Curiosity rover takes epic selfies during Mars mountain trip

According to reports, the Curiosity Rover has captured impressive and unique selfies prior to resuming its journey on the top of one of huge mountains of Mars. By making use of its robotic arm outfitted with a convenient camera, the rover took some of its photos at the Marias Pass in Mars.

After that the images were combined together in order to create epic selfie of the vehicle. These images were captured on August 5, and NASA released them on last Tuesday. Curiosity stayed at Marias Pass to capture images and it also seems that the vehicle also studied a "geological contact zone", where two rock types get together.

It is located in the area where built-in Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons (DAN) instrument of the vehicle discovered high hydrogen levels that may indicate an abundance of water molecules on the minerals and rocks in that part.

As per DAN principal investigator Igor Mitrofanov of Moscow's Space Research Institute, the ground where Curiosity's is present shows signs of success in future.

According to Mitrofanov, "The ground about one meter beneath the rover in this area holds three or four times as much water as the ground anywhere else Curiosity has driven during its three years on Mars". Curiosity collected powdered samples of a rock, which was named as "Buckskin". It collected samples by drilling the rock with aim of future study. The samples have been collected in an attempt to determine why the part of Marias Pass is "wet".