Curiosity Rover pauses mid-drive and captures Spectacular Martian Mountain Snapshot
Mars rock rows and Mount Sharp
Martian landscape scene with rows of striated rocks in the foreground and Mount Sharp on the horizon. NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover paused mid drive at the Junda outcrop to snap the component images for this navcam camera photomosaic on Sol 548 (Feb. 19, 2014) and then continued traveling southwards towards mountain base. UHF Antenna at right. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Marco Di Lorenzo/Ken Kremer-kenkremer.com
See stereo 3-D and look back views below
Like any good tourist, NASA’s rover Curiosity apparently couldn’t resist the photobug urge from a gorgeous mountain scene she happened by recently and decided to pull over and enjoy the view.
So she stopped the dune buggy mid-drive on the sandy road to her daily destination one Sol last week on Feb 19, powered up the camera suite and snapped a spectacular landscape view of a striated rock field dramatically back dropped by towering Mount Sharp on the horizon.
See our photomosaic above and a 3-D stereoscopic view from NASA below.
The sedimentary foothills of Mount Sharp, which (…)
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John Lear, the man that has sworn testimony that no planes flew into the twin towers stated on coast to coast Saturday night that he knows someone who worked at Groom lake [area 51] and he told John that these images we are getting of Mars are actually from area 51.