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US Flying Saucer Spotted Over Mars
This is no science-fiction movie or UFO hoax: It’s a real picture of the heat shield falling away from NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover, snapped by a camera on the rover’s underside just a couple of minutes before Sunday night’s landing. We’ve already seen a low-resolution movie clip of Curiosity’s descent, as recorded by the Mars Descent Imager (a.k.a. MARDI). This is the first high-resolution MARDI imagery to be sent down.
Eventually, hundreds of frames will be transmitted to Earth and combined to create a high-res movie showing the rover’s-eye view of Curiosity’s touchdown on the Red Planet. “This is the good stuff,” said Mike Malin, who heads up the MARDI team.The imagery has already been compared with pictures taken by satellites orbiting Mars to figure out exactly where Curiosity ended up. Still more of Curiosity’s high-resolution cameras are due to get up and running in the days ahead. READ MORE ABOUT US FLYING SAUCER
This picture, showing a field of dark dunes running across the red Martian soil inside Gale Crater, is just part of one full-resolution frame: For another version of the wide-angle view, sweetened with a little extra image processing, check out Emily Lakdawalla’s post on the Planetary Society blog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2I8AoB1xgU
1:19 secs into this video, there is a drawing of the shield. If the rest of the drawing is accurate, so is the drawing of the shield. Then go back and compare the photo in this story.
Non Terrestrial Officers maybe. Heat shield, not so much!
NO UFO HERE. Just an attention getting headline. Everyone knows its the heat shield during the landing of Curiosity.
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