Monday, August 6, 2012

NASA's New Mars Rover Sends Higher-Resolution Image

Curiosity later sent back the first high resolution picture of its landing site, showing one of its wheels on the martian surface. Colour images are expected later this week.
Curiosity later sent back the first high resolution picture of its landing site, showing one of its wheels on the martian surface. Color images are expected later this week. Credit: JPL/NASA  on DailyMail

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Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
About two hours after landing on Mars and beaming back its first image, NASA's Curiosity rover transmitted a higher-resolution image of its new Martian home, Gale Crate...

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Updated: MRO captured MSL (Curiosity) parachuting on Mars:
Photo: Eye in the Sky: MRO's HiRISE camera caught this shot of me & my parachute during landing at Mars #MSL
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