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Curiosity Snaps Stunning One of a Kind Belly Selfie At Buckskin Mountain Base Drill Site
This low-angle self-portrait of NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at the site from which it reached down to drill into a rock target called “Buckskin.” The MAHLI camera on Curiosity’s robotic arm took multiple images on Aug. 5, 2015, that were stitched together into this selfie. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
NASA’s Curiosity rover has snapped a stunningly beautiful, one of a kind ‘belly selfie’ amidst the painstaking ‘Buckskin’ drill campaign at the Martian mountain base marking the third anniversary since her touchdown on the Red Planet.
The unique self portrait was taken from a low-angle for the first time and shows the six wheeled rover at work collecting her seventh drilled sample at the ‘Buckskin’ rock target earlier this(…)
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Post tags: Buckskin drill site, Curiosity, Curiosity Rover, Gale crater, InSight, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), JPL, Mars, mars red planet, Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), MOM, Mount Sharp, MSL, NASA, NASA. JPL, Opportunity Rover, red planet
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