evilrob
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C2RL R
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That image is taken with a hazcam (hazard avoidance camera). Its a low res camera used to detect obstacaes the rover needs to stay clear of. It is not the main camera fitted to the rover. We haven't seen those pics yet.
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sand-eel
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the 2012 picture is deliberatly fucked over by someone tbh to make that comparison.
Yes we have got decent mars pictures.
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sand-eel
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Pretty decent quality tbh.
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neil h
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quote:
Originally posted by John
It was also probably a hasselblad, although even a throw away film camera has far higher than 'HD' resolution.
Yup, it was a Hasselblad. The way they actually got the photos is quite interesting if your into that sorta thing (the techniques used I mean).
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C2RL R
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Sandeel, those are from one of the Viking landers not curiosity.
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sand-eel
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Oh right, didn't think this thread was based on the new rover thing.
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Steve
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Mars pics are pretty boring now I don't think we are going to see much better this time either, just send a bloke up there ffs lol I bet there's some one out there willing
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Give earth billions and billions of years and it will look the same
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Neo
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spencer88
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Any oil?
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Ben G
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looks like africa. there will be adverts on the telly soon telling us to donate monies.
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This color full-resolution image showing the heat shield of NASA's Curiosity rover was obtained during descent to the surface of Mars on Aug. 5 PDT (Aug. 6 EDT). The image was obtained by the Mars Descent Imager instrument known as MARDI and shows the 15-foot (4.5-meter) diameter heat shield when it was about 50 feet (16 meters) from the spacecraft.
This image shows the inside surface of the heat shield, with its protective multi-layered insulation. The bright patches are calibration targets for MARDI. Also seen in this image is the Mars Science Laboratory Entry, Descent, and Landing Instrument (MEDLI) hardware attached to the inside surface.
At this range, the image has a spatial scale of 0.4 inches (1 cm) per pixel. It is the 36th MARDI image, obtained about three seconds after heat shield separation and about two and one-half minutes before touchdown. The original image from MARDI has been geometrically corrected to look flat. The thumbnail version of this image is available here .
Curiosity landed inside of a crater known as Gale Crater.
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