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Curiosity self-portrait

Self-portrait of NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover at Namib Dune.

This self-portrait of NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover shows it at Namib Dune. This is where one of the rover’s activities was to scuff into the dune with a wheel and scoop samples of sand for laboratory analysis.

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Rights: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
Published: 21 August 2017Size: 16.43 MB
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