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Curiosity Snaps ‘Big Sky’ Drill Site Selfie at Martian Mountain Foothill
This self-portrait of NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at the “Big Sky” site, where its drill collected the mission’s fifth taste of Mount Sharp, at lower left corner. The scene combines images taken by the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera on Sol 1126 (Oct. 6, 2015). Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
See below navcam drilling photo mosaic at Big Sky
NASA’s Curiosity rover has managed to snap another gorgeous selfie while she was hard at work diligently completing her newest Martian sample drilling campaign – at the ‘Big Sky’ site at the base of Mount Sharp, the humongous mountain dominating the center of the mission’s Gale Crater landing site – which the science team just confirmed was home to a life bolstering ancient lake based on earlier sample analyses.
And the team is already actively planning for the car sized robots next drill campaign in the next few sols, or Martian days!
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Post tags: Big Sky, Curiosity, Curiosity Rover, Gale crater, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), JPL, Mars, Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), Mount Sharp, MSL, NASA, red planet, Search for Life, The Martian movie
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