Curiosity Snaps 'Arm's Length' Self Portrait

astroengine writes "Using its robotic arm-mounted MAHLI camera, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has snapped, quite possibly, the most iconic image to come from the mission so far. By stitching together 55 high-resolution photos, the rover has snapped an 'arm's length' self portrait, capturing its location in the geologically interesting area known as 'Rocknest,' including its recent scoop marks in the Martian soil and the base of Mt. Sharp." Note to NASA: Please sell this image in the form of a fundraising poster.

That's strange

[Anonymous Coward]

I didn't know Curiosity was a teenage girl.

Hot, hot, hot

[vikingpower]

As soon as my daughter is born, I'm gonna name her Curiosity. Thereafter, our boy will be named Mars, so she can roll all over.... Oh, wait.

What a co-incidence!!!

[MrKaos]

To the Mars natives, Curiosity is known as the "Rocknest Monster"

Re:That's strange

[jtownatpunk.net]

Just needs the duck lips.

Re:That's strange

[jhoegl]

I knew it... they have mirrors on Mars!

Re:Why are there footprints...

[Psychotria]

Those are the little trenches where it was scooping soil samples.

Hand in your conspiracy theorist badge. Now. They can be nothing but footprints. Little trenches from scooping soil samples... hilarious.

Re:Why are there footprints...

[Psychotria]

Now that I look at it more I can find even further flaws in your theory that that are not footprints. If you zoom in, magnify and apply 24 Laplace transforms (not enough room here to write them out completely), rotate 5 degrees, shift each pixel using a polar function, rotate -5 degrees, zoom, sharpen, smooth, stretch horizontally 314 pixels, rotate 1.618 degrees, add the height Mt Everest and subtract 15 before finally passing it through a modified Bresenham circle algorithm you can clearly see the thread. The threads are clearly from a shoe... not your so called "little trenches".