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Curiosity's heat shield falling toward Mars
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A color MARDI image from the descent sequence shows the heat shield falling far below the rover. It was taken Sol 0 (2012-08-06 05:15:39 UTC).
NASA / JPL / MSSS / Emily Lakdawalla
The photo has been processed to reduce compression artifacts (using a Gaussian blur, a slight downsize, and a bit of sharpening).
Copyright holder: Emily Lakdawalla
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Contact us to request publication permission from the copyright holder. Original image data dated on or about August 6, 2012
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