Thursday, August 9, 2012

NASA Mars Rover Curiosity's Self-Portrait by Navcams

This Picasso-like self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity rover was taken by its navigation cameras, located on the now-upright mast. 

The camera snapped pictures 360-degrees around the rover, while pointing down at the rover deck, up and straight ahead.

Those images are shown here in a polar projection. 

Most of the tiles are thumbnails, or small copies of the full-resolution images that have not been sent back to Earth yet. Two of the tiles are full-resolution.

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech



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