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Kalliopi Monoyios is the illustrator of several best-selling science books including Neil Shubin's The Universe Within, Shubin’s Your Inner Fish, and Jerry Coyne’s Why Evolution is True. Her illustration portfolio can be found at kalliopimonoyios.com.
Follow her solo on Twitter at @eyeforscience. For tweets from the whole Symbiartic crew,
Follow on Twitter @symbiartic.
I’m so excited I might burst. The first images from Curiosity’s cameras rained down to Earth in the middle of last night, after a 14 minute journey from the red planet. Here they are, in all their glory. Larger, color images will be available next week. Let the imagination soar!!
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Captures Curiosity's Parachute just before landing on the surface of Mars. NASA/JPL-Caltech
This was the first image to return from Mars' Curiosity: A view out the back. You can see the camera still has its dust cover over the lens (secured in place with three knobs at 2, 4, and 9 o'clock). Those clever engineers... they think of everything. NASA/JPL-Caltech Aug. 6th, 2012
The rover's images are taken with a fisheye lens to maximize the amount of information they can obtain. But the resulting images are warped, so to help us get a more intuitive look at Mars' surface, engineers linearized the previous image to come up with this. Keep in mind these are still the first, low-resolution images to return to Earth. We'll be getting better high resolution images later in the week. NASA/JPL-Caltech
Curiosity captures its own shadow. NASA/JPL-Caltech Aug. 5th, 2012
Other neat tidbits from Curiosity:
Caleb Sharf’s Life Unbounded has a great map of the various landing sites and how Curiosity’s locale relates.
And in case you missed the live feed of the Mars team as Curiosity landed and sent back the first images depicted here, Joanne Manaster posted a video of it over at PsiVid.
About the Author: Kalliopi Monoyios is the illustrator of several best-selling science books including Neil Shubin's The Universe Within, Shubin’s Your Inner Fish, and Jerry Coyne’s Why Evolution is True. Her illustration portfolio can be found at kalliopimonoyios.com.
Follow her solo on Twitter at @eyeforscience. For tweets from the whole Symbiartic crew,
Follow on Twitter @symbiartic.
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If there was Media in Mars, how would they have seen the mars landing of Curiosity!
Link to thisRead it in my blog
http://theeternaltruth.wordpress.com/2012/08/06/meanwhile-in-mars/
See where we put our Curiosity!
Link to this