Curiosity Rover is back with a set of post solar-conjunction images from sol 4784 (January 20, 2026). The images are now available on the mission image server.
This image was taken by one the rover's hazard avoidance cameras. It was acquired during mission Sol 4784 (January 20, 2026). Image credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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@Salvo Yeah, I’ve heard of some phones straight up replacing the moon with a generated one in photos. Crazy!
During the good Aurora last year, I was using both my phone handheld and a DSLR on a tripod, and the phone pictures were overall pretty similar. So I think I'm safe with whatever it does to allow these handheld long exposures. Last night it faded not long after I took my first test photos, so there was not time to set up proper equipment.
Next Monday is the 26th of January, a public holiday observed nationally in Australia.
This date marks the landing of the First Fleet in 1788 and the establishment of the British colony of New South Wales. It’s not our “Independence Day”—if anything that would be the 1st of January.
Be aware that many Australians, both Indigenous and settler, consider Australia Day to be a day of mourning, reflection, solemnity and reconciliation.
Please read the room before wishing the Australians you know a “happy” Australia Day.
So cool. If you zoom in on the upper right, you see a little crescent. That's the Martian moon Phobos.
Zoom in again and you'll see a star next to Phobos. That's Earth! That's home.
Seen from Mars by NASA's Curiosity rover.
https://science.nasa.gov/photojournal/curiosity-views-earth-setting-phobos-rising/ #science #space #astronomy
The sun was about 13° below the horizon when the Perseverance rover captured this image of the early morning twilight on Mars back in March.
Mars' smaller moon Deimos is shining through the atmospheric haze above the Nili Planum region.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Simeon Schmauß
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