Curiosity Tracks Sunspots

[Kilmeister]

Well I know we've been pouring over all of the fun stuff coming from New Horizons, but while reading that I stumbled upon an interesting article about Curiosity. And much like NASA found a new use for ALICE when they passed by Jupiter, it looks like they had to deputize Curiosity to do STEREO-A's job temporarily.

Curiosity's Mastcam Tracks Sunspots

[Vanamonde]

"Hey, can we borrow your space probe?" It's so cool that these machines are versatile enough to be repurposed like this.