12 How does the Mars rover take pictures of itself? This article explains the mechanism, but it seems odd to me that they would worry about an arm appearing in a selfie and use this as a work around. Not impossible, but kinda weird. (www.quora.com) posted 1 year ago by XharlesDucken 1 year ago by XharlesDucken +12 / -0 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... 11 comments share 11 comments share save hide report block hide replies
Heres a video of the dumb down tech
but basically its a mosaic of lots of pictures stitched together... the arm of the rover is a gimballed camera... "a high tech selfie stick"
same thing new escalades use to give a birds eye view on their rear view camera