Land of Gregs

I know I’m a bit late to the party, but here’s a beautiful self portrait of the Mars Curiosity Rover taken on the surface of Mars.

It’s almost like NASA are baiting the conspiracy theorists now. It is, of course, a combination of a number of photographs taken by the Mars Hand Lens Imager(MAHLI). This camera is stuck on a robot arm that lets it have a good look at any rocks NASA’s interested in. The picture below shows it on its arm:

Definitely getting a Johnny Five vibe off that thing.
Emily Lakdawalla of the Planetary Society has a picture of all the sub-photos it took to make the image here.