Curiosity self portrait

cormega · 2012-11-01T15:50:19+00:00

Curiosity [R]over here. Little shy.

Check out my exhaust pipe.

Tarrico · 2012-11-01T14:38:32+00:00

Every time I see Curiosity it looks more like Johnny 5...

jerk_van_face · 2012-11-01T14:53:24+00:00

mastercylinder2 · 2012-11-01T15:03:48+00:00

There is a big black guy with wires attached to the back of his head in the lens. It's totally there, and I can't stop seeing it.

t3hdemon · 2012-11-01T15:07:42+00:00

http://i.imgur.com/Sz6Tr.png

jmoriarty · 2012-11-01T22:19:49+00:00

Without any irony or sarcasm at all, I think this is just one of the most beautiful things.

Every screw, cable, dial, and edge was thought out and master crafted by professionals as at the top of their game as any artist who has ever walked. What that rover went through to get where it is, to look back on itself, and take a picture so packed with meaning about itself and this literally alien world upon which it rolls is just staggering in every way.

This is a beauty of form, of function, of achievement, and of grace. Stunning.

dombili · 2012-11-01T14:54:42+00:00

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/55907406@N08/8144385350/sizes/c/in/photostream/ (KrisK from UMSF)

Logical_Primate · 2012-11-01T15:34:41+00:00

Still hasn't sunk in for me that we have a robot the size of a Range Rover on Mars with a HD camera(s).

mharveyyay · 2012-11-01T14:44:23+00:00

Why does it have to make duck face?

TheEngine · 2012-11-01T21:33:01+00:00

Can anyone conjecture on why the Martian soil is sticking to the treads? There's a distinct lack of wetness out there.

neon_overload · 2012-11-02T00:34:50+00:00

Curiosity is already getting a little dusty in places. Does she have any way of cleaning herself? Is the dust even going to be a problem? With Spirit and Opportunity it blocked their solar panels, but Curiosity doesn't need solar panels. Could it cause any other problems, like drying out and seizing up moving parts?

sameoldshit · 2012-11-01T19:35:11+00:00

My God these comments are atrocious.

nmvzciehjfal · 2012-11-01T15:17:07+00:00

Someone has to repost this to /r/aww. It's adorable.

doctorheredoctor · 2012-11-01T23:50:07+00:00

These are the absolute worst comments I've ever seen on r/space. Be ashamed of yourself.

Why does it have to make duck face?

Self pic? Uhhhh oh. It's only a matter of time before it learns how to do a duck face.

No duck face?

Major duckface

I really expected to see 'duck face', then I realized this was /r/space.

It would look funnier with a duckface if it's a self shot

It's not a real self portrait until it does a duck face! At least that's what all the cool kids on myspace are doing.

What? no duckface?

Upvotes for no duck face

Funny that I don't see a duck face

Was expecting a duck face picture

Upvote for no duck face

At least it's not doing the duck face.

Finally, one without duck-face!!

What, no duck-face?

will we never see the end of the duck face?????

Tiauguinho · 2012-11-01T16:31:55+00:00

This is so awesome! Curiosity is such an achievement, would love to see more of these ventures in Space Exploration!

My-Work-Reddit · 2012-11-01T15:11:45+00:00

These images are absolutely amazing. I'm loving the cameras on this rover.

JezusGhoti · 2012-11-01T15:47:52+00:00

Is this legit? The only self-portrait I have seen is this one, which is decidedly lower resolution.

Sure_Enough · 2012-11-01T16:46:31+00:00

Hot damn! As a kid, I would see the Millennium Falcon, with all its outer hull full of machinery bullshit & would think "that's not a sleek futuristic spaceship!" To me, the future was more like the Naboo Fighters.

But holy fuck! This rovers outer shell is FULL if its components!

So to whoever created and designed the Falcon... a future to past 2012 nod to you. ;)

jonwtc · 2012-11-01T18:40:06+00:00

I've always loved anything related to space, but as i'm in medicine now, my mind rarely dwells on the great beyond. So whenever little pictures like this pops up in my day to day, it shakes something within me and a little smile spreads across my face. I don't know, maybe I'm just still in awe that our little friend here is (at least to me) incomprehensibly far away, another planet! Maybe I'm just giddy at the prospect of learning something extraordinary from this adventure.

DorienG · 2012-11-01T22:08:28+00:00

I wonder what the sand is like up there. Is it fine and squeaky like it is here in Pensacola, or is coarse like the sand near the Chesapeake. It'd be cool to walk up there barefoot...

7h3C47 · 2012-11-01T23:40:48+00:00

Wouldn't it be funny if in the future we visited another planet, or sent a rover to another planet, and found a different civilizations' scientific attempts to remotely explore it? Or if other intelligent forms ever come to mars and they're just like..."Whaaaaaaat are these doin' here..."

andrewsmith1986 · 2012-11-01T14:53:12+00:00

my/r/space

FrenchyDude · 2012-11-01T15:09:04+00:00

1) Never thought the cables would be in the open, and not protected/hidden under the hull. 2) How did it take a self pic ?! 2 cameras ?

reidzen · 2012-11-01T14:44:33+00:00

If only the Curiosity lander had included a bathroom mirror...

driveling · 2012-11-01T21:51:37+00:00

Wouldn't it make more sense to paint it black so that it would absorb more sunlight and stay warmer?

pooinmyloo · 2012-11-01T22:19:14+00:00

It blows my tiny little mind every time I see one of these pictures. It's a robot that us little humans put on another planet, taking pictures, moving about and shooting x-rays at shit. Astonishing.

flightsin · 2012-11-01T14:57:19+00:00

I still cannot unsee the British ~~guy~~ chap with the monocle.

muoncat · 2012-11-01T17:06:23+00:00

We need a picture of Curiosity taking this picture.

AD7863 · 2012-11-01T17:53:26+00:00

Mum, Dad, I wish you could see this.

idrink211 · 2012-11-01T15:13:00+00:00

/r/curiositygonewild

JavaPants · 2012-11-01T15:24:23+00:00

Looks like Lore Sjöberg got his wish

sameoldshit · 2012-11-01T16:59:29+00:00

JPL just released an official one

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/images/?ImageID=4837

atomfullerene · 2012-11-02T01:29:48+00:00

Just glue some cables on it and call it NASApunk

thiss · 2012-11-02T01:50:28+00:00

But who was camera?

zombieriot · 2012-11-02T02:24:48+00:00

Johnny-5 is alive!

pomanE · 2012-11-02T02:46:28+00:00

Curiosity killed the cat (check the tire treads).

raygunc · 2012-11-02T03:01:04+00:00

Goddamnit, it's aware. Great..

Myschyf · 2012-11-02T03:35:43+00:00

That can't be a self-portrait. I don't see a shower anywhere.

cbarrett1989 · 2012-11-02T03:58:34+00:00

It still blows me away that everything in the background is fucking MARS. Why are we not there yet?

diodex · 2012-11-02T04:00:56+00:00

I can't stop seeing the black dude in there.

mr_mason · 2012-11-02T04:07:00+00:00

The lense reflection looks like a pissed of black guy...

helter_skelter26 · 2012-11-02T04:07:41+00:00

Selfie!!!!!!

EmannuelMartinez · 2012-11-02T04:11:23+00:00

"Does this angle make me look fat?"

GnarlyNoober · 2012-11-02T04:15:09+00:00

Johnny 5 is alive!!

_Justice_Beaver · 2012-11-02T04:28:39+00:00

Hard to tell if making a duck face

capnbj · 2012-11-02T04:49:51+00:00

At least it's not in a bathroom and doing the duck face.

ohheythatguy · 2012-11-02T06:30:21+00:00

There's a little black man in the top controlling the whole thing!!!

dustinhossman · 2012-11-02T06:47:34+00:00

Anyone else see this and think, "I really want to go there someday." I cant wait for the future. Lol.

XXXBATSSKATERXXX · 2012-11-02T07:32:13+00:00

Ahh i see the martians helped this little guy by providing a mirror for a nice picture!

wooder32 · 2012-11-01T15:55:13+00:00

WALL-E

boiker · 2012-11-01T17:09:35+00:00

After living in Phoenix, Mars doesn't look that alien to me anymore. It's desert like Arizona but with less plants.

sprodigy · 2012-11-01T15:43:44+00:00

Can anyone tell me what that black thing is - right above the ground on the left side (zoom in), its below the mountains. Dust on the lens?

farchewky · 2012-11-01T17:54:38+00:00

How awesome is it that Curiosity is sending us pictures from another planet! It just sort overwhelmed me when I saw the mountains in the background that they weren't mountains on Earth. Amazing!

taumeson · 2012-11-01T17:55:30+00:00

Seriously, NASA -- why all the exposed wiring? I can think of two reasons: 1. weight at takeoff, and 2. it's better for heat in some fashion. Surely those are ludicrous reasons to leave it so unprotected to the elements!

WesternZulu · 2012-11-01T18:38:04+00:00

So. Fucking. Cool.

BF3FAN1 · 2012-11-01T20:48:43+00:00

What is that floating thing in the middle left background?

vasquezsanchez · 2012-11-01T22:32:28+00:00

what a beautiful piece of machinery!

justwondrin · 2012-11-01T17:22:04+00:00

Holy shit guys, that thing is actually on Mars!

imjusthereforthe · 2012-11-01T15:06:31+00:00

This is the beginning of the end. Soon, Curiosity will become self-aware and the rise of the machines will commence.

rjnr · 2012-11-01T16:00:29+00:00

Anybody notice the minature dude in the control tower? I have questions.

CubanMissileCrisis · 2012-11-01T16:19:21+00:00

Am I the only one that see's Johnny 5?!

Terrasel · 2012-11-01T17:11:56+00:00

Is that biggie smalls inside the camera?

biga415 · 2012-11-01T17:55:33+00:00

It looks like theres a pissed off black guy in the lens

paraiahpapaya · 2012-11-01T18:57:13+00:00

Is it just me or does it look a little like there's an angry, bald black man with a collar and cane in the camera lens?

colby_may · 2012-11-01T19:46:22+00:00

Is it just me or does it look like a mans reflection on the top part of the rover

Woohoo-Cthulhu · 2012-11-01T20:54:05+00:00

I have to continuously remind myself that these spectacular images are coming from another planet.

bhig3 · 2012-11-01T21:24:56+00:00

Which one is the laser? :D

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