Curiosity Mars Rover in its 8th Year on the Red Planet Wall Art Android phone case This is the first color

This is the first color image of Mars taken by the panoramic camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit

visible as small

the bubble is the visible remnant of a powerful stellar explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC)

because the less-sensitive detector reduced the glare of the Flame portion of the nebula enough to bring out details of the rest of the nebula

Credit: ESO/VISTA

Curiosity Mars Rover in its 8th Year on the Red Planet Wall Art Android phone case This is the first colorNASA's Curiosity Mars Rover touched down eight years ago, on Aug. 5, 2012, and will soon be joined by another rover, Perseverance, which launched on July 30, 2020. Curiosity has seen a lot since it first set its wheels inside the 96 mile wide (154 kilometer wide) basin of Gale Crater. Its mission: to study whether Mars had the water, chemical building blocks, and energy sources that may have supported microbial life billions of years ago. Since