Feeble Ogunquit Seashore on Mars

This was as soon as a sea hotfoot — on out of date Mars. The featured 360-diploma panorama, horizontally compressed, was taken in 2017 by the robotic Curiosity rover that explored the purple planet. Named Ogunquit Seashore after its terrestrial counterpart, evidence exhibits that at situations method attend the assign was underwater, while at a number of situations it was at the edge of an out of date lake. The light high within the central background is the tip of Mount Appealing, the central feature in Gale Crater the assign Curiosity explored. Portions of the darkish sands within the foreground had been scooped up for prognosis. The light colored bedrock is peaceable of sediment that likely settled at the underside of the now-dried lakebed. The featured panorama (interactive model right here) was constituted of over 100 photos and apparently signed by the rover on the decrease left.