Crackpots Are Seeing Aliens In The Mars Rover PicturesNatalie Wolchover
Conglomerate: The photograph on the left was taken by NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity in 2012 using its mast camera. It shows a portion of an outcrop of a rock similar to the conglomerates found on Earth. The pebbles below the rock are clasts that have been weathered from the rock. The ...
This view from NASA's Opportunity Mars rover shows part of Marathon Valley, a destination on the western rim of Endeavour Crater, as seen from an overlook north of the valley. The image was taken on March 13, 2015 by the rover's PanCam. Opportunity on Mars NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA's ...
While Sojourner strolled on the surface, Pathfinder was on a mission of its own. It relayed information from the rover to Earth and also took pictures of the Martian sky and surroundings. On Sol 24, Pathfinder captured a sunset showing a blue color near the sun. The blue is caused by ...
This image is one of the very first sent home from Curiosity, showing the rover's own shadow on the Martian surface. NASA says that the clear dust cover is still on the camera, hence the dust seen around the edge of the fish-eye image. The photo was taken by one of the rover's ...
Two landmark discoveries reveal organic carbon on the red planet, shaping the future hunt for life on Mars.
March 24, 2015, NASA announced that the rover Opportunity had completed a 26-mile trek, the equivalent of a Martian marathon. It took just over 11 years.Wide repertoire NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell Univ./Arizona State University/Reuters Opportunity rover's robotic arm is like a Swiss army knife...
Zhurong has been working on the red planet for 54 Martian days and has traveled more than 300 meters. Since it drove onto Mars, the rover has been traveling south and conducting detections. Its navigation camera has captured the images of the landform along the way. ...
Noffke compared the rover pictures to images taken at several sites on Earth, including modern sediment surfaces in Mellum Island, Germany; Portsmouth Island, USA; and Carbla Point, Western Australia; as well as older fossils of microbial mats in Bahar Alouane, Tunisia; the Pongola Supergroup in...
In January 2015, Opportunity took pictures from a high point on the rim of Endeavour, about 440 feet (134 m) above the plain surrounding the crater. Then, in March 2015, NASA announced that the rover — while overlooking an area nicknamed Marathon Valley — had seen rocks with a ...