NASA has posted on its website the latest ‘selfie’ of Curiosity on Mars. The rover has been working for five months on the red planet and this panoramic image is the result of a dozen photos taken at the outcrop Pahrump Hills that the robot itself has taken with a camera that is installed on your ‘arm’.
Pahrump Hills is an outcrop of rock formed from the basal layer of Mount Sharp in the center of Mars Gale Crater. In the area where Curiosity is the time to make the ‘selfie’, called Mojave, has become a second drill ground for analyzing samples in the laboratory.
Curiosity made self-portraits above in three places explored before arriving at the base of Mount Sharp, but this time, say from NASA, the technique has been improved. “Compared with previous selfies, we added extra frames, so we could see the rover in the context of the entire campaign Pahrump Hills” says team member rover Kathryn Stack the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the US agency in Pasadena, California.
The Nasa Curiosity is using to investigate and evaluate ancient habitable environments and changes in environmental conditions of Mars, which has already left Mojave, the place of ‘selfie’.
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