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Jan. 9, 2014
Curiosity Trekking, Viewed from Orbit in December 2013 (red arrow)
Image above: NASA's Curiosity Mars rover and tracks left by its driving appear in this portion of a Dec. 11, 2013, observation by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The rover is near the lower-left corner of this view. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona.
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover and its recent tracks from driving in Gale Crater appear in an image taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Dec. 11, 2013.
Image above: Curiosity Trekking, Viewed from Orbit in December 2013 (landscape in enhanced color). Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UA/MSSS.
Excerpts from the large HiRISE observation are at:
http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/mro/curiosity-tracks-pia17755, showing the rover, and http://www.nasa.gov/jpl/mro/curiosity-tracks-pia17754, showing tracks across a landscape in enhanced color.
The tracks show where the rover has zigzagged around obstacles on its route toward the lower slopes of Mount Sharp, its next major destination.
Image above: Curiosity Rover Tracks, Viewed from Orbit in December 2013 - Annotated. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UA/MSSS.
Image above: Two parallel tracks left by the wheels of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover cross rugged ground in this portion of a Dec. 11, 2013, observation by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona.
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
HiRISE first imaged the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft while it was descending on a parachute to place Curiosity on Mars 17 months ago. Since then, it has provided updated views of the rover's traverse, as seen from orbit.
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory "Curiosity". Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
HiRISE is operated by the University of Arizona, Tucson. The instrument was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colo. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter project and Mars Science Laboratory project are managed for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.
For more information about HiRISE, see http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu . For more information about the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, visit http://www.nasa.gov/mro. For more information about Curiosity, visit http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/.
Images (mentioned), Text, Credit: NASA.
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