Mars Curiosity - Latest Images

NASA/JPL ^ | 8/7/2012 | http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/PIA15986.html

[Mr. K]

way too cool!

too bad the poofter-in-chief cut NASA funding and made them into a muslim-outreach program

[skinndogNN]

How long did it take to get there? 8 years?

[nascarnation]

When does it start sending the

Baraq-Biden 2012 campaign broadcasts?

[DuncanWaring]

...which scientists think hold clues to past environmental change.

What they really mean is "... which scientists think hold proof of Global Warming."

[miss marmelstein]

Thanks for posting! Living proof we’re still a great country.

[Moonman62]

How long did it take to get there? 8 years?

Launched November, 2011.

[chrisser]

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.

[SMARTY]

You didn’t build that!

[shotgun]

All that way and they only brought a black and white camera!

Obligatory conspiracy theory rant: Must have been due to the Obama NASA budget cuts!!!! This should be national outrage!!!

[kidd]

Mount Sharp at a height of about 3.4 miles, taller than Mt. Whitney in California

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.

[miss marmelstein]

Given my Geometry and Algebra grades, I surely didn’t!!

[Moonman62]

The initial images are low quality so they can be sent quickly.

[COBOL2Java]

All that way and they only brought a black and white camera!

Due to budget cuts Curiosity is equipped with less than optimal photographic equipment:

[Unmarked Package]

Below is a fascinating new image unveiled at the 9:00 AM PDT briefing at JPL today (Aug 7, 2012).

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

[rockrr]

Litterbugs ;-)

[Noumenon]

Dunes? The spice must flow!

[Buckeye McFrog]

The initial images are low quality so they can be sent quickly.

see: "Internet Porn in 1997"

[Sax]

[dragnet2]

Thanks for that. The parachute seems to give away which way the wind was blowing.