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NASA's Curiosity Rover Takes A 'Selfie' To Celebrate Its First Martian Year

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NASA's Curiosity Rover Takes A 'Selfie' To Celebrate Its First Martian Year
  • Profile picture of the author lanfear63
    Shane! Blue sky!
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    • Profile picture of the author tagiscom
      Originally Posted by lanfear63 View Post

      Shane! Blue sky!
      Yep, pretty obvious, but color correcting the image gives a better view!



      No Fluffy bunnies though, sigh!

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        Originally Posted by tagiscom View Post

        Yep, pretty obvious, but color correcting the image gives a better view!



        No Fluffy bunnies though, sigh!

        Shane, Magnify, bottom right, looks like a bit of striped pottery?
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  • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
    OK, I'm confused. You can see the entire rover, no part of the rover extends out of the image, and there's no connection between the rover and camera perspective. So what did it do, toss the camera into the air to take the pic?
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      Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill View Post

      OK, I'm confused. You can see the entire rover, no part of the rover extends out of the image, and there's no connection between the rover and camera perspective. So what did it do, toss the camera into the air to take the pic?
      Thats it, no fluffy bunny, he was taking the pic!

      Perhaps there is a deployable camera.

      Edit: I went back to that original pic and read the bit underneath, its a composite pic, the picture was taken from various ones via the robotic arm camera and edited together. Interesting though as the usual false redness that NASA usually tints it's pics with was missing, more true colors and a blueish sky, and of course the stripey bit of pottery sticking out of the ground lower right, probably one of the rovers pot plants fell off!
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      • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
        Originally Posted by lanfear63 View Post

        Edit: I went back to that original pic and read the bit underneath, its a composite pic, the picture was taken from various ones via the robotic arm camera and edited together. Interesting though as the usual false redness that NASA usually tints it's pics with was missing, more true colors and a blueish sky, and of course the stripey bit of pottery sticking out of the ground lower right, probably one of the rovers pot plants fell off!
        Ah . . . that explains it, but it's also going to feed the conspiracy crowd that we never landed anything on Mars (and perhaps somehow attempt to be used to prove we never went to the moon).
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        • Profile picture of the author tagiscom
          Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill View Post

          Ah . . . that explains it, but it's also going to feed the conspiracy crowd that we never landed anything on Mars (and perhaps somehow attempt to be used to prove we never went to the moon).
          Yep, went to Mars or Australias outback with red dirt, and just used a red filter for the sky and a lot of weed killer?

          Although they seem to be running out!


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      Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill View Post

      OK, I'm confused. You can see the entire rover, no part of the rover extends out of the image, and there's no connection between the rover and camera perspective. So what did it do, toss the camera into the air to take the pic?
      Silly Rabbit. The Rover took the picture. What NASA doesn't want you to know...is that this is a picture of an alien robot that is taking a walk on Mars. The whole planet is populated by intelligent sentient robot assassins.

      And yup, the sky is blue. There is no bluer sky than is in that picture. It isn't grey at all (like the surface) And it's from the reflection of light off of the blue oceans on Mars.

      Finally....we get to the bottom of this.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alex Blades
      Originally Posted by Dennis Gaskill View Post

      OK, I'm confused. You can see the entire rover, no part of the rover extends out of the image, and there's no connection between the rover and camera perspective. So what did it do, toss the camera into the air to take the pic?
      The rover didn't just turn on the jets and lower itself onto Mars, the camera is mounted on the landing craft the rover was mounted on.

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      • Profile picture of the author tagiscom
        Originally Posted by lanfear63 View Post

        Thats it, no fluffy bunny, he was taking the pic!

        Perhaps there is a deployable camera.

        Edit: I went back to that original pic and read the bit underneath, its a composite pic, the picture was taken from various ones via the robotic arm camera and edited together. Interesting though as the usual false redness that NASA usually tints it's pics with was missing, more true colors and a blueish sky, and of course the stripey bit of pottery sticking out of the ground lower right, probably one of the rovers pot plants fell off!
        If you are going by the one l posted, l already color corrected that one!

        But the original one, is showing more blue than usual!

        Seems that NASA, is slowly pushing bluer skys than usual into their images, since the evidence is overwhelming!

        Hopefully they will show liquid water; the housetrained media never will!


        Funny thing about this image is l can't find the original one, l could only find a cropped one, with your clay pottery and part of the sky removed!

        Thankfully l kept the original, and l will post a closeup on my Mars Curiosity thread!

        Thanks for the heads up, could be genuine?


        Seems weird and unnecessary that they would crop the original just above this thing!

        Not a fluffy bunny, but a close second!


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      • Profile picture of the author Richard Van
        Originally Posted by Alex Blades View Post

        The rover didn't just turn on the jets and lower itself onto Mars, the camera is mounted on the landing craft the rover was mounted on.
        Sorry you've confused me, are you saying the landing craft is always there hovering above it? That's a long time to being hovering about.

        lanfear63 said he saw this on the original pic...

        Edit: I went back to that original pic and read the bit underneath, its a composite pic, the picture was taken from various ones via the robotic arm camera and edited together. Interesting though as the usual false redness that NASA usually tints it's pics with was missing, more true colors and a blueish sky, and of course the stripey bit of pottery sticking out of the ground lower right, probably one of the rovers pot plants fell off!
        Sorry, not arguing, just a bit perplexed.
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