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MAVEN Selfie with Mars in the Background

This is a selfie of the MAVEN spacecraft with Mars in the background.

September 21, 2018

MAVEN selfie with Mars in the background. This is one of the individual images that made up the selfie, showing the magnetometer and Sun sensor at the end of the solar panel. Mars is seen in the background; the dark spot at the top of the image is the Olympus Mons volcano.

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University of Colorado/NASA

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