Saturday, November 9, 2019

Mars - A Lonely Place


Aeolis Mons (Mount Sharp)                                                                                            Image: © NASA/JPL-Caltech
About the size of an SUV and capable of traveling 100 feet (30 meters) per hour, Curiosity has been exploring the 3.5-billion-year-old pit called Gale Crater since landing there in 2012. Now, Curiosity is climbing the mountain, known as Mount Sharp or Aeolis Mons, at the crater's center. In a bleak and beautiful photo taken on the 2,573rd Martian day of Curiosity's mission (Nov. 1), the rover showed off the vast emptiness of this rocky domain.  ---  LiveScience

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