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A four-year-old's interpretation of the Mars Curiosity Rover mission

Xeni Jardin at 12:49 pm Mon, Oct 1, 2012

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Josh Stearns writes,

My four year old son painted this at school and told his teacher, “This is Mars. Mars is red. And there is a robot there taking pictures and sending them back to earth.”

Mars Curiosity, eat your heart out.

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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  • mtdna

    NASA has done a great job publicizing and making the Curiosity mission accessible. My young daughter came home from from school the other day and asked if I knew there was a robot on Mars, and that it sent pictures showing flat rocks where water was.

    • JonS

      Well, did you?

  • vonbobo

    No No No! Corporate Master is displeased!

  • allium

    Ironically, the first image of Mars taken from a space probe was colored by hand too.

  • timquinn

    Man, I hate when artists explain their work.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1584576741 Scott Rose

    And on top of that, you can be assured that 4 year old will discover something wonderful and new every day…Still waiting, Curiosity.

  • geoffmartin7777

    Mars Curiosity is a robot running on nuclear fuel and does not have a heart.