An earlier exchange with #NASA JPL's engineer Tom Barber, @magicaltrout, resulted in these 3 very comprehensive papers about the geological processes that formed what we see today in #Perseverance's images from Jezero Crater (paper titles in image description):
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abp9084
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abo4856
(paywalled paper, open data): https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abo5204
Lot's of geology for a non geologist to grok 🤓
@65dBnoise we are also trying to get to a point where we can open up the tooling the science folk use with the mars data to the wider community of interested people. We're not there yet, but its coming at some point so you can login and play around with the same data those papers were written with.
@magicaltrout
What an example you set!
That's what makes all the difference between private companies providing space transportation, and a state organization giving back to the public, science, applications and tools, in return for taxpayer's money. There are not many that do the same, and apparently none that does it with the same consistency, expanded scope and *accessibility*.
NASA (its people) is the best ambassador the US has to both this world, and others.