[djf]

Wiki says the two rovers sent back over 250,000 images.

And AFAIK there are tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of hi-res images taken from the various orbiters. And many of those, I suspect, have never really been studied in any detail.

People will call me a fruit-loop, but I think the goal of this mission is to announce they found life.

Because I’m pretty convinced by the history of things that they ALREADY found it and have been trying to figure out a way to tell us.

Cripes, there’s probably 50 species of lichens on Earth that would do perfectly well up there.

[dragnet2]

People will call me a fruit-loop, but I think the goal of this mission is to announce they found life. Because I’m pretty convinced by the history of things that they ALREADY found it and have been trying to figure out a way to tell us.

We'll see.

One of my favorite shots of Curiosity.

Mars Rover Curiosity, Front View

This photograph of the NASA Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, was taken during mobility testing on June 3, 2011. The location is inside the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.

[dragnet2]

BTW most of you are already aware, but for those who aren’t, the tread pattern on the wheels seen in #52, spell out, “JPL” in Morse code, which will be left as tracks on the Martian surface.

Crossing fingers.