Posted on May 24, 2021
NASA’s Viking 2 Mars Lander photographed this at Utopia Planitia
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INTERESTING NASA IMAGE FROM THE VIKING 2 MARS LANDER AT UTOPIA PLANITIA!
Well folks, I almost jumped the gun on this video until I previewed it to the end...
That was because, the China's Zhurong Mars rover successfully landed in this area on May 14, and sent the first images of its landing site in Utopia Planitia... I thought that perhaps this device was from that landing...but no, it is not... However, we (The U.S.) have been at Utopia Planitia before and know what the landscape is like... I surely would like to see a panorama sweep of the entire area! Here is what NASA had to say:
"Utopia Planitia on Mars is strewn with rocks and boulders in this image from NASA’s Viking 2 Lander spacecraft. Constructed from the Viking 2 lander's color and black and white image data, the scene approximates the appearance of the high northern Martian plain to the human eye. For scale, the prominent rounded rock near center is about 20 centimeters (just under 8 inches) across. Farther back on the right side of the frame the a dark angular boulder spans about 1.5 meters (5 feet). Also in view are two trenches dug by the lander's sampler arm, the ejected protective shroud that covered the soil collector head, and one of the lander's dust covered footpads at the lower right. China’s Zhurong Mars rover successfully landed in this area on May 14, and sent the first images of its landing site in Utopia Planitia. On September 5 (1976), two days after Viking 2 landed, the surface sampler was rotated from its parked position atop the spacecraft and pointed downward about 40 degrees."
Credit: nasa.gov, NASA/JPL-Caltech, NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
Thoughts anyone?
Enjoy!
Kerry
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Well folks, I almost jumped the gun on this video until I previewed it to the end...
That was because, the China's Zhurong Mars rover successfully landed in this area on May 14, and sent the first images of its landing site in Utopia Planitia... I thought that perhaps this device was from that landing...but no, it is not... However, we (The U.S.) have been at Utopia Planitia before and know what the landscape is like... I surely would like to see a panorama sweep of the entire area! Here is what NASA had to say:
"Utopia Planitia on Mars is strewn with rocks and boulders in this image from NASA’s Viking 2 Lander spacecraft. Constructed from the Viking 2 lander's color and black and white image data, the scene approximates the appearance of the high northern Martian plain to the human eye. For scale, the prominent rounded rock near center is about 20 centimeters (just under 8 inches) across. Farther back on the right side of the frame the a dark angular boulder spans about 1.5 meters (5 feet). Also in view are two trenches dug by the lander's sampler arm, the ejected protective shroud that covered the soil collector head, and one of the lander's dust covered footpads at the lower right. China’s Zhurong Mars rover successfully landed in this area on May 14, and sent the first images of its landing site in Utopia Planitia. On September 5 (1976), two days after Viking 2 landed, the surface sampler was rotated from its parked position atop the spacecraft and pointed downward about 40 degrees."
Credit: nasa.gov, NASA/JPL-Caltech, NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU
Thoughts anyone?
Enjoy!
Kerry
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I was curious about your comment, SPC Tony James, so I did a short research and this is what I found out:
"The normal hue of the sky during the daytime is a pinkish-red; however, in the vicinity of the setting or rising sun it is blue. This is the exact opposite of the situation on Earth. However, during the day the sky is a yellow-brown "butterscotch" color. On Mars, Rayleigh scattering is usually a very small effect. It is believed that the color of the sky is caused by the presence of 1% by volume of magnetite in the dust particles. Twilight lasts a long time after the Sun has set and before it rises, because of all the dust in Mars' atmosphere. At times, the Martian sky takes on a violet color, due to scattering of light by very small water ice particles in clouds.
Generating accurate true-color images of Mars's surface is surprisingly complicated.There is much variation in the color of the sky as reproduced in published images; many of those images, however, are using filters to maximize the scientific value and are not trying to show true color. Nevertheless, for many years, the sky on Mars was thought to be more pinkish than it now is believed to be." - Read more on Wikipedia.com
"The normal hue of the sky during the daytime is a pinkish-red; however, in the vicinity of the setting or rising sun it is blue. This is the exact opposite of the situation on Earth. However, during the day the sky is a yellow-brown "butterscotch" color. On Mars, Rayleigh scattering is usually a very small effect. It is believed that the color of the sky is caused by the presence of 1% by volume of magnetite in the dust particles. Twilight lasts a long time after the Sun has set and before it rises, because of all the dust in Mars' atmosphere. At times, the Martian sky takes on a violet color, due to scattering of light by very small water ice particles in clouds.
Generating accurate true-color images of Mars's surface is surprisingly complicated.There is much variation in the color of the sky as reproduced in published images; many of those images, however, are using filters to maximize the scientific value and are not trying to show true color. Nevertheless, for many years, the sky on Mars was thought to be more pinkish than it now is believed to be." - Read more on Wikipedia.com
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