THEMIS: Basaltic sand in Gale Crater

Basaltic sand in Gale Crater (THEMIS_IOTD_20161017)THEMIS Image of the Day, October 17, 2016. Today’s false color image shows part of Gale Crater. The dark blue is basaltic sand. Gale Crater is the “home” of the Curiosity Rover. The THEMIS VIS camera contains 5 filters. The data from different filters can be combined in multiple ways to create a false color image. These false color images may reveal subtle variations of the surface not easily identified in a single band image.

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