Mar 16, 2021 05:48 AM
(This post was last modified: Mar 16, 2021 06:19 AM by Yazata.)
Here it is, the surface of another planet
Here's a really mind boggling ultrawide high resolution 360 degree Martian panorama taken by rotating the Perserverance Mastcam all the way around and splicing all the images together. It's a really large 160 mb png file and it doesn't load instantly. At first it looks like a narrow horizontal line on your screen but blow it up (don't be impatient and keep trying, it can be slow) and its the mother of all extraterrestrial panoramas.
https://mars.nasa.gov/bin/panos/download...rawide.png
Here's JPL's description of this extraordinary photograph. They say that the color is what the human eye would see if people were there. (It's milions of miles away.)
https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/25674/pe...-panorama/
What I love about this is that it reveals Mars as a real actual place that's discovered rather than imagined, with its own existence and its own unique history. Stuff has happened here, if only geological things.
This photograph below has the geologists (and astrobiologists) all excited. (It's visible in even better resolution if you scroll to the left in the panorama above.) The mesa shaped thing is a bit of the river delta sedimentary deposits that Perserverance traveled to Mars to examine. It's about 2.3 km (1.4 miles) from Perserverance. From left to right it's about 200 meters (660 feet) wide. The yellow line is a size scale representing 10 meters (about 30 feet). The large grey rock in front is actually on a ridgeline in the foreground and is about 2 meters (6 feet) across. Again, the color is roughly what the human eye would see. This might be where they first drive Perserverance, perhaps so that it can examine the exposed sedimentary cliff face on the right side of the thing. If there's any evidence that life once existed on Mars, that might be the kind of place they would find it.
https://mars.nasa.gov/internal_resources/1001/
Here's a really mind boggling ultrawide high resolution 360 degree Martian panorama taken by rotating the Perserverance Mastcam all the way around and splicing all the images together. It's a really large 160 mb png file and it doesn't load instantly. At first it looks like a narrow horizontal line on your screen but blow it up (don't be impatient and keep trying, it can be slow) and its the mother of all extraterrestrial panoramas.
https://mars.nasa.gov/bin/panos/download...rawide.png
Here's JPL's description of this extraordinary photograph. They say that the color is what the human eye would see if people were there. (It's milions of miles away.)
https://mars.nasa.gov/resources/25674/pe...-panorama/
What I love about this is that it reveals Mars as a real actual place that's discovered rather than imagined, with its own existence and its own unique history. Stuff has happened here, if only geological things.
This photograph below has the geologists (and astrobiologists) all excited. (It's visible in even better resolution if you scroll to the left in the panorama above.) The mesa shaped thing is a bit of the river delta sedimentary deposits that Perserverance traveled to Mars to examine. It's about 2.3 km (1.4 miles) from Perserverance. From left to right it's about 200 meters (660 feet) wide. The yellow line is a size scale representing 10 meters (about 30 feet). The large grey rock in front is actually on a ridgeline in the foreground and is about 2 meters (6 feet) across. Again, the color is roughly what the human eye would see. This might be where they first drive Perserverance, perhaps so that it can examine the exposed sedimentary cliff face on the right side of the thing. If there's any evidence that life once existed on Mars, that might be the kind of place they would find it.
https://mars.nasa.gov/internal_resources/1001/
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