Mars Color Variations on Mount Sharp Wall Art Size:LARGE (36 X 24) from black-and-white

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A series of short exposures through a near-infrared filtre was obtained of the waning Moon at sunrise on January 12 (at about 10 hrs UT)

Mars Color Variations on Mount Sharp Wall Art Size:LARGE (36 X 24) from black-and-whiteThe foreground of this scene from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows purple hued rocks near the rover's late 2016 location on lower Mount Sharp. The scene's middle distance includes higher layers that are future destinations for the mission. Variations in color of the rocks hint at the diversity of their composition on lower Mount Sharp. The purple tone of the foreground rocks has been seen in other rocks where Curiosity's