Rover Curiosity sent a selfie from Mars

Before taking the selfie, NASA's Curiosity rover passed a wide range of rocks atop a hill in

the center of Gale Crater. The selfie the rover sent back was taken using a mechanical arm and was captured about 3.5 meters below the top of a hill.

To climb the hill, the rover needed three races, during the second of them the rover leaned 31 degrees. This is the maximum incline for the rover during its exploration of Mars.

The Curiosity Rover has been exploring Mount Sharp since 2014.which is located in the center of Gale Crater. Mars rover operators at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California plan each trip to make sure Curiosity is not affected by their movement. This time, the rover could not roll over - the Curiosity wheel system allows it to safely tilt up to 45 degrees.

Earlier, Curiosity shot a panorama of Mars inhigh resolution compared to other photographs of the surface of the Red Planet ever made by man-made devices. The picture was collected from more than a thousand photos, and the number of pixels on it exceeds 1.8 million, the mission said.