jacksonwest: Mars orbiter catches pic of Curiosity on its way down! | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine Watching the CGI animations at Geek Drinx last night, I was all, “Where’s the chase spacecraft for dramatic exterior angles on the lander? This is America! We faked a moon landing! Did nobody think to send a chase spacecraft?” I should have known better than to doubt the JPL’s Southern Californian sense of showmanship. Jack Parsons would be proud. NASA: Robots taking pictures of other robots on Mars.
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Mars orbiter catches pic of Curiosity on its way down! | Bad Astronomy | Discover Magazine

Watching the CGI animations at Geek Drinx last night, I was all, “Where’s the chase spacecraft for dramatic exterior angles on the lander? This is America! We faked a moon landing! Did nobody think to send a chase spacecraft?”

I should have known better than to doubt the JPL’s Southern Californian sense of showmanship. Jack Parsons would be proud.

NASA: Robots taking pictures of other robots on Mars.

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    This is seriously my favourite picture to have come out of all this today. I like it so much that it’s even my laptop...
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    This is freakin’ awesome
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    OH HAI THERE MARS
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    NASA biggest BAMF in the solar system.
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    Like Skynet but for good!
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    NASA: Robots taking pictures of other robots on Mars.
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