Business Inside: NASA’s Curiosity rover has been exploring Mars for 6 years now – here’s what the red planet’s surface looks like up close

 

The surface of Mars is weird and beautiful.

For six years now, since its landing on August 5, 2012, the Mars Curiosity rover has been exploring one area of our next-planet neighbor .

 

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(Photos by REUTERS/NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona and NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS via AP)

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The Mars Rover Sent Back Some Pictures and They Look a Lot Like the American Southwest

mars-rover-nasaNASA’s Curiosity Rover recently returned some striking color images from Mars of the Murray Buttes, one of the lower regions of Mount Sharp.

The buttes and mesas are the eroded remains of ancient sandstone that have risen above the sandy, Martian surface. Studying the rock formations up close is giving scientists a better understanding of how Mars’ landscape was formed, says Curiosity Project Scientist Ashwin Vasavada, of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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Venus photos in HD

Astronomy Now has just posted a nice article with some high-resolution images of Venus from Earth. The photos penetrated the clouds showcasing the surface with its numerous ridges and mountains!

Venus photos in HD

Photo courtesy of B. Campbell, Smithsonian, et al., NRAO/AUI/NSF, Arecibo. Read the full article right here!

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