Amazing double postcard of Mars sent by Curiosity (Video)

NASA’s Curiosity rover has sent back a stunning postcard from Mars showing the same region of the Red Planet as it appears in the morning and as it appears in the afternoon. The image shows the Marker Band Valley merged to create two postcards of the area taken by Curiosity on April 8, 2023.

Also visible in the image are the main parts of the robot, including its three antennas, the nuclear power mechanism on which it operates, and the Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD), a round white instrument in the lower right of the image that collects data on radiation levels on Mars, very important data in light of Manned missions that are scheduled to be carried out over the next decade on this planet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMOr_QGf9a8

The Curiosity robotic rover landed in the Aeolis Palus region of Gale Crater on Mars on August 5, 2012. The mission was scheduled to last two years, but the rover’s success and endurance forced the NASA crew to grant an extension that proved permanent because it was completed in just a few weeks 11 year of operation.

During all these years, the rover has not stopped taking surveys and recording images from Mars. The probe’s goals are to investigate the climate and geology of Mars and determine whether Gale Crater presented environmental conditions conducive to the existence of any form of life. The discoveries made by Curiosity in these eleven years are numerous and are helping scientists piece together the geological and atmospheric puzzle of Mars.

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