Curiosity landed on the floor of the 96-mile-wide (154 km) Gale Crater in August 2012, on a mission to assess the area's past potential to host life as we know it.
The rover's work has been extremely intriguing to astrobiologists, showing that Gale was indeed a habitable environment long ago: The area hosted a long-lived lake-and-stream system that had the ingredients for life, as well as a possible chemical energy source that could support microbial metabolism.
MRO has been operating at the Red Planet even longer than Curiosity, reaching Mars orbit in March 2006. As the new photo shows, MRO is still going strong, hunting for signs of past water activity on the Red Planet, serving as a communications relay for surface craft like Curiosity and its younger cousin, Perseverance — and keeping tabs on these robots' movements from time to time as well.
Well, I for one think it's about d*mn time we started getting traffic reports from other planets.
ReplyDelete"showing that Gale was indeed a habitable environment long ago: "
ReplyDeleteAnd it's not now... a planet CAN be screwed up...
I have read that the Mars is too small to sustain life on an ongoing basis. Its relative lack of gravity saw its atmosphere gradually leak away so what once may have been life supporting is long gone and any life, of note, with it. Still, it doesn't need to have life as we know it to be intriguing and beautiful. I did enjoy C S Lewis' book about Mars - "Out of the Silent Planet".
Deleteregarding this: a planet CAN be screwed up...,,, Raises the question: Did Biden have a relative running MARS back then?
ReplyDeleteNice CGI. Makes the gullible buy into these lies even more when you have one lie pretend to confirm another. LOL
ReplyDeleteExactly. They're only doing this to make the "lunar landing" seem more plausible.
DeleteThose crafty NASA guys and gals! Always scheming to fool the gullible.
Deletefake and gay
ReplyDeleteOr real and gay?
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