3 Years Unraveling Mars<br><br>'Selfies' are all canada goose pas cher the rage these days. Every smartphone is attached with a camera and to the Internet, so it was inevitable that our nike blazer soldes vain species would take full advantage air max of the technology, snapping endless photos of cats and, of course, ourselves. Selfies or 'self portraits' to the uninitiated have become such a cultural phenomenon that Oxford University Press has declared 'Selfies' their karen millen uk word of the year. This may sound asinine, but Merriam Webster Dictionary balanced it out and declared 'Science' their word of 2013 .<br><br>In the spirit of hogan outlet sito ufficiale fairness, I've combined the two words of the year and applied them to robots. Yes, robots. Robots that explore space, doing science. And just in case you didn't know, robots can be pretty vain too, taking snapshots of their junk for the whole Internet to see. To narrow the field down a bit, I've only selected robots that have photographed parts of their own structure, or attached components. tn requin pas cher I've also allowed the occasional robotic camera that was deployed for the sole purpose of taking a selfie (nice effort, IKAROS).<br><br>The first robot that likely comes to mind is the undisputed King of Selfies , NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity. The car sized rover impressed the world with its selfie prowess when mission scientists released a stunning high resolution mosaic of the rover in air max outlet italia November 2012, only a couple of months after it landed inside Gale Crater. Although the Viking landers that touched down on lisseur ghd the Red Planet in 1976 didn't have robotic arm mounted cameras capable of taking a "true" selfie, they did their best. This view from Viking 2 was snapped on Nov. 2, 1976, showing a part of the lander's deck, the American flag, the bottom of the robot's high gain antenna and a boulder littered Utopia Planitia, the largest identified impact crater on Mars. Stunning.<br><br>PHOTOS: Alien Robots That Left Their Mark on MarsNASA/JPL Caltech<br><br>Staying on Mars, some amazing panoramic shots and top down self portraits have been attained by NASA's epic twin Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity. As you've probably guessed, commanding a robot on another planet to take self portraits isn't for fun (even though the outcome is a lot of fun), it actually serves a purpose. In the case of Viking and Curiosity, engineers on Earth can study the photos to see the condition of instruments on the robots' 'decks.' As shown here , for solar powered rover Spirit, using its mast mounted panoramic camera was very useful for capturing amazing 360 degree views of the surrounding terrain. It was also great for keeping track of the build up of Martian dust on its outlet woolrich online panels. In this photo taken in 2005, Spirit's solar array shines in the sun, having collected only a very thin layer of dust two years after it landed.<br><br>NEWS: 9 woolrich outlet online Years Later: Remembering Mars Rover SpiritNASA/JPL Caltech<br><br>Spirit's twin rover Opportunity soldiers on to this day, exploring the Martian surface after nearly a decade since landing. Jan. 25, 2014, is its 10 year Mars "birthday" escarpin louboutin pas cher (mark your calendars!). Currently exploring the edge of Endeavour Crater, helping to piece together clues of Mars' evolution (complementing the science being done by Curiosity), Opportunity is no stranger to taking its own photo. As Spirit and Opportunity were designed to the same specifications, Opportunity can also take 360 degree views and monitor dust build up on its solar panels. In 2007, the European comet chasing spacecraft Rosetta made close approach with Mars, coming within 1,000 miles of the surface, using the planet for a fuel saving gravity assist. The boost in speed is allowing Rosetta to catch up with comet 67P/Churyumov Gerasimenko an encounter that is planned for 2014. But during the flyby, the spacecraft managed to snap this iconic photo of Mars from space. What makes this view so special coach handbags is that Rosetta also caught its own solar array in the shot.<br><br>ANALYSIS: Advice to Rosetta: Maybe She's Just Not That Into You<br><br>Leaving Mars, we now head to Venus where, in 1982, the Soviet Venera 13 lander managed giuseppe zanotti femme to survive the hellish conditions and transmit data for two hours. In that time it also returned some karen millen online shop color photos of the Venusian surface. In those photos, the hardy lander was able to capture some of its jagged landing gear at the bottom of the shot. It may not be perfect, but while sitting in a pressure cooker with a limited amount of time sac michael kors pas cher to return valuable data, it's a superb effort.<br><br>ANALYSIS: When the Veneras Challenged Venus' Hellish AtmosphereNASA<br><br>In 2010, the Japanese space agency JAXA launched a pioneering mission. Using only the sun's energy for propulsion, the Interplanetary Kite craft Accelerated by Radiation Of the Sun, or IKAROS, probe set sail through interplanetary space for a January 2011 rendezvous with the planet Venus. After the solar sail was launched, two miniature wireless cameras were ejected by IKAROS as it deployed in Earth orbit, returning this admirable "hands free" self portrait . Then, as IKAROS reached its destination eight months later, it took a snapshot of a crescent Venus (inset). 5, 2012, pulling off a dramatic and unprecedented touchdown with the aid of a rocket powered "sky crane" that lowered the 1 ton rover gently hogan outlet 2016 to the Martian surface via cables.<br><br>The six wheeled robot then set out to determine if its immediate environs a 96 mile wide (154 kilometers) crater named Gale could ever have supported microbial life. That work and more are chronicled in a new NASA video on Curiosity's discoveries on the Red Planet. [Latest Amazing Mars Photos by Curiosity]<br><br>Curiosity quickly succeeded in this main task. The rover's observations of rocks at an area near its landing site called Yellowknife Bay allowed mission scientists to deduce that Gale Crater supported a potentially habitable lake and stream system for long stretches in the ancient past perhaps for millions of years hogan outlet roma at a time.<br><br>Curiosity departed michael kors wallet outlet the Yellowknife Bay area in July 2013, making tracks toward the foothills of the towering Mount Sharp, which rises 3.4 miles (5.5 km) into the Martian sky from Gale's center.<br><br>Mount Sharp's base has been Curiosity's primary destination since before the $2.5 billion michael kors sale uk mission's November 2011 launch. The rover team wants Curiosity to climb up through the mountain's lower reaches, reading a history of Mars' changing environmental conditions in the rocks along the way.<br><br>Curiosity reached the mountain in September 2014, rolling up to a Mount Sharp outcrop team members dubbed Pahrump Hills. The rover studied the Pahrump Hills area for about five months, drilling into rocks three separate times for analysis purposes.<br><br>PHOTOS: Curiosity Snaps Selfies, Begins Mars Rock Drill<br><br>"That was an investment of time specifically because it was the first chance we got to see what the mountain was made out of," said Curiosity project scientist Ashwin Vasavada, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. "That was a great woolrich outlet italia five months."<br><br>Curiosity left Pahrump Hillls in March to investigate outcrops higher up the mountain. Recently, the rover has been eyeing a geological "contact zone" where two distinct rock types come together.<br><br>For example, thick sand and steep, slippery terrain thwarted Curiosity's first attempt to reach the contact zone. But the rover team found another route and got Curiosity where it needed to go.
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