NASA’s Curiosity Rover snaps series of ‘selfies’ on Mars

Recently, NASA has launched new pictures of its Curiosity rover on the floor of Mars, snapped by the rover itself utilizing the final inbuilt selfie stick-its 7-foot-lengthy robotic arm. Curiosity has taken a lot of photos in the seven miles it has traveled during three years on Mars. It is moving in a deep bowl known as Gale Crater.

Since then, it has been exploring and studying the planet to determine its habitability. Silica is a rock-forming compound containing silicon and oxygen, commonly found on Earth as quartz.

On it’s website, NASA states Curiosity “shows the vehicle at the site from which it reached down to drill into a rock target called Buckskin”.

Using its Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons (DAN) tool, which looks for the hydrogen of water molecules, it found evidence of a huge amount of water buried just beneath the surface. The rover usually takes many of each area, but not this one. ‘We were pleased to see no repeat of the short circuit during the Buckskin drilling and sample transfer, ‘ said Steven Lee, deputy project manager for Curiosity at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California.