, bluish tendril-like shapes in the image are traces left by dust devils, dust whirlwinds that occur both on Mars and on Earth.
The colors of these shapes are the result of three filters combining to create an image. Launched in 2016, the Trace Gas Orbiter arrived in Mars orbit six years ago, and began its mission in 2018.
In addition to supplying images of the planet’s surface, the craft is also expected to provide data relay services for the second ExoMars mission which is supposed to arrive on the Red Planet in 2023.
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