{"id":124316,"date":"2021-06-26T19:23:50","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T02:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/how-nasas-perseverance-rover-takes-a-selfie"},"modified":"2021-06-26T19:23:50","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T02:23:50","slug":"how-nasas-perseverance-rover-takes-a-selfie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/how-nasas-perseverance-rover-takes-a-selfie","title":{"rendered":"How NASA\u2019s Perseverance Rover Takes a Selfie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aKNjQhIAUp0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>NASA\u2019s Perseverance rover captured a historic group selfie with the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter on April 6, 2021. But how was the selfie taken? Vandi Verma, Perseverance\u2019s chief engineer for robotic operations at NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California breaks down the process in this video.<\/p>\n<p>Video taken by Perseverance\u2019s navigation cameras shows the rover\u2019s robotic arm twisting and maneuvering to take the 62 images that compose the image. The rover\u2019s entry, descent, and landing microphone captured the sound of the arm\u2019s motors whirring during the process.<\/p>\n<p>Selfies allow engineers to check wear and tear on the rover over time.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Perseverance, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/mars.nasa.gov\/perseverance\">https:\/\/mars.nasa.gov\/perseverance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/MSSS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s Perseverance rover captured a historic group selfie with the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter on April 6, 2021. But how was the selfie taken? Vandi Verma, Perseverance\u2019s chief engineer for robotic operations at NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California breaks down the process in this video. Video taken by Perseverance\u2019s navigation cameras shows the rover\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":465,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/465"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}