Curiosity Beams 1st Color Image from Mars

(Before It's News)

Image caption: This murky view from Curiosity shows the martian landscape looking north to the rim from inside the Gale Crater landing site and is her first color image beamed back to Earth. It’s murky because the dust cover is still attached. See full MAHLI image below. Also see below full res Hazcam image of crater rim. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has beamed back her first color view since touchdown, showing a view of the alien landscape pointing northward towards the eroded rim of Gale crater.

The picture was snapped by the rovers Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera on the afternoon of the first day after the pinpoint landing – signified as Sol 1 on Aug. 6, 2012.(…)
Read the rest of Curiosity Beams 1st Color Image from Mars (421 words)

© Ken Kremer for Universe Today, 2012. | Permalink | 4 comments |
Post tags: Curiosity Rover, Gale crater, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Mars, Mars Rovers, Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), NASA, Search for Life

Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh

• Sir Bernard Lovell, 1913 to 2012
• Mystery of the “Monster Stars” Cracked
• The Annual Perseid Meteor Shower is Coming Up
• Helping Exploration to Uwingu
• Curiosity’s First Color Images of the Martian Landscape
• Solar Storm Could Disable Power Grids, Communications
• Curiosity’s Dramatic MARDI Descent Movie
• Huge Solar Filament Stretches Across the Sun
• Curiosity Lands!
• Rock Drilling Videos – A Glimpse of Laser-Diggers to Come