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Curiosity's Latest High-Res Photo Looks Like Earth

Posted by timothy on from the ocean-front-property dept.

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.

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  1. impossibly obscure, personal cultural refences by circletimessquare · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "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

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  2. third parties? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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?

  3. White-balanced by neoshroom · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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.

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