September 9, 2012
Credits: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona - Credits for the additional process. and color.: Dr Paolo C. Fienga/Lunar Explorer Italia/IPF
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Today's APOD image was acquired by the NASA - Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter just 24 hours after the NASA - Mars Science Rover and Laboratory "Curiosity" landed inside Gale Crater; the picture was taken with the aim of locating the different Hardware Pieces (i.e.: the Sky Crane, the Heat-Shield, and the Backshell with the Parachute) that fell onto the Surface. This strip, however, even though it does not show any of the aforementioned Hardware, it does provide a spectacular Oblique View of a portion of Gale's Central Mound, or "Mount Sharp" (Aeolis Mons). The Emission Angle (also known as "Viewing Angle") is almost 45°, which makes us look at the Mount Sharp as if we were looking outside from an airplane window. Mars Local Time: 15:15 (early afternoon) This frame has been colorized in Absolute Natural Colors (such as the colors that a human eye would actually perceive if someone were onboard the NASA - Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and then looked down, towards the Surface of Mars), by using an original technique created - and, in time, dramatically improved - by the Lunar Explorer Italia Team.
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