No love for the new Mars Rover?

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dope, I guess that's Mt Sharp
yep

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Hazcam image showing Mt. Sharp, which rises 3.4 miles high from the floor of Gale Crater. The Rover team plans to drive the probe to the mountain’s lower layers to sample and study soil and minerals. In the foreground are the rover’s shadow and two of its wheels. The dark bands in the near distance are dunes. Click for bigger version. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
 

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Why doesn't curiosity take color photos yet? I hear the instruments have to get ready? this is crazy

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it looks so 'normal' there. it's interesting to think how deadly it really is
 

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Why doesn't curiosity take color photos yet? I hear the instruments have to get ready? this is crazy

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Curiosity's First Color Image of the Martian Landscape

This view of the landscape to the north of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity was acquired by the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) on the afternoon of the first day after landing. (The team calls this day Sol 1, which is the first Martian day of operations; Sol 1 began on Aug. 6, 2012.)

In the distance, the image shows the north wall and rim of Gale Crater. The image is murky because the MAHLI's removable dust cover is apparently coated with dust blown onto the camera during the rover's terminal descent. Images taken without the dust cover in place are expected during checkout of the robotic arm in coming weeks.

The MAHLI is located on the turret at the end of Curiosity's robotic arm. At the time the MAHLI Sol 1 image was acquired, the robotic arm was in its stowed position. It has been stowed since the rover was packaged for its Nov. 26, 2011, launch.

The MAHLI has a transparent dust cover. This image was acquired with the dust cover closed. The cover will not be opened until more than a week after the landing.

When the robotic arm, turret, and MAHLI are stowed, the MAHLI is in a position that is rotated 30 degrees relative to the rover deck. The MAHLI image shown here has been rotated to correct for that tilt, so that the sky is "up" and the ground is "down".

When the robotic arm, turret, and MAHLI are stowed, the MAHLI is looking out from the front left side of the rover. This is much like the view from the driver's side of cars sold in the USA.

The main purpose of Curiosity's MAHLI camera is to acquire close-up, high-resolution views of rocks and soil at the rover's Gale Crater field site. The camera is capable of focusing on any target at distances of about 0.8 inch (2.1 centimeters) to infinity. This means it can, as shown here, also obtain pictures of the Martian landscape.

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems
 

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then they're fuct. that's why they'll be proceeding very cautiously

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It's still amazin to me how far dat fukkin remote signal reaches doe. :whoo:

But i wonder how far dat shyt REALLY reaches because are they plannin on just travelin within a calculated circumference or explorin as far as dey can? I'm prolly guessin dey've got a certain amount of terrain dat dey would be able to explore without losin da signal but goddam dat would suck if somethin like it gettin stuck or losin da signal happened. :huhldup:
 
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