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Description	English: This is one of the first images taken by NASA's Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars the evening of Aug. 5 PDT (morning of Aug. 6 EDT). It was taken through a "fisheye" wide-angle lens on the left "eye" of a stereo pair of Hazard-Avoidance cameras on the left-rear side of the rover. The image is one-half of full resolution. The clear dust cover that protected the camera during landing has been sprung open. Part of the spring that released the dust cover can be seen at the bottom right, near the rover's wheel. On the top left, part of the rover's power supply is visible. Some dust appears on the lens even with the dust cover off. The cameras are looking directly into the sun, so the top of the image is saturated. Looking straight into the sun does not harm the cameras. The lines across the top are an artifact called "blooming" that occurs in the camera's detector because of the saturation. As planned, the rover's early engineering images are lower resolution. Larger color images from other cameras are expected later in the week when the rover's mast, carrying high-resolution cameras, is deployed.
Date	5 August 2012
Source	http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/msl5.html
Author	NASA/JPL-Caltech
Other versions	NASA corrected version (linearized)

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	Date/Time	Dimensions	User	Comment
current	06:05, 8 August 2012	512 × 512 (97 KB)	Rehman	Revert good-faith edit, as per talkpage note
	05:08, 8 August 2012	1,024 × 768 (64 KB)	Olli	Better resolution, and better picture
	10:42, 6 August 2012	512 × 512 (97 KB)	Rehman	original 512x512 crop
	08:30, 6 August 2012	338 × 303 (77 KB)	Kaldari	Fixing clone artifacts from removing logo
	08:24, 6 August 2012	338 × 303 (77 KB)	Kaldari

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