A Clear Blue Sky on Mars
An Earthlike view of the 18,000-foot-high Mount Sharp (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)
There’s nothing like a beautiful sunny day in Gale crater! The rusty sand crunching beneath your wheels, a gentle breeze blowing at a balmy 6º C (43º F), Mount Sharp rising in the distance into a clear blue sky… wait, did I just say blue sky?
Yes I did. But no worries — Mars hasn’t sprouted a nitrogen-and-oxygen atmosphere overnight. The image above is a crop from a panorama made of images from NASA’s Curiosity rover showing Gale crater’s central peak, Mount Sharp (officially Aeolis Mons.) Don’t let the blue sky fool you though — the lighting has been purposely adjusted to look like a sunlit scene on Earth… if only to let geologists more easily refer to their own experience when studying the Martian landscape.
Posted on March 16, 2013, in Mars and tagged Aeolis Mons, blue sky, Curiosity, Mars, martian landscape, Mount Sharp, MSL, NASA, nasa jpl, photography, science, space. Bookmark the permalink. 2 Comments.
Wonderful!
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