Here’s a reminder that while you are out in the world buying groceries, picking up dry cleaning or catching up on The Crown, NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity is on the red planet doing work.
The nuclear-powered mobile science laboratory has been slowly roving across the surface of Mars since 2012, searching for evidence of the conditions that once made the planet capable of sustaining life. And earlier this week, while on a brief break from mountain climbing, Curiosity sent home a giant batch of photos showing what the rover has been up to over the last three months.
Mars mission members stitched together those images — taken from a vantage point of more than 1000 feet above the floor of the Gale Crater, where the rover first landed — to create this panoramic video: Continue reading
[The view from “Vera Rubin Ridge” on the north flank of Mount Sharp encompasses much of the 11-mile route the rover has driven from its 2012 landing site, all inside Gale Crater.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory YouTube]
https://youtu.be/U5nrrnAukwI
NPR, excerpt posted on SouthFloridaReporter.com, Feb. 3, 2018
