{"id":336480,"date":"2025-08-11T19:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T19:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/336480\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T19:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T19:21:09","slug":"incredible-photos-show-mars-picture-perfect-blue-sky-but-theres-a-catch-science-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/336480\/","title":{"rendered":"Incredible photos show Mars&#8217; picture-perfect &#8216;blue sky&#8217; &#8211; but there&#8217;s a catch | Science | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A robot has snapped an image of the Red Planet with a blue sky. The imaging team of <a data-link-tracking=\"InArticle|Link\" title=\"NASA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/latest\/nasa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NASA<\/a>&#8216;s Perseverance Mars rover took advantage of clear skies recently to capture one of the sharpest panoramas of its mission so far.<\/p>\n<p>Visible in the mosaic, which was stitched together from 96 images taken at a location the science team calls Falbreen, are a rock that appears to lie on top of a sand ripple, a boundary line between two geologic units, and hills as distant as 40 miles (65 kilometres) away. However, the space scientists say Mars isn&#8217;t suddenly an ideal destination for a vacation as the blue sky is due to image processing carried out to better study the Martian terrain to prepare for future space travel.<\/p>\n<p>NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory said: &#8220;The enhanced-colour version shows the Martian sky to be remarkably clear and deceptively blue, while in the natural-colour version, it&#8217;s reddish.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jim Bell, Mastcam-Z&#8217;s principal investigator at Arizona State University in Tempe, added: &#8220;The relatively dust-free skies provide a clear view of the surrounding terrain. And in this particular mosaic, we have enhanced the colour contrast, which accentuates the differences in the terrain and sky.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sean Duffy, acting NASA administrator, said: &#8220;Our bold push for human space exploration will send astronauts back to the Moon.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Stunning vistas like that of Falbreen, captured by our Perseverance rover, are just a glimpse of what we&#8217;ll soon witness with our own eyes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;NASA&#8217;s groundbreaking missions, starting with Artemis, will propel our unstoppable journey to take human space exploration to the Martian surface. NASA is continuing to get bolder and stronger.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The rover&#8217;s Mastcam-Z instrument captured the images on May 26, the 1,516th Martian day, or sol, of Perseverance&#8217;s mission, which began in February 2021 on the floor of Jezero Crater.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A robot has snapped an image of the Red Planet with a blue sky. The imaging team of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336481,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[874,70,413,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-336480","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-nasa","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-space","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115011760035366547","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}