File:PIA18390-MarsCuriosityRover-SelfPortraitAtWindjana-20140512.jpg
Original file (4,576 × 6,669 pixels, file size: 3.89 MB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Captions
Summary[edit]
DescriptionPIA18390-MarsCuriosityRover-SelfPortraitAtWindjana-20140512.jpg |
English: Curiosity Self-Portrait at 'Windjana' Drilling Site
April 27, 2014 to May 12, 2014 => mosaic image. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=pia18390 http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/msl/pia18390/ http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-199 NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used the camera at the end of its arm in April and May 2014 to take dozens of component images combined into this self-portrait where the rover drilled into a sandstone target called "Windjana." The camera is the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI), which previously recorded portraits of Curiosity at two other important sites during the mission: "Rock Nest" (http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA16468) and "John Klein" (http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA16937). Winjana is within a science waypoint site called "The Kimberley," where sandstone layers with different degrees of resistance to wind erosion are exposed close together. The view does not include the rover's arm. It does include the hole in Windjana produced by the hammering drill on Curiosity's arm collecting a sample of rock powder from the interior of the rock. The hole is surrounded by grayish cuttings on top of the rock ledge to the left of the rover. The Mast Camera (Mastcam) atop the rover's remote sensing mast is pointed at the drill hole. A Mastcam image of the drill hole from that perspective is at http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/?rawid=0626MR0026780000401608E01_DXXX&s=626. The hole is 0.63 inch (1.6 centimeters) in diameter. The rover's wheels are 20 inches (0.5 meter) in diameter. Most of the component frames of this mosaic view were taken during the 613th Martian day, or sol, of Curiosity's work on Mars (April 27, 2014). Frames showing Windjana after completion of the drilling were taken on Sol 627 (May 12, 2014). The hole was drilled on Sol 621 (May 5, 2014). MAHLI was built by Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Washington. JPL designed and built the project's Curiosity rover. |
Date | Taken on 27 April 2014 |
Source | http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/pia18390-full.jpg |
Author | NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS |
Licensing[edit]
Public domainPublic domainfalsefalse |
This file is in the public domain in the United States because it was solely created by NASA. NASA copyright policy states that "NASA material is not protected by copyright unless noted". (See Template:PD-USGov, NASA copyright policy page or JPL Image Use Policy.) | ||
Warnings:
|
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
current | 20:57, 4 February 2016 | 4,576 × 6,669 (3.89 MB) | Drbogdan (talk | contribs) | cropped - from 7072x9424/5.17MB to 4576x6669/3.88MB via JASC Paint Shop Pro v6.02 | |
02:32, 24 June 2014 | 946 × 1,261 (1.3 MB) | Drbogdan (talk | contribs) | User created page with UploadWizard |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
The following 2 pages use this file:
File usage on other wikis
The following other wikis use this file:
- Usage on en.wikipedia.org
- Usage on es.wikipedia.org
- Usage on fr.wikipedia.org
- Usage on hr.wikipedia.org
- Usage on ms.wikipedia.org
- Usage on ro.wikipedia.org
- Usage on th.wikipedia.org
- Usage on zh.wikipedia.org