Saturday, July 13, 2019

A Bluish Speck on the Red Planet

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover can be seen in this image taken from space on May 31, 2019, by the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO). In the image, Curiosity appears as a bluish speck. 



The image shows Curiosity at a location called "Woodland Bay." It's just one of many stops the rover has made in an area referred to as the "clay-bearing unit" on the side of Mount Sharp, a 3-mile-tall (5-kilometer-tall) mountain inside of Gale Crater. AMAZING!

The full story can be found at JPL's mission pages here


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