Lincoln Penny on the Curiosity Rover

http://clarkplanetarium.org/rare-coin-found-on-mars/

by Mz • 12 years ago

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te_platt• 12 years ago

Is that penny the first human image on Mars? If not does anyone here know what is?

evan_• 12 years ago

The Face On Mars, of course:

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cydonia_(region_of_Mars)#.22F...

ibisum• 12 years ago

Fallen Astronauts, perhaps?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_Astronaut

giarc• 12 years ago

in fifty or so years when humans go to Mars

Is this our current expected timeline?

ejr• 12 years ago

Lacking immediate political or economic drivers, I'd say this is realistic. Neil deGrasse Tyson has a better explanation of why this is the case https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErZq2ZQQTrs (starting at 7:45 or so)

fluffyllemon• 12 years ago

Mars One intends to land its first crew on Mars in 2025. http://www.mars-one.com/mission/roadmap

Sir_Cmpwn• 12 years ago

In the realm of the feasible, SpaceX plans to land people on Mars in about 25 years.

bhauer• 12 years ago

Ah, but it's not a 1909-S V.D.B., which would have been the real big money option.

teawithcarl• 12 years ago

Exactly, yes. :)

gus_massa• 12 years ago

Repost: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8031732 (13 points, by Mz, 7 hours ago, 7 comments)

Mz2• 12 years ago

Yes, it was flagged to death because I submitted it per the HN guidelines with the original title. The title is very clickbaity and it was all anyone could talk about. I deleted it after it died. I emailed the moderator and asked if I could resubmit with a different title so it wouldn't go down in flames. It was resubmitted with his permission. My hope is that, the second time around, discussion can focus on the excellent writing and interesting subject matter instead of the unfortunate title (or other drama).

artmageddon• 12 years ago

Usually I feel the same way about resubmissions, but in this case I'm glad you did. I work as a developer in color science and it was really cool seeing this sort of stuff being used in huge projects - I sent this off to some coworkers and I'm sure we'll be discussing this in the morning :)

IgorPartola• 12 years ago

"Best I can do is $7!"

jhaglund• 12 years ago

Considering that a penny in 1909 had the buying power of about $0.25 today, I wish they would have attached a quarter. (death to pennies!)

smegel• 12 years ago

Am I the only one who thought "who's this Lincoln Penny?" (not an American here)

xvedejas• 12 years ago

A potentially interesting easter egg: you might notice that in the picture of the calibration target, there is a small blur in the 0 of the "1.0". Inside this 0 are the greek letters "γδβγ".

hamitron• 12 years ago

why not a banana?

Lincoln Penny on the Curiosity Rover

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