The selfie craze has reached cosmic proportions.
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Using the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI), dozens of images were shot on August 5th and were stitched together to form a striking self-portrait of Curiosity atop the Red Planet’s rock formation.
The Rover has now been on Mars for three Earth years and is currently in a deep bowl near the equator called Gale Crater.
The rover first noticed that the area was high in silica and hydrogen on May 21 and it turned around to come back and analyse samples from the area.
The rover took the selfie using its 7-foot-long robotic arm as a selfie stick.
The Curiosity rover, sent by American space agency NASA to Mars, has taken an fantastic 360 degree image of itself as it was in the Marias Pass region of Mars.
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The Rover will now attempt to dig at the foot of Mount Sharp in the hope of finding “ancient habitable environments”. This yielded a view that includes the rover’s ‘belly, ‘ as in a partial self-portrait.
