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Curiosity snaps self-portrait
Image Caption: Rover’s Self Portrait -This Picasso-like self portrait of NASA’s Curiosity rover was taken by its Navigation cameras, located on the now-upright mast. The camera snapped pictures 360-degrees around the rover, while pointing down at the rover deck, up and straight ahead. Those images are shown here in a polar projection. Most of the tiles are thumbnails, or small copies of the full-resolution images that have not been sent back to Earth yet. Two of the tiles are full-resolution. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Read more: http://www.universetoday.com/96684/curiosity-raises-mast-and-snaps-1st-self-portrait-and-1st-360-panorama/#ixzz23196uUU5
http://www.universetoday.com/96684/curiosity-raises-mast-and-snaps-1st-self-portrait-and-1st-360-panorama/