A mosaic of 22 left MastCam images from sol 4810 (February 16, 2026)
The images were deBayered prior to assembly in MS-ICE. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Fredk
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NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover
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I cannot believe Curiosity has been on Mars for almost fourteen years and is still fucking operational. Mindblowing.
A little wounded after all that time, but still operational, gathering science data, and still traversing to new science waypoints.
Here's the post-drive deBayered workspace (assembled from 15 overlapping images) :)
There is little to be said for the current state of the world, but this, this is among the few genuinely good things we have. A robot on another planet, taking pictures so detailed you can pick out individual pieces of gravel. Absolutely amazing, NASA represents the absolutely best about the USA- ingenuity, creativity, engineering prowess, fortitude, and of course, curiosity. If only it would be the guiding principle for the rest of the society, what a world it could have been.
The world is a messy state at the moment, but we've got through dark times before. There's always light at the end of the tunnel, even if it's rather dim.