The Curiosity rover selfie shows NASA's most recent Martian rover posing against a backdrop of the Telegraph Peak, a site which the rover has been drilling into in order to analyze the chemistry of the soil and rocks. The portrait also offers a view of the Pahrump Hills, where the rover has been earning in its keep in the past five months.
The Curiosity rover selfie was taken using the Mars Hand Lens Imager on the rover's robotic arm, with dozens of snaps taken to form a mosaic image.You may wonder why the robotic arm doesn't appear in the picture -- this was done by manipulating its position and stitching together several images to remove the arm from the image altogether.
So if you don't want your arm awkwardly showing up in your selfies, all you need to do is get some NASA-level Photoshop experience, and your duck face will remain the center of your Instagram followers' attentions.
Key Themes Behind This Trend
- Robotic-arm Selfies
- The trend of using robotic arms to take selfies offers opportunities for disruptive innovation in the photography industry.
- Drone Photography
- The trend of using drones to capture unique and stunning aerial photos presents disruptive innovation opportunities in the photography and tourism industries.
- Virtual Selfie Tours
- The trend of virtual reality selfie tours provides opportunities for disruptive innovation in the travel and technology industries.
Where This Applies
- Photography
- The photography industry can benefit from disruptive innovation by embracing new technologies and techniques for capturing unique and high-quality images.
- Tourism
- The tourism industry can leverage disruptive innovation in photography to offer new and immersive experiences for travelers.
- Technology
- The technology industry can explore disruptive innovation in photography to enhance virtual reality experiences and develop new applications for drone and robotic-arm photography.
