{"id":16306,"date":"2015-08-19T17:16:44","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T00:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/this-is-the-curiosity-rovers-newest-selfie-and-theres-something-unusual-about-it"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:47:12","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:47:12","slug":"this-is-the-curiosity-rovers-newest-selfie-and-theres-something-unusual-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/this-is-the-curiosity-rovers-newest-selfie-and-theres-something-unusual-about-it","title":{"rendered":"This Is the Curiosity Rover\u2019s Newest Selfie\u2014and There\u2019s Something Unusual About It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-is-the-curiosity-rovers-newest-selfie-and-theres-something-unusual-about-it.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Curiosity rover has snapped a brand new self-portrait and, like any good newbie selfie-taker, it\u2019s figuring out its best angles\u2014not only to show itself off, but also to show us something new about the Martian landscape it lives on.<\/p>\n<p>This newest selfie was made, like the others, by stitching together panoramic shots from the rover\u2019s Mars Hand Lens Imager. But by dropping to a low-camera angle and not an overhand shot like before, we\u2019re suddenly able to see the full surrounding horizon. Essentially, we\u2019re seeing not just Curiosity in this selfie; we\u2019re also seeing what Curiosity sees. That view becomes even more pronounced in this second version of the selfie, this one with the horizon wrapped entirely around the robot:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/io9.com\/this-is-the-curiosity-rovers-newest-selfie-and-theres-s-1725165920?dfp_pp_ab=on&dfp_desktop_three=off&utm_expid=66866090-43.E9Bjfd6NTuSlXJewu2e_Ig.1&utm_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fio9.com%2F%3Fdfp_pp_ab%3Don%26dfp_desktop_three%3Doff\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Curiosity rover has snapped a brand new self-portrait and, like any good newbie selfie-taker, it\u2019s figuring out its best angles\u2014not only to show itself off, but also to show us something new about the Martian landscape it lives on. This newest selfie was made, like the others, by stitching together panoramic shots from the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16306","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\/16306","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16306"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64413,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16306\/revisions\/64413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}