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NASA's Curiosity Rover Captures Breathtaking Panorama of Martian Landscape
« on: February 01, 2018, 02:43:15 pm »
NASA's Curiosity Rover Captures Breathtaking Panorama of Martian Landscape
George Dvorsky
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https://gizmodo.com/nasas-curiosity-rover-captures-breathtaking-panorama-of-1822602240

[More videos on the site, but here's an example snippet.]
http://i.imgur.com/q49cugq.mp4

After months of steady progress, NASA’s Curiosity rover has reached the top of Vera Rubin Ridge. And like the good mountain climber that it is, the rover took the opportunity to look around and bask in the view from up high. The resulting panorama—stitched together from 16 individual photos—is one of the most spectacular and goose-bump-inducing images we’ve ever seen of the Red Planet.

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Re: NASA's Curiosity Rover Captures Breathtaking Panorama of Martian Landscape
« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2018, 02:46:06 pm »
@Freya @kevindavis

I wonder whether in a hundred years, people will look back at this video and be amazed at how it looked before development and terraforming.
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Re: NASA's Curiosity Rover Captures Breathtaking Panorama of Martian Landscape
« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2018, 02:59:39 pm »
Hollywood CGI and photoshopped magic. 
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Re: NASA's Curiosity Rover Captures Breathtaking Panorama of Martian Landscape
« Reply #3 on: February 01, 2018, 06:55:17 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on February 01, 2018, 02:59:39 pm
Hollywood CGI and photoshopped magic.

YES!  From the secret lab on Saturn!



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