--- title: See The Curiosity Rover's Latest Selfie From Mars description: Curiosity snapped it's selfie as it explored the "Namib Dune," where the rover collects sand samples. canonical: https://time.com/4200830/curiosity-rover-mars-selfie/ author: Daniel White article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-01-29T22:14:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T14:35:36.650Z article:section: Science og:title: See The Curiosity Rover's Latest Selfie From Mars og:description: Not pictured: Matt Damon og:url: https://time.com/4200830/curiosity-rover-mars-selfie/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltca6cea2b92e000af/69887b59cf40a84befc41b78/pia20316.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Curiosity Selfie og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: See The Curiosity Rover's Latest Selfie From Mars twitter:description: Not pictured: Matt Damon twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltca6cea2b92e000af/69887b59cf40a84befc41b78/pia20316.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Curiosity Rover Poses for Another Martian Selfie by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Jan 29, 2016 10:14 PM UTC  This self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at "Namib Dune," where the rover's activities included scuffing into the dune with a wheel and scooping samples of sand for laboratory analysis. This self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at "Namib Dune," where the rover's activities included scuffing into the dune with a wheel and scooping samples of sand for laboratory analysis.NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS by [Daniel White](https://time.com/author/daniel-white/) ## Daniel White Jan 29, 2016 10:14 PM UTC NASA released a self-portrait Friday taken by the Curiosity Mars rover. Curiosity snapped its selfie as it explored the “Namib Dune,” where the rover [collects sand samples](http://time.com/4111812/curiosity-rover-mars-garden-city-photo/), according to NASA. The site is to the northwest of Mount Sharp, Curiosity’s primary mission site. The image was put together using 57 separate images taken with the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) at the end of the car-sized robot’s arm. While wrist motions and other movements allowed the MAHLI to capture most of the rover and the scene around it, the arm where the camera rests is not in view. The image was taken on January 19 which is Curiosity’s 1,228th day on Mars. This isn’t the first selfie that the rover has taken during its mission. Curiosity [took a snap of itself to celebrate](http://time.com/2913065/mars-curiosity-rover-selfie/) its one Martian year anniversary (687 days) on the planet in 2014. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4200830/curiosity-rover-mars-selfie/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4200830/curiosity-rover-mars-selfie/"},"headline":"The Curiosity Rover Poses for Another Martian Selfie","datePublished":"2016-01-29T22:14:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T14:35:36.650Z","description":"The rover has been on Mars since 2012","url":"https://time.com/4200830/curiosity-rover-mars-selfie/","keywords":["Mars","Space","NASA","curiosity"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltca6cea2b92e000af/69887b59cf40a84befc41b78/pia20316.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Daniel White","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/daniel-white/"}],"articleSection":"Science","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltca6cea2b92e000af/69887b59cf40a84befc41b78/pia20316.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Curiosity Selfie","caption":"This self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at \"Namib Dune,\" where the rover's activities included scuffing into the dune with a wheel and scooping samples of sand for laboratory analysis.","creditText":"NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/science/","name":"Science"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/mars/","name":"Mars"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4200830/curiosity-rover-mars-selfie/","name":"The Curiosity Rover Poses for Another Martian Selfie"}}]}] ```