Sunday, September 9, 2012

First MAHLI shot with the dust cover off

This is MAHLI's first shot of the Martian surface with it's dust cover out of the way. I took shots before retracting the cover back on. The results speak for themselves:
Sol 33 imageNASA/JPL/MSSS
I haven't the scale for the image but this was shot no more than half a metre above the ground.

I have also put together a gif animation to show MAHLI's LEDs at work during yestersol's testing as viewed by the mastcam. The LEDs in this case are white colour which will assist visualisation of samples under a more familiar (Earth-like) lighting.
Images by NASA/JPL/MSSS. Gif animation by me.
It's now sol 34, 5am at Curiosity's post. Stay tuned.

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