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Martian surface seen from the rover Curiosity 01/2014

by

Nasa/JPL/MSSS/Novapix

Reference

a-mar13-00800

Date

2014-03-04

This scene combines images taken by the left-eye camera of the Mast Camera (Mastcam) instrument on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover during the midafternoon, local Mars solar time, of the mission's 526th Martian day, or sol (Jan. 28, 2014). The sand dune in the upper center of the image spans a gap, called "Dingo Gap," between two short scarps. The dune is about 3 feet (1 meter) high. The nearer edge of it is about 115 feet (35 meters) away from the rover's position when the component images were taken, just after a Sol 526 drive of 49 feet (15 meters). The image has been white-balanced to show what the rocks would look like if they were on Earth.