NASA shares first-of-its-kind images of Mars rover making tracks on the Red Planet
- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured the Curiosity rover making tracks on Mars' Gale Crater floor February 28, 2025.
- This image shows the rover driving during its journey to a new science stop.
- The enhanced view depicts the rover as a dark speck and shows tracks spanning 1,050 feet.
- NASA officials called this view possibly the first orbital image of the rover driving.
- Martian winds will likely erase the tracks after several months pass.
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NASA’s Curiosity rover just made history with its first-ever mid-drive photo snapped from orbit, captured by the HiRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The image shows Curiosity trucking across the Martian surface, leaving a dramatic trail of tracks as it heads toward a mysterious region that could reveal ancient groundwater activity. Curiosity Caught in [...]
Curiosity is Making Tracks Across the Surface of Mars
Images of Mars never cease to amaze. This latest image of NASA’s Curiosity Rover captured by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows the rover as a dark speck and the end of a long trail of tracks. It was rattling along at a speed of 0.16 km/h across the Gediz Vallis Channel and was headed towards a region that could have been formed by water billions of years ago. The weather on Mars won’t allow the tracks to persist though so they are likely to …
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