Snapping a selfie on Mars

been partial to a selfie, NASA’s Curiosity rover has always AllAboutSpace dusty it was. rover wanted to show just how and in this case the Mars-based Mars, a dust storm began encompassing Two weeks prior to this self-portrait combined if than North America and Russia and eventually growing larger the nearly to Curiosity’s rover companion, it were on Earth. This storm led rover, having to suspend science 15-year-old solar-powered Opportunity June. It's thought a low-power safe mode on 10 operations and place itself in

or possibly to clear but it could take weeks, that the storm is now starting

home. months, for Opportunity to phone

was Mars the nuclear-powered Curiosity However, on the other side of

which its Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI), busy taking this self-portrait with

drill hole can site (a 1.6-centimetre (0.6-inch) shows the rover at a drill sample

Sharp. known as 'Duluth', on Mount be seen to the left of Curiosity),

at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Tom Green – systems engineer

“We've been

California, United States: Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena,

done for over a year, but our job isn't developing this new drilling technique

on Mars.” once a sample has been collected

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