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pia16239 High-Resolution Self-Portrait By Curiosity Rover Arm Camera.jpg

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English: On Sol 84 (Oct. 31, 2012), NASA's Curiosity rover used the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) to capture this set of 55 high-resolution images, which were stitched together to create this full-color self-portrait.

The mosaic shows the rover at "Rocknest," the spot in Gale Crater where the mission's first scoop sampling took place. Four scoop scars can be seen in the regolith in front of the rover.

The base of Gale Crater's 3-mile-high (5-kilometer) sedimentary mountain, Mount Sharp, rises on the right side of the frame. Mountains in the background to the left are the northern wall of Gale Crater. The Martian landscape appears inverted within the round, reflective ChemCam instrument at the top of the rover's mast.

Self-portraits like this one document the state of the rover and allow mission engineers to track changes over time, such as dust accumulation and wheel wear. Due to its location on the end of the robotic arm, only MAHLI (among the rover's 17 cameras) is able to image some parts of the craft, including the port-side wheels.

This high-resolution mosaic is a more detailed version of the low-resolution version created with thumbnail images, at PIA16238.

JPL manages the Mars Science Laboratory/Curiosity for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The rover was designed, developed and assembled at JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

This file is modified in contrast, white balance, perspective distortion and some minor other settings compared to the official version released by NASA. Versions as released by NASA can be found below.
Date Taken on 31 October 2012
Source http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA16239
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  • NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems
  • Derivative work including grading, distortion correction, minor local adjustments and rendering from tiff-file: Julian Herzog
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  • Unedited version as rendered by NASA. This file has lower contrast, higher compression and higher perspective distortion. It also has slightly more noise, but slighly more detail might have been preserved through lower noise reduction.
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