Even robots on another planet are so vain that they can’t help but to snap a selfie of themselves. NASA’s Curiosity rover took a magnificent selfie while posing with a stunning landscape in the background. NASA rovers, they’re just like us! While exploring Mars, the Curiosity rover took a selfie on the Vera Rubin Ridge and captured a spectacular panoramic of the landscape of the red planet.
The Curiosity rover landed on Aeolis Palus in Gale Crater on Mars on August 6, 2012. Since then, the NASA rover made an 11-mile journey up the crater. Curiosity has documented its exploration and has accumulated enough photos to piece together an incredible panoramic photo of Mars. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory took numerous images that were taken on January 23, 2018, from Vera Rubin Ridge, which is about 1,100-feet high from where Curiosity started in the crater. The picture was taken by Curiosity’s Mars Hands Lens Imager (MAHLI) that is attached to a 7-foot-long arm. “The arm was positioned out of the shot in the images, or portions of images, that were used in this mosaic,” NASA explained.
