Barley's Collected Space Images, primarily assembled by Barley

Monday, March 17, 2025

Sol 4482: Mast Camera (Mastcam) stitch

Images taken by MAST_LEFT onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 4482 (2025-03-16T10:09:19.000Z) to (2025-03-16T10:13:49.000Z)

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Assembled by Barley Culiner with Microsoft ICE

Saturday, March 15, 2025

Sol 4480: Left Navigation Camera stitch

Images taken by NAV_LEFT_B onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 4480 (2025-03-14T09:21:22.000Z) to (2025-03-14T09:23:31.000Z)

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Assembled by Barley Culiner with Microsoft ICE

Additional editing with GIMP

Sol 4480: Mast Camera (Mastcam) stitch

Images taken by MAST_RIGHT onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 4480 (2025-03-14T07:54:55.000Z) to (2025-03-14T07:57:14.000Z)

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Assembled by Barley Culiner with Microsoft ICE

Sol 4480: Mast Camera (Mastcam) stitch

Images taken by MAST_LEFT onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 4480 (2025-03-14T09:02:06.000Z) to (2025-03-14T09:05:13.000Z)

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Assembled by Barley Culiner with Microsoft ICE

Additional editing with GIMP

Sol 4480: Mast Camera (Mastcam) stitch

Images taken by MAST_LEFT onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 4480 (2025-03-14T09:00:01.000Z) to (2025-03-14T09:01:40.000Z)

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Assembled by Barley Culiner with Microsoft ICE

Friday, March 14, 2025

Sol 4479: Mast Camera (Mastcam) stitch

Images taken by MAST_RIGHT onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 4479 (2025-03-13T06:40:08.000Z) to (2025-03-13T06:40:34.000Z)

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Assembled by Barley Culiner with Microsoft ICE

Thursday, March 13, 2025

Sol 4478: Mast Camera (Mastcam) stitch

Images taken by MAST_RIGHT onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 4478 (2025-03-12T05:25:47.000Z) to (2025-03-12T05:27:11.000Z)

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Assembled by Barley Culiner with Microsoft ICE

Sol 4478: Mast Camera (Mastcam) stitch

Images taken by MAST_RIGHT onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 4478 (2025-03-12T05:28:15.000Z) to (2025-03-12T05:33:12.000Z)

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Assembled by Barley Culiner with Microsoft ICE

Additional editing with GIMP

Sol 4478: Mast Camera (Mastcam) stitch

Images taken by MAST_RIGHT onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Sol 4478 (2025-03-12T07:29:24.000Z) to (2025-03-12T07:33:45.000Z)

Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Assembled by Barley Culiner with Microsoft ICE

Additional editing with GIMP

Mars Express

Mission: Mars Express

https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Mars_Express

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0032063316304688?via%3Dihub

MARS EXPRESS

MISSION	INSTRUMENT	PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR(S)
Mars Express	ASPERA-3	R. Lundin (Swedish Institute of Space Science, Kiruna, Sweden)
	HRSC	G. Neukum (Freie Universitaet, Berlin, Germany)
	MARSIS	G. Picardi (Universita di Roma 'La Sapienza', Rome, Italy), R. Orosei (IAPS, Rome, Italy) and J. Plaut (JPL, Pasadena, USA)
	MRS	M. Paetzold (University of Cologne, Germany)
	OMEGA	J.P. Bibring (Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, France)
	PFS	M. Giuranna (IAPS, Rome, Italy)
	SPICAM	F. Montmessin (LATMOS, Paris, France)
	VMC	A. Sanchez-Lavega (UPV-EHU, Bilbao, Spain)

Extracted by Barley Culiner with NASAView

Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Mars Perseverance Sol 1442: SuperCam Camera stitch

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired these images using the SuperCam Remote Micro-Imager, located at the top of the rover's mast.

Images acquired on March 11, 2025 (Sol 1442) at the local mean solar time of 10:45:46 to 11:06:22.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/IRAP

Assembled by Barley Culiner with Microsoft ICE

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Biological and organic constituents of desert varnish: Review and new hypotheses https://www.researchgate.net/publication/253348135_Biological_and_organic_constituents_of_desert_varnish_Review_and_new_hypotheses

https://www.nps.gov/articles/desertvarnish.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_varnish

OCCURRENCE OF ROCK VARNISH AT YUNGAY, ATACAMA DESERT, CHILE. https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2007/pdf/2251.pdf

Evidence of a microbial community associated with rock varnish at Yungay, Atacama Desert, Chile https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2007JG000677

Life on the Edge: Microbes in Rock Varnish https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1570605

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanobacteria

Martian blueberries

https://blogbarley.blogspot.com/2023/05/cyanophyta.html

Cyanobacterial morphology https://blogbarley.blogspot.com/2023/10/blog-post_13.html

Mars Perseverance Sol 1443: Right Mastcam-Z Camera stitch

desert varnish and a rock made of martian blueberries

Mars Perseverance Sol 1443: Right Mastcam-Z Camera stitch

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired these images using its Right Mastcam-Z camera. Mastcam-Z is a pair of cameras located high on the rover's mast.

Images acquired on March 12, 2025 (Sol 1443) at the local mean solar time of 12:37:42 to 12:37:44.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU

Assembled by Barley Culiner with Microsoft ICE

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https://www.nps.gov/articles/desertvarnish.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desert_varnish

OCCURRENCE OF ROCK VARNISH AT YUNGAY, ATACAMA DESERT, CHILE. https://www.lpi.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2007/pdf/2251.pdf

Evidence of a microbial community associated with rock varnish at Yungay, Atacama Desert, Chile https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2007JG000677

Life on the Edge: Microbes in Rock Varnish https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1570605

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanobacteria

Martian blueberries

https://blogbarley.blogspot.com/2023/05/cyanophyta.html