JPL Morse Code on Mars Curiosity vehicle.

[alfredo]

The rectangles on the wheels spell out J P L (Jet Propulsion Lab)

[Wilms]

1. .--- .--. .-..

http://inter.scoutnet.org/cgi-bin/txt2morse?text=jpl

[alfredo]

4. I'm an old ditty bopper 05H20.

[1-Old-Man]

5. My god, now there's a statement you don't see very often

I was an 05C40 but cross trained and worked (sat in front of the mill) as an ASA (Radio Research) ditty-bopper way back in the day ('67-'70).

[alfredo]

7. Kagnew 66-69

[Keefer]

2. My question is this:

What's in the blacked out areas of the photo? Something the government doesn't want us to see?

[lastlib]

3. nah, it's a mosaic photo, composite of multiple pics, and they just...

...didn't put in the parts for those areas, since they're not needed. I mean, we've all seen Vegas.....

[muriel_volestrangler]

6. ET's finger reaching out to touch the vehicle (nt)