無人火星探査車 キュリオシティ Curiosity
キュリオシティ Curiosity
日本時間6日午後2時すぎ、無人火星探査車「キュリオシティ（好奇心）」が、火星に着陸した。
キュリオシティは米航空宇宙局（NASA）が昨年11月に打ち上げたもので、着陸後は生命の痕跡を探す活動を行う。
Curiosity's Surroundings
This is one of the first images taken by NASA's Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars on the morning of Aug. 6, 2012. It was taken through a fisheye wide-angle lens on the left "eye" of a stereo pair of Hazard-Avoidance cameras on the left-rear side of the rover. The image is one-half of full resolution. The clear dust cover that protected the camera during landing has been sprung open. Part of the spring that released the dust cover can be seen at the bottom right, near the rover's wheel.
On the top left, part of the rover's power supply is visible.
Some dust appears on the lens even with the dust cover off.
The cameras are looking directly into the sun, so the top of the image is saturated. Looking straight into the sun does not harm the cameras. The lines across the top are an artifact called "blooming" that occurs in the camera's detector because of the saturation.
As planned, the rover's early engineering images are lower resolution. Larger color images from other cameras are expected later in the week when the rover's mast, carrying high-resolution cameras, is deployed.
降下の火星探査車くっきり NASAが画像公開
【パサデナ（米カリフォルニア州）共同】米航空宇宙局（NASA）は6日、火星着陸に成功した探査車「キュリオシティー」の降下中の画像を公開した。上空を周回する探査機「マーズ・リコネサンス・オービター」がほぼ真上から絶妙のタイミングで撮影した。この画像を撮るためにチームは3月から準備。オービターは超高速で周回を続けているため、1秒でもずれていたら画面にキュリオシティーが納まっていなかったという＜写真は、5日、パラシュートを開いて降下中の火星探査車「キュリオシティー」を格納したカプセル。（NASA提供、AP）＞
MSN産経フォト - 2012年08月07日
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/index.html
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/gallery-indexEvents.html
The Curiosity Mars Descent Imager (MARDI) captured the rover's descent to the surface of the Red Planet. The instrument shot 4 fps video from heatshield separation to the ground.
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