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NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover

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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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[–] paulhammond5155@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Details / Stats of the drive

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

This is super cool, thanks for sharing!

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I cannot believe Curiosity has been on Mars for almost fourteen years and is still fucking operational. Mindblowing.

[–] paulhammond5155@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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) :)

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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.

[–] paulhammond5155@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] paulhammond5155@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Partial panorama looking North.

Assembled from overlapping left NavCam images in MS-ICE.

credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech

[–] paulhammond5155@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Maps: 20 & 200 meters scales

The path of this drive is highlighted in yellow

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

All of this is amazing, thank you so much for posting all of this. Very impress, much follow.