Scaling a mountain, NASA rover sends home glorious Martian view

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The Curiosity rover taking a selfie on Mars.

Tens of millions of miles beyond Earth, a nuclear-powered, car-sized rover is climbing a Martian mountain.

NASA's Curiosity rover, while investigating Mars' past, has snapped over 683,790 pictures as it's rumbled over 21 miles of unforgiving desert terrain since 2012, and a recent view shows the space agency's robot overlooking a vast Martian wilderness.

Some 3.7 billion years ago, a large object smashed into Mars, leaving the sizeable, 96-mile-wide Gale Crat...

Source: https://mashable.com/article/nasa-mars-curiosity-rover-imagery

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