Posts tagged with ‘curiosity’

Curiosity makes a giant dick and balls on the surface of Mars. NASA you so crazy.

White-balanced photo of Mount Sharp on Mars looks like it could have come out of the American southwest

This mosaic of images from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity shows Mount Sharp in a white-balanced color adjustment that makes the sky look overly blue but shows the terrain as if under Earth-like lighting. White-balancing helps scientists recognize rock materials based on their experience looking at rocks on Earth. The Martian sky would look more of a butterscotch color to the human eye. White balancing yields an overly blue hue in images that have very little blue information, such as Martian landscapes, because the white balancing tends to overcompensate for the low inherent blue content.

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NASA’s Curiosity rover uses its brush to wipe a section of the Martian surface clean of dust

In order to try and get a certain amount of Martian soil samples as dust free as possible, Curiosity is equipped with a wire brush that scrubs red dust from rocks to get a better look at what’s underneath. A couple days ago, Curiosity tried its brush for the first time on a section of flat rock, and this is what that rock looks like under the red Martian soil.

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Spotted this while playing Peter Molyneux’s ‘Curiosity’ earlier today.

Earlier: More Curiosity boobies carved out of the cube

This would have to be the best thing I’ve seen in Curiosity, so far. What about everyone else?

SERIOUSLY I HAVE TO KNOW

Got Peter Molyneux’s new “What’s in the cube?” social experiment/game thing, ‘Curiosity’ on iOS yesterday and this is the only screen I’ve seen so far.

Curiosity takes an awesome self-portrait

Using its turret arm and reflective surfaces, the Curiosity rover can take pictures of itself as it’s roving. This picture, released yesterday by NASA is actually made up of 55 different images.

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