Mars Science Labratory - Curiosity

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This composite image, with magnified insets, depicts the first laser test by the Chemistry and Camera, or ChemCam, instrument aboard NASA's Curiosity Mars rover. The composite incorporates a Navigation Camera image taken prior to the test, with insets taken by the camera in ChemCam. The circular insert highlights the rock before the laser test. The square inset is further magnified and processed to show the difference between images taken before and after the laser interrogation of the rock.

The test took place on Aug. 19, 2012.

In the composite, the fist-sized rock, called "Coronation," is highlighted. Coronation is the first rock on any extraterrestrial planet to be investigated with such a laser test.

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA16075
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That's so ridiculously clear it looks like someone rendered it with a high end computer program.

 
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I thought watching a HD video from another planet was the coolest thing I've done today.

Martian gifs are pretty sweet too:

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This probably belongs here as much as anywhere else. 46 years ago today, Lunar Orbiter 1 took the first-ever full photo of Earth:

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