ll:
NASA just landed a rover on Mars, this is the very first picture. This JUST happened minutes ago.
1:42am EST 8/6/2012
It’s in color
holy shit
that’s fucking MARS you guys
FUCKIN SPAAAAAAAAACE
FFS, people, this is NOT a photo from Curiosity, the rover which landed today. This is from an older rover, Spirit. Curiosity is not going to start sending colour photos until later this week. It hasn’t freaking unpacked it’s proper cameras yet. GAH.
I HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE SPREAD WRONG SCIENCE WHICH IS RIDICULOUSLY EASY TO CHECK
Exhibit A: @MarsCuriosity tweet
Exhibit B: real source of the above photo taken by Spirit in 2005
Even if you hadn’t recognised the image because you’re not as much of a geek as I am, google image search result for that image makes it pretty clear it’s from Spirit
