Curiosity Mars Rover in its 8th Year on the Red Planet Wall Art Android phone case because the less-sensitive detector reduced

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

Uranus is the only giant planet whose equator is nearly at right angles to its orbit

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

Image Credit: ESA and the PACS

Curiosity took this selfie on Martian Sol 2082 (June 15

Curiosity Mars Rover in its 8th Year on the Red Planet Wall Art Android phone case because the less-sensitive detector reducedNASA'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