How does Curiosity Mars Rover take pictures of itself?
Answer (1 of 14): Just a bit of photoshop cleverness. The final picture is a mosaic created from about 30 or more individual shots taken from many slightly different angles, the final shots used to create the mosaic are all ones where the arm cannot be see...
This is what I don't get about the Mars Rover theory. I remember growing up, being told that, it would take like 100's of light years to get to the nearest planet, mars I think. Just now doing a duckgo search this is what I get According to NASA, a one-way trip to the Red Planet would take about nine months. ARE YOU KIDDING ME!? When I was watching this in the news, I was like WTF, didn't they just launch the Mars Rover like a year ago? Don't we have like 99.999 more light years to go??"
Not sure how you got hundreds of light years to the nearest planet. Thought it was about a 2 year journey myself but that was older tech. To the next galaxy would be hundreds of light years, not the next planet.