The four main pieces of hardware that arrived on Mars with NASA's Curiosity rover were spotted by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). Credit: NASA
way too cool!
too bad the poofter-in-chief cut NASA funding and made them into a muslim-outreach program
How long did it take to get there? 8 years?
When does it start sending the
Baraq-Biden 2012 campaign broadcasts?
What they really mean is "... which scientists think hold proof of Global Warming."
Thanks for posting! Living proof we’re still a great country.
Seeing the pics makes me imagine what it would be like to be there.
The isolation would be incredible, even if you went as part of a team - an entire planet devoid of life, at least as we know it.
I’d go just to get away from the telemarketers.
I wonder what the reference point is (for 0 ft elevation) for Martian elevations. Mt. Whitney is 14,500 ft above sea level, but is only about half that above the surrounding plain.
If Mt. Sharp is 3.4 miles above the surrounding plain, then that is a really tall mountain.
The four main pieces of hardware that arrived on Mars with NASA's Curiosity rover were spotted by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). Credit: NASA
Dunes? The spice must flow!
McKayla is not impressed.
Thanks for the effort you put in to give us these great pictures in one setting.
I applaud!
This scene combines images taken by the left-eye camera of the Mast Camera (Mastcam) instrument on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover during the midafternoon, local Mars solar time, of the mission's 526th Martian day, or sol (Jan. 28, 2014). The sand dune in the upper center of the image spans a gap, called "Dingo Gap," between two short scarps. The dune is about 3 feet (1 meter) high. The nearer edge of it is about 115 feet (35 meters) away from the rover's position when the component images were taken, just after a Sol 526 drive of 49 feet (15 meters). The image has been white-balanced to show what the rocks would look like if they were on Earth. A version with 200-centimeter (79-inch) scale bars is available as Figure A. A version with raw color, as recorded by the camera under Martian lighting conditions, is available as Figure B.
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the Mars Science Laboratory mission and the mission's Curiosity rover for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The rover was designed, developed and assembled at JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, built and operates Mastcam.