10 years of Curiosity on Mars - NASA Poster andromeda Most of the pale

Most of the pale

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After some basic preprocessing in Pixinsight

But you always wonder how actually it looks like

The Image was reprocessed from the raw (Fits data) by the astrophotographer and founder of Cosmonity Michał Ostaszewski using the latest techniques and tools which was not available at the time of capturing this image by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2004

10 years of Curiosity on Mars - NASA Poster andromeda Most of the paleSince landing on Mars in August 2012, NASA's Curiosity rover has been exploring 3 mile high Mt. Sharp in Gale Crater. The rover has climbed more than 2,000 feet (612 meters), reaching progressively younger rocks that serve as a record on how Mars has evolved from a wet, habitable planet to a cold desert environment. Other Curiosity achievements: Acquired 494,540 images Returned 3,102 gigabytes of data to Earth Drilled 35 samples and scooped 6 Its