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This was taken by the camera whose sole purpose is to assist with navigation. That is why its B&W, low quality, and stitched. The main camera system will produce full color images that I assume will be much higher quality.


Are there any examples of a picture taken on Earth with the main camera?


Here's a full-resolution picture taken by the descent imager as the heat shield fell away:

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/multimedia/pia16021.ht...

The descent imager uses the same sensor as the main mast cameras, but with different optics.


If that camera works for 10+ years, I'll take that resolution any day! Beautiful!

If you want to blow up a giant printout wait for the stitched-together shots, I suppose.


I haven't found any full resolution examples, but there's a resized sample here: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/mission/instruments/cameras/mas...




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