August 7th, 2012
05:02 PM ET
Curiosity photos: Caption contest
The Mars rover Curiosity has successfully landed on Mars, and highly-anticipated photos from it are already coming in.
How would you caption these images?
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But for the first step of man's journey through the Cosmos, we will remember this.
Well i was standing out in front of my double wide when i looked up and saw is shaped object............
#2 – The Blob, Part II, Coming To A Theater Near You!
My god, it's full of rocks.
Funny. For the 8 people that get the reference
I got it : )
I think it was in the first movie ...I got it also...thats 3.
got it.
Just stay away from Europa.
Got it, but I think the joke is about two years old 😉
Nice!!
With Rover's un-blinking eye, man quietly stares into the abyss that is forever
wow lame
i agree. those pictures really suck. could we try a little bit more and post some better pictures?
#1 – Mars Postcard – Woke up late on 1st day vacation. Lots of red sand. Locals are....not any. Miss you all. Love, Curiosity.
#2 – Yes!!! There is life on Mars......oh wait, never mind, just my own shadow
#3 – Ok little bacteria that hitched-hiked with me from Earth....I'll drop you off here then I'll come find you and then tell Houston
I knew I should have taken that left turn at Albuquerque!
talkhazin – I LIKED your captions! Thanks for the laughs.
#1 – NASA's new 2 Billion Dollar Camera – Coming to a Best Buy NEAR YOU, This Coming Black Friday!
1) A sticky note on my lens? C'mon! HA-HA-HA very funny guys!
2) Who knew 1960's 3D was popular on Mars?
3) Please Lord let me land safely – I'll never leave home again, I promise!
With an un-blinked eye, Rover stares into the abyss that is forever
very lame
#2 Attack of the 50 foot robot coming to a theater near you in new stereoscopic 3-D
#2: This IS the droid we are looking for!
#1: Installing a dusty lens on the camera: $23 million. Sending a Ford Bronco from earth to mars to carry the camera: $2.6 billion. Mounting the camera at a permanent 45 degree angle as a practical joke.... PRICELESS.
#2: Does my shadow make me look fat?
#3: I hope that wasn't important.
Amazingly crappy pics produced by billion dollar machine.
I'm really being sarcastic ... I think this is an amazing feat. I haven't read into much as of yet.
wish it didn't cost so much though! seems like they're spending money that we don't have.
It will take several days to tune the cameras...be patient.
#3 – Olympic announcer: "Gold medal for NASA in the 563 billion meter run.."
Love it!
at least some people have funny captions. a lot of these are just corny stupidity that I am amazed they think is funny at all.
Houston: I am lonely!!!
Houston isn't controlling this rover – it's the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA.
#3: Two words: Roswell, New Mexico...ok, three words.
#2: Hmmmm...I've been here before...OH, it's Daddy Mohawk Guy's hair! I'm Home.
1>OK, That's how steep I have to climb. I can do that!
2>OK, As soon I just clean off this lens cover, I'm on my way.
3>Good Bye! Thanks! Couldn't have done this without you!
Kubrick's 2001 updated with the monkeys flying this time!
There I was driving along minding my own business and FLAP! A piece of sandpaper hit my windshield. @_@
OK, were here..........now what?
Photo 2 – I shouldn't have any problems remembering where I parked my Rover.
#1 Well, something the sure hell ain't right.
#2 No, no, turn the attenna the other way!
#3 Did the primary buffer panel just fall off my gorram ship for no apparent reason?
1) In "Plane" View!
2) Me and My Shadow!
3) Right on Top!
#1: Hello, Is anybody out there.
#2: What The–?!
#3: Its OK, we paid for one way ticket.
For No. 1
"Houston! There are live Martians here, but they're hiding behind some kind of smoke screen!"
#1 Martian boomerang at 11 o'clock
#2 Martians playing paint ball
#3 Martian ultimate frisbee
#3 "Nyaaa, I should've taken a left turn in Albuquerque!"
Curiosity, " Oh, S***! What Just Happened!!? Houston, we have a prob . . , oh. Never mind. We're cool here."
For No. 3, of course
1) I think we found life, but their shy.
2) I don't know what NASA told you, but the landing wasn't as soft as they said, ouch.
3) weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
#3: Irony alert: Flying Saucers seen on Mars come from Earth!
Wew! For a minute there, I thought I was in Uranus.
#2 'Mission to Mars 3-D" a new film starring Gary Sinise
photo 3 – I was doing about 600MPH when my hub cap came off.
C'mon! What genius decided to use a Razor phone camera on this expedition!
#3 Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction photo popular with Martians.
#1 Mohawk Guy’s nightmare comes true. Protective tape left on viewing lens.
#2 HAL: Just what do you think you're doing, Dave?
#3 drifting falling, floating weightless, calling, calling home...
Yeap, it looks just like the picture on the travel brochure!
(static) Um . . . Houston? I don't think we're in Kansas anymore.
1. Mars in color is almost as exciting as Mars in black and white.
2. Put on your glasses, this is where the monster comes in!
3. Anybody seen my belly button?
For photo #1: "So you say the reason the filter is tilted is to clear out the dust....I suppose if I squint my eyes you'll tell me I can see the Mars Polar Lander?"
#1: Umm Bill, did you remember to remove the scotch tape off the lens?
#2: Team, I know we have a budget, but this is not what I meant when I said to include a 3D camera!
#3: Curiosity captures a UFO hoax on Mars.
Who did the registration on camera 3?
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1. I'm not a great selection for a photo caption contest.
2. Neither am I, there were loads of better ones from the landiing.
3. Hey, you're lucky. I'm not even a photo from the thing we're captioning!!
Hi AP, That was a ballpark firgue, basically comparing average pressure on the Martian surface to something you might find on Earth. I'll let Dr. Jacosky contrast the two atmospheres in his own words: Mars, first of all, remember is about 1.5 times as far away from the Sun as the Earth is. So it's a lot colder. Liquid water is not stable at the surface of the planet, and that's one of the puzzles, because we see geological features that look like they were carved by liquid water. The atmosphere as a whole is a little bit less than one percent as thick as the Earth's atmosphere, and it's made up predominantly of CO2. Now, CO2 is a greenhouse gas, but there's not enough on Mars to warm up temperatures to where liquid water could exist and be stable. When we look at the surface, and we've done this from orbit with spacecraft that can image the surface. We've done it from the ground with spacecraft, like the Mars Rover and Spirit and Opportunity, or the Phoenix lander, that can sample the surface and tell us the composition, or image the surface at very high resolution, millimeter-scale resolution. We see a lot of evidence that liquid water has been there, we see geological and geochemical evidence for a very complex history. That's one of the most interesting things about Mars. It looks simple, but the more you learn, the more complicated it looks, it looked like. When we look at the Earth as a system, we see that every part of it influences every other part. So the atmosphere affects the oceans, that affect the polar caps, these all affect the geology of the surface, when we look at rainfall and runoff. The interior affects the oceans and atmosphere system, a complex, complicated system. And the more we find out about Mars, the more we're discovering that it too is a system, just as complicated as the one on Earth. The only thing it's lacking is oceans, and there are people who think that there were oceans, early on Mars. If not oceans, there certainly seems to be pretty convincing evidence for standing bodies of water like lakes, or river channels, and for a very active hydrological cycle, water cycle. And of course, with liquid water, at least in the past, or possibly today in the subsurface, there's the possibility for life. So Mars is just an exciting place to be exploring.
Yep! Cell phone cameras still suck!
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#2
The results of the astronaut's Rorschach tests are in Bob, most say it's a bunny.
#3
Call it in the air, heads or tails...
1] Now cover your RIGHT eye...
2] Has anybody seen my 3D glasses ?
3] UFO sighted in Martian sky
Oh man, cone bras are everywhere! :O
#1. Damn this duct tape residue. See what happens when you cut our budget?
watermelon shots can be sooooo messy!
1 – "The fog of Mars"
2 – "Bi-polar Mars"
3 – "Mars has UFOs or swamp gas"
Hmmm.....should I go with black and white, or sepia?
Pic #3: A bullet. Right before it hits your eye.
#3...to the planet Mars....."Hi honey, I'm home!!
#2 "This baby has everything, including old school 3D"
We all thought we were doomed when the glass pane containing Zod and evil cohorts from the planet Krypton appeared on Mars, until Mighty Mouse swooped in from the west to save the day.
Here's your caption: "What a waste of money."
I hope your not a hypocrite and feel the same about two useless wars that cost thousands times more than this.
'you're'
Here is your caption: "Waste of life."
For photo #3: "Now was the heat shield to deploy first or second.... can we get a check the manual on that....Why?! CUZ I'M LOOKING AT THE SHIELD RIGHT NOW AND WE GOT LESS THAN 6 MINUTES LEFT....!?
For photo #3: "Now was the heat shield to deploy first or second.... can we get a check in the manual on that....Why?! CUZ I'M LOOKING AT THE SHIELD RIGHT NOW AND WE GOT LESS THAN 6 MINUTES LEFT....!?
#1
Houston, we have a parallelogram.
#1–Curiosity goes through the looking glass to see how deep the rabbit-hole goes.
Not a Walmart in sight.
Dude? Where am I?
A Martian mouse sticks a wedge of cheese up its nose, in the traditional manner, as a sign of greeting and friendship.
For #3, "of course"
RE: My view is even though there are many drieeffnt factors in each and every sale but because they have an ability to affect other properties that ALL sales be counted. I always objected to the fact that the county did not use foreclosures and many other sales in their tax evaluations until this past year. The market is the market. A foreclosure down the street from you affects your value. As to how banks do their accounting internally does affect pricing in the market because if they carry a loan at face and it is only worth 50 percent it will affect how they deal with the property. In reality by excluding lower prices you are artificially inflating real estate prices. I really doubt that happened by accident. What if we did the same thing in the stock market? On every day there are forced sellers in many companies. Margin calls, fund liquidations, hedge fund redemptions, etc. Should we exclude their sales and only count the ones we want to inflate the price?
Hopefully this robot is not drinking and driving. I'd hate for him to spill his drink!
#3: Oh crap, we just lost a hubcap!
For photo #2: "For visual clarity and comfort, always coat your 3 D glasses with the proper amount of zinc oxide."
#2 "You may put on your 3D glasses...now."
#3
NASA EXCLUSIVE: The set of the ultra secret Hollywood sequel, Biodome II, has been spotted on Mars. Pn the pl;us side, there is no sign of Pauly Shore.
Thank God we didn't spend that 2-plus BILLION on our schools or something as equally frivolous.....
#1: Shoot! General Zod escaped from Jor-El's phantom zone again!
#2: Mars rover Curiosity deemed borderline bipolar after taking Rorschach test
#3: Lost Deathstar discovered covered in dust, superlaser still functional. please contact NASA for return instructions
This is Major Tom to ground control...
2. Sarah, don't you just Love how Jamie is starting to use his Reds?
(Static) Um . . . Houston? I don't think I'm in Kansas anymore, over.
#1 "Do a barrel roll!"
Skeptic magazine has just debunked this picture and confirmed it is a hubcap from a 1964 Rambler!
I thought I was on Mars, but this looks like Bakersfield.
3. Stinking string on the yoyo broke AGAIN??
No Margret, I don't see a Polar Bear
Holy Curiosity Batman....where's the Mars Bars??
Expert claims rover heat shield reverse engineered from crashed UFO – kept at Area 51
They can take the orange blurry filter off the camera anytime now!
#2: I think I forgot my 3D glasses at home again...
And to your left folks is Martian Martins residence just over those hills there on Hottywood!
#3
Dear Insurance – just lost multi-million dollar lens cap thingy on Mars. Sorry.
-Curiosity
Oh my, I love this entry. It's my first time here so I was pretty scoekhd when I finally read the part where you revealed why you broke up. Love how it was written. Gay pride! My bro had a somewhat similar experience. He's gay din.Congratulations!
#2 – In an effort to attract a younger fan base, NASA equips Curiosity with the Instagram application. Future apps will include Foresquare to find other rovers in the near vicinity and a Geocaching app so that rovers can pieces of scrap metal hidden throughout the planet.
If you ever wondered what a $2.6 billion shadow puppet would look like...
Trying to snap a photo from my Harley of the Big thermometer in Barstow,CA on the way to Vegas!
#1 What time is the surf up on this baby?
#2 Foreshadowing things to come.
#3 Help ! The earthlings are coming ! The earthlings are coming
R Kelly's fish tank
Dude with Mohawk sends radio control truck to Mars, takes poor quality pictures for 2 billion
Crater?! I barely even know 'er!
#1 Mitt Romney starts sending gold bars to Mars for the tax break.
Hey, careful! Don't point the camera at the alien settlement!
#3: Wait..... You mean WE are the UFO's on Mars? = MIND BLOWN
Wardrobe malfunction!
Rover takes up shadow boxing to pass the time.
#3 "After a 2 year journey, Balloon Boy finally reaches Mars"
love it!
#1 Conquering Photoshop, one planet at a time!
#2 Mars is trippy.
#3 Look Ma, no hands!
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#3 Curiosity, a true "Balloon Boy"
I would caption these, " really? for a few billion dollars these images are the quality we get?" Look at the older rover pictures, they're WAY more clear.
Dude, this is the low res equipment (first to be fired up). The high res stuff gets brought on line as things are tested and powered up.
Reports of UFOs on Mars are merely weather balloons. Pay no attention that giant rover zapping rocks with lazers.