WHO THE F*** TOOK THIS PHOTO? **WTF** - Curiosity Rover Snaps Stunning Self-Portrait on Red Planet

perhaps its a test project to see how gullible americans are.

was wondering when someone was going to ask that question about the arm sticking out to take all those little pictures...where the hell is the arm in all those pictures?

They´re saying with this:
We´re putting it right in your face, how dumb can you even be ?!

goodbye mars program ..blowing sand,even by solar winds causes a sandblasting effect on any rover and none of the rover shots show any wear on them from the sandblasting effect the so called dust storms would cause...so which is it NASA,dust storms no longer exist on mars or the rover isn't on mars,or both?

^^^^THIS

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NASA HAS SOME SPLAINING TO DO!

LOL

Houston, We have a Problem! Damage Control Incoming

Time to call in David Morrison! ;)

I for one am looking forward to NAZA's, err i mean NASA's response. Any thoughts on what excuse they could possibly come up with this time? Or SILENCE as usual?

So aside from yet another NASA (Never A Straight Answer) screw-up, I KNOW for MOST, this will seem inconceivable and even ludicrous, but those IN THE KNOW, already KNOW Elites go THERE for vacation so to speak, and have been for over 50 years according to Stanley Kubrick (they silenced him a while ago), George Kavassilas, Stewart Swerdlow, David dIcke (of course) ;)) Andrew Basiago, several whistleblower Military Generals, and even President Eisenhower's Great Granddaughter.

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"Extra-terrestrials have been working with governments for a while," she said, adding that treaties with the other-worldly beings were signed every 10 years.

She said natural faults in the Earth were being manipulated to produce catastrophes like tsunamis and earthquakes using "Haarp technology" or bio-weapons. According to the website www.haarp.net, Haarp technology is a focused and steerable electromagnetic beam used to heat the upper atmosphere and bounce elecromagnetic waves back to Earth. "As consciousness expands, we invoke and become more in contact with our universal family," said Eisenhower.

She said she was recruited by an agent in 2006 to take part in a mission to a Mars colony. However, she was able to break free from the mind control techniques. She said people had been teleported to Mars since the 1970s and that the size of the population there was continuing to shift and expand. Speaking on a Skype feed from a ranch in the United States, leading Ufologist James Gilliland agreed that dark forces were at play.

This was evident by increasing changes in the Earth's climate and in the astral makeup of the universe. However, he said, another type of extra-terrestrial agent was seeking to prevent Earth's destruction or the depopulation of humankind. "There's definitely something disturbing the Earth. The star patterns are changing, definitely something is going down.

The Earth is doing a major wobble." However, it was with the help of positive agents that humans would be able to ignite their consciousness and become enlightened to the dangers, but also the opportunities that a new world era could bring. "Basically we need to rise to the occasion. We are all in the process together. We are in the process of contact. We are getting ready for a huge reunion with our greater ancestors of men." "... All we need to do together is to reclaim our divinity," Gilliland said SAPA

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A shadow of the camera is visible on the closest front wheel. The arm itself would have moved to get the composite, and thus was edited out.

The camera would:

A:have to be a remote camera
B: two separate cameras taking snaps with each camera retracted.

Since it didn't state that then something is up with this photo.

And I'm not a "we didnt go to the Moon" person.

Mars, earth, where ever that picture really is, it's a desolate shithole place.

Maybe it's taking a picture off a reflection created by the side of one of those mirrored UFOs.

surprised to see so many "the earth is flat" people here.

Maybe marsian swampgas could be a good explanation for this.

Not at all, how does a camera take a picture of itself without a mirror? Without a remote camera or without two cameras being employed to have the entire rover shot? Regardless of how many photos it took to take the montage?
How?

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Is that the color of the sky from mars? It looks like an overcast day in NYC.

LOL Great pic.

SOUNDS ABOUT RIGHT TO ME. LOL

And if you believe this, I got some bitching sea front land here in Scottsdale Arizona for sale.

I don't know much about space and space missions, but the name of the picture in wiki article kind of gives a hint. Still, hard to believe really.

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Nevada is lovely at this time of year.

Yes, so where's the arm? There isn't one in the photo, and no excuses given so far explain it. If NASA 'shopped it out, they need to admit that they alter the images.

But they don't want to do that or they'd know we (well, at least some of us) wouldn't be able to trust any images from them at all. We could take their word that they only enhanced them or something, but what fool would accept that, from the agency fondly called "Never A Straight Answer"?

From Huffington Post article:

"The 1-ton Curiosity rover took 55 hi-res pictures with its Mars Hand Lens Imager camera, or MAHLI, on Oct. 31. Mission scientists then stitched the images together to create a full-color mosaic of Curiosity and its Gale Crater landing site."

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Seen many such articles today. Downloaded the hi-res photo and examined it.

No arm.

They could have taken a bazillion one-pixel photos and the arm would still have to be visible.

Not trying to shill or anything, but why would the arm be still visible in the composition? As far as I'm concerned with technology available today this is not a massive challenge.

By technology, you'd have to have a self-propelled floating camera. I'm pretty sure not even NASA claims to have one of those up there.

Think about it: the camera is mounted somehow on the rover, on an extendable arm. Since the arm is attached to the rover, any photo of the entire rover, even if it was pieced together, MUST show the extendable arm, at least partially.

Now look at the space between the rover and wherever the camera is, and explain what the camera could possibly be sitting on. This is not a question of technology but of logic and physical equipment on a planet that supposedly is uninhabited, and where no other previous bots could take the shot.

I was looking for a picture for reference to try to understand how it actually could be done, I must say, I'm quite curious :)
Anyway, if you take a look at this picture:

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It shows that APXS and MAHLI are mounted on the 5-joint 7ft long robotic arm, which is not visible, but in the photo there is a grey "pole" sticking out from the place where the robotic arm apparently is, so maybe this pole is the 1st of 5 joints of the arm and the rest was shopped out. I may be completely wrong, but I'm pretty sure there are some CGI experts on this forum to find where (if) the photos had the arm visible.

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Thanks for the drawing. It shows exactly where the arm should be, and clearly it is not in the NASA photo.

If it was 'shopped out, NASA images cannot be trusted, period.

And what would be the point of NASA going to the trouble to seamlessly remove the arm? Isn't that part of the self-portrait? Why would they remove it and not say so, which only begs for criticism?

The possible choices, as I see it:
-- NASA images are fake
-- The rover isn't on Mars
-- Something or someone is on Mars and we weren't told about it, and that someone/thing took the photo

Holy fuck, I despair for humanity..

I don't care how many pictures it stitched together. It's impossible. There would not be enough data because the camera on the arm could never succeed in capturing itself. It could rotate all around itself 360 degrees and never capture itself. The picture is a fake.

Double Dumb-Ass on you fucktard.

Well, it does say in the article that this is a composition made of 55 images. You wouldn't expect them just to overlay all the images and post it. That would sure look weird. Actually I'm starting to think that someone just made a rapid accusation without reading how it was done. I mean, you wouldn't just jump to conclusion that it's manipulated after reading that it was a composition, you'd probably think "man, that's some fine photoshop skills there".
Btw, anyone knows why they put cabling outside the rover rather than hidden inside? Just out of curiosity.