Get the latest photos from mars as they come in rather than wait for press releases.
Link to the raw images section.
Has been handy on previous missions.
Once things kick off they'll be loads here.
FYI NASA measures days on mars in "sols". Click on each one to see that days images.
If the thumbnail looks blured then Curiosity hasn't uploaded the full res image yet.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Wed 8 Aug 2012, 17:05,
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will there be some sort of alert when they take a picture of something other than gravel?
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or a siren that tells you they've loaded the colour film at last
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HappyToast Groat froth, Wed 8 Aug 2012, 17:19,
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^This^
I love seeing these pictures but so many of them are either B&W or false colour. Are there really no colour cameras on robot probes?
I've got £5 riding on whether or not K'Breel is of the blue caste. I must know!
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jonbob loves you, Wed 8 Aug 2012, 18:04,
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they've started to deploy the mast so the colour images will be here soon
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This will keep you going;
www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/pia16021.html
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Jabberwoc misses D.R. and Quinch, Wed 8 Aug 2012, 22:05,
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or check the
Daily Mail for "hilarious" photoshops of mars surface. A few piccys from here have made their way across to the DM.
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It's not enough that it's a bloody alien landscape?
What you're waiting for a starbucks to be built there?
It's going to be rocks and sky all the time unless something bloody amazing is found. In that case I assume they'll show it on Newsround.
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Photos being sent to you from another planet by a nuclear powered robot not interesting these days?
Aaaand the Nuclear Powered Robot is fitted with frickin lasers.
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Cerebus Sticky! Sticky! Stick! Stick!, Wed 8 Aug 2012, 17:24,
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I'm sure it's all very worthwhile and will eventually secure the future of our species etc
but one rocky desert world looks very much like the next to me.
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Maybe it is only a desert and as it drives around it will get to someplace interesting, like Kentucky.
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BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Wed 8 Aug 2012, 17:44,
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Well said, Sir.
Cassini, Mars missions, landing probes on comets, crashing stuff into moon-craters - when the heck will people be impressed?
Also, when will someone give me ANY job in astronomy? ANY-FRICKIN-THING! PLEASE!
Ahem...
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Jabberwoc misses D.R. and Quinch, Wed 8 Aug 2012, 21:53,
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I get all my Mars photos from the b3ta front page.
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BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Wed 8 Aug 2012, 17:20,
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this has just amused me too
I particularly enjoy the way her name isn't actually all that well blacked out either.
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JeremyBeadlesHands, Wed 8 Aug 2012, 17:55,
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This one is fantasic:
mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/?rawid=CR0_397506222EDR_F0010008CCAM00000M_&s=0
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JamTallons, Wed 8 Aug 2012, 17:36,
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It's just beautiful, such depth of field.
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skeltonator Needs some new daps., Wed 8 Aug 2012, 19:02,
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I sent it to photobox
to be printed onto a 4 foot canvas to hang in my living room
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Wed 8 Aug 2012, 19:44,
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You really should get amazon to market it for you, they are great at this sort of thing.
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skeltonator Needs some new daps., Wed 8 Aug 2012, 20:06,
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