Despite the considerable buzz around an interesting snapshot taken on our neighboring planet, there is still no evidence of alien life on Mars at any stage of development. Curiosity, NASA’s Mars rover, obtained a fascinating photograph of what seems to be a bloom-like thing on the Red Planet, but experts aren’t certain it’s an extraterrestrial flower or plant.
(1/3) Your Friday moment of zen: A beautiful new microscopic image from @MarsCuriosity shows teeny, tiny delicate structures that formed by mineral precipitating from water.
(Penny approximately for scale added me)https://t.co/cs7t11BWAj pic.twitter.com/AU20LjY5pQ
— Abigail Fraeman (@abbyfrae) February 26, 2022
It was taken on February 24 by Curiosity’s Mars Hand Lens Imager, which is housed in the turrets at the extremity of the robot’s mechanical arm and is mounted on it. Nevertheless, fantasies of a garden area are just that: fantasies of the imagination. The coral-like structure – which is hardly more than a penny in size – is thought a diagenetic characteristic, meaning it originated after sediment was originally laid down.
Curiosity Mars rover Deputy Project Scientist, Abigail Fraeman, tweeted the interesting pictures and provided some interesting details. The stunning new microscopic photograph taken by the Mars Curiosity rover reveals teeny, tiny, fragile structures that evolved as a result of mineral precipitation from water on the planet. According to Abigail Fraeman, we’ve seen constructions like these before, most notably at Pahrump Hills, which is a long way back in the past. The sulfates used in the construction of the structures were used to create the characteristics.
When geologists go out into the field, they often bring a magnifying hand lens with them, which is what the Mars Hand Lens Imager is designed to replace. Its duty is to take close-up photographs of rock surfaces in order to highlight the minerals and structures inside them. At sizes smaller than the width of a human hair, the gadget is capable of photographing minerals, textures, and patterns in the soil at a microscopic level with high resolution.
