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Curiosity tracks

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover and tracks from its driving on Mars.

This image was taken on 11 April 2014, by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. It shows NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover and tracks from its driving.

The rover appears bright blue and is near the largest butte in the lower left quadrant of the image, at about a 2 o’clock position relative to the butte.

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Rights: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
Published: 21 August 2017Size: 2.17 MB
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