GALLERY: Mysterious sand dunes have been photographed on Mars. 9News
On February 2, Curiosity observed rays of sunlight stretching across the horizon and illuminating a bank of clouds as the sun set on Mars. It's the first time the rays, known as crepuscular rays, have been seen so clearly on the red planet.The Curiosity rover also snapped a shot of this feather-shaped iridescent cloud, just after sunset on January 27.
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test flew a spacecraft into an asteroid causing the space rock to disperse a "cometlike tail." The ripples would have been caused by water tossing up the ocean floor, leaving ripples - similar to the ones you'd see at the bottom of the ocean caused by waves. A circular fracture pattern on the Martian surface shapes the head, while two craters resemble eyes. A V-shaped collapse structure creates the illusion of the nose of a bear.
The Webb telescope focused on the Chamaeleon I dark molecular cloud, which appears blue in the new image. A young protostar, called Ced 110 IRS 4, glows in orange to the left. The journalMore orange dots represent light from stars in the background, piercing through the cloud. The starlight helped astronomers determine the diverse range of frozen molecules within the Chamaeleon I dark molecular cloud, which is forming dozens of young stars.
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