NASA's Curiosity robot has sent a selfie from Mars, a beautiful panoramic image of a giant rock formation that researchers have named Greenheugh Pediment.
While the Perseverance Mars rover is making itself heard week after week, and its partner Curiosity is doing its job, even if it is a little less in the spotlight. His latest work is a stunning panorama of 81 different photos, stitched together by experts on the mission's 3303rd day on Mars.
Press release from NASA according to the image shows the Greenheugh Pediment rock formation, with Rafael Navarro Hill in the centre right. The car-sized Curiosity is heading towards the Maria Gordon fissure, which is to the left behind the rover in this image.
Equipped with 17 cameras, it will explore the 154-kilometre-wide Gale crater. The crater is named after the Australian amateur astronomer Walter Frederick Gale, who explored Mars in the late 19th century.
Curiosity has been exploring Mars for more than 8 Earth years, and its main missions include studying the geology and climate of the red planet, searching for traces of water and ultimately discovering whether life existed on the red planet. Another Mars probe, Opportunity, has been out of contact since August 2018 due to storms on Mars.
