Mars Rover Curiosity Snaps a Selfie on the Red Planet

Published at 9:13 am, February 25, 2015

EastIdahoNews.com Staff

NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS(NEW YORK) — NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover has snapped a selfie on the red planet showing off the terrain where it has been working for the past five months.

Dozens of images taken from the rover’s robotic arm were woven together to create the selfie, which shows off the Pahrump Hills site where Curiosity has been exploring and drilling to learn more about the Martian environment.

A version of the photo released by NASA points out the various spots where Curiosity has been conducting research over the past five months. The images used for the mosaic selfie were taken at the Mojave 2 drilling site.

Curiosity’s next stop will be at a site called Telegraph Peak, where NASA plans to have it drill for another sample that can be analyzed and shed new insight on how Mars’ environment has changed.

The car-sized, nuclear powered explorer was launched in November 2011 and arrived on Mars in August 2012.

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