The exploration vehicle Curiosity sent by NASA to Mars mission, new . NASA has released the selfie image taken by the MAHLI (Mars Hand Lens Imager) on Curiosity’s robot arm.
Curiosity, which has a weight of 899 kg, is powered by a Radioisotope thermoelectric generator, like the Viking 1 and Viking 2 robots that successfully explored Mars in 1976. The reconnaissance vehicle is 2.1 meters long and has a long arm that can carry five different items and rotates 350 degrees around it.
Curiosity shared selfie from Mars mission
A total of 81 images were taken from the Curiosity rover, which left 3303 Mars days behind in its mission. The most striking of the images taken was the selfie shared by NASA.
Curiosity was developed as part of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission. The car-sized rover, which explored the Gale crater on Mars, landed on the planet on August 6, 2012.
Curiosity, which has a maximum speed of 0.14 km / h, was the result of $ 2.5 billion research and development. The exploration vehicle, which examines the Martian climate and geology, is also used to investigate whether there was life on Mars before.
In the selfie, the rock structure behind the Curiosity rover is called the Greenheugh Pediment. The hill to the right of the vehicle was named Rafael Navarro Mountain after the astrobiologist Rafael Navarro-Gonzalez, who died in early 2021.
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