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I read somewhere, that photo was taken through a transparent dust cover on the lens, which istn't taken off yet.

wait, what

canted slope, always?

bullshit

Memphis wrote:

xer0s wrote:srsly?

wherever you stand on mars, you're facing downhill.

I srsly lolled at this.

srsly?

Yeah, the planet is crooked.

Curiosity needs a special handbrake to stop it rolling off the edge of Mars

/changes channel

Tsakali wrote:......... I'd pay 5-10 grand for a sit before I'd have to reevaluate my enthusiasm on the issue.

What would you pay realistically?

I'd pay that much, but given these low Earth orbital flights take approx, 15 - 30 minutes it would be a quick trip.

For the same $5k dollars today you can jump in an aircraft and experience weightlessness. Not the same though
click

Current cost (?) ; Virgin Galactic in Vehicle: SpaceShipTwo; Price; $200,000 per passenger

Memphis wrote:

xer0s wrote:srsly?

wherever you stand on mars, you're facing downhill.

ffs

Heads up

Input! Innnput!

[lvlshot]http://www.uahirise.org/images/2012/details/cut/mt-sharp-oblique.jpg[/lvlshot]

"Amazing High Resolution Photo from the HiRISE Camera on MRO of the Central Mound of Mt. Sharp taken 24 Hours after the MSL Landed "

Central mound

that instant-stick-communicator is pretty funny. minimum distance from earth to mars is 54600000km. let's say the stick has a mass of 1kg per 100m (a very light stick, as these things go). Can you imagine the force required to even jiggle a 546 million kilogram stick? For comparison, that's about 75x the mass of the Eiffel Tower.

edit: also not sure about the physics of that sort of thing but I assume the entire stick wouldn't move as one piece... more likely some sort of wave propagating along it.

bitWISE wrote:"Amazing High Resolution Photo from the HiRISE Camera on MRO of the Central Mound of Mt. Sharp taken 24 Hours after the MSL Landed "

Wish I had a bunch of monitors arranged next to each other to use that as a wallpaper.

^ this

NASA have given no thought whatsoever to the desktop market

that's big enough to print, I might just do that.

bitWISE wrote:[lvlshot] large image Thanks [/lvlshot]

"Amazing High Resolution Photo from the HiRISE Camera on MRO of the Central Mound of Mt. Sharp taken 24 Hours after the MSL Landed "

Bottom left and elsewhere colours/texture patterns look like water doesn't it

it isn't water

Awesome.

Plan B wrote:360 panoramic

That's not the same rover, you cyster-humping douchebag.

^ awesome

and no, obviously it's not the same rover

derp