{"id":4526,"date":"2015-05-26T11:45:53","date_gmt":"2015-05-26T16:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/?p=4526"},"modified":"2015-05-26T11:45:53","modified_gmt":"2015-05-26T16:45:53","slug":"mars-photos-keep-coming-over-those-millions-of-miles-make-that-hundreds-of-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.encoretechresources.com\/insights\/2015\/05\/26\/mars-photos-keep-coming-over-those-millions-of-miles-make-that-hundreds-of-millions\/","title":{"rendered":"Mars Photos Keep Coming Over Those Millions of Miles (Make that Hundreds of Millions)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nGo on a springtime tour of Mars, our Spring at least. The National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) is posting a series of photos<\/a> taken by its Curiosity Mars rover over periods of days and months. There are shots of Curiosity climbing a Martian mountain and even of “a serene sundown on Mars.” (Click on this photo for a sharper view.)<\/p>\n

Such a photo gallery is a truly amazing accomplishment, considering that it’s coming from an average distance between Earth and Mars of 140 million miles. It may seem like wasteland, but put that into the context of the solar system, and what it took to get there and there is much to ponder about extra-spatial relationships. <\/p>\n

Not content with the merely amazing, NASA recently reported that it has succeeded in sharpening the focus of Rover’s camera to get more sharply etched shots of the landscape there. How? By sending new software up there, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Go on a springtime tour of Mars, our Spring at least. The National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) is posting a series of photos taken by its Curiosity Mars rover over periods of days and months. There are shots of Curiosity climbing a Martian mountain and even of “a serene sundown on Mars.” (Click on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-technology"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t