Thursday, July 25, 2013

See how far NASA's Curiosity Rover has traveled since August 5th 2012.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
The Mars Reconnaissance Observer captured the landing site of the hulking Rover, and one can follow its tracks to its current location. It seems to have gone about 2000 feet since its landing. From NASA:
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity appears as a bluish dot near the lower right corner of this enhanced-color view from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The rover's tracks are visible extending from the landing site, "Bradbury Landing," in the left half of the scene. Two bright, relatively blue spots surrounded by darker patches are where the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft's landing jets cleared away reddish surface dust at the landing site. North is toward the top. For scale, the two parallel lines of the wheel tracks are about 10 feet (3 meters) apart.

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