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NASA’s Curiosity Captures Dawn Breaking on Wind-Carved Cliffs
Description NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured this panorama of sunrise illuminating distant, wind-carved features called yardangs on Aug. 11, 2026, the 4,982nd Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Scientists are eager to learn more about how the yardang layer formed. Figure A is a crop zooming in on the distant yardangs. Since 2014, Curiosity […]
| Summary | Description NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured this panorama of sunrise illuminating distant, wind-carved features called yardangs on Aug. 11, 2026, the 4,982nd Martian day, or sol, of the mission. Scientists are eager to learn more about how the yardang layer formed. Figure A is a crop zooming in on the distant yardangs. Since 2014, Curiosity […] |
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| Source | Spaceflight News — Launch news |
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| Feed | snapi/articles |
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| First observed here | 10 Oct 2026, 06:30 EDT |
| Last observed here | 11 Oct 2026, 17:11 EDT |
| In latest snapshot | Yes |
| Record identifier | 130fac78-18b0-5c6f-831e-2025f03c16ec |
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