Posted on 02/02/2016 6:40:29 PM PST by Sir Gawain
Here's the NASA link. Wut?
http://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/pia20316/curiosity-self-portrait-at-mIartian-sand-dune
It's a composite of 57 images taken January 19th using the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) at the end of the rover's robotic arm. They edited out any parts of the arm which intruded.
Thanks! Cool. In your previous photo, if I was an alien on Mars I’d be pretty spooked having that robot “head” peer into my window! So amazing how it is still working way past it’s anticipated lifetime.
It was not immediately obvious but I figured it out; what you said and the track. Not like a scale legend that gives you instant details.
In this 360 video see if you can spot the boom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU-pZSsYhDk
Just take your mouse, place it on the video, and left-click drag it around.
It looks like a “set screw” to me. I have those things on some of my photo equipment. And my back door. Little pain in the ass things.
Now, how did they get that picture?
Looks like a picture I took in my alley of some dirt after a huge rain.
Yes - at first I was imagining this mountain ridge with sand dunes and this odd gully and a land slide! It was an amazing and beautiful photo when I saw it as that - nice lighting, etc.
“Oh - it’s a tire rut.”
to me it is obviously ancient rice terraces like those at Baguio
Colony. That just sounds creepy...aliens? Must be.
Mars Curiosity Takes Selfie To Mark 1 Martian Year Anniversary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqBVw-6D6X8
NASA’s Curiosity rover send super cool selfies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kwAAavlsxew
“The camera mount is able to rotate on several axes. So it is not a single picture. It is a mosaic of many images taken at different angles. So when NASA stitches the images together, they can edit out the robotic arm. There is a good video on the NASA site that explains the process.”
NASA Reveals Mars Curiosity Rover’s Third Selfie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyf6HEiftyc
NASA’s Curiosity Rover Clicks A Selfie On Mars
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5bEUwnyXn0
SCREW found on MARS ? Ancient Alien DIY Tools ? ArtAlienTV - 1080p60
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzGQbsPf0bk
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