A one year old/ two year old takes a selfie

Figure 1 - Mars Rover Selfie, from NASA and in the public domain.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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