Curiosity Rover Takes the Best Selfies in the Universe

Looking straight down at the Gale Crater, the rover's landing site.

Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/MSSS

Cute! The Curiosity rover tweeted this, saying, "To drill or not to drill? Investigating my next potential drilling target on Mars."

Source: Twitter user MarsCuriosity

Earth and our moon look teeny tiny in this picture taken from Mars by the Curiosity rover.

Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/TAMU

Here's a picture taken at a location called "Sheepbed," which shows well-defined veins filled with whitish minerals that we think is calcium sulfate. The veins form when water circulates through fractures, depositing minerals along the sides of the fracture.

Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Here's the landing site of the Curiosity rover with Mount Sharp in the background.

Source: NASA

A closer view of Mount Sharp, a mountain inside Gale Crater, where the rover landed.

Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

A look back at a dune that the Curiosity rover drove across.

Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS