Mars Rover snaps a stunning photo.

GiPwner · 3 months

It's hard to believe that a species that just a few hundred years ago had no digital technology and less than 50 years ago landed on their own moon, have managed to take incredible photographs of the surface of another planet.

Malithion · 3 months

I'm so proud of these rovers.

LincolnshireSausage · 3 months

I like the part where they edited out the alien city.

prasoc · 3 months

Personally love this picture of Mars: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/69/MarsSunset.jpg

book1245 · 3 months

Never one drop of rain on Arrakis.

Guysmiley777 · 3 months

So much dust. I have the sudden urge to go nuts with a can of compressed air.

youre_thinkin_it · 3 months

Apologies for the ignorance, but why is it tented blue? Is this water/ice? Or is it a byproduct of the camera/lack of ozone/ some other effect?

Takaichi · 3 months

Well, didn't imgur just give me the most interesting link ever (NSFW) for this post.

StewieBanana · 3 months

I'm glad we spent the money to send the Mars Rover to photography school beforehand.

teethbeef · 3 months

Perfect location for Mars Vegas!

thisnakedlunch · 3 months

marijuana from mars?

Zethos · 3 months

It amazes me that there is something man made just rolling around taking pictures on a distant PLANET that we haven't even stepped on. Its a whole new world there.

I can't wait till space travel becomes cheap enough for it to become the next frontier for explorers. I mean Columbus and friends were cool and all but this will be even cooler. o:

HE_WHO_STANDS_TO_POO · 3 months

Man, I just know something is out there. There has to be something. Water, life, John Carter. SOMETHING. And even if there isn't, the mystery of the planet is just intriguing.

HowardBeale1 · 3 months

Mos Eisley spaceport. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.

SAmatador · 3 months

Can we all just take a second step back from our computer and comprehend that we're looking at another planet and what that means? Amazing.

toonfool · 3 months

Guys my computer fucked up and replaced it with a giant weed bud. It's been under like 3 or 4 links I've seen on Reddit so far. What!?

pmjm · 3 months

TIL Mars looks like Utah.

hiptarded · 3 months

this picture is on ANOTHER. FUCKING. PLANET. just think about that for a minute.

airwolf420 · 3 months

why do I just see a big nug of weed?

[deleted] · 3 months

Holy shit! If you look at the bottom of the picture there is obviously signs of advanced life! Its some sort of solar cell arrangement! Also that shadow. There is no way thats a natural formation

Checkmate Christians.

Sarcastyx · 3 months

Imagine. That expanse of hundreds of square miles, and not a single spider to inhabit it. You are living my dream, brave little mars rover.

bryeen · 3 months

Was this a naked girl for anyone else?

xxkemmyxcookiexx · 3 months

That's out of this world!...... eh eh?

_masterBlaster_ · 3 months

http://marsrover.nasa.gov/newsroom/pressreleases/20120522a.html

QuiteBoringName · 3 months

Might be a silly question, but is the rover controlled by someone on earth like an RC car or is it completely automated?

Mark0Sky · 3 months

Maybe even better, with just a bit of tone mapping: http://i.imgur.com/CBgBU.jpg

grrff · 3 months

Relevant xkcd

pasmeme · 3 months

It pysically hurts me to see this. I let go of my dream of becoming an astronaut because of a difficulty with math. When I was 11 I wrote a 15pg "book" titled "Terraforming Mars". It was set in 2020 and starts with the confirmation call from NASA informing me that I will be on the mission.

Ever since I can remember I've wanted off this planet. Not out of disappointment in man kind, but because of the incomprehensible potential of the universe and our applied knowledge.

I'm interested in travel just as much as the next person, but no matter where I go it's just people. For me, the best part of travelling around the world is the moment on a red eye flight, on a clear night, when I can see the atmosphere above, separately. Once, I cried into my sleeve while looking out the plane window because the curvature of the Earth was so clear and profound that I was thrown into a fit of overwhelming anxiety. In a way it made me feel more trapped, but reassured me that there is so much more...

If I could choose how to die it would be in space. Fuck, being lost in space would be the closest thing to heaven I can conceive of.

Sure_lll_Eat_That · 3 months

I wonder if the martian dust is compromising the voltage generation of the PV cells on the rover? It sure looks like there's a pretty thick crust built up.

usualghost · 3 months

He's alone there 225 trillion meters away

Alone on an unknown planet, at freezing temperatures of hundreds of Celsius below zero

Roving and roving and roving for almost 8 years...alone..

Clicking away pictures for your amusement here on Earth..

Skwerley · 3 months

Am I the only one who is getting this?

Alpha_Angel · 3 months

Am I the only one getting a link to this? I'm not complaining, don't get me wrong. It's just I'd like to see what everyone else is seeing.

kowalski71 · 3 months

This is another planet. My mind is having a really hard time getting over that. Wild.

psyder3k · 3 months

There's aliens in them thar mountains

[deleted] · 3 months

Can't wait for Suriv_Dnim to take credit for this.

Raurtom · 3 months

Spot the alien

Buckguy11 · 3 months

The little pole at the bottom left is a sundial, Bill Nye came to my school (Ohio State) and talked for a little while about it. MARSDIAL

Simco_ · 3 months

You can see Fremen on the horizon.

Bendrake · 3 months

It always trips me out to think about mars. The river just driving around and windstorms going on all around. It continues to exist like it has for years and years although we don't think about it much. Crazy deep unorganized thoughts.

beanso · 3 months

Jesus, every rover with a camera thinks it's a photographer now.

[deleted] · 3 months

Sandy, rocky, bone dry and no intelligent life for a very, very long distance around. Are you sure it's not a picture of Arizona?

unohoo09 · 3 months

I know we'd never see this, but wouldn't it be fascinating if one day NASA released an image of an ocean on Mars?

TysonStoleMyPanties · 3 months

Absolutely breathtaking.

gwmawboom · 3 months

Too awesome, gives me chills

just_a_quantum_dot · 3 months

First thought: Holy crap, this is amazing! Second thought: oh, that little guy sure got dirty...

Luminair · 3 months

Here's to MSL making a safe landing in a few months!

dhaft88 · 3 months

Makes me think of Ray Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles

subsetr · 3 months

That mars rover is a fucking hero.

Medane · 3 months

Is that..Opportunity? I remember watching some PBS show about their launch back when I was obsessed with space and blackholes and other shit like that.
Also...
R.I.P. Spirit.

GrooveCombo · 3 months

It always irritated me how the Mars Rovers lack color cameras so they have to be artificially colored. Regardless, gorgeous picture.

audifan · 3 months

tataouine

MonotonousMan · 3 months

I think what gets me the most with these sorts of pictures is just looking at the ground. The edges.... the contours.... the dust on the rover. They are the closest i'll ever get to experiencing a martian planet. Like going to a beach on the other side of the world and getting to dig your feet into their unique looking sand for the first time - that's how these pictures make me feel...The details taking place of my feet in the sand, I guess.

senjutsuka · 3 months

How are you still operating?! You're covered in dust! Bravo old rover, bravo.

sryguys · 3 months

I'm glad they added a joystick in case some Martian wants to play with it.

krov · 3 months

It blows my mind that this is on a different PLANET

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