the scenic overlooks of mars
Apr. 9th, 2023 08:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twoelevenbreak out your 3D glasses!
the perseverence team parked the rover where it could get a good view of belva crater, which is adjacent to jezero delta. jezero delta is where the rover is roving, seeking out fossilized life, or evidence of it¹. the rover isn't going to descend into the crater, and i'm not sure there's a slope shallow enough where it could even if the team wanted to look around there.
a very nice gentleman named Olivier de Goursac worked up NASA's images into an 3D panorama, which was originally linked from here. but since i don't think people are necessarily interested in that forum, i've relinked the image here.
1: i have my doubts that there ever was such life, and i'm no longer convinced that the hypothesis is falsifiable. i'd rather we spend our money where there might be extant life, but i don't make these decisions.
the perseverence team parked the rover where it could get a good view of belva crater, which is adjacent to jezero delta. jezero delta is where the rover is roving, seeking out fossilized life, or evidence of it¹. the rover isn't going to descend into the crater, and i'm not sure there's a slope shallow enough where it could even if the team wanted to look around there.
a very nice gentleman named Olivier de Goursac worked up NASA's images into an 3D panorama, which was originally linked from here. but since i don't think people are necessarily interested in that forum, i've relinked the image here.
1: i have my doubts that there ever was such life, and i'm no longer convinced that the hypothesis is falsifiable. i'd rather we spend our money where there might be extant life, but i don't make these decisions.
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Date: Apr. 12th, 2023 03:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Apr. 12th, 2023 04:53 pm (UTC)And I'm glad you're back, and I hope you had plenty of
alcoholfun! :)no subject
Date: Apr. 12th, 2023 08:47 pm (UTC)I intended to sample everything at the Scotch Bar in Scotland but got a TBI by then, and drinking would not have been smart.