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While on the hunt for signs of ancient microbial life on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity rover captured a mysterious field of white sulfur stones in a series of striking new images.. Curosity - which ...
English: This is one of the first images taken by NASA's Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars the evening of Aug. 5 PDT (morning of Aug. 6 EDT). It was taken through a "fisheye" wide-angle lens on the left "eye" of a stereo pair of Hazard-Avoidance cameras on the left-rear side of the rover. The image is one-half of full resolution.
Curiosity captured this close-up image of a rock nicknamed “Snow Lake” on June 8. It's similar in appearance to the rock crushed by the rover that contained elemental sulfur. - NASA/JPL ...
Curiosity is a car-sized Mars rover exploring Gale crater and Mount Sharp on Mars as part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission. [2] Curiosity was launched from Cape Canaveral (CCAFS) on November 26, 2011, at 15:02:00 UTC and landed on Aeolis Palus inside Gale crater on Mars on August 6, 2012, 05:17:57 UTC.
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover may have taken a little break earlier this summer, but the craft has been back at work and beamed some excellent images back to Earth late last week. Curiosity has been ...
NASA says, "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.
NASA's Curiosity rover has just sent us what may arguably be the best images of the Red Planet to date.
File: PIA16239 High-Resolution Self-Portrait by Curiosity Rover Arm Camera.jpg