NEW YORK: Researchers slightly detoured NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover from the mission’s planned path in recent days for a closer look at a hillside site where an ancient valley had been carved out and refilled.
The rover made observations and measurements there to address questions about how the channel formed and filled. Then it resumed driving up Mount Sharp, where the mission is studying the rock layers.
The layers reveal chapters in how environmental conditions and the potential to support microbial life changed in Mars’ early history.
Two new panoramas of stitched-together telephoto images from Curiosity’s Mast Camera (Mastcam) present the increasingly hilly region the rover has been investigating, and more distant portions of Mount Sharp.
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