A view from Mars

A new game we can all play

Where's Marvin?

you can scroll to zoom also. There appears to be some sort of oil spill underneath what I would call the passengers side middle tire. Maybe we will get a stern letter from the Martian Department of Environmental Affairs.

It looks like the forlorn sepia planet and not the threatening red planet of E.R. Burroughs of my childhood reading.
The sun looks forsaken also.

Everyone knows that the ET's live on the two moons of Mars. 😉

Awesome!

The resolution of the photos is very impressive.

That is just too cool!!!! Nice find Daryl!!

Great post Daryl, thanks.

Just thinking of the technology that went into that thing gives me a headache!

Have a great week! B-)

Naw.. You're all wrong. JPL has everybody fooled. It's actually Death Valley.....

I need help with this

It appears that we can see the entire top surface of the rover, side to side, and front to rear.
Where is the camera?

Please keep in mind that there are no stupid questions, right?
Thanks,

Don

I need help with this

It's a compilation of many photos...a camera can't take a picture of itself (unless Marvin holds up a mirror).

Although you CAN SEE the camera's shadow...

🙂
Loyal

I need help with this

I've just looked at some conventional photos of Curiosity and I can see were the camera is SUPPOSED to be.
What's interesting is that you can see its base, but it doesn't appear that anything is missing.

BTW, that is definitely Death Valley. Anyone who's been there would recognize it.

Don

Assuming the camera mount is on the right front, I see a joystick on the right rear for the backhoe, Who operates it?. 😉

I think Daryl just linked another of his famous photo-craft from his last Burning Man sojourn. 🙂

Nice pics, but at what cost?

I love this stuff too, I really do. These are great pics from Mars, no doubt about it. But I always wonder about the trade-offs involved. We are shutting down schools and under-funding education in the USA, ignoring infrastructure improvements (bridges and highways are a notable example) Allocating money to take pictures of martian surfaces and funding foreign wars which we have no hope of winning, while neglecting to educate, feed, shelter and provide affordable health care to our own population. I'm neither right nor left in these discussions, but still I wonder how we can continue in this manner.

Well, at least we have some cool pics from Mars. We got that going for us.

Nice pics, but at what cost?

I wonder what naysayers said about Columbus and his crazy idea and the expense?

We've done it now...

all the billions of dollars spent and what do we do first?.... Shoot sumpthin'.

Martian Rock blasted with laser

Travel millions of miles just to plink beer cans.

Tongue-in-cheek, of course. I think it's fascinating. :good:

Nice pics, but at what cost?

At least the investments are being made mostly here: in US research, engineering, science, and technology for peaceful purposes. There could be a lot worse ways to spend that are the opposite of inspiring. There are likely to be payoffs we can't even imagine right now.

Nice pics, but at what cost?

Absolutely right. It is man's nature to keep on exploring.

Nice pics, but at what cost?

> are (we) shutting down schools and under-funding education in the USA, ignoring infrastructure improvements (bridges and highways are a notable example) Allocating money to take pictures of martian surfaces and funding foreign wars which we have no hope of winning, while neglecting to educate, feed, shelter and provide affordable health care to our own population. I'm neither right nor left in these discussions, but still I wonder how we can continue in this manner.
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None of that stuff would be getting done, even we didn't go to Mars.:-(