Online seit: 12. April 2006
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity held its Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera about 10.5 inches (27 centimeters) away from the top of a rock called "Bathurst Inlet" for a set of eight images combined into this merged-focus view of the rock. This context image covers an area roughly 6.5 inches by 5 inches (16 centimeters by 12 centimeters). Resolution is about 105 microns per pixel.
The "Bathurst Inlet" rock is dark gray and appears to be so fine-grained that MAHLI cannot resolve grains or crystals in it. This means that the grains or crystals, if there are any at all, are smaller than about 80 microns in size. Some windblown sand-sized grains or dust aggregates have accumulated on the surface of the rock but this surface is clean compared to, for example, the pebbly substrate below the rock (upper left and lower right in this context image).
Ich hab das Teil aus den Mikroskopbildern mal etwas besser sichtbar gemacht.
Investigation of a small, bright object thought to have come from the rover may resume between the first and second scoop. Over the past two sols, with rover arm activities on hold, the team has assessed the object as likely to be some type of plastic wrapper material, such as a tube used around a wire, possibly having fallen onto the rover from the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft's descent stage during the landing in August.
Hier noch ein paar neue Fotos aus der 'neugierigen' Kinderperspektive, frisch aus der 'Marssandkiste':http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/msss/00067/mhli/0067MH0035001000E1_DXXX.jpghttp://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/msss/00067/mhli/0067MH0078001001E1_DXXX.jpghttp://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/msss/00067/mhli/0067MH0078001005E1_DXXX.jpghttp://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/msss/00067/mhli/0067MH0078001003E1_DXXX.jpghttp://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/msss/00067/mhli/0067MH0078001004E1_DXXX.jpghttp://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/msss/00067/mhli/0067MH0078001002E1_DXXX.jpghttp://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/msss/00067/mhli/0067MH0078001000E1_DXXX.jpg
Spirits Aufnahme aus dem Jahr 2004http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spirit/20040318a/09-JG-03-scuffpan-A074R1_br.jpg Martin