So the thing that’s cool about this picture is that curiosity is moving, even though we can’t see that it’s moving because it is a stillframe indistinguishable from the previously captured stillframes of the rover when it was not moving?
Not knocking it but it is an interesting example of context completely changing the meaning of an image.
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I was surprised this hadn’t been done before. From the article:
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So the thing that’s cool about this picture is that curiosity is moving, even though we can’t see that it’s moving because it is a stillframe indistinguishable from the previously captured stillframes of the rover when it was not moving?
Not knocking it but it is an interesting example of context completely changing the meaning of an image.
I was surprised this hadn’t been done before. From the article:
>MRO has [spotted Curiosity before](https://www.space.com/mars-rover-curiosity-on-mont-mercou-orbit-photo), but the car-sized rover had always been stationary in those cases. The newly released photo “is believed to be the first orbital image of the rover mid-drive across the Red Planet,” NASA officials said in a [statement today](https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-orbiter-spots-curiosity-rover-making-tracks-to-next-science-stop/?utm_source=iContact&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1-nasajpl&utm_content=media-curiosity20250424) (April 24).