PASADENA, California (Reuters) - The science rover Curiosity took a break from instrument checks on its third full day on Mars to beam back more pictures from the Red Planet, including its first self-portrait and a 360-degree colour view of its home in Gale Crater, NASA said on Thursday.
The panoramic mosaic, comprising 130 separate images that Curiosity captured with its newly activated navigation cameras, shows a rust-coloured, pebble-strewn expanse stretching to a wall of the crater's rim in one direction and a tall mound of layered rock in another.
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