Curiosity's Dusty Selfie at Duluth

A self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the robot at a drilled sample site called "Duluth" on the lower slopes of Mount Sharp. A Martian dust storm reduced sunlight and visibility in Gale Crater. The north-northeast wall and rim of the crater lie beyond the rover, their visibility obscured by atmospheric dust. This mosaic combines multiple images taken with the rover's arm-mounted Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) on June 15, 2018, on the 2,082nd Martian day, or sol, of the rover's work on the Red Planet. For scale, the rover's wheels are 20 inches (50 cm) in diameter and about 16 inches (40 cm) wide. The drill hole is about 0.6 inches (1.6 cm) in diameter.

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Uploaded 2019-05-22

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