In its most recent
selfie sent back home, Nasa's Curiosity wanderer demonstrates the auto size
portable research facility adjacent to a dull hill where it has been scooping
and sieving tests of sand.
The new selfie
consolidates 57 pictures taken by the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera
toward the end of Curiosity's arm.
The wanderer has been
exploring a gathering of dynamic sand hills for two months, concentrate how the
wind moves and sorts sand particles on Mars.
The site is a piece of
Bagnold Dune Field, which lines the northwestern flank of Mars' Mount Sharp.
At the point when the
part pictures were taken, the wanderer had scraped the edge of "Namib
Dune" and gathered the first of three scoops of sand from that hill.
Amid preparing, an
actuator in the specimen handling gadget did not execute not surprisingly when
summoned. For the current week, the Curiosity group is distinguishing
conceivable purposes behind the actuator's execution.
"The meanderer
reacted appropriately to this surprising occasion. It quit moving the actuator
and stopped further utilization of the arm and examining framework," said
Steve Lee, representative task director for Curiosity at Nasa's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory, Pasadena, California.
One part of the ridge
examination is to see the same area over and over to check for development of
sand grains brought on by wind on Mars.
On the off chance that
development happens, the group can utilize the meanderer's wind estimations to
make sense of the quality and course of the winds that brought on the
development.
Specialists are
assessing conceivable destinations for the following utilization of Curiosity's
drill to gather rock-powder tests of the bedrock in the range.
Interest achieved the
base of Mount Sharp in 2014 after productively examining outcrops closer to its
arrival site and after that trekking to the layered mountain.
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