Curiosity’s New Home

The first two full-resolution images of the Martian surface, from the Navigation cameras on NASA’s Curiosity rover, located on the rover’s “head” or mast. The rim of Gale Crater can be seen in the distance beyond the pebbly ground.   Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

The topography of the rim is very mountainous due to erosion. The ground seen in the middle shows low-relief scarps and plains. The foreground shows two distinct zones of excavation likely carved out by blasts from the rover’s descent stage thrusters.

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- See also:

• Beautiful Andromeda Galaxy outside the visible spectrum
• Zeta Ophiuchi the runaway Star
• Star Spin compilation
• Cassini finds oxygen atmosphere on Saturn’s moon Rhea
• Galaxy Menagerie from WISE
• Black Hole Birth announcement
• New Moon on Monday
• Red Journey by Louis Vuitton [video]

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