NASA's Curiosity on Mars sent back images of sun rays for the first time as the rover begins a study on clouds and their composition high up in the atmosphere.
hover no more than 37 miles above the surface of the planet and are made of water ice, the clouds in the images sent from the rover appear to be at a higher and colder altitude.In late January, the rover captured a feather-shaped iridescent cloud after sunset, which was also part of the cloud study.The feather-shaped cloud image is composed of 28 images captured with the rover’s mast camera, or Mastcam. The images were processed to put emphasis on the highlights, NASA said.
A cloud survey conducted in 2021 included images from the black-and-white navigation cameras and provided a look at the structure of clouds as they moved.The difference with this study is the Mastcam is providing color images, which show how the cloud particles grow over time, according to NASA.
The Curiosity rover was launched on Nov. 26, 2011 and landed on Mars on Aug. 5, 2012. Its mission was to find out whether Mars ever had the right environmental conditions to support life, and early on, the rover discovered chemical and mineral evidence habitable environments from the past.Get a daily look at what’s developing in science and technology throughout the world.
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