NASA's Curiosity rover climbs steepest terrain in his life; takes a selfie on Mars

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover recently set a record for climbing steepest terrain it has ever climbed on red planet. After reaching top, it also took a ‘selfie’ and captured paramic view of GreenHeugh Pediment -- a broadsheet of rock that sits atop a hill on material surface below.  million-dollar rover's mission is to study wher Martian environment could have supported microbial life billions of years ago.

'360-degree Parama'

selfie was posted by NASA on March 24 on Instagram. Explaining picture, American ncy revealed that it was taken using a camera called Mars Hand Lens Imr adding that picture was constructed by stitching multiple individual frames.

“This selfie is a 360-degree parama comprised of 86 ims relayed to Earth" post read.  selfie captures rover about 11 feet below point where it climbed onto crumbling pediment.

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Since 2014, Curiosity rover has been rolling up on  Mount Sharp, a five-km tail mountain at centre of Gale Crater. Before climb, Curiosity used black-and-white Navigation Cameras located on its mast, for first time, to record a short movie of its 'selfie stick', orwise kwn as its robotic arm.

Curiosity rover landed on Mars in 2012, and since n has been exploring red planet's Gale Crater. rover has captured several pictures of Mars while studying its rock profile to find signs of any life ever sustained on planet. picture captures is termed to be Rocky Martian Prison.

rover is heading towards slope of rock debris which is called  'Central Butte', located at foot of Aeolis Mons which is a mountain at Gale’s centre. eerie pictures were captured on vember 3 by Curiosity's Right Navigation Camera also called  'Sol 2573' by NASA experts.

(Im Credits: Instagram/ NASA)

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