Image: NASA-MSL-Curiosity -Heat-shield.674789main pia16021-full full

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Description: "Curiosity's Heat Shield in Detail", photo by NASA/JPL. Obtained at Aug. 5 (PDT), 2012 with Mars Descent Imager camera (MARDI) installed on bottom of en:Mars_Science_Laboratory Curiosity. The 15-foot (4.5-meter) diameter heat shield is shown 3 seconds after separation from the descent Capsule, when it was about 50 feet (16 meters) from the spacecraft. Spatial scale of image is 0.4 inches (1 cm) per pixel. It is the 36th MARDI image. The original image from MARDI has been geometrically corrected to look flat.
Title: NASA-MSL-Curiosity -Heat-shield.674789main pia16021-full full
Credit: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/pia16021.html
Author: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS (Malin Space Science Systems)
Permission: PD-USGov-NASA
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License: Public domain
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