Curiosity streams a human voice and new telephoto images from Mars
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Image taken by the Mast Camera (MastCam) on NASA's Curiosity rover highlights the interesting geology of Mount Sharp (Image: NASA/JPL)
This image taken by a front Hazard-Avoidance camera on NASA's Curiosity shows track marks from the rover's first Martian drives (Image: NASA/JPL)
This image taken by NASA's Curiosity rover shows track marks from a successful drive to the scour mark known as Goulburn, an area of bedrock exposed by thrusters on the rover's descent stage (Image: NASA/JPL)
This color panorama shows a 360-degree view of the landing site of NASA's Curiosity rover, including the highest part of Mount Sharp visible to the rover (Image: NASA/JPL)
This image is from a series of test images to calibrate the 34-millimeter Mast Camera on NASA's Curiosity rover (Image: NASA/JPL)
A chapter of the layered geological history of Mars is laid bare in this postcard from NASA's Curiosity rover (Image: NASA/JPL)
Image is from a test series used to characterize the 100-millimeter Mast Camera on NASA's Curiosity rover (Image: NASA/JPL)
This chart shows increases in the volume of data coming back from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity over recent sols, or Martian days (Image: NASA/JPL)
The two donut-shaped tracks make an infinity symbol, and mark the first two drives of NASA's Curiosity rover (Image: NASA/JPL)
The SAM instrument, about the size of a microwave oven, will analyze the chemical ingredients in samples of Martian atmosphere, rocks and soil (Image: NASA/JPL)
Article Summary
For the very first time in human history, a human voice was streamed from the surface of another planet and traveled some 168 million miles (267 million km) into space before it was heard on Earth. The audio was a pre-recorded message from NASA administrator Charles Bolden, who sent a congratulatory message to the engineers involved in the US$2.5 billion mission to safely land the Mars Science Laboratory – better known as the Curiosity rover – on the surface of Mars.
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