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PIA15693: Martian Soil on Curiosity's Wheels After Sol 22 Drive

Soil clinging to the right middle and rear wheels of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity can be seen in this image taken by the Curiosity's Navigation Camera after the rover's third drive on Mars.

Target Name:	Mars
Is a satellite of:	Sol (our sun)
Mission:	Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
Spacecraft:	Curiosity
Instrument:	Navcam (MSL)
Product Size:	1024 x 1024 pixels (w x h)
Produced By:	JPL
Full-Res TIFF:	PIA15693.tif (1.05 MB)
Full-Res JPEG:	PIA15693.jpg (247.4 kB)

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Original Caption Released with Image:

Soil clinging to the right middle and rear wheels of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity can be seen in this image taken by the Curiosity's Navigation Camera after the rover's third drive on Mars. The drive of about 52 feet (16 meters) during the 22nd Martian day, or sol, of the mission (Aug. 28, 2012), covered more ground than the two previous drives combined.

JPL manages the Mars Science Laboratory/Curiosity for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The rover was designed, developed and assembled at JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

For more about NASA's Curiosity mission, visit: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/msl, http://www.nasa.gov/mars, and http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/msl.

Image Credit:

NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:

2012-08-29