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Ummmm... how was this picture taken?

Posted on 08/20/2015 7:56:58 AM PDT by djf

Curiosity has left it's base deployment and afaik no external cameras exist.
So does anyone know how this picture was taken?



The original article is at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/08/20/curiosity_rolls_over_onto_martian_wet_patch_takes_happy_selfie/


TOPICS: Astronomy
KEYWORDS: curiousity; curiousityrover; mars; tinfoiledagain
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To: djf

Could be a picture taken of a mirrored ball.


21 posted on 08/20/2015 8:27:39 AM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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To: datura; McGruff

LOL!


22 posted on 08/20/2015 8:42:44 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: missnry

So a digitally assembled selfie.


23 posted on 08/20/2015 8:47:28 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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Tinfoiled Again!



Tinfoiled Again!

24 posted on 08/20/2015 9:13:38 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: djf

Ask Stanley Kubrick.


25 posted on 08/20/2015 9:18:07 AM PDT by Sontagged (Woe to you when all men shall speak well of you...)
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To: djf

Selfie-stick. No, really. The camera is attached.


26 posted on 08/20/2015 9:38:31 AM PDT by bolobaby
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To: GeronL

27 posted on 08/20/2015 9:41:34 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: b4its2late

LOL!


28 posted on 08/20/2015 9:47:26 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: McGruff

“According to most Ron Paul supporters. “

That is a familiar picture. We took a picture like this in day camp in early August 1969. I don’t remember the two people in the picture, but I remember that staircase, because I fell down it while wearing that suit.

Was a strange day. After the picture was taken, we were all brought out to a big tent where I was asked to walk around like I was bouncing in a ball pit. This guy was instructing me saying things like, “don’t just jump, take one or two steps then jump, no no not so high.”

After that they took the tent down and drove off in a big black 18 wheel truck.

Then we had bug juice and cookies.


29 posted on 08/20/2015 10:32:58 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (2016 - Jews for Cruz)
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To: djf

Universal Studios can do ANYTHING!!!


30 posted on 08/20/2015 10:44:55 AM PDT by Safetgiver ( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
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To: djf

From another source:

The 1-ton Curiosity rover snapped several low-angle shots with the camera at the end of its robotic arm on Aug. 5, at a site called Marias Pass in the foothills of the 3.4-mile-high (5.5 kilometers) Mount Sharp. Mission team members then stitched those photos together into the amazing selfie, which NASA released Tuesday (Aug. 18).


31 posted on 08/20/2015 11:19:15 AM PDT by Rio (Proud resident of the State of Jefferson)
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To: djf

Taken from the lander?


32 posted on 08/20/2015 4:24:13 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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