How was Curiosity able to take this picture?

If this is a selfie, how in the hell did it take it, I just dont get it..

Curiosity selfie

Did you try Google? Maybe ask Google. Then come back and explain to the rest of us.

a reply to: skybandit

The answer to that is given the article you refer to.

A martian took that picture of course!

a reply to: skybandit

if it used a selfie stick, you'd be able to see it wouldn't you?

a reply to: skybandit

The video linked in the article explains it quite well. It's using it's own "selfy-stick" nav cams apparently.

a reply to: subfab

Nope. The 'selfie' is actually a composition of many pictures. The arm is moving and pictures are being taken, and then the selfie is patched together using these pictures.

originally posted by: subfab
a reply to: skybandit

if it used a selfie stick, you'd be able to see it wouldn't you?

I think they erase it. We have seen similar, and that was the answer

a reply to: subfab

Go out and take a pic with a selfie stick.

Lets test your ignorance?

Mate, it says in the text under the picture how its done

Read the article?

originally posted by: skybandit
If this is a selfie, how in the hell did it take it, I just dont get it..

Curiosity selfie

The articulated arm is never in focus, the arm camera is just taking a picture.
However I don't like particularly like panoramas NASA have used that are problematic because they are not true images.

originally posted by: skybandit
If this is a selfie, how in the hell did it take it, I just dont get it..

Curiosity selfie

The entire selfie is a 360-degree panorama stitched together from 86 images relayed to Earth.

a reply to: skybandit

The linked article literally has a section called "How Are Selfies Taken?"

FFS people - this is ATS - you should know by now that people will not // cannot read the ACTUAL explaination