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Veiny 'Garden City' Site and Surroundings on Mount Sharp, Mars

This view from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows a site with a network of prominent mineral veins below a cap rock ridge on lower Mount Sharp.

Researchers used the rover in March 2015 to examine the structure and composition of the crisscrossing veins at the "Garden City" site in the center of this scene. For geologists, the vein complex offers a three-dimensional exposure of mineralized fractures in a geological setting called the Pahrump section of the Lower Murray Formation. Curiosity spent several months examining sites in the Pahrump section below this site, before arriving at Garden City.

Mineral veins such as these form where fluids move through fractured rocks, depositing minerals in the fractures and affecting chemistry of the surrounding rock. In this case, the veins have been more resistant to erosion than the surrounding host rock.

The component images of this mosaic view were taken by the left-eye camera of Mastcam on March 27, 2015, during the 938th Martian day, or sol, of Curiosity's work on Mars. The scene is presented with a color adjustment that approximates white balancing, to resemble how the rocks would appear under daytime lighting conditions on Earth.

For scale, the cap rock scarp is about 3 feet (1 meter) tall.

Figure A includes scale bars of 1 meter (3.3 feet) vertically and 2 meters (6.7 feet) horizontally.

Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, built and operates the rover's Mastcam. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. JPL designed and built the project's Curiosity rover.  For more information about Curiosity, visit http://www.nasa.gov/msl and http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl.    

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Last Updated: Nov. 13, 2015

Editor: Tony Greicius

An image taken at the "Hidden Valley" site, en-route to Mount Sharp, by NASA's Curiosity rover. A variety of mudstone strata in the area indicate a lakebed deposit, with river- and stream-related deposits nearby. Decoding the history of how these sedimentary rocks were formed, and during what period of time, was a key component in the confirming of the role of water and sedimentation in the formation of the floor of Gale Crater and Mount Sharp.

This image was taken by the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on Curiosity on the 703rd Martian day, or sol, of the mission.

Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, built and operates Curiosity's Mastcam. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, built the rover and manages the project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington.

Image credit NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Unannotated version

Last Updated: Oct. 8, 2015

Editor: Tony Greicius

Large-scale crossbedding in the sandstone of this ridge on a lower slope of Mars' Mount Sharp is common in petrified sand dunes.

The scene combines multiple images taken with both cameras of the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on Curiosity on Aug. 27, 2015, during the 1,087th Martian day, or sol of the rover's work on Mars.  It spans from east, at left, to south-southwest.  Figure 1 includes a scale bar of 200 centimeters (about 6.6 feet).

Sets of bedding laminations lie at angles to each other.  Such crossbedding is common in wind-deposited sandstone of the U.S. Southwest.  An example from Utah is pictured at

http://3dparks.wr.usgs.gov/zion/html2/3d153.html .

The sandstone in the image from Mars is part of the Stimson unit on Mount Sharp. The color of the Mastcam mosaic has been approximately white-balanced to resemble how the scene would appear under daytime lighting conditions on Earth. The component images in the center and upper portion of the mosaic are from Mastcam's right-eye camera, which is equipped with a 100-millimeter-focal-length telephoto lens.  Images used in the foreground and at far left and right were taken with Mastcam's left-eye camera, using a wider-angle, 34-millimeter lens.

Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, built and operates Curiosity's Mastcam. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, built the rover and manages the project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. For more information about Curiosity, visit http://www.nasa.gov/msl and http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl .    

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Last Updated: Sept. 11, 2015

Editor: Tony Greicius


el dispensador dice:
desde el Sol hasta Plutón, el sistema planetario está de duelo...
la galaxia está de duelo...
el universo también lo está...
la creación está de duelo...
el Verbo está pendiente de sostenerse pronunciado...
está recogiendo almas inocentes para liberarlas de sus daños...

Marte está de duelo porque el género humano ya estuvo antes allí,
desde allí fue transplantada la raza humana a la Tierra,
aquí fue re-sembrada para asumir nueva entidad...

en Marte hay un "valle escondido" donde permanece una reserva de la memoria humana...

intenta, si quieres o si puedes,
visitar dicho valle en tus sueños...
transfórmate en buscador de la memoria del karma de los ancestros humanos,
en un lugar que alguna vez lo fue...
que ya no lo es,
y que no volverá a serlo,
porque así funcionan las cosas,
aún cuando la soberbia humana pretenda lo opuesto...

los ecos de las huellas no se apagan jamás... las vibraciones, tampoco... porque los destinos permanecen para la eternidad que nadie ha visto, pero que el Verbo ha pronunciado...

todo lo que existe es una latencia de un solo Verbo...

tú mismo perteneces a ella (latencia)... hónrala. NOVIEMBRE 14, 2015.-