Thursday, March 28, 2013

APOD 3.7

Curiosity Self-Portrait Panorama 
The Mars Curiosity Rover took an interesting and beautiful self portrait in the Gale Crater. This was the site on which Curiosity first started drilling into the rock. In the photo at the rover's feet, one can see a hole that was drilled to collect samples. The photo was pieced together with many images taken by two separate cameras which capture far or close-range images. He could photograph himself using a long arm which holds the far-range camera, which is not shown. 

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