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Life On Mars – So Close, But So Frightening #SpaceExploration #TheMartian #Mars #RedPlanet #PioneeringMinds
Life On Mars – So Close, But So Frightening – Pioneering Minds
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As planned, The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has started its highly anticipated science mission and returned the first images of the Red Planet from its new orbit. Main mission of the TGO is to sniff gases like methane. Methane is linked to active geological or biological activity on the Red Planet.
#ExoMars #JourneyToMars #RedPlanet #LifeOnMars #LifeOnEarth #ESA #ROSCOSMOS
http://journeytomars.space/articles/2018/05-1/exomars-report-first-images-from-mars.html
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ExoMars Report: First Images From Mars
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NASA Mars InSight Lander News Briefing | JPL
Liftoff Scheduled for May 5th. Landing November 2018.
Digging Deep into Mars
Dig deep into the workings of Earth’s next trip to the Red Planet. InSight, scheduled to launch in May 2018, will be the first NASA mission to observe the deep interior of Mars and learn about the history and evolution of rocky planets. See the instruments InSight will bring to Mars, including the first seismometer ever taken to the surface of another planet.
For more info on InSight, visit: https://mars.nasa.gov/insight
Original air date: Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018
Speaker: Troy Lee Hudson
Technologist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Credit: NASA/JPL
Duration: 1 hour, 18 minutes
Release Date: February 22, 2018
+Lockheed Martin
+NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
+DLR, German Aerospace Center
+Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)
+NASA Solar System Exploration
#NASA #Mars #Astronomy #Space #Science #Insight #Robotics #Technology #RedPlanet #STEM #Education #UnitedStates #JPL #Pasadena #California #DLR #Germany #Deutschland #LockheedMartin #ULA #JourneyToMars #Vandenberg #AirForce #USAF #California #UnitedStates #HD #Video
Liftoff Scheduled for May 5th. Landing November 2018.
Digging Deep into Mars
Dig deep into the workings of Earth’s next trip to the Red Planet. InSight, scheduled to launch in May 2018, will be the first NASA mission to observe the deep interior of Mars and learn about the history and evolution of rocky planets. See the instruments InSight will bring to Mars, including the first seismometer ever taken to the surface of another planet.
For more info on InSight, visit: https://mars.nasa.gov/insight
Original air date: Thursday, Feb. 22, 2018
Speaker: Troy Lee Hudson
Technologist, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Credit: NASA/JPL
Duration: 1 hour, 18 minutes
Release Date: February 22, 2018
+Lockheed Martin
+NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
+DLR, German Aerospace Center
+Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)
+NASA Solar System Exploration
#NASA #Mars #Astronomy #Space #Science #Insight #Robotics #Technology #RedPlanet #STEM #Education #UnitedStates #JPL #Pasadena #California #DLR #Germany #Deutschland #LockheedMartin #ULA #JourneyToMars #Vandenberg #AirForce #USAF #California #UnitedStates #HD #Video
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InSight Mars Lander Solar Array Testing | NASA
NASA's InSight, the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is more than a Mars mission—it is a terrestrial planet explorer that will address one of the most fundamental issues of planetary and solar system science—understanding the processes that shaped the rocky planets of the inner solar system (including Earth) more than four billion years ago.
InSight, the first planetary mission to take off from the West Coast, is targeted to launch Saturday, May 5 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket.
In this Jan. 23, 2018 photo, InSight is in the landed configuration for the last time before arriving on Mars. Scientists commanded to deploy its solar arrays, to test and verify the exact process that the spacecraft will use on the surface of the Red Planet. During the test, engineers and technicians evaluated whether the solar arrays fully deployed and conducted an illumination test to confirm that the solar cells were collecting power.
Image Credit: Lockheed Martin Space
Image Date: January 23, 2018
Release Date: May 1, 2018
+Lockheed Martin
+NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
+DLR, German Aerospace Center +Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)
+NASA Solar System Exploration
+United Launch Alliance
#NASA #Mars #Astronomy #Space #Science #Insight #Robotics #Technology #RedPlanet #STEM #Education #UnitedStates #JPL #Pasadena #California #DLR #Germany #Deutschland #LockheedMartin #JourneyToMars
NASA's InSight, the Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is more than a Mars mission—it is a terrestrial planet explorer that will address one of the most fundamental issues of planetary and solar system science—understanding the processes that shaped the rocky planets of the inner solar system (including Earth) more than four billion years ago.
InSight, the first planetary mission to take off from the West Coast, is targeted to launch Saturday, May 5 from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California aboard a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket.
In this Jan. 23, 2018 photo, InSight is in the landed configuration for the last time before arriving on Mars. Scientists commanded to deploy its solar arrays, to test and verify the exact process that the spacecraft will use on the surface of the Red Planet. During the test, engineers and technicians evaluated whether the solar arrays fully deployed and conducted an illumination test to confirm that the solar cells were collecting power.
Image Credit: Lockheed Martin Space
Image Date: January 23, 2018
Release Date: May 1, 2018
+Lockheed Martin
+NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
+DLR, German Aerospace Center +Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)
+NASA Solar System Exploration
+United Launch Alliance
#NASA #Mars #Astronomy #Space #Science #Insight #Robotics #Technology #RedPlanet #STEM #Education #UnitedStates #JPL #Pasadena #California #DLR #Germany #Deutschland #LockheedMartin #JourneyToMars
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Oooo. New pictures of Mars :)
Europe's ExoMars Spacecraft: First images from new orbit
April 26, 2018: The European Space Agency's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has returned the first images of the Red Planet from its new orbit. The spacecraft arrived in a near-circular 400 km altitude orbit a few weeks ago ahead of its primary goal to seek out gases that may be linked to active geological or biological activity on Mars.
The orbiter’s Color and Stereo Surface Imaging System, CaSSIS, took this stunning image, which features part of an impact crater, during the instrument’s test period. The camera was activated on March 20 and was tested for the start of its main mission on April 28.
“We transmitted new software to the instrument at the start of the test phase and after a couple of minor issues, the instrument is in good health and ready to work,” says the camera’s principal investigator, Nicolas Thomas from the University of Bern in Switzerland.
The image captures a 40 km-long segment of Korolev Crater located high in the northern hemisphere. The bright material on the rim of the crater is ice.
“We were really pleased to see how good this picture was given the lighting conditions,” says Antoine Pommerol, a member of the CaSSIS science team working on the calibration of the data. “It shows that CaSSIS can make a major contribution to studies of the carbon dioxide and water cycles on Mars.”
The image is assembled from three images in different colors that were taken almost simultaneously on April 15.
“We aim to fully automate the image production process,” says Nick. “Once we achieve this, we can distribute the data quickly to the science community for analysis.”
The team also plans to make regular public releases.
The orbiter’s camera is one of four instruments on the Trace Gas Orbiter, or TGO, which also hosts two spectrometer suites and a neutron detector.
The spectrometers began their science mission on April 21 with the spacecraft taking its first ‘sniff’ of the atmosphere. In reality, the sniffing is the spectrometers looking at how molecules in the atmosphere absorb sunlight: each has a unique fingerprint that reveals its chemical composition.
A long period of data collection will be needed to bring out the details, especially for particularly rare—or not even yet discovered—ingredients in the atmosphere. Trace gases, as hinted at from their name, are only present in very small amounts: that is, less than one percent of the volume of the planet’s atmosphere. In particular, the orbiter will seek evidence of methane and other gases that could be signatures of active biological or geological activity.
The camera will eventually help characterise features on the surface that may be related to trace gas sources.
“We are excited to finally be starting collecting data at Mars with this phenomenal spacecraft,” says Håkan Svedhem, ESA’s TGO project scientist. “The test images we have seen so far certainly set the bar high.”
The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter is on a multiyear mission to understand the tiny amounts of methane and other gases in Mars’ atmosphere that could be evidence for possible biological or geological activity.
The ExoMars program is a joint endeavor between ESA and Roscosmos. The Trace Gas Orbiter is the first of two missions in the program: the next is scheduled for launch in 2020 and will comprise a rover and a surface science platform. TGO will act as a communication relay for both. It proved this capability earlier this week in the first of a series of relay communications with NASA’s Curiosity rover, highlighting the cooperation between ESA and NASA to maintain a communications infrastructure around Mars for future missions.
Image Description:
The ExoMars Color and Stereo Surface Imaging System, CaSSIS, captured this view of the rim of Korolev crater (73.3ºN/165.9ºE) on April 15, 2018. The image is a composite of three images in different colors that were taken almost simultaneously. They were then assembled to produce this color view. The original image has a nominal scale of 5.08 m/pixel and was re-projected at a resolution of 4.6 m/pixel to create the final version. The dimensions are therefore about 10 x 40 km. The image was taken with a ground-track velocity of 2.90 km/s. The solar incidence angle was 76.6º at a local solar time of 07:14:11.
In this orientation north is just below center to the left.
Image Credit: ESA/Roscosmos/CaSSIS
Image Date: April 15, 2018
Release Date: April 26, 2018
+European Space Agency, ESA
+DLR, German Aerospace Center
#NASA #ESA #Roscosmos #Mars #Space #Astronomy #Science #Geology #Crater #Korolev #Planet #RedPlanet #Landscape #Terrain #Geoscience #ExoMars #Orbiter #Spacecraft #Europe #Russia #STEM #Education
April 26, 2018: The European Space Agency's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has returned the first images of the Red Planet from its new orbit. The spacecraft arrived in a near-circular 400 km altitude orbit a few weeks ago ahead of its primary goal to seek out gases that may be linked to active geological or biological activity on Mars.
The orbiter’s Color and Stereo Surface Imaging System, CaSSIS, took this stunning image, which features part of an impact crater, during the instrument’s test period. The camera was activated on March 20 and was tested for the start of its main mission on April 28.
“We transmitted new software to the instrument at the start of the test phase and after a couple of minor issues, the instrument is in good health and ready to work,” says the camera’s principal investigator, Nicolas Thomas from the University of Bern in Switzerland.
The image captures a 40 km-long segment of Korolev Crater located high in the northern hemisphere. The bright material on the rim of the crater is ice.
“We were really pleased to see how good this picture was given the lighting conditions,” says Antoine Pommerol, a member of the CaSSIS science team working on the calibration of the data. “It shows that CaSSIS can make a major contribution to studies of the carbon dioxide and water cycles on Mars.”
The image is assembled from three images in different colors that were taken almost simultaneously on April 15.
“We aim to fully automate the image production process,” says Nick. “Once we achieve this, we can distribute the data quickly to the science community for analysis.”
The team also plans to make regular public releases.
The orbiter’s camera is one of four instruments on the Trace Gas Orbiter, or TGO, which also hosts two spectrometer suites and a neutron detector.
The spectrometers began their science mission on April 21 with the spacecraft taking its first ‘sniff’ of the atmosphere. In reality, the sniffing is the spectrometers looking at how molecules in the atmosphere absorb sunlight: each has a unique fingerprint that reveals its chemical composition.
A long period of data collection will be needed to bring out the details, especially for particularly rare—or not even yet discovered—ingredients in the atmosphere. Trace gases, as hinted at from their name, are only present in very small amounts: that is, less than one percent of the volume of the planet’s atmosphere. In particular, the orbiter will seek evidence of methane and other gases that could be signatures of active biological or geological activity.
The camera will eventually help characterise features on the surface that may be related to trace gas sources.
“We are excited to finally be starting collecting data at Mars with this phenomenal spacecraft,” says Håkan Svedhem, ESA’s TGO project scientist. “The test images we have seen so far certainly set the bar high.”
The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter is on a multiyear mission to understand the tiny amounts of methane and other gases in Mars’ atmosphere that could be evidence for possible biological or geological activity.
The ExoMars program is a joint endeavor between ESA and Roscosmos. The Trace Gas Orbiter is the first of two missions in the program: the next is scheduled for launch in 2020 and will comprise a rover and a surface science platform. TGO will act as a communication relay for both. It proved this capability earlier this week in the first of a series of relay communications with NASA’s Curiosity rover, highlighting the cooperation between ESA and NASA to maintain a communications infrastructure around Mars for future missions.
Image Description:
The ExoMars Color and Stereo Surface Imaging System, CaSSIS, captured this view of the rim of Korolev crater (73.3ºN/165.9ºE) on April 15, 2018. The image is a composite of three images in different colors that were taken almost simultaneously. They were then assembled to produce this color view. The original image has a nominal scale of 5.08 m/pixel and was re-projected at a resolution of 4.6 m/pixel to create the final version. The dimensions are therefore about 10 x 40 km. The image was taken with a ground-track velocity of 2.90 km/s. The solar incidence angle was 76.6º at a local solar time of 07:14:11.
In this orientation north is just below center to the left.
Image Credit: ESA/Roscosmos/CaSSIS
Image Date: April 15, 2018
Release Date: April 26, 2018
+European Space Agency, ESA
+DLR, German Aerospace Center
#NASA #ESA #Roscosmos #Mars #Space #Astronomy #Science #Geology #Crater #Korolev #Planet #RedPlanet #Landscape #Terrain #Geoscience #ExoMars #Orbiter #Spacecraft #Europe #Russia #STEM #Education
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Europe's ExoMars Spacecraft: First images from new orbit
April 26, 2018: The European Space Agency's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has returned the first images of the Red Planet from its new orbit. The spacecraft arrived in a near-circular 400 km altitude orbit a few weeks ago ahead of its primary goal to seek out gases that may be linked to active geological or biological activity on Mars.
The orbiter’s Color and Stereo Surface Imaging System, CaSSIS, took this stunning image, which features part of an impact crater, during the instrument’s test period. The camera was activated on March 20 and was tested for the start of its main mission on April 28.
“We transmitted new software to the instrument at the start of the test phase and after a couple of minor issues, the instrument is in good health and ready to work,” says the camera’s principal investigator, Nicolas Thomas from the University of Bern in Switzerland.
The image captures a 40 km-long segment of Korolev Crater located high in the northern hemisphere. The bright material on the rim of the crater is ice.
“We were really pleased to see how good this picture was given the lighting conditions,” says Antoine Pommerol, a member of the CaSSIS science team working on the calibration of the data. “It shows that CaSSIS can make a major contribution to studies of the carbon dioxide and water cycles on Mars.”
The image is assembled from three images in different colors that were taken almost simultaneously on April 15.
“We aim to fully automate the image production process,” says Nick. “Once we achieve this, we can distribute the data quickly to the science community for analysis.”
The team also plans to make regular public releases.
The orbiter’s camera is one of four instruments on the Trace Gas Orbiter, or TGO, which also hosts two spectrometer suites and a neutron detector.
The spectrometers began their science mission on April 21 with the spacecraft taking its first ‘sniff’ of the atmosphere. In reality, the sniffing is the spectrometers looking at how molecules in the atmosphere absorb sunlight: each has a unique fingerprint that reveals its chemical composition.
A long period of data collection will be needed to bring out the details, especially for particularly rare—or not even yet discovered—ingredients in the atmosphere. Trace gases, as hinted at from their name, are only present in very small amounts: that is, less than one percent of the volume of the planet’s atmosphere. In particular, the orbiter will seek evidence of methane and other gases that could be signatures of active biological or geological activity.
The camera will eventually help characterise features on the surface that may be related to trace gas sources.
“We are excited to finally be starting collecting data at Mars with this phenomenal spacecraft,” says Håkan Svedhem, ESA’s TGO project scientist. “The test images we have seen so far certainly set the bar high.”
The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter is on a multiyear mission to understand the tiny amounts of methane and other gases in Mars’ atmosphere that could be evidence for possible biological or geological activity.
The ExoMars program is a joint endeavor between ESA and Roscosmos. The Trace Gas Orbiter is the first of two missions in the program: the next is scheduled for launch in 2020 and will comprise a rover and a surface science platform. TGO will act as a communication relay for both. It proved this capability earlier this week in the first of a series of relay communications with NASA’s Curiosity rover, highlighting the cooperation between ESA and NASA to maintain a communications infrastructure around Mars for future missions.
Image Description:
The ExoMars Color and Stereo Surface Imaging System, CaSSIS, captured this view of the rim of Korolev crater (73.3ºN/165.9ºE) on April 15, 2018. The image is a composite of three images in different colors that were taken almost simultaneously. They were then assembled to produce this color view. The original image has a nominal scale of 5.08 m/pixel and was re-projected at a resolution of 4.6 m/pixel to create the final version. The dimensions are therefore about 10 x 40 km. The image was taken with a ground-track velocity of 2.90 km/s. The solar incidence angle was 76.6º at a local solar time of 07:14:11.
In this orientation, north is off-center to the upper left.
Image Credit: ESA/Roscosmos/CaSSIS
Image Date: April 15, 2018
Release Date: April 26, 2018
+European Space Agency, ESA
+DLR, German Aerospace Center
#NASA #ESA #Roscosmos #Mars #Space #Astronomy #Science #Geology #Crater #Korolev #Planet #RedPlanet #Landscape #Terrain #Geoscience #ExoMars #Orbiter #Spacecraft #Europe #Russia #STEM #Education
April 26, 2018: The European Space Agency's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has returned the first images of the Red Planet from its new orbit. The spacecraft arrived in a near-circular 400 km altitude orbit a few weeks ago ahead of its primary goal to seek out gases that may be linked to active geological or biological activity on Mars.
The orbiter’s Color and Stereo Surface Imaging System, CaSSIS, took this stunning image, which features part of an impact crater, during the instrument’s test period. The camera was activated on March 20 and was tested for the start of its main mission on April 28.
“We transmitted new software to the instrument at the start of the test phase and after a couple of minor issues, the instrument is in good health and ready to work,” says the camera’s principal investigator, Nicolas Thomas from the University of Bern in Switzerland.
The image captures a 40 km-long segment of Korolev Crater located high in the northern hemisphere. The bright material on the rim of the crater is ice.
“We were really pleased to see how good this picture was given the lighting conditions,” says Antoine Pommerol, a member of the CaSSIS science team working on the calibration of the data. “It shows that CaSSIS can make a major contribution to studies of the carbon dioxide and water cycles on Mars.”
The image is assembled from three images in different colors that were taken almost simultaneously on April 15.
“We aim to fully automate the image production process,” says Nick. “Once we achieve this, we can distribute the data quickly to the science community for analysis.”
The team also plans to make regular public releases.
The orbiter’s camera is one of four instruments on the Trace Gas Orbiter, or TGO, which also hosts two spectrometer suites and a neutron detector.
The spectrometers began their science mission on April 21 with the spacecraft taking its first ‘sniff’ of the atmosphere. In reality, the sniffing is the spectrometers looking at how molecules in the atmosphere absorb sunlight: each has a unique fingerprint that reveals its chemical composition.
A long period of data collection will be needed to bring out the details, especially for particularly rare—or not even yet discovered—ingredients in the atmosphere. Trace gases, as hinted at from their name, are only present in very small amounts: that is, less than one percent of the volume of the planet’s atmosphere. In particular, the orbiter will seek evidence of methane and other gases that could be signatures of active biological or geological activity.
The camera will eventually help characterise features on the surface that may be related to trace gas sources.
“We are excited to finally be starting collecting data at Mars with this phenomenal spacecraft,” says Håkan Svedhem, ESA’s TGO project scientist. “The test images we have seen so far certainly set the bar high.”
The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter is on a multiyear mission to understand the tiny amounts of methane and other gases in Mars’ atmosphere that could be evidence for possible biological or geological activity.
The ExoMars program is a joint endeavor between ESA and Roscosmos. The Trace Gas Orbiter is the first of two missions in the program: the next is scheduled for launch in 2020 and will comprise a rover and a surface science platform. TGO will act as a communication relay for both. It proved this capability earlier this week in the first of a series of relay communications with NASA’s Curiosity rover, highlighting the cooperation between ESA and NASA to maintain a communications infrastructure around Mars for future missions.
Image Description:
The ExoMars Color and Stereo Surface Imaging System, CaSSIS, captured this view of the rim of Korolev crater (73.3ºN/165.9ºE) on April 15, 2018. The image is a composite of three images in different colors that were taken almost simultaneously. They were then assembled to produce this color view. The original image has a nominal scale of 5.08 m/pixel and was re-projected at a resolution of 4.6 m/pixel to create the final version. The dimensions are therefore about 10 x 40 km. The image was taken with a ground-track velocity of 2.90 km/s. The solar incidence angle was 76.6º at a local solar time of 07:14:11.
In this orientation, north is off-center to the upper left.
Image Credit: ESA/Roscosmos/CaSSIS
Image Date: April 15, 2018
Release Date: April 26, 2018
+European Space Agency, ESA
+DLR, German Aerospace Center
#NASA #ESA #Roscosmos #Mars #Space #Astronomy #Science #Geology #Crater #Korolev #Planet #RedPlanet #Landscape #Terrain #Geoscience #ExoMars #Orbiter #Spacecraft #Europe #Russia #STEM #Education
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NASA Mars InSight Mission Overview | JPL
NASA's next mission to Mars launches in May 2018. InSight is more than a Mars mission. Its team members hope to unlock the mysteries of the formation and evolution of rocky planets, including Earth.
For more about the mission, visit: https://mars.nasa.gov/insight
Credit: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Duration: 2 minutes, 31 seconds
Release Date: March 29, 2018
+NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
+DLR, German Aerospace Center
+Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)
+NASA Solar System Exploration
#NASA #Mars #Astronomy #Space #Science #Insight #Robotics #Technology #RedPlanet #STEM #Education #UnitedStates #JPL #Pasadena #California #DLR #Germany #Deutschland #JourneyToMars #HD #Video
NASA's next mission to Mars launches in May 2018. InSight is more than a Mars mission. Its team members hope to unlock the mysteries of the formation and evolution of rocky planets, including Earth.
For more about the mission, visit: https://mars.nasa.gov/insight
Credit: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Duration: 2 minutes, 31 seconds
Release Date: March 29, 2018
+NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
+DLR, German Aerospace Center
+Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)
+NASA Solar System Exploration
#NASA #Mars #Astronomy #Space #Science #Insight #Robotics #Technology #RedPlanet #STEM #Education #UnitedStates #JPL #Pasadena #California #DLR #Germany #Deutschland #JourneyToMars #HD #Video
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Martian Dunes Facing Southeast | NASA MRO
The slipfaces primarily face southeast, but there also other orientations.
How is the sublimation process affected by this?
Location:
318 km above the surface.
Scene is less than 1 km top to bottom and north is to the left.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Release Date: March 29, 2018
+NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
+NASA Solar System Exploration
+The University of Arizona
+Ball Aerospace
#NASA #Mars #Space #Astronomy #Science #Geology #Dunes #Landscape #Terrain #Geoscience #RedPlanet #MRO #Reconnaissance #Orbiter #Spacecraft #HiRISE #Camera #JPL #STEM #Education
The slipfaces primarily face southeast, but there also other orientations.
How is the sublimation process affected by this?
Location:
318 km above the surface.
Scene is less than 1 km top to bottom and north is to the left.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Release Date: March 29, 2018
+NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
+NASA Solar System Exploration
+The University of Arizona
+Ball Aerospace
#NASA #Mars #Space #Astronomy #Science #Geology #Dunes #Landscape #Terrain #Geoscience #RedPlanet #MRO #Reconnaissance #Orbiter #Spacecraft #HiRISE #Camera #JPL #STEM #Education
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Mars: Russell Crater Dunes & Gullies | NASA MRO
Monitoring Changes among Russell Crater Dunes and Gullies—This area is a favorite to look for changes over time. These gullies have been formed by the defrosting of carbon dioxide ice.
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) image
(254 km above the surface, less than 5 km across)
The University of Arizona, Tucson, operates HiRISE, which was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colo. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Release Date: May 2, 2018
+NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
+NASA Solar System Exploration
+The University of Arizona
+Ball Aerospace
#NASA #Mars #Space #Astronomy #Science #Geology #Russell #Crater #Gullies #Dunes #Landscape #Terrain #Geoscience #RedPlanet #MRO #Reconnaissance #Orbiter #Spacecraft #HiRISE #Camera #JPL #STEM #Education
Monitoring Changes among Russell Crater Dunes and Gullies—This area is a favorite to look for changes over time. These gullies have been formed by the defrosting of carbon dioxide ice.
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) image
(254 km above the surface, less than 5 km across)
The University of Arizona, Tucson, operates HiRISE, which was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colo. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Release Date: May 2, 2018
+NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
+NASA Solar System Exploration
+The University of Arizona
+Ball Aerospace
#NASA #Mars #Space #Astronomy #Science #Geology #Russell #Crater #Gullies #Dunes #Landscape #Terrain #Geoscience #RedPlanet #MRO #Reconnaissance #Orbiter #Spacecraft #HiRISE #Camera #JPL #STEM #Education
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Mars: Russell Crater Dunes & Gullies | NASA MRO
Monitoring Changes among Russell Crater Dunes and Gullies—This area is a favorite to look for changes over time. These gullies have been formed by the defrosting of carbon dioxide ice.
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) image
(254 km above the surface, less than 5 km across)
The University of Arizona, Tucson, operates HiRISE, which was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colo. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Release Date: May 2, 2018
+NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
+NASA Solar System Exploration
+The University of Arizona
+Ball Aerospace
#NASA #Mars #Space #Astronomy #Science #Geology #Russell #Crater #Gullies #Dunes #Landscape #Terrain #Geoscience #RedPlanet #MRO #Reconnaissance #Orbiter #Spacecraft #HiRISE #Camera #JPL #STEM #Education
Monitoring Changes among Russell Crater Dunes and Gullies—This area is a favorite to look for changes over time. These gullies have been formed by the defrosting of carbon dioxide ice.
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) image
(254 km above the surface, less than 5 km across)
The University of Arizona, Tucson, operates HiRISE, which was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colo. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, manages the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Release Date: May 2, 2018
+NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
+NASA Solar System Exploration
+The University of Arizona
+Ball Aerospace
#NASA #Mars #Space #Astronomy #Science #Geology #Russell #Crater #Gullies #Dunes #Landscape #Terrain #Geoscience #RedPlanet #MRO #Reconnaissance #Orbiter #Spacecraft #HiRISE #Camera #JPL #STEM #Education
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