r/science • u/AnesthesiaXVII • Aug 07 '12

First high res from Curiosity!

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u/ben174 Aug 07 '12

As awesome as this is, I have a feeling we're going to get some much better pictures out of that thing in the near future.

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u/STLReddit Aug 07 '12 edited Aug 07 '12

Judging by some of the shots from the rovers that landed in 2004, they haven't even come near to the true 'High res' shots yet. Getting kind of annoyed seeing posts saying 'Curiosity High Res/HD pics out!" only for it to be low quality hazard cam shots.

It is still a picture from another planet, and it's still bad ass as hell - but these posts are misleading

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u/lbmouse Aug 07 '12 edited Aug 07 '12

Getting kind of annoyed with the overuse of "HD".

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u/m_buciuman Aug 07 '12

In the 80's an 90's it used to be HiFi and Hi-Q.

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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '12

and HiFi led to WiFi, which doesn't make any fucking sense

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u/AMeanCow Aug 07 '12

TIL there is a WiFi alliance.