Mars Color Variations on Mount Sharp Wall Art Size:LARGE (36 X 24) /Igor Chekalin/Digitized Sky Survey 2

/Igor Chekalin/Digitized Sky Survey 2

supplemented by exposures through a filter that isolates light from glowing hydrogen gas

from black-and-white

The effect

as the spacecraft performed its 20th science pass of Jupiter

Mars Color Variations on Mount Sharp Wall Art Size:LARGE (36 X 24) /Igor Chekalin/Digitized Sky Survey 2The 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