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Trekking Mars – Curiosity Roves Outside Landing Ellipse!
Curiosity treks across Martian dunes and drives outside landing ellipse here, in this photo mosaic view captured on Sol 672, June 27, 2014. Distant eroded rim of Gale Crater seen in background. Navcam camera raw images stitched and colorized. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Marco Di Lorenzo/Ken Kremer – kenkremer.com
Trekking Mars – NASA’s intrepid robot Curiosity is roving rapidly across the sandy ripples of the Red Planet in her quest to reach mysterious Mount Sharp and just drove outside her landing ellipse!
The six wheeled rover marked a major milestone on Sol 672, June 27, 2014, by driving outside her targeted landing ellipse for the first time since touchdown nearly two years ago on August 5, 2012. (…)
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Source: http://www.universetoday.com/112902/trekking-mars-curiosity-roves-outside-landing-ellipse/
