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The Mars rover Opportunity has sent back yet another gobsmacking image from the red planet. This picture is close to true colour, the space agency says, and was captured from a spot known as Duck Bay. Victoria crater on Mars, as seen by NASA's rover Opportunity Victoria crater on Mars, as seen by NASA's rover Opportunity. …

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  1. Ryan

    wot?

    no click-for-big?

  2. Andy Barber

    Feet or Metres

    Why use comparisons of size with Feet & Meters in the same sentence? Why can't they stick to one standard?

  3. Michael Sheils

    You write up an article about a pretty picture

    Then only display a thumbnail of the thing?

    We want to see this shot in full please.

  4. Les Matthew

    Re: wot?

    http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/targetFamily/Mars

  5. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Conspiracy!

    If you look at the lower right corner, at the black spot, you can see a bit of Big Foot's head sticking up. They need better photo editing software.

  6. Steven Knox

    Corrected last paragraph

    Here's that last paragraph rewritten using proper Reg standards:

    "The prominence on the right hand side, known as Cape Verde, is 43.54lg high and about the length of 5.42 double-decker buses from the rover's current position. A similarly rugged, but much taller (1.65 double-decker buses high) area of rocks on the right is known as Cabo Frio."

  7. Steve Roper

    Re: Conspiracy!

    Actually you mistook that part of the image. The black square is actually obscuring amanfromMars' launch bay, by which he commutes between Mars and Earth each day! ;)

    Oh, and furthering the cause of establishing Reg standards: I believe that makes "Cape Verde" about 62.586 Dd (doughnut-diameters) high and about 41.667 Sl (sheep-lengths) from the Rover, while "Cabo Frio" is 156.465 Dd high...

  8. Bill Fresher

    Hide

    The black thing is a hide where Marsian twitchers sit and take photos of rovers.

  9. Pascal Monett Silver badge

    Thanks Steve

    For putting those numbers into proper units !

    ;-)

  10. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Black bit.

    Obvious really. The rover's got its thumb over the lens.

    TeeCee

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