I hope NASA doesn't mind me cleaning this one up a bit, to make a better image for the Desktop. This is their composite of Curiosity's tracks after it crossed a little sand dune in this gap. John Wayne would probably have loved to see this.... It's a whole other 'Painted Desert' but a desert nevertheless. All this beach, and no ocean! What a shame!
This is now one of the images in a new Curiosity Mars Windows 8 Theme I've just made. When I was a kid reading those Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon comics those many years ago, I never dreamed that one day, I'd be looking at real images from the planet Mars, and even using them as 'wallpaper' on my computer. I never dreamed of computers back then either. Isn't technology really wonderful? And one day, we probably will figure out where the ocean went from Mars. And I'd bet you there was one....
And here, for Tommy, is a picture just to reassure him that the rover is still there and still roving, in case he doubted that. Those Martians hiding in the cave over behind that hill haven't grabbed it yet, because they can't figure out if it's animal, vegetable, or mineral, nor which end is the head.
So it kind of looks like the rover just sort of drove up an dover that little hill, never to be seen again...
ReplyDeleteI can't show you all of it, Tom,
ReplyDeletebut here's a bit of it, just so you'll know it's still doing its thing.
Gee Ray you took me so literally. I kind of "assumed" that it is still roving around the countryside.
ReplyDeleteYes, but you might be forgiven for wondering, because its wheels are taking a real beating from those sharp broken rocks, and that's because some dummy chose aluminum for them, instead of titanium or something tougher. When you're spending all that money, and sending it that far away, the best in none too good. As we're learning the hard way... (It's tough to get good help these days, isn't it?)
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