{"id":5609,"date":"2013-12-09T20:36:59","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T20:36:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5609"},"modified":"2013-12-09T20:41:08","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T20:41:08","slug":"mars-curiosty-rovers-latest-findings-the-mists-of-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5609","title":{"rendered":"Mars: Curiosty rovers latest findings + The mists of Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA JPL releases a overview of several studies of measurements made by the Curiosity Mars rover during the time since it landed in August of 2012:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/news\/news.php?release=2013-356\" target=\"_d\">NASA Curiosity: First Mars Age Measurement and Human Exploration Help &#8211; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a little more than a year on the Red Planet, the mobile Mars Science Laboratory has determined the age of a Martian rock, found evidence the planet could have sustained microbial life, taken the first readings of radiation on the surface, and shown how natural erosion could reveal the building blocks of life. Curiosity team members presented these results and more from Curiosity in six papers published online today by Science Express and in talks at the Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/spaceimages\/details.php?id=PIA17596\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"This illustration depicts a concept for the possible extent of an ancient lake inside Gale Crater.\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/spaceimages\/images\/mediumsize\/PIA17596_ip.jpg\" width=\"466\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpl.nasa.gov\/spaceimages\/details.php?id=PIA17596\" target=\"_blank\">This illustration<\/a> depicts a concept for the possible extent of an ancient lake <\/em><br \/>\n<em>inside Gale Crater. The base map combines image data from the Context <\/em><br \/>\n<em>Camera on NASA&#8217;s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and color information <\/em><br \/>\n<em>from Viking Orbiter imagery.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\u00a0This video summarizes the findings:<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/X-iqwAt2Qmk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>===<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an interesting post \u00a0about clouds forming in low lying areas on Mars:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blogs\/guest-blogs\/bill-dunford\/the-mists-of-mars.html\" target=\"_d\">The Mists of Mars &#8211; The Planetary Society<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/multimedia\/space-images\/mars\/20131209_marsfog.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"The Clouds of Mars\" src=\"http:\/\/planetary.s3.amazonaws.com\/assets\/images\/4-mars\/2013\/20131209_marsfog_f537.jpg\" width=\"483\" height=\"461\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>NASA \/ JPL \/ Malin Space Science Systems \/ Bill Dunford<\/em><br \/>\n<em>The Clouds of Mars:\u00a0A composite of global images of Mars taken on <\/em><br \/>\n<em>November 29-30, 2013 by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Water ice <\/em><br \/>\n<em>clouds cling to the summits of the major volcanoes, and fill the <\/em><br \/>\n<em>giant canyon of Valles Marineris (the long, horizontal feature in the south).<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA JPL releases a overview of several studies of measurements made by the Curiosity Mars rover during the time since it landed in August of 2012:\u00a0NASA Curiosity: First Mars Age Measurement and Human Exploration Help &#8211; NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory In a little more than a year on the Red Planet, the mobile Mars Science &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=5609\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mars: Curiosty rovers latest findings + The mists of Mars<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mars","category-space-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1st","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14631,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14631","url_meta":{"origin":5609,"position":0},"title":"Latest on the Mars rovers + Curiosity finds signs of a warm &#038; wet Red Planet long ago","author":"TopSpacer","date":"July 15, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Bob Zimmerman has posted one of his periodic updates on the explorations of the Curiosity and Opportunity rovers on Mars: \u00a0Mars rover update: July 12, 2017 | Behind The Black. 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