Cape Verde, Mars
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Here is today’s “Image Of The Day” selection from NASA. What caught my eye is the layering in the lower left third of the picture. The NASA caption telling about the image is below, sadly doesn’t say anything about the layering.
You can get limited sized wallpaper at the source page located HERE. The larger formats show that layering better.
Here’s the caption:
A promontory nicknamed Cape Verde can be seen jutting out from the walls of Victoria Crater in this false-color image taken by the panoramic camera on NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. The rover took this picture on Martian day, or sol, 1329 (Oct. 20, 2007), more than a month after it began descending down the crater walls — and just 9 sols shy of its second Martian birthday on sol 1338 (Oct. 29, 2007). Opportunity landed on the Red Planet on Jan. 25, 2004. That’s nearly four years ago on Earth, but only two on Mars because Mars takes longer to travel around the sun than Earth. One Martian year equals 687 Earth days.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell
Source: NASA Image of the Day
Hey Tom:
I am just getting involved in astronomy at the beginners level. Great observation on the layer’s. My opinion, although amateur, clearly looks to me that the layers are consistent with water run-off. Especially in the bottom right of the photo where there is a large gap(corrosion) caused by water some time ago. Just my thoughts and like I said are from an amateur’s point of view. Is there any site that has a great picture of our Blue Marble from space. Thanks and keep up your great work and input especially to us amateur’s.
Hi.Thanks for your comment. That pic has a fanciful passing resemblance to a place on the island of Hawaii, a sea-cliff, known to me and a fishing buddy. I email’d that pic to him … I’m not sure he caught on that I was trying to be funny . . .
Beautiful & interesting picture, certainly! I wonder what it looks like in true color.
Bobby C; Pix of Earth from space here;
http://images.google.com/images?q=Nasa+images+Earth&hl=en&rlz=1T4SUNA_enUS220US220&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=images&ct=title
http://earth.jsc.nasa.gov/sseop/efs/
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/targetFamily/Earth
(You’ll find even more if you Google; NASA images Earth
Sorry to burst your bubble, Bobby C, but erosion from run-off causes vertical slits. Horizontal layering is almost always caused by sedimentation.