{"id":20949,"date":"2026-08-29T17:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T17:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=20949"},"modified":"2026-08-29T17:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T17:30:09","slug":"curiositys-sol-3924-martian-jellyfish-that-lasted-one-frame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=20949","title":{"rendered":"Curiosity&#8217;s Sol 3924 Martian Jellyfish That Lasted One Frame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.techeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/29092625\/curiosity-sol-3924-jellyfish-mars.jpg\" alt=\"Curiosity Sol 3924 Jellyfish Mars\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\"\/><br \/>Curiosity\u2019s right navigation camera swept across Gale Crater on August 20, 2023, at 22:27:46 UTC and recorded a small dark blot perched on a distant rocky ridge. In the raw grayscale frame from sol 3924 the blot sits far left, a compact dark mass with thin downward extensions that many later viewers read as tentacles. Zoomed and isolated, the form also reads as a miniature combat machine from H.G. Wells. The original NASA file is public and unaltered.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-255956\"\/><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.techeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/29092614\/curiosity-sol-3924-jellyfish-mars-1.jpg\" alt=\"Curiosity Sol 3924 Jellyfish Mars\" width=\"1280\" height=\"1280\"\/><br \/>The identical camera captured the same length of ground 13 seconds earlier, as well as 25 seconds before that too. There was a solitary frame from that camera taken approximately 78 minutes later. None of these frames reveal a hint of the black shape. That\u2019s odd, given that the mark only takes up about 15 tiny pixels in a low-resolution navigation image. You would need something moving or debris on that ridge to come and leave faster than any rover wind-blown rubble could, without leaving a blur trail behind it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"aawp\">\n<div class=\"aawp-product aawp-product--horizontal\" data-aawp-product-asin=\"B0BSRD2CXY\" data-aawp-product-id=\"254529\" data-aawp-tracking-id=\"tec02e-20\" data-aawp-product-title=\"LEGO Technic NASA Mars Rover Perseverance Building Toys - STEM Model Kit for Boys &amp; Girls Ages 10+ Years - Gifts for Birthdays - Detailed Set for Display - 42158\">\n<div class=\"aawp-product__thumb\">\n<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aawp-product__image\" src=\"https:\/\/m.media-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51QAPQzx3kL._SL160_.jpg\" alt=\"LEGO Technic NASA Mars Rover Perseverance Building Toys - STEM Model Kit for Boys &amp; Girls, Ages 10+ Years...\"\/><\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"aawp-product__content\">\n<p>            LEGO Technic NASA Mars Rover Perseverance Building Toys &#8211; STEM Model Kit for Boys &amp; Girls, Ages 10+ Years&#8230;        <\/p>\n<div class=\"aawp-product__description\">\n<ul>\n<li>Feed a passion for science and technology \u2013 Kids can learn more about the challenges of space exploration with this LEGO Technic NASA Mars Rover&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>Conduct a test flight \u2013 This advanced building kit for kids ages 10 and up includes a buildable toy version of NASA\u2019s Ingenuity helicopter, which&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>AR brings the mission to life \u2013 The accompanying augmented reality app experience lets kids dive into the details of the rover and its mission<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\nOur brains are conditioned to fill in the blanks when we just have a few pixels to work with. A rounded dark center and a few vertical streaks reveal a jellyfish bobbing above the slope or a three-legged walker. Astrophysicist Joe Farah pointed out that if you crop the image very closely, you\u2019ll notice a near-perfect line of black pixels with no blurring at the margins, similar to the clean edge that results from a built-up charge rather than a reflection off a genuine surface.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.techeblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/29092620\/curiosity-sol-3924-jellyfish-mars-2.jpg\" alt=\"Curiosity Sol 3924 Jellyfish Mars\" width=\"1280\" height=\"853\"\/><br \/>High-energy particles zip in from space all the time and collide with the cameras of Mars rovers. With no magnetic field on the planet and an atmosphere that only provides a fraction of the protection that Earth does, they pass through to the surface with little interference. If one strikes the silicon detector, especially during a calibration frame when the sensor is more \u2018open\u2019, a localized charge is created. The processing pipeline then subtracts the bias measurement from the original shot. That dazzling strike turns into a dark area that is left behind. During readout, the charge spreads a short distance along the detector columns, stretching the dark core into thin descending lines that resemble dangling legs in midair.<\/p>\n<p>That frame had been in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration\u2019s (NASA) raw-image storage for quite some time when Kari Sivertzen put it on X in August 2026. The likeness to a jellyfish or a tripod quickly spread. The simplest approach to determine whether this image is just a piece of space radiation in our thoughts is to compare the frames immediately before and after, and if the shape is present, you know it is what it is.<br \/><span>[Source]<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> Curiosity&#8217;s Sol 3924 Martian Jellyfish That Lasted One Frame<br \/>\n<br \/>#Curiositys #Sol #Martian #Jellyfish #Lasted #Frame<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curiosity\u2019s right navigation camera swept across Gale Crater on August 20, 2023, at 22:27:46 UTC&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8058,3077,2776,13394,911,13393],"class_list":["post-20949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech","tag-curiositys","tag-frame","tag-jellyfish","tag-lasted","tag-martian","tag-sol"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/curiosity-sol-3924-jellyfish-mars.jpg",960,640,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/curiosity-sol-3924-jellyfish-mars-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/curiosity-sol-3924-jellyfish-mars-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/curiosity-sol-3924-jellyfish-mars-768x512.jpg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/curiosity-sol-3924-jellyfish-mars.jpg",640,427,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/curiosity-sol-3924-jellyfish-mars.jpg",960,640,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/curiosity-sol-3924-jellyfish-mars.jpg",960,640,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/curiosity-sol-3924-jellyfish-mars.jpg",960,640,false],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/curiosity-sol-3924-jellyfish-mars-540x340.jpg",540,340,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news678.top\/?cat=8\" rel=\"category\">Tech<\/a>","tag_info":"Tech","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}