Mars As You've Never Seen It
Mars as you’ve never seen it: Nasa’s Curiosity Rover transmits more stunning images of the red planet
- Engineers updating the Curiosity’s software to allow it to drive on Mars
- First colour landscape photograph sent from the $2.5 billion rover
- Reveals blast marks on surface caused by Curiosity’s landing rockets
- Rover has also sent back its first ‘self portrait’ as scientists test its instruments
By James Nye, Mark Prigg and Daily Mail Reporter
PUBLISHED: 15:09 EST, 12 August 2012 | UPDATED: 15:43 EST, 12 August 2012
After releasing exciting images of Mars, NASA’s Curiosity rover is undergoing a crucial four day ‘brain transplant’.
Engineers will update the rover’s software which is currently in its flight stage to prepare it for its further missions on Mars, NASA said.
After successfully landing on the Red Planet on August 5, the rover produced incredible pictures showing exactly what you would see if you were standing on the surface of Mars on a late afternoon.
During the update, engineers will add two crucial functions to Curiosity – the ability to drive over the planet’s rocky terrain and the ability to use the geochemistry lab’s sampling system.
Stunning: NASA’s Curiosity rover released its first colour landscape pictures from Mars on Thursday. The view shows the mountains looming in the distance
Brain transplant: Engineers are performing a four day software update on the Curiosity, pictured here showing the surface of Mars
A handout photo provided by US Space Agency NASA on 09 August 2012 shows the first 360-degree panorama in color of the Gale Crater landing site taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover
On Friday, engineers detailed how Curiosity landed approximately 1.5 miles from its predicted touchdown spot.
The excellent panoramic images, released on Thursday, were the first colour landscape photographs provided from the $2.5 billion Martian rover and were taken with the probe’s MastCams which extend above the spacecraft.
The panoramic mosaic, comprising 130 separate images that Curiosity captured with its newly activated navigation cameras, shows a rust-colored, pebble-strewn expanse stretching to a wall of the crater’s rim in one direction and a tall mound of layered rock in another.
That formation, named Mount Sharp, stands at the center of the vast, ancient impact crater and several miles from where Curiosity touched down at the end of an eight-month voyage across 352 million mile (566 million km) of space.
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Well, there is truth in the title… MARS AS YOU’VE NEVER SEEN IT. Get it? You’ve never seen Mars in those pictures… you’ve seen earth. That’s how they do it… the ‘not technically a lie’ lie.