There is something hidden by a black square at the far end of the vehicle.
It seems to just be a glitch in this copy of the pano. This other one is fine: http://www.360pano.eu/show/?id=731
Curiosity rover: Martian solar day 2
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#42Any body see the little arcade-style joystick towards the back left of the rover?
That's actually the rover's color calibration target, not a joystick.
http://marsrover.nasa.gov/mission/spacecraft_instru_calibr.h...
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#43Works exceptionally well on an iPhone (appears to use accelerometer/gyroscope).
Fantastic on iPad in full screen. Very smooth.
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#44Lovely nod to the conspiracy nuts by specifying this pic as being taken in New Mexico!
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#45Note that this is actually missing a very major feature of the landscape: Aeolis Mons, or mount Sharp. The NASA panorama that this was adapted from failed to image the upper 2/5ths of the environment (roughly), and therefore did not capture the 15,000-foot mountain that is looming above the rover. The maker of this panorama cleverly edited the image to show a false horizon where the mountain would actually be. It loo…
nkoren: you are very careful ;)
Thanks for the comment, but I really did not have source materials to recreate this mountain
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#46I wouldn't have expected the sun to look so big on Mars.
Re: Curiosity rover: Martian solar day 2
#47Note that this is actually missing a very major feature of the landscape: Aeolis Mons, or mount Sharp. The NASA panorama that this was adapted from failed to image the upper 2/5ths of the environment (roughly), and therefore did not capture the 15,000-foot mountain that is looming above the rover. The maker of this panorama cleverly edited the image to show a false horizon where the mountain would actually be. It loo…
nkoren: you are very careful ;) Thanks for the comment, but I really did not have source materials to recreate this mountain
Yeah, I know the material is missing. Sorry if that came off critical of you -- your panorama is really truly gorgeous! I'm honestly feeling a bit petulant towards NASA for failing to include the mountain in their initial panoramas[1] -- they've missed 80% of the drama in that landscape! When they finally get around to imaging the mountain properly, I hope you patch that back into your panorama, because that'll be stunning.
[1] And yes, I'm well aware that in the litany of First World Problems, "Whaaaa, NASA landed a giant rover on Mars but didn't take exactly the photo I wanted" has got to be pretty high on the list...
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#48This image reminds me of starting in the morning: sun's up, there's plenty to do, let's get started. On another note, I would love to hear the sound of whatever Martian breeze is blowing while Curiosity's wheels crunch over the gravel.
There is hardly anything to hear since the atmosphere is so thin.
Looks like JPL was planning on making recordings with the Mars Polar Lander but we know how that turned out:
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msp98/lidar/microphone/mic_found.ht...
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#49There is something hidden by a black square at the far end of the vehicle.
That's definitely the MMRTG or its nuclear battery. My guess would be the Department of Energy doesn't want too much about it floating around.
There are already lots of pictures of it. Quite sure the DoE doesn't care at all.
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#50Why is there a black patch on the back of the rover?
I'm not sure which patch you're talking about. Maybe it's labelled in one of these images?
(http://www.americaspace.org/?attachment_id=23297)
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