HONG KONG: NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover continues its trek across the red planet this month, making new discoveries. As of April 16, the mission encompassed 6.2 miles of total driving this month.
At this moment, the Curiosity is moving along a series of shallow valleys among the “Pahrump Hills” outcrop, where it has spent the last six months, heading southwest to the Logan Pass.
“We’ve not only been making tracks, but also making important observations to characterize rocks we’re passing, and some farther to the south at selected viewpoints,” explained John Grant of the National Air and Space Museum, Washington. Grant is a Curiosity science team member and works as the mission’s long-term planner.
Right now, Curiosity is analyzing the lower slopes on its layered mountain Mount Sharp, in an effort to learn more about the region’s ancient environment – the gradual evolution of a terrain that once contained lakes and rivers to the familiar arid region we know today. High standing buttes near the hills are a prime instance of basal terrain, giving insight to the ways that water flowed – an area known as the Washboard unit, due to its appearance from orbit.
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