Planetary Picture of the Day
Week of March 23, 2021
Welcome to our weekly recap of our Planetary Picture of the Day (PPOD)! This week’s images took us from Earth to Mars and back again. Enjoy!
Thursday, March 25, 2021
Planetary Picture of the Day: Curiosity Mars Rover Snaps 1.8 Billion-Pixel Panorama This panorama of Gale crater by the Curiosity rover is made up of a crisp 1.8 billion pixels. It’s Curiosity’s most detailed view to date. Credit: NASA.
Wednesday March 24, 2021
Planetary Picture of the Day (PPOD): The 'Alien Throne' The formation stands in the Valley of Dreams, on Navajo Nation land in the northwestern New Mexico badlands. It is a hoodoo, which is a tall, thin spire of rock that sticks out from the bottom of a badland. Usually, hoodoos are formed within sedimentary rock and volcanic rock formations. Minerals deposited within different rock types cause hoodoos to have different colors throughout their height.
Image: IG/danielbenjaminphoto
Tuesday March 23, 2021
Caption by “Our World” (Facebook)
Planetary Post of the Day: Curiosity's "Spyglass" Megamosaic of Mount Sharp Designed to image rocks a few meters away, I've turned the Remote Micro-Imager in my ChemCam instrument from microscope to telescope and spied the wall of Gale Crater, 59 km away…
