Don’t forget how amazing this is. A robot on Mars. Mars! pic.twitter.com\/rZnvwNLwsO<\/a> \/via @DaveThroupEA<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Stephen Curry (@Stephen_Curry) May 9, 2014<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n And it set me hunting for even higher resolution pictures, which didn’t take very long at all. The one below from the Wikipedia page on the Curiosity rover<\/a>\u00a0and was taken in November 2012 on a nice sunny sol<\/a>.<\/p>\n Curiosity Self-Portrait. Image courtesy of NASA\/JPL-Caltech.<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n The picture is a composite of several photographs which I think explains why it\u00a0appears<\/em>\u00a0to have been taken by someone standing to one side of the rover. Better still, the original is a huge image of over 5000 by 7000 pixels so if you\u00a0click here<\/a>\u00a0you can zoom in and have it fill your entire screen. It\u2019s not quite the same thing as being there but is still a breath-taking visual feast. Enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last night on Twitter someone posted a ‘selfie’ taken by the Mars Curiosity rover. It’s quite a photograph, particularly since it captures a fantastic piece of human technology amidst the landscape of another planet. The detail is what makes the … Continue reading ![\"Curiosity](\"https:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7372\/13964844950_7f5a7c21bb_o.jpg\")
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![click here<\/a>\u00a0you can zoom in and have it fill your entire screen. It\u2019s not quite the same thing as being there but is still a breath-taking visual feast. Enjoy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last night on Twitter someone posted a ‘selfie’ taken by the Mars Curiosity rover. It’s quite a photograph, particularly since it captures a fantastic piece of human technology amidst the landscape of another planet. The detail is what makes the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6],"tags":[305,304],"class_list":["post-2564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-science","tag-curiosity","tag-mars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/scurry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/d\/dc\/PIA16239_High-Resolution_Self-Portrait_by_Curiosity_Rover_Arm_Camera.jpg\"){kind=link}