Curiosity is a third-generation rover designed to explore Gale Crater on Mars as part of the mission
Curiosity is currently exploring Gale Crater, wherethere is an impressive mountain called Mount Sharp. This is where the device landed in 2012. In the array of images that the rover transmits to Earth, a small stone arch was discovered, the height of which is only one and a half ten centimeters - a bizarre sign of weathering of the rock. Last week, the rover took several close-up photos of the object, and scientist Kevin Gill put the images together into a mosaic.
"What's going on here?Is that a cat sitting on a jet ski or what?” — a NASA engineer wrote on Twitter. The photo was commented on by Abigail Freeman, an expert on planetary geology at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. She added that the landscape on Mars does sometimes take on extremely unusual shapes.
Gale is an impact crater on Mars named afterWalter Frederick Gale, an amateur astronomer who observed Mars in the late 19th century and described the canals on it. Its diameter is about 154 km, and its age is 3.5–3.8 billion years.
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