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Curiosity's Latest High-Res Photo Looks Like Earth
New submitter bbianca127 writes "Curiosity sent a picture down to us, and it looks a lot like Earth. Actually, the picture's color quality has been changed — to human eyes, the landscape would look a lot more reddish. Still, it looks remarkably like the southwestern United States (bringing to mind the Arrested Development quote about how Lucille Bluth would rather be dead in California than alive in Arizona)." Definitely a different sense of the place than the one given by the reddish-brown posters I remember from elementary school.
"bringing to mind the Arrested Development quote about how Lucille Bluth would rather be dead in California than alive in Arizona"
no, actually, sorry, not at all
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Why is it that people keep redirecting me to a third party site to see the rover images, in stead of linking to the Nasa source?
That's because that photo is the white-balanced version! A white-balanced photo is what the scene in Mars would look like if you literally took the scene, cut out that whole area of ground, transported it to Earth and viewed it under the Earth's sky.
Big apple, new Yorik, undig it, something's unrotting in Edenmark.
While there may be a few color differences, one iron and silicate planet is likely to look much like another when there is no vegetation covering.
Official Heretic from the "Church of Global Warming". Proven right thanks to whistle blowers. AGW = Flat Earth Theory
...you mean, like every camera? Ever?
Yes. But Nevada does have the occasional plant and animal life even once you get out of the city. It's not totally barren.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.