NASA’s Curiosity Rover Sees Martian ‘Spiderwebs’ Up Close https://www.nasa.gov/missions/mars-science-laboratory/curiosity-rover/nasas-curiosity-rover-sees-martian-spiderwebs-up-close/ #NASA #CuriosityRover #JetPropulsionLaboratory #Mars #MarsReconnaissanceOrbiterMRO #MarsScienceLaboratoryMSL #RadioisotopePowerSystemsRPS
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#PPOD: In this HiRISE image of #Mars, many sand dunes are visible. They have an elongated crescent form and are called "barchan dunes." They are formed by the continuous action of the wind, blowing in the same direction, giving this particular shape.
The orientation of these dunes tells us that the prevailing wind blows from the right to the left (east to west). The wind continuously moves sand grains up the longer dune slope towards the top.
#PPOD: In this HiRISE image of #Mars, many sand dunes are visible. They have an elongated crescent form and are called "barchan dunes." They are formed by the continuous action of the wind, blowing in the same direction, giving this particular shape.
The orientation of these dunes tells us that the prevailing wind blows from the right to the left (east to west). The wind continuously moves sand grains up the longer dune slope towards the top.
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The NASA JPL robotics team found a way to use the commercial CPU (Snapdragon) in the Ingenuity helicopter base station on the side of the Perseverance rover to do advanced image processing on the imagery captured by the rover and determine the rover location on Mars accurately. Since it was not a space-hardened CPU, they had to do extra error checking, but it works well. See the news release for more:
#Mars #NASA #JPL #PerseveranceRover
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-perseverance-now-autonomously-pinpoints-its-location-on-mars/
The NASA JPL robotics team found a way to use the commercial CPU (Snapdragon) in the Ingenuity helicopter base station on the side of the Perseverance rover to do advanced image processing on the imagery captured by the rover and determine the rover location on Mars accurately. Since it was not a space-hardened CPU, they had to do extra error checking, but it works well. See the news release for more:
#Mars #NASA #JPL #PerseveranceRover
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-perseverance-now-autonomously-pinpoints-its-location-on-mars/
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@PaulHammond51 reminds me that today is the 5th anniversary of #Perseverance landing on the surface of #Mars, hanging under the #SkyCrane as seen in this #OutOfThisWorld image it captured the moment the umbilical cord connecting them was cut, and the Sky Crane veered off to a heroic crash about 900m NW.
De-bayered, processed EDL_RUCAM
RMC: 0.0000 (prelanding, corrected)
Sol: 0 (corrected)
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00293/ids/edr/browse/edl/EUE_0293_0692945892_348ECM_N0090000EDLC00293_0050LUJ01.png
Credit: #NASA #JPL-Caltech / 65dBnoise
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Landing on Mars - Jezero Crater - NASA Perseverance Rover
Full size image: https://flic.kr/p/2oA8d1p
If you view the image in a 16:9 aspect ratio, I recommend opening it as it's much larger in size.
The image has been colourised using the awesome mosaic processed by
@stim3on (Original post: https://fosstodon.org/@stim3on/110345913034099556 Original image on Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/2ozrqnk)
#Mars #Space #Spacetodon #Astrodon #Solarocks #Astronomy #Spaceteamwork
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Simeon Schmauß/AndreaLuck
NASA’s Perseverance Now Autonomously Pinpoints Its Location on Mars https://www.nasa.gov/missions/mars-2020-perseverance/perseverance-rover/nasas-perseverance-now-autonomously-pinpoints-its-location-on-mars/ #NASA #PerseveranceRover #JetPropulsionLaboratory #Mars #PlanetaryScienceDivision
@PaulHammond51 reminds me that today is the 5th anniversary of #Perseverance landing on the surface of #Mars, hanging under the #SkyCrane as seen in this #OutOfThisWorld image it captured the moment the umbilical cord connecting them was cut, and the Sky Crane veered off to a heroic crash about 900m NW.
De-bayered, processed EDL_RUCAM
RMC: 0.0000 (prelanding, corrected)
Sol: 0 (corrected)
Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/00293/ids/edr/browse/edl/EUE_0293_0692945892_348ECM_N0090000EDLC00293_0050LUJ01.png
Credit: #NASA #JPL-Caltech / 65dBnoise
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