Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Curiosity Inspects Mt. Remarkable on Mars

NASA ^ | May 07, 2014 | (see photo credit)

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Explanation: What has the Curiosity rover come across on Mars? Dubbed Mount Remarkable, the rolling robot has chanced upon this notable 5-meter tall mound during its continuing journey around and, eventually, up 5.5-kilometer high Mt. Sharp. Unsure of the density of the surrounding layered sandstone, the human team on Earth has instructed the car-sized rover on Mars to drill into a rock on the side of Mt. Remarkable to investigate. Quite possibly, water involved in creating the dense sandstone could have helped to support ancient life on the red planet. Mt. Sharp, the unusual central peak of Gale Crater, has a similar base-to-peak height as Earth's Mt. Everest.

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[Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech; Additional Mosaic Processing: Kenneth Kremer & Marco Di Lorenzo]

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[SunkenCiv]

(looks a little like FR)

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[cripplecreek]

Mount interesting maybe, remarkable not so much.

[TheOldLady]

That is a great photo. It’s almost Earth like, and it looks as if there has been water
erosion on Mt. Remarkable in the two runnels down the side of the mount.

And APOD doesn’t have enough of their own pictures? They need subscriber
submissions? I can send them a whole big bunch of cat pictures, but that’s about it.

;-)

[The Cajun]

Looks like the rover showed up on low tide.

[MHGinTN]

There have been some amazing debris pix from Curiosity ... that NASA seems completely uncurious about. Like the thing that resembles a water pump, with pipe sticking out of it, or the helmet shaped very much like a human head/face, or the child-sized shoe.

[cripplecreek]

BTW the earth viewer cams on the space station are actually working now.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iss-hdev-payload/theater

[The Cajun]

Like the thing that resembles a water pump, with pipe sticking out of it,

That one puzzles the heck out of me.
Looks like a "gun barrel" sticking out of a turret to me, when I first saw it.
Just ain't nothing natural about the "pipe" section.
NASA probably sent the rover away from it as fast as possible, LOL.

[MHGinTN]

The second large face is an interesting thing, too. I want to know what the transparent tubes are. I figure they were water pipes, to use as transportation and transferring water around the planet. May have been pneumatic tubes though ... but they are awfully large in diameter for that.

[OldNavyVet]

Interesting in this article is the statement ....

Quite possibly, water involved in creating the dense sandstone could have helped to support ancient life on the red planet. Mt. Sharp, the unusual central peak of Gale Crater, has a similar base-to-peak height as Earth's Mt. Everest.

Steve Jones, in his 1999 update of Darwin's "The Origin of Species" states "... the summit of Everest is formed of rocks made in a shallow sea."

[cripplecreek]

NASA probably sent the rover away from it as fast as possible, LOL.

Because everybody knows that NASA is desperately terrified of their funding being increased by orders of magnitude if they fund something unnatural.

[BenLurkin]

It would be remarkable — if it were a tell.

[The Cajun]

Because everybody knows that NASA is desperately terrified of their funding being increased by orders of magnitude if they fund something unnatural.

What the heck is this that they didn't look closer at?
Just asking :)

[cripplecreek]

Its called “A rock”.

[The Cajun]

If you say so.
The pipe coming out of it is also a rock...........I suppose.

[cripplecreek]

NASA likes to struggle on a shoestring budget while hiding alien artifacts in plain sight.

[MHGinTN]

De Nile (Denial) is also strong with the naysayers ... LOL

[MHGinTN]

Um, try again, you’re knot even funny tonight.

[The Cajun]

Not saying that, not really sure about NASA's mission anymore, to be honest.
Just wondering about photographic anomalies' that don't seem to fit, to me anyway.