August 5th marks the two year anniversary of the successful landing of NASA’s Mars Roveron Mars; so in celebration toddler Rover took the picture of Figure 1. Yes, it’s a bona fide selfie. In actuality the image was taken at 687 days, which is one Martian year. So arguably Rover is only a one year old. Like any true selfie the image was taken by extending the robot arm out with the camera. The image is actually a stitch of a mosaic of images taken from different angles. As a result the one element of Rover anatomy that you do not see is the arm itself. Like all good NASA pictures, the image possesses a duality. It is a picture of its intended subject. But more significantly it is a symbol of what we can achieve and even a glimpse of the future and what is to come.
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