The Magnificent Eleven
Photographer: NASA/JPL (Curiosity)
Date: 2012+
Location: Gale Crater, Mars
NASA's Curiosity rover, which landed in Gale Crater on Mars on August 6, 2012, has taken numerous self-portrait panoramas stitched from multiple frames taken with the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) mounted on the rover's robotic arm. These self-portraits, released periodically throughout the mission, do not show the arm itself (as each component is taken at a slightly different arm position and composited). The images provide engineering documentation of the rover's condition and have also captured the public imagination. Curiosity has been operating far beyond its originally planned two-year mission and continues to explore Mars, having traveled over 30 kilometers as of 2024.
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