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PIA15989: Martian Surface Below Curiosity
This color thumbnail image was obtained by NASA's Curiosity rover revealing surface features including relatively dark dunes, degraded impact craters and other geologic features including small escarpments.
 Target Name:  Mars
 Is a satellite of:  Sol (our sun)
 Mission:  Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) 
 Spacecraft:  Curiosity
 Product Size:  717 x 546 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  JPL 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA15989.tif (1.175 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA15989.jpg (25.76 kB)  

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This color thumbnail image was obtained by NASA's Curiosity rover during its descent to the surface of Mars on Aug. 5 PDT (Aug. 6 EDT). This image from Curiosity's Mars Descent Imager reveals surface features including relatively dark dunes, degraded impact craters and other geologic features including small escarpments that range in size from a few feet (meters) to many tens of feet (meters) in height.

Image Credit:
NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

Image Addition Date:
2012-08-07