Seventeen Cameras on Curiosity
This graphic shows the locations of the cameras on NASA’s Curiosity rover. The rover’s mast features seven cameras: the Remote Micro Imager, part of the Chemistry and Camera suite; four black-and-white Navigation Cameras (two on the left and two on the right) and two color Mast Cameras (Mastcams). The left Mastcam has a 34-millimeter lens and the right Mastcam has a 100-millimeter lens.
There is one camera on the end of a robotic arm that is stowed in this graphic; it is called the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI).
There are nine cameras hard-mounted to the rover: two pairs of black-and-white Hazard Avoidance Cameras in the front, another two pair mounted to the rear of the rover, (dashed arrows in the graphic) and the color Mars Descent Imager (MARDI).
From where do these sensors come? And what are they all for?
Continue reading Curiosity, your sensors make me curious, who created them?
The highest-resolution panorama ever taken by a rover illuminates unprecedented detail of the red planet’s surface.
“Studying whether there’s life on Mars or studying how the universe began, there’s something magical about pushing back the frontiers of knowledge. That’s something that is almost part of being human, and I’m certain that will continue.” –Sally Ride
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Lunar Topographic Orthophotomap (LTO) Series.
Since Hosni Mubarak’s government fell last year, many of Egypt’s museums have been looted.
And the looting has gone beyond museums — now criminals are digging up archaeological sites and stealing their treasures.
Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Carol Redmount, an archaeologist at the University of California, about her efforts to stop the looting in Egypt.
Redmount described the looters stealing from El-Hibeh’s archaeological dig as “essentially a gang of criminals, headed by a master criminal, who escaped from jail after the revolution.”
via Egypt Looters Ransack Archaeological Sites | @pritheworld.