NASA's newly landed Mars science Rover Curiosity snapped the first color image of its surroundings while an orbiting sister probe photographed litter left behind during the Rover's drain do-or-die descent to the surface, scientists said Tuesday. Curiosity's color image, taken with dust cover still on camera lens, shoes the north wall and rim of Gale Crater, a vast basin where the nuclear-powered, six-wheeled rover touched down Sunday night after flying through space for Eight months. The picture proved that one of the Rover's key instrument, a camera known as the Mars Hand Lens Imager, or MAHIL, was in good working order affixed to the end of curiosity robot are. Designed to take magnified, close-up images of rocks and other objects, or wide shots of landscapes, the camera currently remains stowed on the rover's deck. But once in full operation, scientists cause it to capture fine details with a resolution as high as 13.9 microns per pixel-several times finer than the width of a human hair: Reuter
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