Mars: Shadow at Point Lake
Explanation:
What if you saw your shadow on Mars and it wasn't human?
Then you might be the robotic
Curiosity
rover currently
exploring Mars.
Curiosity landed in
Gale Crater last August and
has been busy looking for signs of ancient running water and clues that Mars could
once have harbored life.
Pictured above,
Curiosity has taken a wide panorama that includes its own shadow in the direction
opposite the Sun.
The image
was taken in November from a location dubbed Point Lake, although no water presently
exists there.
Curiosity has already discovered several indications of
dried streambeds on Mars, and is scheduled to continue
its exploration by climbing nearby
Mt. Sharp over the next few
years.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
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NASA Official: Jay Norris.
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LHEA at
NASA /
GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
