Did Curiosity Photograph A Possible Life Form In First Images?

[zorgon]

color cameras are supposed to be online   will see what happens by Monday

[kdog]

Has anyone seen this yet?
I looks like a blacked out area of the rovers self portrait.


08.08.2012
Rover's Self Portrait
This Picasso-like self portrait of NASA's Curiosity rover was taken by its Navigation cameras, located on the now-upright mast. The camera snapped pictures 360-degrees around the rover, while pointing down at the rover deck, up and straight ahead. Those images are shown here in a polar projection. Most of the tiles are thumbnails, or small copies of the full-resolution images that have not been sent back to Earth yet. Two of the tiles are full-resolution.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/images/?ImageID=4346

[zorgon]

Wow a narcissistic Robot  Go figure...

Boy I hope they get that other camera going soon

[kdog]

Yeah,it appears they are missing a frame or two in that pic.

I was wondering why some of the pics were so blurry,
Couldn't they just have attached an Iphone to it with a robotic thumb to operate it.

[rdunk]

Yes, I think we should take the initiative, and corner the market on Mars Cell Phone Business. WE need to have a plan in place soon to start building cell towers,  ASAP!

That is, unless there is already a better existing service of that type, on the planet!

Nothing like being the firstest with the mostest!!

[kdog]

Quick,someone call Richard Branson to get in on the coverage of cellphones from here to Mars!
Could you imagine the customer service for that plan?

[COSMO]

Here's a nice panoramic one!



http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA16029.jpg

http://news.discovery.com/space/wide-angle-mars-rover-curiosity-landing-120731.html

[rdunk]

Looks like this thread is going to the dogs! (avatars)    

[ArMaP]

Here's a nice panoramic one!

And here is a high resolution, 50MB version of that panorama.

[zorgon]

Of all the places NASA could have picked on Mars to land, they had to pick the most BORING possible crater. Its only freaking GRAVEL  not even a decent rock to look at... 

Well maybe ONE



And its dusty again... but at least not so red anymore.

One really has to wonder how come all those orbiters get such clear day pictures

Call me when that expensive hunk of scrap metal trips over a PEBBLE worth looking at 

[ArMaP]

One really has to wonder how come all those orbiters get such clear day pictures

That's because they have they are above the surface like the Sun, and not looking up to sky. The same thing happens on Earth, the clouds in satellite photos look less solid than when seen from the ground.

Call me when that expensive hunk of scrap metal trips over a PEBBLE worth looking at 

Did you see that areas where the rockets from the sky crane moved the upper layer of the ground?
(click for full size)

The above photo was "white-balanced".

[mikeybandb]

I am having problems getting to that link, can you post a nice blowup of that area n question.
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Thanks, Deuem

[mikeybandb]

It looks like the zoomed-in section doesn't match the original photo.

The colors have been invertred

[mikeybandb]

Well, now that I have done a little more looking, yep, those could be mountains. When we look at Gale Crater, and then look at the planned landing site, we can see that Curiosity probably has shot a pic of the mountainous looking rim.

I will post a screenshot of the crater, that has a drawn ellipse that shows the area where landing was planned. With that in mind, you can see some pretty rough hilly/mountainous looking stuff in the area.

For reference, the mountain inside Gale Crater, is named Mt. Sharp, and it rises 3.4 miles above the crater floor. That should give us a better feel for the height of the smaller "hills" surrounding the crater rim.

One other thing - in looking at this crater, just to the left of the mountain peak - there is an area with a little different look (if you magnify it a little more), that from a distance could be mistaken for buildings, and city! Now, JUST SAY'IN!!

I do think we need to be watchful for finding the real reason NASA has chosen this area for a Rover mission!!! 

Now that you mention mountains, I also noticed this... what I think looks like a possible pyramid

[hoss58]

Of all the places NASA could have picked on Mars to land, they had to pick the most BORING possible crater. Its only freaking GRAVEL  not even a decent rock to look at... 

Well maybe ONE



And its dusty again... but at least not so red anymore.

One really has to wonder how come all those orbiters get such clear day pictures

Call me when that expensive hunk of scrap metal trips over a PEBBLE worth looking at 

I couldn't agree more Zorgon, hey where the heck is John? , have you talked to him lately , I can't find a post here or anywhere else either ?