Curiosity beams back Mars selfie

The first batch of photos sent back by Curiosity entranced both scientists and the general public alike. The landscapes in the photos gave people a sense of being unfamiliar yet familiar - the Gale Crater, where the Curiosity rover landed, surprisingly resembled the Death Valley.

However, only those photos that captured the image of Curiosity itself could make this surreal fact - that is, humans managed to send a one-ton mobile scientific instrument to Mars - appear more real.