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

Whatever this is, the shadows are all wrong. Look at the shadow of the rock going in the opposite direction. The shadows dont line up. This thing is wrong is so many ways...

so let me get this straight.

they send this thing to mars with control wires exposed on the surfaces in no conduits and held together by zip ties?

how many billion?

are you shitting me? Youre shittin me right?

lol

David Hockney must work for NASA.

Most of those wires need to move so they can't be put in conduit, but I agree, should be in a protective flex at least, pretty vunerable.

Composite Photo of arm of the MAHLI:

[link to www.jpl.nasa.gov]

Now imagine what it would look like if composite-part of the picture in the lower center was taken when the arm was moved out of the picture. It would look like the Mahli was floating in space.

Composite pictures with moveable arms sometimes necessarily edit out the arm because it has moved to multiple different positions and would obscure the desired image.

Not that 99% of you brianless morans could ever understand.

Last Edited by MuzzleBreak on 11/04/2012 11:34 PM

I waited a good ten minutes for that page to load, and saw just what I expected to see:

AN ARM ATTACHED TO THE ROVER, HOLDING THE CAMERA.

No matter where you move that arm, it's STILL ATTACHED TO THE ROVER. No matter where you position the camera, THERE WILL STILL BE PART OF THE ARM VISIBLE. You cannot get rid of it no matter HOW MANY ANGLES YOU USE, without 'shopping it out, and if you do that, you must SAY SO. It will NEVER look like the MAHLI was floating in space, because there will be the base of the arm sticking out from the rover to the edge of the frame.

Speaking of morans, did you not once read the parts where I said "If NASA 'shopped it, they have to say so, or we can never trust them".

ADDED: IF this were a PANORAMA, the arm would have to be edited, and NASA would have to say so. BUT IT IS NOT A PANORAMA. It is a gazillion still shots from ONE ANGLE, taken in many rows and columns.

Last Edited by Keep2theCode on 11/05/2012 06:53 AM

this image was taken by a camera thats facing the rover

this whole thing looks fake

LOL. +1

Right? I've put together speakers that look more well-built than that lmao, I kept looking around for duct tape.

super rover,it out runs the dust storms that would sandblast it away and blur the lens and it manages to take a pic of its self without any dust on top of it..NASA did say mars has dust storms caused by the solar winds didn't they?

Last Edited by T Ceti H.C. Radnarg on 11/21/2012 06:10 PM

the govt owned most of the desert state of Nevada, does that get you a hint?

Holy cow. I photoshopped this and posted it (full hi-res) it AS A JOKE. Here's screen snaps I took of the *.psd file just now.

all layers:
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original:
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