NASA's Curiosity rover finds purple rocks on Red Planet
Source: Economic Times
Dec 30, 2016, 01.27 PM IST
Moscow,, Dec 30 (IANS) Recent Martian photographs taken by NASA's Curiosity rover have revealed purple rocks on the surface of the Red planet.
NASA officials have called this a suggestion to a greater degree of diversity in the geological composition of the region, and a hint as to what caused Mars to lose most of its water, Sputnik news agency reported on Friday.
The photos were taken near the base of 18,000-foot Mount Sharp, one of Mars's tallest summits.
"Variations in colour of the rocks hint at the diversity of their composition on lower Mount Sharp," NASA scientists said in a statement.
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Purple-coloured rocks discovered on Mars by NASA's Curiosity Rover
Lately, NASA’s Curiosity Rover captured a new image of Mar’s mountainous landscape, with purple-colored rocks littered across the foreground of the image.
By News Nation Bureau | Updated On : December 30, 2016 05:51 PM
NEW DELHI :
Mars- the red planet has always amazed scientists and earthlings with the new findings of spoon, water or ice. NASA’s Curiosity, the car-sized robotic rover keeps sending updates and images of Mars and every time it sheds new light on the possibilities of human existence on Mars.
Lately, NASA’s Curiosity Rover captured a new image of Mar’s mountainous landscape, with purple-colored rocks littered across the foreground of the image.
The close-up shot from Mastcam shows purple-colored rocks near the rover’s late-2016 location on lower Mount Sharp. Variations in the hues of rocks hint at the diversity of their composition on lower Mount Sharp, NASA said.
However, the purple tone of the rocks has also been seen in other rocks where Curiosity’s Chemical and Mineralogy (CheMin) instrument has detected hematite, it said.
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Plus, I want to point out the real story here, is that Judi Lynn reads the 'Economic Times'.
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You go girl!
Love the pic!
