Largest Methane Spike Ever, Curiosity Rover to Examine it Further |
Largest Methane Spike Ever, Curiosity Rover to Examine it Further |
Jun 22 2019, 05:09 PM
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It's been reported today that a release of methane on Mars, three times larger than ever detected before, was discovered on Wednesday. On Friday the Curiosity rover had its plans altered, in order to concentrate on this phenomenon, it's said. Preliminary results of this investigation are expected on Monday. Further information is available in the article, linked below:
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Jul 20 2021, 12:08 AM
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Reviving this old thread and putting it in the general Mars area because it seems to me this potentially
related to the whole planet, not just Gale crater. Mods feel free to move this is you disagree. In the light of this: 'Alien burp' may have been detected by NASA's Curiosity rover https://www.livescience.com/curiosity-finds...ane-source.html Can anyone suggest/detect any structural feature in the crater that might be a possible exit point for the methane? ...and yes I know the location suggested in the paper is very notional/approximate. P |
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Jul 20 2021, 12:56 AM
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Figures 3 and 4 of the preprint try to isolate the possible location of emission source locations that could have produced the two events. If the two events were produced by a source in just one location then it is pinned down pretty well. However, that area of the far NW of Gale crater, just at/inside the rim is pretty blank as a whole. There are some very ordinary looking smaller craters. One or more dry channels exist nearby / upslope. It would be a stretch to attribute with any certainty this result and the features seen nearby. It could be that what is causing the outbursts is some layer in the subsurface with no surface manifestation at all. However, it is safe to say that the target areas in question were co-located with lake in the past – but that's simply true of all of Gale as a whole.
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