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There is something hidden by a black square at the far end of the vehicle.
by OhArgh 14y ago
There is something hidden by a black square at the far end of the vehicle.
- Synthetase 14y agoThat's definitely the MMRTG or its nuclear battery. My guess would be the Department of Energy doesn't want too much about it floating around.
- biesnecker 14y agoThough it's not like photos of the MMRTG don't exist (e.g., http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av028/111117mmrtg/ http://spaceflightnow.com/atlas/av028/111117mmrtg/)
- nikic 14y agoWhat are the reasons for hiding it?
- OhArgh 14y agoIt's odd. I just looked at it again and now the square is gone. Maybe as suggested it was a rendering issue and it was just a coincidence that its was over the battery.
- nollidge 14y agoThere are already lots of pictures of it. Quite sure the DoE doesn't care at all.
- nullc 14y agoNothing is 'hidden'— the image is a stitched panorama from many smaller images, and they didn't (yet?) transfer some of the images which only cover the rover, presumably because looking at the rover is scientifically uninteresting. The black areas are just the boundaries of the missing images.
- seanlinmt 14y agowouldn't that black spot just be the mount that's holding the camera?
- smackfu 14y agoIt seems to just be a glitch in this copy of the pano. This other one is fine: http://www.360pano.eu/show/?id=731 http://www.360pano.eu/show/?id=731