<story><title>Curiosity rover: Martian solar day 2</title><url>http://www.360cities.net/image/curiosity-rover-martian-solar-day-2</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nkoren</author><text>Note that this is actually missing a very major feature of the landscape: Aeolis Mons, or mount Sharp. The NASA panorama that this was adapted from failed to image the upper 2/5ths of the environment (roughly), and therefore did not capture the 15,000-foot mountain that is looming above the rover.&lt;p&gt;The maker of this panorama cleverly edited the image to show a false horizon where the mountain would actually be. It looks good, but gives the misleading impression that the rover is surrounded by a band of low hills, when the truth is rather different.&lt;p&gt;Here&apos;s a picture of mount Sharp, taken from a different camera than did the panorama:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/images/?ImageID=4271&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/images/?ImageID=4271&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you look at the foreground terrain, you&apos;ll see that it matches the WSW terrain of the OP. There should be a gobsmackingly big mountain there!</text></comment>
<story><title>Curiosity rover: Martian solar day 2</title><url>http://www.360cities.net/image/curiosity-rover-martian-solar-day-2</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>biesnecker</author><text>A high-res panorama of Mars, taken by a semi-autonomous robot that was landed via rocket sky crane, transmitted 14 light minutes across space, then transmitted on demand through a global information network to my computer.&lt;p&gt;And people say the future isn&apos;t what it was made out to be.</text></comment>