Our last drive was about 85 m away from Waypoint 1 towards the SW. As we progress one of the new ways we image the landscape is with the MAHLI microimager. Normally we use this for close up views of rocks and checking the different instruments on Curiosity. However, we can also use it to take pictures from the arm’s stowed position, and we are currently doing this on most sols. The images comes back at crazy angles to the horizon, but when rotated give an excellent view. The image here shows the dust that we now associate with the crater rim (which is about 2 km above the crater floor) and the light and dark lithologies that we are analysing on Curiosity’s path).
8th October 2013 Sol 417
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This blog is a record of my experiences and work during the Mars Science Laboratory mission, from the preparation, landing on August 5th 2012 Pacific Time, and onwards... I will also post updates about our other Mars work on meteorites, ExoMars and new missions. You can also follow the planetary science activities with @LeicsPlanets Professor John Bridges, School of Physics and Astronomy
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