For the first time in history, the voice of a human has been transported back from Curiosity on the surface of Mars.
It wasn’t an alien, but a prerecorded message from NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on Mars. NASA announced during a press conference that Curiosity successfully sent back the audio soundbite Curiosity was carrying with it on Mars.
During the conference, NASA also unveiled some new images taken by its rover, including some breaking news images that were coming in straight from Mars while reporters were in the room.
Mike Malin, Principal Investigator of the Mastcam, said that NASA has received several hundred images back from Curiosity.
Since landing on Mars, the rover’s cameras have been undergoing some tests and calibrations to ensure the highest quality pictures are taken from the 350 million mile away planet. Malin said that NASA has been getting the Mastcam into better focus, and now images are coming in that are showing the Gale Crater region with more precision.
One of the images unveiled during the press conference shows a very detailed layout of what the Martian surface looks like around Curiosity right now. Malin said this image was “geologically exciting to me, and also very pretty.”
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