Fading Rover Tracks on Mars (NASA, Mars, 2009)
Editor's note: NASA's Curiosity Rover is scheduled to land on the surface of Mars on the evening of Aug. 5/6, 2012. (Read more here: www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/index.html). In honor of this historic event, here are some breathtaking stills of the Red Planet.
Image caption: Fading rover tracks on Mars, seen by the MRO Mars High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment in 2009 near Victoria Crater.
Image credit: NASA
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jamieball833, Josi_Silva, shutterbroke, Itinerant Wanderer, and 53 other people added this photo to their favorites.
artland (10 months ago | reply)
Congratulations!
This is a wonderful shot!
You are invited to post it to:
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shutterbroke (10 months ago | reply)
Wow! At first I thought it was an outer space object of some sort!
mtsvancouver (10 months ago | reply)
Amazing. You have to enlarge to at least 1600 to see the faint tracks around the edge of the crater.
r-h-b (222.222...T H A N K S !!!) (10 months ago | reply)
fantastic !
ICK9S[M. H. Stephens] (10 months ago | reply)
This is amazing! Love the pattern! Great work!
Kooklamou - MA., USA (10 months ago | reply)
Now THIS is cool!!!!!!!!!! Awesome!! Thanks!!!!
Yug_and_her (10 months ago | reply)
very interesting!
Ianmoran1970 (10 months ago | reply)
That is awesome, I think I made out the tracks, top left of crater edge!
horsetrainer~Mary~ (10 months ago | reply)
Those aren't the tracks in the middle of the crater, are they?
Just a gorgeous sight !!!
mtsvancouver (10 months ago | reply)
No, as I posted above, the tracks are around the crater's edge, and to see them you have to click on the photo, click on View all sizes, and go to at least the 1600 size, 2048 is better.
mebooyou (10 months ago | reply)
amazing!!!!
dodagp (9 months ago | reply)
So spectacular and detailed !!! Amazing shape and textures !!!