Gallery | Mars Curiosity - Week 1 | Self curious

This self-portrait of Curiosity was made by taking 8 images from the navigation cameras and stitching them together. The back of the rover is on the left (part of the big power source - the radioisotope thermoelectric generator - that will keep the rover alive for its two-year mission - is sticking up at an angle out the back). You can see the surface of Mars, and then, at the top, the mountainous rim wall of Gale crater, Curiosity's new home.

Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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