There, she designed and constructed a rocket (The Iris, by A+ Industries).
SHOW OFF: My inbox is overflowing and Facebook and Twitter are exploding with images being returned from Mars by the Curiosity rover. Color images? You bet! 3D? Yup, got that too. And even an on board video of its heat shield being jettisoned? Uh huh! There's all that and more!
Case in point, here's a cool self portrait of the rover shortly after its "head" was deployed for the first time.
Image courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech
You can see its shadow of the 3.6 foot (1.1 meter) tall camera mast on the Martian surface. It's the first image from Curiosity's navigation camera. You can see the upright mast in the center and the arm's shadow at the left, while the arm itself is in the foreground.
In this composite self portrait, the rover looks down at its deck from the mast cam.
Also just released: The first (composite) 360-degree view of Curiosity's new digs in Gale Crater.
Image courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech
In the photo, Mt. Sharp is to the right, and the north rim of Gale Crater can be seen at the center. MSL's body is in the foreground, and a shadow of its mast/head pokes up to the right. These photos were taken on the night of Aug. 7.While the news avenues and multiple NASA Web sites and posts will show you images from Curiosity, to get the latest ones, before many news outlets even pick them up, go to the RAW images section of Curisity's Web site: There, they're listed by day on the planet. Today's images are at listed at the Sol2 page. Yesterday's are Sol1, and touchdown day's are Sol 0.
DOGGIE SPA: CJ helped out around the house today, cleaning up the yard and the post block party aftermath. He also was a big help in giving Kirby a makeover. She had about half her hair/fur chopped off. She was a patient 'customer,' sitting mostly still while we hacked away.
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