It Only Takes a Moment

Published September 8, 2012 Just for Fun 1 Comment
Tags: Space exploration

Mars Curiosity has an inspiring message for you. [Photo credit: NASA/JPL/MSSS/Emily Lakdawalla; Caption credit: moi]

The Mars Curiosity rover has so many cameras on a variety of mounts, it can take photos of itself. While the dust cover was still on the camera known as MAHLI (MArs Hand Lens Instrument, mounted on the robotic arm), the picture clearly shows the mast array on the rover. Emily Lakdawalla of the Planetary Society cleaned up and rotated the image (since MAHLI’s orientation made it take a skewed photo), then invited captioning. How could I resist?

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1 isaah September 12, 2012 at 10:06

“thats where myspace went. its on mars…”

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