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Photo of the Day: Mars Rover

NASA's Mars rover, Curiosity, landed on the surface of the Red Planet early Monday morning—here's one of its first pictures.

Are you wondering why this picture shot from NASA's recently landed Mars rover isn't exactly impressive? You'd think they'd put a high resolution camera on an expensive robot like this, right?

Well, the reason is because it was taken with a fisheye lens from one of the rover's hazard-avoidance cameras, according to NASA. That's why you can see the rover's wheel in the shot, in the background is light from the sun saturating the image. The high res cameras built onto the rover won't start shooting pictures until later in the week, according to NASA.

So stay tuned for the dramatic shots, but for now, we'll have to make due with the grainy black and white photos from the rover's 'back-up camera.'

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For more photos and information see NASA's Mars Science Laboratory.


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