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Postcards from Mars: Curiosity sends a self-portrait from the Red Planet

Pasadena, USA - Image realized with a photo collage

NASA, the American space agency, released a "Self-portrait" of Curiosity: the robotic arm on the Mars rover held the rover's Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera in more than 50 positions in one day to generate a single scene combining all the images, creating a high-resolution, full-color portrait Curiosity itself. The space agency released also a video to explain the technique utilized to realize...

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