Curiosity: the Awakening...

More and more instruments and cameras are coming online.  The photo at right (click to enlarge) is from one of the navigation cameras, looking down at Curiosity itself.  You can see lots of pebbles strewn about, apparently kicked up by the sky crane's rockets as it winched Curiosity down onto the surface.

Those cable-tied, neat bundles of cables bring back strong memories for me, of my days in the U.S. Navy.  Much of the equipment that I worked on (as a repair technician) was constructed in the same labor-intensive fashion.  Constructing those bundles was a craft unto itself, and certain pieces of gear I worked on contained elaborate “harnesses” (as they're called) that were works of art.  I really hated it when I had to break one apart to repair a broken wire...