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Mars as never seen before: NASA's Curiosity rover reveals a stunning panorama
Daily Mail ^
| 2 February 2018
| Joe Pinkstone and Tim Collins
Posted on 02/02/2018 6:37:00 AM PST by mairdie
An incredible panoramic view sent from the surface of the red planet has been created using images taken by the Mars Curiosity rover.
It reveals the landscape of one of our closest galactic neighbours, which has been home to the exploratory vehicle since it landed in Gale Crater in 2012.
One of the on-board cameras captured 16 separate scenic images that show various points on its journey, as seen from the top of the Vera Rubin Ridge, which were then stitched together to form the sweeping image.
Thanks to some clever visual effects that give the scene a blue hue, rather than the distinctive rusty red normally associated with Mars, the vista takes on a strangely familiar appearance to earthling eyes
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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Astronomy; Science
KEYWORDS: astronomy; bluemoon; elonmusk; mars; science; spaceexploration; universe
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To: butlerweave
Come on. You’re stuck on Mars with months before a ship is going to come to get you off. Wouldn’t YOU see a Burger King?
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02/02/2018 7:58:39 AM PST
by
mairdie
To: mairdie
Sky looks blue.
That’s freaky.
To: Professional
“Fascinating times we live in. Every month or so, we have some sort of astrological phenomena that hasnt happened in decades, hundreds of years. What a privelege to live in these times!!/s”
And every one of them guarantees overcast skies in Illinois.
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02/02/2018 11:28:16 AM PST
by
CrazyIvan
(A gentleman arms himself for the protection of others.)
To: mairdie
A Mars Rover's Lament
All day I faced the Martian waste without the taste of water;
cool water.
At JPL the jerks at work sip Evian: I die for water;
cool clear water.
The nights are cold and I've been told each star's
a pool of water;
cool water.
But with the dawn I'll switch back on
and MastCamBate for water;
cool water.
Load an infra-scan; exploration is the plan;
you're a robot not a man and the broken rocks can stand for water; cool clear water.
MRO, can't you see that big green tree
where water's runnin' free and it's waiting there for
Error. Stack overflow.
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02/02/2018 2:15:14 PM PST
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sparklite2
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To: sparklite2
Gawd, but you’re wonderful!
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02/02/2018 2:22:56 PM PST
by
mairdie
To: mairdie
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02/02/2018 2:29:29 PM PST
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sparklite2
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