Crazy! High-res panoramic photo of Mars via Curiosity

http://www.panoramas.dk/mars/greeley-haven.html

VERY COOL!

Whoa! Kinda looks like Sedonna, AZ, minus the buildings.

I like the tracks. Kind of looks like Curiosity was drunk.

Thats another planet! How mind blowing is that?

That is damn cool.

HA @ Rory!

But it is Opportunity:

This is the latest panorama released by NASA July 2012. It was assembled from 817 images taken between Dec. 21, 2011, and May 8, 2012, while Opportunity was stationed on an outcrop informally named 'Greeley Haven'. on a segment of the rim of ancient Endeavour Crater.

Oh, I just assumed it was the new rover.

Now you all know my dark secret.... I can't read

Amazing. I thought the same thing, Anny. I said "Mars looks like Vegas".

HA!

I thought I saw Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru

Sorry. I guess my secret is out too. I don't read. I only look at the pictures.

You know what would be really cool? If NASA launched a relay probe a few days after Voyager 1 and 2 crafts were sent out in the 1970s. This probe would have three times the amount of power and orbit one of the Outer planets.

If NASA attempted this plan we would've seen telemetry from Voyager 1 and 2 well passed our solar system.

Here's an article from NASA on a related subject:

http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/news/signs_changing_fast.html

The story I read this morning said much the same thing - that the landscape looked strikingly like the Mojave Desert or something.

I like the tracks too! It looks like it was doing doughnuts on Mar's lawn. Because fuck Mars, that's why.

Next I think it's supposed to drive over to Mars' tallest mountain and take a look around?

Totally cool.

RATS! Not one Martian!

I think it's incredible that NASA was able to successfully land Curiosity. (I know, this panorama was taken by Opportunity)

HUGE kudos for that, for sure. And if I had any say in how my tax dollars were spent, I would direct it all to science and technology.

I hope the new mission to mars actually gets some science done. No, it wasn't all that expensive compared to all of the useless things we typically waste money on like welfare and wars, but if all we're going to get is a bunch of photographs of the planet when we already know what it looks like, what was the point?

Didn't Spirit and Opportunity provide sufficient evidance that liquid water was once there? What more do they hope to learn by landing in another crater? The fact that it's an uneroded crater tells us that the water was already gone when it was formed, doesn't it? Why not shoot for some of the geological features that appear to have been formed by water erosion? At least you could look for microscopic fossils there.

If we lived on Mars and were trying to figure out if there was ever life on earth, what sense would it make to land a probe in Meteor Crater, Az?

You're comparing apples and exceptionally bad taste -DJ

I don't know if this is real, cause it came from fb. But if it is, it's kinda awesome

Earth as seen from Mars

Very cool, if it's real

Apparently it's not, at least according to this guy from Discover Magazine...
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/08/10/an-unreal-mars-skyline/


and if I read it right this is the only real photo, and it's from a few years ago, and is not very dramatic or interesting, which probably makes more sense...

I'm sorry potato, that image can't be real. Earth is far too tiny in it, and therefore could not possibley be the centre of the universe.

If you look really close you can see the great wall of china.

That's my question... why can we see the great wall of china from space. I mean.. sure it's long, but it's not very wide. Why can't we see the mall of america or something?

I can't believe I am the only one who thought of this: