Pictures from Mars: Nasa's Perseverance sends spectacular first colour photos

[yerm]

NASA on Friday released stunning new photographs from Perseverance, one of which is this first high-resolution, colour photo showing the flat region it landed on in the Jezero Crater, where a river and deep lake existed billions of years ago. This is the first high-resolution, colour image to be sent back by the Hazard Cameras (Hazcams) on the underside of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover that landed on the red planet on Thursday.

A second colour image shows one of the rover's six wheels, with several honeycombed rocks thought to be more than 3.6 billion years old lying next to it.

"One of the questions we'll ask first is whether these rocks represent a volcanic or sedimentary origin," said NASA deputy project scientist Katie Stack Morgan.

Volcanic rocks in particular can be dated with very high precision once the samples are brought back to Earth on a future return mission - an exciting development from a planetary science perspective.

Check out the mission on the official Twitter account @NASAPersevere!

 

[Katniss]

NASA on Friday released stunning new photographs from Perseverance, one of which is this first high-resolution, colour photo showing the flat region it landed on in the Jezero Crater, where a river and deep lake existed billions of years ago. This is the first high-resolution, colour image to be sent back by the Hazard Cameras (Hazcams) on the underside of NASA's Perseverance Mars rover that landed on the red planet on Thursday.

A second colour image shows one of the rover's six wheels, with several honeycombed rocks thought to be more than 3.6 billion years old lying next to it.

"One of the questions we'll ask first is whether these rocks represent a volcanic or sedimentary origin," said NASA deputy project scientist Katie Stack Morgan.

Volcanic rocks in particular can be dated with very high precision once the samples are brought back to Earth on a future return mission - an exciting development from a planetary science perspective.

Check out the mission on the official Twitter account @NASAPersevere!

This looks amazing!

Thanks for sharing

 

[No.1]

Read we will "soon"be able to hear what Mars sounds like. It's so fucking cool.

 

[Pandaa]

where are all the mars bar ?