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The crazy part being the third-person perspective. From the perspective (stitching?), it looks like the camera isn't attached to the rover.

I'd really love to see how they pulled this off. I can't think of any way to do it without using a second camera at some point.

See elsewhere in the thread [1] where I discussed this.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4738558

"SUPPOSED TO BE DRY MARTIAN DUST? HOW COME IT STICKS TO DRY WHEELS THEN?" etc etc.

Why does the dry martian dust stick to the dry wheels? An electrostatic effect?

Replying to myself. I asked Emily Lakdawalla on Twitter. She's a journalist for The Planetary Society website, has great info on all the rover stuff.

Rodney Ramsey: @elakdawalla Maybe you can answer a curious Q for me... Why does Mars dust stick to Curiosity's wheels?

Emily Lakdawalla: @RodneyRamsey Electrostatic! The dust is extremely fine, Mars super dry.

sadly that is most likely the truth. I already saw some convo about people claiming some of the images were fake or doctored. Perhaps these people dont quite understand how mosaics work

You can actually see footsteps on the left.

I hope you're joking...

Yea, I wonder if they still have the 55 pictures they stitched this together from.