It was a long hard slog. But NASA’s Curiosity rover managed to do it.
The space agency’s car-sized robot, which has been exploring Mount Sharp on Mars for nearly a decade, managed to traverse the rocky terrain to arrive at a scientifically interesting site made from avalanches of ancient rocks, debris and water. Today, this place, the Gediz Vallis Ridge, is a prominent hill covered in large rocks.
After an arduous journey (scientists worked to find a passable route to this area for three years), the Curiosity rover turned around and took a wide image of the Martian landscape beyond, which NASA released on October 5.
“If your path forward is rocky, I feel you. We have this,” his agency posted on X (formerly Twitter).
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There’s a lot to see in this view of Mars:
– There are mountains in the distance: They form the rim of Gale Crater, a giant impact basin containing Mount Sharp.
– In the foreground, you can see the rocky and uneven terrain that the explorers traversed to reach the ridge.
– To the right is part of Kukenán Butte, a feature that reaches about 500 feet in height.
– The cylindrical part of the rover, seen on the right, is the robot’s ultra high frequency (UHF) antenna. It is used to relay messages and data to NASA satellites orbiting Mars.
View of the Curiosity rover from Mount Sharp, near Gediz Vallis Ridge.
Credit: NASA
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Rumbling into this region on Mount Sharp is attempting. “The path up the mountain over the past few months has required the most difficult climb Curiosity has ever made,” NASA explained.
“If you’ve ever tried to climb sand dunes on a beach – and that’s what we did – you know it’s tough, but there are also big rocks there,” said Amy Hale, a member of NASA’s Curiosity team. in a statement.
Together with the Perseverance rover and other Mars missions, robots on the Red Planet are uncovering the ancient history of Mars, and whether the planet may have had special conditions suitable for life on the surface to evolve and thrive. It is clear that Mars, some 3 billion years ago, was a world filled with water, vast lakes and roaring rivers. Whether life ever appeared remains an open question.
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