From almost the instant that it landed on Mars early on the morning of 6 August, NASA’s Curiosity rover began sending back pictures of the surface of the Red Planet. This low-res image, which was taken through a wide-angle fish-eye lens on one of the rover’s hazard-avoidance cameras, was the first. Photo NASA/Rex Features/AP Photo











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Willie Jones is an associate editor at IEEE Spectrum. In addition to editing and planning daily coverage, he manages several of Spectrum's newsletters and contributes regularly to the monthly Big Picture section that appears in the print edition.
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