The mother of all selfies is here. NASA’s Curiosity Rover, which is assessing habitable environment on Mars, has clicked a selfie on the Red Planet.
According to NASA, “This self-portrait of NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at the “Mojave” site, where its drill collected the mission’s second taste of Mount Sharp. The scene combines dozens of images taken during January 2015 by the MAHLI camera at the end of the rover’s robotic arm.”
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However, this is not the first space selfie. In the past, plenty of astronauts have clicked a self-portrait from space.
Here’s a look at 8 other spectacular space selfies.
1. Astronaut Barry Wilmore takes a selfie on the first of three ISS spacewalks on February 21, 2015.
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2. On October 7, 2014, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman tweeted his space selfie quoting it was his “guilty pleasure to turn the camera upon thyself during a #spacewalk.”
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3. On December 24, 2013, NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins, Expedition 38 Flight Engineer, snapped an awesome selfie that captures the Earth in the background.
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4. Expedition 36 Flight Engineer, Chris Cassidy’s selfie used a digital still camera on July 16, 2013 to capture a selfie during a session of extravehicular activity.
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5. On September 5, 2012, Japan Aerospace Exploration agency astronaut Aki Hoshide snapped his visor selfie with a digital still camera during an Expedition 32 spacewalk.
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6. On August 3, 2005, astronaut Steve Robinson took a selfie during his repair job underneath the Discovery shuttle.
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7. If you thought selfie was a modern fad, think again. In November 1969, Apollo 12 astronaut Charles (Pete) Conrad captured a spectacular self-portrait while documenting his colleague Alan Bean.
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8. On November 12, 1966, pilot of the Gemini-12 spaceflight, Edwin E. (Buzz) Aldrin captured a selfie with the hatch of his spacecraft open.
