I am constantly amazed at how quickly I take amazing technology for granted which would have seemed like science fiction just a decade previous to their invention (iPhones, 60+ inch flat screen TVs etc). I guess it’s just the way we’re wired. But this still boggles my mind – we have put robots on to other planets, such as Mars, and in some cases we can even see those robots via other amazing technology, such as the above shot (click to telescopenate) of the Curiosity rover from the HiRise camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Amazingly, the HiRise camera has previously even imaged these robots parachuting down to the planet on their arrival.
Now, if we could just see an image of the landscape to the top left of this one, where the ‘Mars light‘ (if it was a physical object) seemed to be shining from in those anomalous images last week…
(If there wasn’t an Earthly robot on the Red Planet in that spot, I wonder if NASA would investigate further, or if the line would simply be that it’s obviously some sort of shiny, mineral outcrop, and that the tracks leading to it are some sort of natural, wind-created striations in the Martian soil)
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