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Purple Martian Majesty: Look closely and you’ll see purple and tan bands in this bedrock on Mars.

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This Zenith Movie was taken on Sol 1758 (2017-07-17) at approximately 06:46 LTST and a solar longitude of 34.5°.

Hey, you! Get a load of my clouds! These are my best views yet of Martian clouds, likely made of ice-water crystals.

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Curiosity at Buckskin drilling site - sol 1065

via Thomas Appéré   Curiosity self-portrait taken with MAHLI camera on sol 1065 at Buckskin drilling site. This mosaic was taken at 13h00 local time. The sky was generated by Steve Albers. The colors of the sky and landscape were adjusted to fit with calibrated colors of PDS products. ——————————————————————————————— Auto-portrait de Curiosity réalisé avec la caméra MAHLI au sol 1065 au site du forage “Buckskin”. Cette mosaïque a été réalisée à 13h00 heure locale. Le ciel a été généré par Steve Albers. Les couleurs du ciel et du paysage ont été ajustées pour correspondre aux couleurs calibrées des images PDS.

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Mars Rover Views Spectacular Layered Rock Formations

The layered geologic past of Mars is revealed in stunning detail in new color images returned by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover, which is currently exploring the “Murray Buttes” region of lower Mount Sharp. The new images arguably rival photos taken in U.S. National Parks. The Martian buttes and mesas rising above the surface are eroded remnants of ancient sandstone that originated when winds deposited sand after lower Mount Sharp had formed.  The new images represent Curiosity’s last stop in the Murray Buttes, where the rover has been driving for just over one month. As of this week, Curiosity has exited these buttes toward the south, driving up to the base of the final butte on its way out. In this location, the rover began its latest drilling campaign (on Sept. 9). After this drilling is completed, Curiosity will continue farther south and higher up Mount Sharp, leaving behind these spectacular formations. Curiosity landed near Mount Sharp in 2012. It reached the base of the mountain in 2014 after successfully finding evidence on the surrounding plains that ancient Martian lakes offered conditions that would have been favorable for microbes if Mars has ever hosted life. Rock layers forming the base of Mount Sharp accumulated as sediment within ancient lakes billions of years ago. On Mount Sharp, Curiosity is investigating how and when the habitable ancient conditions known from the mission’s earlier findings evolved into conditions drier and less favorable for life.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

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Rocknest Selfie, Sol 84

Mars Curiosity Rover photographs itself.

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Sharp View of Mount Sharp

This is an amazing composite image looking toward the higher regions of Mars’ Mount Sharp taken in mid-September by NASA’s Curiosity rover. You may be wondering why the sky looks so blue though. This is because Curiosity is showing Mount Sharp in a white-balanced color adjustment that makes the sky look overly blue. This helps scientists recognize rock materials based on their experience looking at rocks on Earth. The Martian sky would actually look more of a butterscotch color to the human eye.

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

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NASA Rover Gets Movie as a Mars Moon Passes Another

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems/Texas A&M Univ.

The larger of the two moons of Mars, Phobos, passes directly in front of the other, Deimos, in a new series of sky-watching images from NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity. Large craters on Phobos are clearly visible in these images from the surface of Mars. No previous images from missions on the surface have caught one moon eclipsing the other.

Read more via NASA.gov

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Very brief Curiosity update, sol 205: Memory anomaly and a swap to the “B-side”

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This was a post I made about Curiosity 18 days after its landing and when I try to reblog it the gif disappears. Luckily I hunted down the source (which I neglected to provide back in the day) so I can show you all Curiosity dancing:

And tell you it's from here.

Curiosity's Dancing!

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KPOP DEMON HUNTERS (2025) dir. by Maggie Kang, Chris Appelhans

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Traditional landiversary post, i'm tired edition - look at our recent view (including the mountain!)

At the time of posting (05:17 UTC) Curiosity has been on Mars for 13 earth years! And is still going strong 🎉

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Shout out to Tamora Pierce for taking the "airhead noblewomen who's only good at embroidery" and giving us Lady Sandrilene fa Toren, who is kind and brave and sensible and loves embroidery and fiber arts so much that the other noblewomen think she's weird for it.

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In honour of us battling against GO transit this evening, here's what is perhaps the most bizarre, niche thing I have ever written (and which I blame entirely on my fellow GO opponent (GOpponent?), @malinspacescience)

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Destiny 命运; Hand in Hand 牵手

Oil on canvas, 2019, by Pang Maokun

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Boyfriend: wait but I thought you could change from alpha to omega? Like you get hit with a pheromone and bam become that and you fuck, but the rest of the time you’re androgynous

Me: … I think you have confused omegaverse with the seminal piece of science fiction literature The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K Le Guin

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whenever i see the moon it’s like ok i want six blurry pictures of that on my phone so bad