In keeping up with tradition, NASA shared a self-portrait the Curiosity Mars Rover took at its most recent drill site.
According to BBC News, the latest site is called "Buckskin" and it's the seventh drilling target NASA set out for Curiosity.
This "selfie" from Curiosity was taken at a low angle and included more of the Martian horizon than previous ones have. The rover was able to position its "hand lens" camera, also known as Mahli, lower because of a slope at Buckskin.
"The ground about one meter beneath the rover in this area holds three or four times as much water as the ground anywhere else Curiosity has driven during its three years on Mars," Igor Mitrofanov, a principle investigator at the Space Research Institute in Moscow for Curiosity's Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons instrument, said in a statement.
NASA processes the images Curiosity delivers in a number of different ways, while also making the raw photos available online.
"We were pleased to see no repeat of the short circuit during the Buckskin drilling and sample transfer," Steven Lee, deputy project manager for Curiosity at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., said in the statement. "It could come back, but we have made changes in fault protection to continue safely drilling even in the presence of small shorts. We also improved drill percuss circuit telemetry to gain more diagnostic information from any future occurrences."
