Mars, the fourth planet of solar system and Earth’s nearest planet always remains at the point of interest among all scientists and peoples. Mars is always known for its red colored surface, but the new photos taken by NASA’s Curiosity Rover could change the conventional ideas about Mars.

Almost 6 years ago from today NASA’s Planet surface Rover ‘Curiosity’ started exploring the Mars, since then its capturing higher resolution pictures of mars surface. Now it's made an awesome discovery by finding Purple colored rocks scattered on the Mars’s mountainous landscape.

According to Space journal, Curiosity took those photos at the basin areas of Mount Sharp at Mars. On nov. 10 Using the Mast Camera (Mastcam) equipped with the left eye, Curiosity took 3 photos of the surface and merged them in a panoramic form and sent it back to Earth. It was the 1,516th Martian day of the rover. In the picture, it shows the 15-degree spans and the left edge of the image points toward the southeast region.

NASA officials said in a statement,”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 Chemical and Mineralogy (CheMin) instrument has detected hematite or a kind of iron-oxide mineral”.

Mail Online report says that, winds helped curiosity to find those purple rocks. Those rocks were used to be covered with dust. In this season winds blown over the dust and revealed the vibrant purple colors. It also captured orange looking features beneath the purple rocks.

Mount Sharp rises about 5 kilometers from the center of Mars’s 154 km wide Gale Crater. Curiosity first arrived in this crater in 2012, during the exploration at this region it found the evidence of microbial life in ancient mars. The rover will continue to explore throughout its rest of the mission, it will climb uphill towards the Hematite Unit.

Mastcam made a white-balance color adjustment of those photos to match the white-balance of Earth during day time. This will help Geologists to determine the chemical components of those rocks by matching the color patterns that they are familiar with on Earth. It will also help scientists to learn more about Mars’s past

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