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Mount Sharp on Mars: 1st 2-D and 3-D Views of Curiosity’s Ultimate Mountian Goal
Image Caption: Clear View on Mars – This image comparison shows a view through a Hazard-Avoidance camera on NASA’s Curiosity rover before and after the clear dust cover was removed. Both images were taken by a camera at the front of the rover. Mount Sharp, the mission’s ultimate destination, looms ahead. See the first 3 D and 2 D full res images with no dust cover, below. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Curiosity, NASA’s new car sized rover on Mars has sent back her first breathtaking views of Mount Sharp, the huge nearby mountain that enticed scientists to set Gale Crater as her touchdown goal.
And already within the first 2 Sols, or martian days, the rover has beamed back magnificent 2D and 3 D vistas of the landscape surrounding her.(…)
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© Ken Kremer for Universe Today, 2012. | Permalink | 4 comments |
Post tags: 3 D, Gale crater, Mars, Mars 3 D, Mars Rovers, Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), Mount Sharp, MSL, NASA
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2012-08-08 10:32:24
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