Yay, my mosaic of the rock garden inhabited by the Sombrero Rock, and other amazing Martian rocks, published by the Mastcam-Z team in their gallery!
Yay, my mosaic of the rock garden inhabited by the Sombrero Rock, and other amazing Martian rocks, published by the Mastcam-Z team in their gallery!
Sombrero Rock in context
A 20-images mosaic captured by Perseverance, Sep. 8, 2023 (Sol 907); color processing by the Mastcam-Z team at Arizona State University.
This very peculiar rock and the other denizens of this rock garden are really worth a zoom: https://zoomhub.net/kRaBO
Full res image on flicker: https://flic.kr/p/2qDzm8A
A post by Eleni Ravanis on the science behind Sombrero Rock: https://science.nasa.gov/blog/sombrero-rock-a-case-of-case-hardening/
Space Oddity
The amazing “Sombrero Rock” captured in Stereo3D by Perseverance on Sol 907 (Sept. 8, 2023).
To go 3D: eyes' lines of sight parallel/left image for left eye/right image for right eye .
Credit images: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU