Hola amigos: A VUELO DE UN QUINDE EL BLOG., hemos recibido información de la Agencia Espacial NASA, sobre una perforación efectuada por el Robot Curiosity en una foto de autoretrato efecutada sobre el Monte Sharp.
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http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/msl/pia19807/curiosity-low-angle-self-portrait-at-buckskin-drilling-site-on-mount-sharp
This low-angle self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover
shows the vehicle above the "Buckskin" rock target, where the mission
collected its seventh drilled sample. The site is in the "Marias Pass"
area of lower Mount Sharp.
The scene combines dozens of images taken by Curiosity's Mars Hand
Lens Imager (MAHLI) on Aug. 5, 2015, during the 1,065th Martian day, or
sol, of the rover's work on Mars. The 92 component images are among
MAHLI Sol 1065
raw images at http://mars.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/?s=1065&camera=MAHLI.
For scale, the rover's wheels are 20 inches (50 centimeters) in diameter and about 16 inches (40 centimeters) wide.
Curiosity drilled the hole at Buckskin during Sol 1060 (July 30,
2015). Two patches of pale, powdered rock material pulled from Buckskin
are visible in this scene, in front of the rover. The patch closer to
the rover is where the sample-handling mechanism on Curiosity's robotic
arm dumped collected material that did not pass through a sieve in the
mechanism. Sieved sample material was delivered to laboratory
instruments inside the rover. The patch farther in front of the rover,
roughly triangular in shape, shows where fresh tailings spread downhill
from the drilling process. The drilled hole, 0.63 inch (1.6 centimeters)
in diameter, is at the upper point of the tailings.
The rover is facing northeast, looking out over the plains from the
crest of a 20-foot (6-meter) hill that it climbed to reach the Marias
Pass area. The upper levels of Mount Sharp are visible behind the
rover, while Gale Crater’s northern rim dominates the horizon on the
left and right of the mosaic.
A portion of this selfie cropped tighter around the rover is at
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA19808. Another version of the wide view, presented in a projection that shows the horizon as a circle, is at
MAHLI is mounted at the end of the rover's robotic arm. For this
self-portrait, the rover team positioned the camera lower in relation to
the rover body than for any previous full self-portrait of Curiosity.
This yielded a view that includes the rover's "belly," as in a partial
self-portrait
(http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA16137)
taken about five weeks after Curiosity's August 2012 landing inside
Mars' Gale Crater. Before sending Curiosity the arm-positioning commands
for this Buckskin belly panorama, the team previewed the low-angle
sequence of camera pointings on a test rover in California. A mosaic
from that test is
This selfie at Buckskin does not include the rover's robotic arm
beyond a portion of the upper arm held nearly vertical from the shoulder
joint. Shadows from the rest of the arm and the turret of tools at the
end of the arm are visible on the ground. With the wrist motions and
turret rotations used in pointing the camera for the component images,
the arm was positioned out of the shot in the frames or portions of
frames used in this mosaic. This process was used previously in
acquiring and assembling Curiosity self-portraits taken at
sample-collection sites "Rocknest"
"John Klein"
(http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA16937), "Windjana"
(http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA18390) and "Mojave"
MAHLI was built by Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego. NASA's Jet
Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of
Technology in Pasadena, manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project for
the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Washington. JPL designed and built
the project's Curiosity rover.
More information about Curiosity is online at
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Last Updated: Aug. 20, 2015
Editor: Tony Greicius
Tags: Image of the Day, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Journey to Mars, Mars, Mars Science Laboratory (Curiosity), Solar System
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