NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover recently captured a series of 152 images while investigating the Belva Crater, which NASA has stitched into a dramatic and striking mosaic.
, but there are hundreds of thousands of craters on the Martian surface that are larger than a kilometer .“These ‘dipping beds’ could indicate the presence of a large Martian sandbar, made of sediment, that billions of years ago was deposited by a river channel flowing into the lake that Jezero Crater once held,” NASA writes.
The large boulders in the foreground of the mosaic image are “either chunks of bedrock exposed by the meteorite impact,” or they might have been “transported into the crater by the river system.” Ongoing investigations aim to settle the debate. Concerning ancient rivers on Mars, Perseverance also recently captured stunning photos of bands of rocks that some scientists think may have been formed by a “very fast, deep river.” The evidence is the first of its kind on Mars, and scientists have named the location where the mosaic was captured “Skrinkle Haven.”
This is an enhanced color view of the mosaic, which is comprised of 203 individual image images. This image offers the “clearest example of these curved rock layers.”“An anaglyph can help us visualize the geologic relationships between the crater wall outcrops. But it also provides an opportunity to simply enjoy an awesome view.
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