Ah, I see. Very interesting stuff.

Wholly shit, they can shoot an great old fashion western there!

Heh. I guess there's already something of a mystery at hand. Curiosity took this picture right after landing, apparently:

http://l2.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/49...okout/mars.jpg

That smudge right at the horizon isn't in another picture taken two hours later. The geeks are speculating that Curiosity amazingly might have taken that picture right when the sky crane smacked into the surface of Mars (as it was designed to do).

That's way cool. However, it does show embarrassing evidence that the rover is doing doughnuts instead of working.

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/84656044@N03/7752297984/" title="mckayla_curiosity by robsona, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7124/7752297984_c149682e66.jpg" width="450" height="450" alt="mckayla_curiosity"></a>

Rover has sent the first panorama.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...n_1761973.html

Great, they are going to upgrade the software on Curiosity's computer. Twenty bucks says it craps out.

While neat, that isn't 360. This is:

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/6...-full_full.jpg

This one should be titled: "Beating the crap out of Mars"

http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/6...16015_full.gif

Have they tried turning it off and then turning it back on?

Red Screen of Death.

I can just hear it now:

CLT-ALT-DEL.

Seven minutes of terror waiting for the reboot. :D

BTW, I think there's a NatGeo tonight about Curiosity. I think it's an old show, pre-launch, but I'm DVRing it anyway just to see what this bitch looked like in the months leading up to the successful deployment.

Sure it didn't land in MOAB?

Blue screen of death.