A few days ago Curiosity used its Mars Hand Lens Imager tv camera to snap itsfirst ego - portraitwhich will take into account NASA foreign mission engineers to inspect and document the body politic of the bird of passage .
For the moment only a dispirited - res version of the image is available , stitched together from a collection of thumbnail trope . But once the high - res reading is transmit the engineers will be able to try out the amount of dust the rover has accumulated during its stay on the red major planet , as well as monitor wheel wearing since AAA is n’t useable off - worldly concern just yet .
The range was snapped at a spotlight known as Rocknest in the Gale Crater , and in front of the rover you could see the scrape marks where it best its first soil samples . But if you ca n’t wait for NASA to post the larger version , you may always monitorthe incoming RAW imagery from Curiosity yourselfvia its website . [ NASAviaUniverse Today ]
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