Curiosity takes a snapshot of home.

[Milk]

[IMG]http://global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/Scitech/Earth seen from Mars.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE][B]It's a dot in the sky. But not just any dot. For the Curiosity rover, it's home.[/B]
NASA tweeted a photo Thursday taken by Curiosity from the Mars surface six days earlier. The image shows a speck above the horizon that a pointer identifies as Earth.

[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE]If it's possible for a 1-ton, roughly SUV-size vehicle to get homesick, it's had plenty of reason to shed a tear. The last time Curiosity was on Earth was November 26, 2011, when it set off aboard a NASA spacecraft from Cape Canaveral, Florida.[/QUOTE]

Accompanied tweet from the rover:

[IMG]http://i.cubeupload.com/rNQi06.png[/IMG]

Sources: [URL]http://www.cnn.com/2014/02/06/tech/innovation/mars-curiosity-earth-image/[/URL]
[URL]http://www.foxnews.com/science/2014/02/06/pale-blue-dot-amazing-nasa-photo-sees-earth-from-mars/[/URL] (image from FOX News)

Aaaaand that's all my articles for tonight, folks.

[TheTalon]

I'm surprised the moon still looks that far away from earth from Mars
[img]http://global.fncstatic.com/static/managed/img/Scitech/Earth%20seen%20from%20Mars%202.jpg[/img]

[Occlusion2018]

That is insane. Everyone who has ever lived has lived on those few pixels.

[Twidler]

I can see my house!

[shodan]

[QUOTE=Superkilll307;43820502]I can see my house![/QUOTE]

I can't wait for the day space tourism takes off and all the tourists on the moon will make that excact same fucking joke

[Ricaaado]

From this distant vantage point...

[Dukov Traboski]

[img]http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/spirit.png[/img]

[lapsus_]

I'm in awe.

[helifreak]

[QUOTE=Dukov Traboski;43820652][img]http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/spirit.png[/img][/QUOTE]

I thought I was on imgur and couldn't figure out why the arrow keys weren't working.

[xianlee]

It kind of makes you laugh how small we are yet big enough for meteors to hit us.

[smfE]

Quite mind boggling, there we reside every one of us

[EvacX]

Fuck, I blinked

[Riller]

We're not that small, we're pretty fucking big. Thing is, there's just a lot of nothing between us and the next big thing.

[subenji]

[QUOTE=Dukov Traboski;43820652][img]http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/spirit.png[/img][/QUOTE]

Just a note, its' twin Opportunity is still fully functional and operating, over 3550 days since landing in 2003

[Bradyns]

[QUOTE=Riller;43820922]We're not that small, we're pretty fucking big. Thing is, there's just a lot of nothing between us and the next big thing.[/QUOTE]

That's oddly profound.

[Mort and Charon]

My surface processes lecturer (who is a Long Term Planner, basically helps decide where to send the rover) emailed me some pics of Curiosity successfully crossing a dune, and passing through Dingo Gap, shall I upload them?

[NGC]

[QUOTE=Mort and Charon;43821659]My surface processes lecturer (who is a Long Term Planner, basically helps decide where to send the rover) emailed me some pics of Curiosity successfully crossing a dune, and passing through Dingo Gap, shall I upload them?[/QUOTE]

Of course you should.

[LoneWolf_Recon]

Carl Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot" comes to mind, its amazing that we've had this much progress in such a short span of human history.

[Desuh]

Maybe it's just a hotpixel.

[Winters]

All porn ever produced is right fucking there.

[MuffinZerg]

Somebody should make a CSI "Enchance" comic out of that.

[DasMaddi]

We exist as many on something so small.

It calls into perspective of the galaxy as we know it. We are such a small speck in the big picture. Sometimes you have to be really high just to see how small you are.

[editline]7th February 2014[/editline]

If we were to be wiped out, the universe wouldn't even say goodbye. We would just be gone and never remembered.

[paramud]

[QUOTE=Milkdairy;43820480][IMG]http://i.cubeupload.com/rNQi06.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]

Oh god NASA is like that crazy lady who makes twitter accounts for all her 19 cats

[dbk21894]

[QUOTE=subenji99;43820995]Just a note, its' twin Opportunity is still fully functional and operating, over 3550 days since landing in 2003[/QUOTE]

get bent china

USA #1

[editline]7th February 2014[/editline]

[QUOTE=Paramud;43822438]Oh god NASA is like that crazy lady who makes twitter accounts for all her 19 cats[/QUOTE]

at least it's not as bad as the press releases that the chinese government issued with their rover as the narrator

[SaintBonkers]

[QUOTE=Winters;43822315]All porn ever produced is right fucking there.[/QUOTE]

Didn't we send messages containing information about earth and humans out in space?

I'm fairly certain there was images of naked people in those.

[dbk21894]

[QUOTE=pansarkurt;43822512]Didn't we send messages containing information about earth and humans out in space?

I'm fairly certain there was images of naked people in those.[/QUOTE]

but it was produced on earth

[TheCreeper]

[QUOTE=Riller;43820922]We're not that small, we're pretty fucking big. Thing is, there's just a lot of nothing between us and the next big thing.[/QUOTE]

[video=youtube;4PN5JJDh78I]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PN5JJDh78I[/video]

I reflect upon the words of Carl Sagan every time I forget our place in this vast cosmic sandbox. It's easy to forget how small we are but we should in that knowledge be humble about our tiny existence.

[Mort and Charon]

Firstly, pictures NASA downlinked on Monday, before attempting to ascend the dune, and having made a scuff in the dune to check out what the material was like. Apologies for the image quality, I had to take pictures of a lecture handout as the file hasn't been uploaded to our departmental database yet.
[quote][img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/101119556/IMAG0158.jpg[/img]
[img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/101119556/IMAG0159.jpg[/img]
[img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/101119556/IMAG0160.jpg[/img]
[img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/101119556/IMAG0161.jpg[/img]
[img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/101119556/IMAG0162.jpg[/img]
[img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/101119556/IMAG0163.jpg[/img]
[img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/101119556/IMAG0164.jpg[/img][/quote]

And here is from today, after the rover successfully crossed the dune
[img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/101119556/FLB_444990638EDR_F0260366FHAZ00302M_.JPG[/img]
[img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/101119556/RLB_444990726EDR_F0260366RHAZ00313M_-br.jpg[/img]

Just one of the benefits of being a Geology undergrad...

[TheTalon]

There's a man on Mars

[editline]7th February 2014[/editline]

[img]http://i.imgur.com/yFg9F0s.jpg[/img]

Right there. Resembles the Heavy, no?

Don't you wish you could go back in time with these pictures and be like, Mr Washington, I'm about to blow your shit, ready?

[l337k1ll4]

[QUOTE=Winters;43822315]All porn ever produced is right fucking there.[/QUOTE]

Ruling out alien porn is naive and pessimistic. When aliens are discovered, future humans will look back on this post in particular, placing it in museums as an example of how ancient humans used to believe, and then they will go fap to alien porn.