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The First Billion-Pixel Mosaic of Mars
StartsWithABang writes In 2012, Mars Science Laboratory performed the first robotically-controlled soft landing of a vehicle of such incredible mass: nearly half a tonne. A few months later, the rover, Curiosity, took the first ever billion-pixel mosaic from the Red Planet's surface, with breathtaking views of the terrain and alternate views of what the soils would look like were they here on Earth. Now in its third year on Mars, Curiosity is roving the low slopes of its ultimate destination: Mount Sharp.
My head is stuck sideways now.
She just keeps going and going and going....
And yes we name our vehicles after women......
I want to punch whoever designed that page. You know you can scroll horizontally too in a web browser...
She just keeps going and going...
And yes we name our vehicles after women since we started the practice....
If you scroll very fast through the photos it feels as if you have been taped to the side of a car speeding on the highway.
She just keeps going and going and going......
And yes we name our vehicles after women since we started the practice.....
She just keeps going and going and going.....
and yes, she is a she, we've named our vehicles after women since we started the practice.....
Right there, do you see it? That small pixelated unrecognizable area next to that rock. Must be aliens.
Protip: If you zoom in on the pixelated area the evidence that it is aliens become clearer. The more you zoom the clearer it becomes.
High resolution pictures make me see sand. This one will enable me to see sand on mars even sandier!
So .. .I guess we have sharp pictures of Mt Sharp.
That is all
and I've already found 3 signs of alien intelligence and a rare Martian Sasquatch footprint.
Sig. Sig. Sputnik
Pretty pictures, but what we really want to know is: did life ever exist on Mars? Humans will never be able to live on Mars for long periods of time due to the environment, but it would be good to know if life did exist there at some point. JPL/NASA needs to provide this information soon, or the public will lose interest totally.
Buzz Aldrin's description of the Moon, "magnificent desolation", applies to Mars as well.
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If you had a dollar for each pixel, you still couldn't even send a cat to Mars.
Nasa should play KSP, I've landed a couple hundred tons on Duna.
What a cool name. Wish I lived there.
Curiosity is actually 899kg... a lot more than "nearly half a tonne"
And technically the viking landers performed a soft landing as well and were not that light; about 600kg each.
Technology, the cause of and solution to all of life's problems.
So it can C Sharp?
Hey look - someone figured out some actual display methods! http://mars.nasa.gov/multimedi...
Is this really the end? Again?
I can clearly see the Happy Valley i-17 exit in picture 2. Nice try guys, the moon landing crew was much better at doctoring photos.
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