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Driving, Driving, Driving – Curiosity’s Top Priority on the Road to Mysterious Mount Sharp
NASA’s Curiosity rover trundles towards Mount Sharp (right) across the alien terrain of Mars – our Solar Systems most Earth-like planet – and leaves behind dramatic wheel tracks in her wake, with Gale crater rim visible in the distance at left. Curiosity captured this photo mosaic of her wheel tracks, mountain and crater rim on Sol 644 after departing ‘Kimberley’ drill site in mid-May 2014. Navcam raw images were stitched and colorized. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Marco Di Lorenzo/Ken Kremer – kenkremer.com
Driving, Driving, Driving – that’s the number one priority for NASA’s rover Curiosity as she traverses across the floor of Gale Crater towards towering Mount Sharp on an expedition in search of the chemical ingredients of life that could support Martian microbes if they ever existed.
See our photo mosaics above and below showing the 1 ton rover trundling across the alien terrain of our Solar Systems most Earth-like planet and leaving behind dramatic wheel tracks in her wake.
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Post tags: Curiosity, Curiosity Rover, Gale crater, Mars, Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity Rover, Mount Sharp, MSL, NASA, red planet
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