'Curiosity' - NASA Mars Rover - Due to land 5th Aug 2012

[The Black Flash]

It is a peculiar surface, that. Looks like wet building sand.

[FurtiveFreddy]

This time, it's a piece of Mars (so they say...)



"This image was taken by the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera on Curiosity's arm during the 69th Martian day, or sol, of the mission (Oct. 15, 2012), about a week after the scoop dug this hole. The view here covers an area of ground about 1.6 inches (4 centimeters) across."

[Eric Mc]

Mars doesn't seem to have any litter wardens

[Blackpuddin]

Tooth of a marstodon.

Edited by Blackpuddin on Friday 19th October 13:03

[Blackpuddin]

Are these images still 'colour-enhanced', as Mars pics used to be, or are they now natural?

[Caruso]

NASA have released a great self portrait of the rover made by stitching together pics from the hand lens imager.



Bound to get the conspiracy theorists going i.e. how could it take a picture of all of itself?

[ZOLLAR]

Caruso said:

NASA have released a great self portrait of the rover made by stitching together pics from the hand lens imager.



Bound to get the conspiracy theorists going i.e. how could it take a picture of all of itself?

Those look like footprints on the left!!!1

[marksx]

Caruso said:

Bound to get the conspiracy theorists going i.e. how could it take a picture of all of itself?

How do they do it?

/Stupid!

[jmorgan]

Caruso said:

Bound to get the conspiracy theorists going i.e. how could it take a picture of all of itself?

Not exactly hard to do that. But then they are all PS experts so should know....

[PD9]

Nothing here to see. Lets move along to Titan.

[Oakey]

Apparently they've found something but aren't saying yet until the tests confirm whatever 'it' is.

http://www.npr.org/2012/11/20/165513016/big-news-f...

[funkyrobot]

Can't wait to hear about this now.

[Caruso]

Organics in the soil is my prediction.

[mrmr96]

Caruso said:

Organics in the soil is my prediction.

Lets hope it's real and not contamination from earth: http://www.curiositywatch.com/curiosity-may-contam...

[Gun]

Exciting stuff, can't wait to see what they've found!

[jmorgan]

Haven't they done this before? Only to be something not quit so exciting?

[RealSquirrels]

Caruso said:

Organics in the soil is my prediction.

that's what i was thinking too.

[FurtiveFreddy]

I can't think of anything "earthshaking" other than:

1. water
2. life (or very strong evidence of)

The rover has been moving around a lot recently. You'd have thought if they had found something really important that it would be staying in that location to look for more of the same?

Unless it isn't something in/on the ground. Something air-borne? Some sort of radiation? A Martian Midge?

Interesting times...

[RealSquirrels]

they detected whatever they detected with their SAM instrument (Sample analysis at mars) which is mainly built for analysing the content of soil samples.

we already know there is plenty of water on mars, even close to the surface.

[FurtiveFreddy]

RealSquirrels said:

they detected whatever they detected with their SAM instrument (Sample analysis at mars) which is mainly built for analysing the content of soil samples.

we already know there is plenty of water on mars, even close to the surface.

Yes, but they haven't found a puddle yet, have they?