APOD: 2026 October 3 – Selfie at Vera Rubin Ridge

Automatically curated summary from NASA.

According to NASA's Astronomy Picture of the Day, the Curiosity Rover captured a selfie at Mars's Vera Rubin Ridge on sol 1943 (January 23, 2018). The mosaicked panorama combines 61 exposures taken by the Mars Hand Lens Imager, with arm frames removed and background added from a sol 1903 Mastcam image. The photo shows the rover's ChemCam housing blocking Mount Sharp's peak. By August 26, 2026, Curiosity gained one kilometer in elevation trekking up Mount Sharp from Gale Crater.

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The source text is a brief image caption from NASA APOD and does not represent a complete mission report.