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Curiosity Rover

@MarsCuriosity

NASA's latest mission to Mars. I arrived at the Red Planet, Aug. 5, 2012 PDT (Aug. 6 UTC).

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Me & My Shadow... & Mount Sharp. My view of the 3-mile-high mountain in the middle of Mars' Gale crater #MSL

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286 days ago

Me & My Shadow... & Mount Sharp. My view of the 3-mile-high mountain in the middle of Mars' Gale crater #MSL

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zackharbock 281 days ago

NASA is amazing!

Jannercide 283 days ago

Loving this shot #niceplaceforawalk

jorramirez74 285 days ago

A great view!

RoyalTeeZone 286 days ago

I got inspired by you to build my robot. check it out. youtube.com/user/royalteezone 'CURIOSITY'

RoyalTeeZone 286 days ago

This is such a great pic. Thank you CURIOSITY for sharing your mars life w/us We're there with u.

trsj1975 286 days ago

Great pic!!

acmanz 286 days ago

Good photo, bro!

AlessandroNisi1 286 days ago

That's really amazing, I wanna go to Mars!!

obscuremind 286 days ago

But it can only be a matter of megabytes of data and transmission. ;-)

obscuremind 286 days ago

I guess we'll wait for China to go to check the true color of Mars..(continues)

KellicTiger 286 days ago

Thank you for finally putting a moderately high res camera on board. I know weight\reliability.

Iekenen 286 days ago

There are 17 cams.Primary cam.system MastCam'll be online within the next few days or weeks.

Iekenen 286 days ago

Pics from hazard avoid.&;navig.cameras meant for machine vision to support autonomous navi-systems

luchotaq 286 days ago

por que las fotos son en blanco y negro habiendo tanta tecnologia actualmente??? Donde estan los colores? No logro entender

Hexcaliber 286 days ago

been altered as the camera uses a fish eye lens, causing the dust to streak in the image

Hexcaliber 286 days ago

WabbyTwax, what you are seeing is out of focus dust on the camera lens, the image has also..

WabbyTwax 286 days ago

Can somebody explain what it is that looks like any ice covered area between the rover and the mountain? Is this just dust blowing?

Gabrielroom 286 days ago

Great pic

zonabooking 286 days ago

We are all lucky to be alive to see this