** The Official Space Flight Thread - The Space Station and Beyond **

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Curiosity in Exaggerated Color

This color-enhanced view of NASA's Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars was taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter as the satellite flew overhead. Colors have been enhanced to show the subtle color variations near the rover, which result from different types of materials.

The descent stage blast pattern around the rover is clearly seen as relatively blue colors (true colors would be more gray).
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Crop from here.
 
Combat squirrel said:
Question, is there anywhere on the web posting live data from Curiosity?

Im really interested in what the environmental conditions are around the rover, temp, pressure etc, it would be awesome to get a daily weather report from Mars.
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There may be something on the mission site but I suspect that it's being kept in-house for analysis. You could always email and ask.
 
Back to the space station with a super image:

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Canadarm2 and HTV-3

In the grasp of the International Space Station's robotic Canadarm2, the HTV-3 Exposed Pallet is moved for installation on the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV-3) currently docked to the space station. Earth's horizon and the blackness of space provide the backdrop for the scene.
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More on the HTV-3 mission.
 
Raymond Lin said:
I wonder how and when that happened, if it landed smoothly?
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Westyfield2 said:
:(
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I wouldn't worry about it:

The mission team stresses this is not a major problem and will merely degrade some measurements - not prevent them.

It is not certain how the damage occurred but engineers suspect surface stones thrown up during Curiosity's rocket-powered landing may have struck the circuits and broken their wiring.
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