The Curiosity Mars rover covers a lot of ground for a robotic that solely strikes at a max pace of .1 mph. A photograph snapped just lately by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter offers a reasonably cool visualization of what the rover has been as much as thus far this yr, exhibiting the tracks Curiosity left behind because it journeyed from its earlier science goal — an space known as the Gediz Vallis channel — to its subsequent vacation spot. The rover itself is only a tiny speck on the entrance of the roughly 1,050-foot-long path, and in keeping with , this snap “is believed to be the primary orbital picture of the rover mid-drive throughout the Pink Planet.”
The picture was captured on February 28 by the orbiter’s HiRISE (Excessive-Decision Imaging Science Experiment) digicam, and exhibits Curiosity’s motion over 11 drives beginning firstly of that month. Whereas a number of weeks may look like a very long time for tire tracks to stay round within the grime, that is regular for Mars. The tracks are “[l]ikely to final for months earlier than being erased by wind,” NASA says. Curiosity is predicted to achieve its subsequent science vacation spot, which is residence to formations thought to have been created way back by groundwater, within the coming weeks.
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