The Daily Mail is reporting that the Curiosity Rover took a selfie in the middle of the martian dust storm that covered nearly seven million square miles. The $2.5 billion nuclear powered research vehicle took the image while in the Gale Crater, a valley in which scientists think may have once been a huge lake. Amazing



While Curiosity seems to be weathering the storm, Opportunity fell silent on June 12, when engineers attempted to make contact with the 15-year-old rover but did not hear back. In a press conference on June 13, scientists involved in the Opportunity mission confirmed the rover has ‘fallen asleep’ as it waits out the storm that has blocked the sun – effectively cutting off its power supply. The storm has been growing since the end of May and now covers 14-million square miles (35-million square kilometres) of Mars’ surface, or a quarter of the planet.

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