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Nasa's Curiosity Rover Begins Next Mars Chapter


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Curiosity Mars rover self-portrait

This September 2016 self-portrait of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at the "Quela" drilling location in the scenic "Murray Buttes" area on lower Mount Sharp. The panorama was stitched together from multiple images taken by the MAHLI camera

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

After collecting drilled rock powder in arguably the most scenic landscape yet visited by a Mars rover, NASA's Curiosity mobile laboratory is driving toward uphill destinations as part of its two-year mission extension that commenced Oct. 1.

From Jet Propulsion Laboratory/NASA
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