The exploration of the channel will likely take months, with the potential to reshape our understanding of how Mount Sharp came to be.
Since it arrived in 2014, Curiosity has steadily climbed the foothills of Mount Sharp, a 3-mile-high peak towering above the Gale Crater.After arriving at Gediz Vallis channel, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured this 360-degree panorama using one of its black-and-white navigation cameras on Feb. 3Long ago, Mars boasted a much wetter and potentially warmer climate – significantly more Earth-like than its current arid and frozen state.
Since it arrived in 2014, Curiosity has steadily climbed the foothills of Mount Sharp, a 3-mile-high peak towering above the Gale Crater. These layered foothills, shaped over millions of years by changing climates on Mars, offer scientists a chronological record of how the presence of water and theA particularly notable lower section of the foothills contained clay-rich layers, indicating extensive past interaction between rock and water.
The debris filling the channel appears to have originated from higher up on Mount Sharp, regions inaccessible to Curiosity. By analyzing this debris, the team can uncover clues about the geology of these unexplored higher elevations.
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