Mars rover Curiosity snaps explicit selfies from ALL ANGLES Nuclear Mars truck Curiosity has paused in its scientific exploration of the Martian environment to snap a little self-portrait. Curiosity self-portrait at Rocknest in the Gale Crater Click for hi-res. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems The rover is on a mission to discover if Mars has ever been home to …
I took a selfy this morning - at least, I think it classifies. it was of a CCTV monitor on the train platform, showing the view from the camera that at that point was watching me, as I photographed the monitor. I got quite lost in the meta-existentialism of photographing something else that was photographing me at the same time that I almost missed my train
So I can quite emphasis with Curiosity. It's gotta get a bit boring up there of mars, why not take a break, have a kitkat, and take a holiday snap of yourself :)
Or does there seem to be a lack of an arm actually holding the camera in the photograph - it appears to be free-floating and separate?
When they said the Martian sand tasted like Hawaiian sand, they weren't dropping a conspiracy hint were they? Or did the rover ask a passing Martian to hold the camera and take a shot for him like any trusting tourist would?
I think it is because it is actually assembled from a lot of individual photos. Presumably for each individual photo they could keep the arm out of the way. Although it still seems a bit odd that there isn't some glitch in the image where that just wouldn't be possible.
Anyway, another write up here also talking about the choices they had to make to map the whole thing into 2D: http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2012/11011716-curiosity-self-portrait.html
Didn't realize there was an official name for what some prat I encountered on Regent Street a couple of days ago was doing. ******* irritating when trying to walk down a totally packed pavement to find the person in front of you is more interested in framing themselves against the view behind than walking in a steady pace or direction.
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