Mars – Joe Bowman

Gallery: Curiosity Photo Mashup

December 20, 2013August 6, 2012 by joebowman

Highlights from NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (Curiosity):

The now famous enhanced Curiosity landing image with parachute

Image of Curiosity in utero (Earth)

Another soil image with rover wheel

More celebration — Curiosity announcement

Radiation spikes recorded on way to Mars

Earth vs. Mars magnetic comparison

Landing diagram

First color photo – Brown-Scale?

Heat shield drops away

Hard earned celebration for team JPL

Mars soil with rover wheel

Mars mount sharp

Mastcam Mini

Activity lead Bobak Ferdowsi

Area cleared by landing jets

A fantastic panorama, one of many

Drillholes with deposits left by CHMIRA, both sieved and non-sieved

6 cm ChemCam image with 8 mm laser bore

1st edition Lincoln cent mounted on Curiosity

Mud coring site

Particles too large to fit in sieve

Phobos Eclipse seen from Curiosity

Is Phobos-Grunt just the latest victim of the ‘Mars Curse’?

December 19, 2013December 5, 2011 by joebowman

Contact was briefly established last week with the wayward Phobos-Grunt probe, still hobbling through low Earth-orbit since failing to fire its thrusters to escape orbit and send it on its way to Mars on November 9th. Unfortunately, this setback is just the latest in a string of disasters in Earth’s decades old struggle for the … Read more