File:Curiosity Self-Portrait at 'Big Sky' Drilling Site.jpg

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English: This self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at the "Big Sky" site, where its drill collected the mission's fifth taste of Mount Sharp.

The scene combines dozens of images taken during the 1,126th Martian day, or sol, of Curiosity's work during Mars (Oct. 6, 2015, PDT), by the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera at the end of the rover's robotic arm. The rock drilled at this site is sandstone in the Stimson geological unit inside Gale Crater.

The view is centered toward the west-northwest. It does not include the rover's robotic arm, though the shadow of the arm is visible on the ground. Wrist motions and turret rotations on the arm allowed MAHLI to acquire the mosaic's component images. The arm was positioned out of the shot in the images, or portions of images, that were used in this mosaic.

This portrait of the rover was designed to show the Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument atop the rover appearing level. This causes the horizon to appear to tilt toward the left, but in reality, it appears fairly flat.

For scale, the rover's wheels are 20 inches (50 centimeters) in diameter and about 16 inches (40 centimeters) wide. The drilled hole in the rock, appearing grey near the lower left corner of the image (image cropped, see original source), is 0.63 inch (1.6 centimeters) in diameter.
Date Taken on 7 October 2015
Source http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA19920
Author NASA
Other versions

Related self-portrait versions are at "Timeline of Mars Science Laboratory#Self-portraits":

  • Curiosity at
    "Rocknest"
    (Aeolis Palus)
    (October 2012)
  • Curiosity at
    "John Klein"
    (Aeolis Palus)
    (May 2013)
  • Curiosity at
    "Windjana"
    (Aeolis Palus)
    (May 2014)
  • Curiosity at
    "Mojave"
    (Aeolis Mons)
    (January 2015)
  • Curiosity at
    "Buckskin"
    (Aeolis Mons)
    (August 2015)
  • Curiosity at
    "Big Sky"
    (Aeolis Mons)
    (October 2015)
  • Curiosity at
    "Namib"
    (Aeolis Mons)
    (January 2016)
This image or video was catalogued by Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: PIA19920.

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