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PIA23625: Navcam Movie of How Curiosity Takes a Selfie

This video, taken by one of the Navigation Cameras, on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, shows the rover's robotic arm as it rotates to take a selfie.

Target Name:	Mars
Is a satellite of:	Sol (our sun)
Mission:	Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
Spacecraft:	Curiosity
Instrument:	Navcam (MSL)
Product Size:	860 x 858 pixels (w x h)
Produced By:	JPL
Addition Date:	2020-03-20
Full-Res TIFF:	PIA23625.tif (630.2 kB)
Full-Res JPEG:	PIA23625.jpg (79.92 kB)

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This video, taken by the Navigation Cameras, or Navcams, on the Mast of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, shows the rover's robotic arm as it rotates to take a selfie. A camera at the end of the arm captured 86 individual images that were later stitched into a panorama.

The Navcams are black-and-white cameras generally used to help engineers plan Curiosity's movements.

More information about Curiosity is online at http://www.nasa.gov/msl and http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/.

Image Credit:

NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:

2020-03-20