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An awesome culture extra: Curiosity films its own landing on Mars

Courtesy of NASA, the last moments of the Curiosity robot landing on Mars.

Mike Allen
August 7, 2012 - 10:51 AM

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  1. Roy | August 7, 2012 at 11:14 am

    I couldn’t help but be reminded of the artist Mark Rothko when I saw Curiosity’s first color image:

    Curiosity:
    http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/images/?ImageID=4282

    Mark Rothko:
    http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?object_id=80566
    http://www.moma.org/collection/browse_results.php?object_id=37042

  2. Mike Allen | August 7, 2012 at 11:15 am

    That’s pretty remarkable.

    Clearly Rothko was a Mars probe!

  3. Miriam | August 7, 2012 at 3:38 pm

    It made me have one of those rare moments when I was proud to be a human being.

  4. Mike Allen | August 7, 2012 at 3:39 pm

    Me too!

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