woah

Th sun look so tiny!

It looks like the head from Roman statue.

It is so amazing that we can get these amazing images now!

I love rocks! I want one of these!

How does he take a pic of himself..

There’s a lot going on here - and a lot has happened here. Look it up! It’s not just another rock. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Matijevic_(rock)

This almost looks like Earth.

It just looks.. like if you planted something it grows, like it could be from the woods close by, but it is literally millions of miles away

Petrified sand dune? Well Curiosity does look badass.

Amazing.

Am I the only one Sphinx in the bottom right of the rocks? Certainly amazing formations!

aptly named

He's so alone. Just like Wall E

The interesting thing here is that, if there was life on mars, stuff like this would probably be collapsed from the weight moving around on it. It's fascinating to see how things form on a completely lifeless, mostly-dry planet.

I've seen this set before on an episode of star trek.

i thought at first it was an astronaut's footprint

@Chrsty, Why must everything be "useful" to humanity, and all things which are not "useful" be ignored and declared useless? Stop asking "What can this do for me?" and start asking "What can I learn from this?"

I'm curious how they come up with the names

Aww you can see its little footprints

SO CLOSE...you can ALMOST see the entire arm for the camera that takes it's self portraits. I don't know about you, but I would love to see a few stills without them editing anything, leave the arm in place.

ok - I'm officially besotted by Mars. What a glorious planet!

Rust and indigo.

Very very fantastic!

These pictures suddenly make me feel Mars is not that far or different.

how is this picture taken ?

pay no attention to the ufo ... look at the rocks...smdh

Bone?

Absolutely huge amount of sedimentary rocks on Mars. Such abundance could only form if there had been a vast amount of water on the surface. Differential erosion suggests that sedimentation was episodic. Studying similar photos in the past, I have proposed that Mars experiences "atmosphere ages", not unlike Earth's "ice ages", whereby the orbit of Mars moves into a sustained pattern permitting huge quantities of CO2 ice to sublimate into the atmosphere, raising the atmospheric pressure above the triple point for water to exist in liquid form. The subsequent greenhouse effect then begins melting subsurface water ice, filling the basins, and beginning anew another episode of erosion and sedimentation.