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PIA16013: Curiosity's New Home

These are the first two full-resolution images of the Martian surface from the Navigation cameras on NASA's Curiosity rover, which are located on the rover's 'head' or mast. The rim of Gale Crater can be seen in the distance beyond the pebbly ground.

Target Name:	Mars
Is a satellite of:	Sol (our sun)
Mission:	Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
Spacecraft:	Curiosity
Product Size:	1775 x 983 pixels (w x h)
Produced By:	JPL
Full-Res TIFF:	PIA16013.tif (1.747 MB)
Full-Res JPEG:	PIA16013.jpg (249.5 kB)

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These are the first two full-resolution images of the Martian surface from the Navigation cameras on NASA's Curiosity rover, which are located on the rover's "head" or mast. The rim of Gale Crater can be seen in the distance beyond the pebbly ground.

The topography of the rim is very mountainous due to erosion. The ground seen in the middle shows low-relief scarps and plains. The foreground shows two distinct zones of excavation likely carved out by blasts from the rover's descent stage thrusters.

These are full-resolution images, 1024 by 1024 pixels in size.

Image Credit:

NASA/JPL-Caltech

Image Addition Date:

2012-08-08