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Story: watchatease-news-story-half-curiosity-mars-dawn-20261007
Prepared: 2026-10-07T10:34:00Z
Use: factual editorial reporting; no endorsement implied

Publisher: National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Image credit required and retained: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
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JPL image-use policy: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/jpl-image-use-policy/

NASA states that its content generally is not subject to copyright in the United States and may be used for educational or informational purposes, including Internet pages, when used factually without implying endorsement and with NASA acknowledged as the source. JPL likewise permits reuse of public-site imagery subject to its listed special cases and requires the caption credit. Neither selected image contains an identifiable person, NASA/JPL insignia used as a logo, or third-party copyright notice in its NASA caption.

Asset 1: Curiosity dawn panorama crop
Publisher page: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/mars-science-laboratory/curiosity-rover/nasas-curiosity-rover-catches-stunning-martian-dawn/
Original publisher file: https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/pia26728-curiosity-captures-dawn-breaking-on-wind-carved-cliffs-.jpg
Caption verified on 2026-10-07: the six shots were captured Aug. 11, 2026, stitched after transmission to Earth, and processed without the usual white balancing.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Asset 2: Curiosity view back toward Gale Crater floor
Publisher page: https://www.nasa.gov/missions/mars-science-laboratory/curiosity-rover/nasas-curiosity-rover-catches-stunning-martian-dawn/
Original publisher file: https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/e2b-pia26729-curiosity-looks-back-after-reaching-altitude-milestone.jpg
Caption verified on 2026-10-07: captured Sept. 5, 2026, looking back toward Gale Crater floor, nine days after the rover marked one kilometer of elevation gain.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Four stored JPEGs are the publisher-generated 1280x720 and 960x540 renditions requested with NASA's own resize query. They were downloaded without local re-encoding. Each was decoded and visually reviewed on 2026-10-07; the pair shows two distinct scenes and no overlaid text, logo, identifiable person, corrupt region, or misleading local alteration. Exact bytes, dimensions and SHA-256 values are separately pinned in the submission manifest.