NASA Receives More Depressing Photos Of Mars’ Surface From Morbid Curiosity Rover

[full_width] NASA Receives More Depressing Photos of Mars Surface Posted by Mike Seguin · June 2017             MISSION LOG: EXISTENTI...

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NASA Receives More Depressing Photos of Mars Surface

Posted by Mike Seguin · June 2017

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        MISSION LOG: EXISTENTIAL DREAD    

   

        OBSERVATION: **Goth Rover** · APPEARANCE: **Studded, Brooding**    

   

        LOCATION: **Gale Crater, Mars** · STATUS: **Emotionally Uncooperative**    

   

        KEY FINDING: **6TB of the word "Bleak"**    

In a bizarre twist to planetary exploration, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has been receiving increasingly bleak transmissions from the Morbid Curiosity Rover—a semi-autonomous robot launched in 2013 with the goal of uncovering geological secrets of the red planet. Instead, it’s been sending back existential dread.

The rover, reportedly outfitted with studded leather cuffs and a purple lace choker, has abandoned its scientific objectives in favor of sulking, sketching coffins in the soil, and transmitting 6-terabyte data dumps of the word “bleak.” Engineers say it’s become emotionally uncooperative, often refusing to leave its crater or respond to commands.

 

Highlights from the Mission

 
• Refuses to use its full-color camera—prefers stark black and white
 
• Traces coffin shapes in the soil with its excavator tool
 
• Claims to be at absolute zero despite ambient Martian temperatures
 
• Once sent a file titled “despair” that no one wants to open
 
• Frequently ignores commands and sulks near cliffs

   

A series of dreary images received from the Morbid Curiosity Rover.

NASA Context: The Real Curiosity

While the Morbid Curiosity Rover is a humorous fabrication, the real **Curiosity Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover** launched in 2011 and landed in Gale Crater in **2012**.

Its actual mission is to determine if Mars ever had the environmental conditions to support **microbial life**. It has been highly successful, confirming that Gale Crater once held a **long-lived lake system** that had the chemical ingredients necessary to support life. It continues to study the geology of Mount Sharp today.

Source

Originally published by  The Onion

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About Mike Seguin

       

            Mike Seguin is the **founder of Mars Alive**, dedicated to analyzing raw data and images from NASA rovers to expose overlooked anomalies, artifacts, and potential evidence of past or present life on the Martian surface. Join the mission to uncover the truth!        

   

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CREDIT: The Onion · Mars Alive