The Mars scouter Curiosity expend the day banging on a new rock music , then hesitate to take a selfie . The original portrait is a mosaic of frames reminiscent of the roamer seen through alien eyes . It ’s only after align , smoothing , and conjoin that the charismatic bird of passage is revealed .
Curiosity ’s self - portrait on sol 177 is composed of 64 individual photograph . Image mention : NASA / JPL / MSSS / Emily Lakdawalla
Because our not - so - little bird of passage is so big , herarms are n’t long enough to get all of her in one nip , but if she move the tv camera angle parallax will warp everything . Taking what attend like a single photograph is an act of mechanically skillful dexterity .
picture by NASA are in the public domain , so how come I list all these other organizations and even single names in the image credits ? Those photos do not occur back to Earth full formed and processed , quick for our enjoyment . That processing can take a mass of cause ( that thankfully involves more digital processing thanscissors and glue ) , and even aesthetic rendition . Emily Lakdawalla of the Planetary Society has more on how that fragmented collection of photos is smoothen into a beautiful portraitof a robotic explorer on the flushed planet .
ego - portraiture on sol 613 . Image credit entry : NASA / JPL / MSSS / Doug Ellison
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