July 20th, 2018: Curiosity Pictures
In the now over 2,000 days Curiosity has been roving over the surface of Mars, it’s taken many pictures.
Alan Taylor at The Atlanic has compiled some of the cool ones. First the camera had to be calibrated with this penny, the first year of the Lincoln series. http://cellar.org/2017/mars1.jpg The Black Dunes... http://cellar.org/2017/mars2.jpg Strange layered rocks... http://cellar.org/2017/Mars3.jpg The meteorite... http://cellar.org/2017/Mars4.jpg Lots of points... http://cellar.org/2017/Mars5.jpg Raping and pillaging... http://cellar.org/2017/mars6.jpg Curiosity is an amazing machine. |
The drill dust is a different color. I assumed the rocks would be red inside.
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I like that you used the Lincoln cent to calibrate the camera. Interesting that the VDB initials are barley visible at the lower left corner of the bust. Victor D Brenner (VDB) was the designer, now if it were the S (San Franciso) VDB it would be worth a pretty penny
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Early production coins had the designer's initials prominently displayed on the bottom of the reverse. The general public objected; so, the initials were reduced in size and moved to a less conspicuous place along the bottom edge of the obverse bust. The early ones had lower mintages and are worth more to collectors. They didn't make them with initials in both places.
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I don't see the VDB on the calibration penny, does that mean my eyes are too old,or it's an early issue?
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It's on the other side.
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Only on the first coins then the initials were moved to under Lincoln's shoulder.
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