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Through the eye of Curiosity

MCT News Service Phtoto This image was obtained by NASA's Curiosity rover during its descent to the surface of Mars on August 5 PDT—August 6 EDT. The image was obtained by the Mars Descent Imager instrument known as MARDI and shows the 15-foot (4.5-meter) diameter heat shield when it was about 50 feet (16 meters) from the spacecraft. It was obtained two and one-half minutes before touching down on the surface of Mars and about three seconds after heat shield separation. It is among the first color images Curiosity sent back from Mars. (MCT News Service Photo)

Curiosity’s mysterious Mars photo stirs speculation   MCT NEWS SERVICE   LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE, Calif. — Did Curiosity capture the galactic equivalent of the Zapruder film when it landed on Mars? Seconds after the NASA robot’s landing Sunday night, Curiosity managed to squeeze off a handful of fuzzy, black-and-white photographs. One, taken with a device [...]

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