{"id":4324,"date":"2016-06-15T02:05:03","date_gmt":"2016-06-14T18:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/15\/latest-curiosity-rover-selfies-show-off-mars-red-surface\/"},"modified":"2016-06-15T02:05:03","modified_gmt":"2016-06-14T18:05:03","slug":"latest-curiosity-rover-selfies-show-off-mars-red-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/15\/latest-curiosity-rover-selfies-show-off-mars-red-surface\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Curiosity rover selfies show off Mars&#039; red surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Https%3a%2f%2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2fuploads%2fcard%2fimage%2f116185%2f7f073e9a94354cb9a3061be794122ef3\" src=\"http:\/\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/NPkbW4lA3y0vmeBwjFmiM1YfpSA=\/575x323\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F116185%2F7f073e9a94354cb9a3061be794122ef3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Latest+Curiosity+rover+selfies+show+off+Mars%27+red+surface&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F06%2F14%2Fcuriosity-rover-selfies-from-mars%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F06%2F14%2Fcuriosity-rover-selfies-from-mars%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A couple new selfies beamed back to Earth from NASA&#8217;s Curiosity rover show the intrepid Mars explorer looking like a social media star on the red planet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">The new selfies were taken on May 11 as Curiosity posed at a sample site near the bottom of Mount Sharp.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/05\/26\/mars-ice-age\/\">Mars&#8217; ice age may have turned the red planet white 370,000 years ago<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">The self-portraits \u2014 one showing Curiosity facing toward the camera and one looking behind \u2014 actually show a drill site where the rover collected some Martian rock to test.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The photos also show Mount Sharp looming in the background.<span style=\"line-height: 1.5\"><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>Curiosity looking forward<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"no-microcontent\" src=\"http:\/\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/Ud9ru9GfUakg4fW1cSkwItSbu2M=\/fit-in\/575x4096\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F116166%2Ffront.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Image:  NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/MSSS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<h3>Curiosity looking back<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"no-microcontent\" src=\"http:\/\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/Ac7kaALf6AXZX25nw9iQUpQoxF0=\/fit-in\/575x4096\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F116168%2Fbehind.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Image:  NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/MSSS <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/06\/14\/curiosity-rover-selfies-from-mars\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/curiosity-rover\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Curiosity Rover<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/space-photos\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Space Photos<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/mars\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Mars<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/science\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Science<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/space\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Space<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/zM9LOlav5rE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple new selfies beamed back to Earth from NASA&#8217;s Curiosity rover show the intrepid Mars explorer looking like a social media star on the red planet.\u00a0 The new selfies were taken on May 11 as Curiosity posed at a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/15\/latest-curiosity-rover-selfies-show-off-mars-red-surface\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3345,2984,960,958,2154],"class_list":["post-4324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-curiosity-rover","tag-mars","tag-science","tag-space","tag-space-photos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}