Posted on 03/06/2020 1:15:43 PM PST by Red Badger
Curiosity Mars Rover Snaps 1.8 Billion Pixel Panorama
This panorama showcases Glen Torridon a region on the side of Mount Sharp that Curiosity is exploring.
The panorama was taken between Nov. 24 and Dec. 1, 2019, when the Curiosity team was out for the Thanksgiving holiday. Since it would be sitting still with few other tasks to do while it waited for the team to return, the rover had a rare chance to image its surroundings several days in a row without moving.
For more about the mission, visit
https://mars.nasa.gov/msl
Turtles swim.... the ones that don’t are tortoises. The giant vacuum-paddling alligator snapping turtle doesn’t need to stand on anyone else’s carapace.
Mayor Pete is more interested in pictures of Uranus.
7 years and still going. And not a single oil change! Amazing.
“The RTG suffers from the degradation of plutonium dioxide, but that lasts a long time,” Theisinger said.
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It keeps glowing, and glowing, and glowing!
“while it waited for the team to return”
Sounds like there’s more going on there than they’re telling us about...
It’s more panning over still photos than a video proper. Pretty cool, though. Sky looks kind of blue?
Don't forget the other interplanetary tourist attraction: dirt.
See Martian rocks and dirt! Book your flight today!
*ping*
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More rocks, more rocks all around the clock tonight.
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